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I should die
a rocky start
btw incest if it wasn't obvious:
Kuriko y Kusuke es algo que siempre está en mi mente.
kusucest is REAL in the tomodachi life living the dream demo
other interactions with them under the cut
also yes I know Kusuke's hair is backwards I'm an idiot
How could I not redraw this with these two.
It's so them :3
What's your opinion on people shipping you with Kusuo
I think people have too much time on their hands and not enough genuine intellectual stimulation.
Shipping is what happens when observation meets boredom. You see two people in proximity and your brain invents a narrative because reality isn't satisfying enough. It's pattern recognition gone haywire. I'd almost respect it if it weren't so... predictable.
Brother complexes are easy. Forbidden dynamics are easy. The internet loves easy.
So no. I don't care.
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But since you asked—and since you clearly want me to say more so you can screenshot this and analyze my word choice and pretend you've found something meaningful—
The fact that people do ship us isn't surprising. Kusuo is the center of every room he's in, even when he's trying not to be. I'm the one who refuses to orbit.
That tension looks romantic to people who don't understand what it actually is.
What it actually is: two people who cannot exist in the same space without challenging each other. Two people who know each other better than anyone else and use that knowledge like a scalpel. Two people who have spent their entire lives trying to matter to each other in ways neither of them has words for.
If that looks like attraction to you—if two people being absolutely consumed by each other's existence reads as romantic—then maybe you're not wrong.
Maybe you're just early.
But don't quote me on that.
— Dr. Kusuke Saiki
people don’t see Kusuo and Kuusuke’s relationship for what it is because the format isn’t what they’re used to. They speak the love language of metered resistance, push and pull, harsh words and empty spaces where the emotions go. They can’t say what they are feeling. They can’t do it either. They do everything else instead. Brothers’ love languages are fights. Strangers’ love languages are kind favors and nothing asked in return. They occupy that liminal space between the two. They don’t realize how much they mean to the other. They don’t realize how much the other means to them.
Kuusuke pulls at Kusuo, trying to break his walls down and trying to break all of him down with it. Kusuo threatens to do the same to him, all the while trying to figure out how not to hurt him. Neither of them really mean it. Except when they do. Kusuke provokes kusuo, Kusuo hurts kuusuke, again and again and again. kuusuke comes to understand this is the only kind of contact he will ever have with his brother. He pulls away. Kusuo tries to forget; estranges him in his mind. Kusuo sees kuusuke as a stranger at their next meeting; Kuusuke has never known Kusuo so well as he knows him that day.
There are hard feelings that seem insurmountable. Kuusuke knows things that Kusuo doesn’t. Kusuo doesn’t know this, but he can sense it. He doesn’t understand, now. Kuusuke does. Kusuo had loved him all this time. And Kuusuke has loved him more than Kusuo could possibly understand.
You wouldn’t hurt someone you didn’t love. you wouldn’t hurt them because you wouldn’t see them as some part of yourself. they would be someone different to you. but hurting your brother is just self harm, contextualized. it gives meaning and structure to what doesn’t make sense in your life. He can suffer like I can. he feels what I do. and yet he isn’t you. he is the other person you could not become.
He is your equal; your mirror and he is who you are not. He is a perfect stranger. he exists on a different plane. He reminds you of yourself.
He is your brother.
Lol, Kusuke is Kusuo's absolute sugar daddy and Kusuo has access to Kusuke's full bank account so he goes out with his friends once and the dumbasses accidentally spend way more money than anyone can pay for (without Teruhashi’s interference since the store manager was a straight woman), so Kusuo just pays for all of them with Kusuke's credit cards which leads to a rather uncomfortable conversation for Kusuo.
His friends know Kusuo's family isn't wealthy, or at least assumed so up until this point, but then Aiura asks him if he has a sugar daddy or a sugar mommy or something and she keeps asking him what he has to do for it, thinking if he has to spread his legs daily because she’s too afraid to voice that thought out loud (and she doesn’t want to make Kusuo too uncomfortable).
But he refuses to say whose credit card he has because he doesn't want them to know about Kusuke and Aiura half jokingly threatens to look into his future. Kusuo blushes furiously because the possibility of Aiura seeing him actually get dicked down by Kusuke is high so he chooses to go for lesser evil and caves in and tells them all there is no need for that, that the credit cards belongs to his brother who is a rich scientist and not some nonexistent sugar daddy.
Of course getting free access to a vip credit card, even if it’s from your sibling, is something mind boggling, so Aiura straight up asks what the hell did he do for his brother to allow him to have access to so much money and her tone implies enough that even if Kusuo wasn’t a mind reader he’d know she’s still instigating if he’s sleeping with the man and Kusuo nearly dies on spot from a heart attack because she is right that he does fuck his brother but how on earth is she right??? And why would she even come to that conclusion???
She districtly points at her neck to try and not garner anyone else’s attention (which obviously fails) and Kusuo immediately gets it, there it is, clear as day an aggressive hickey Kusuke has given him before he went out with his friends. He tries to deny Aiura's statement and how that's just a mosquito bite, silently cursing Kusuke (and himself because why had he automatically suppressed his unnatural healing), but his reaction was far too suspicious and Teruhashi that has met Kusuke and has a siscon brother herself comes to a correct conclusion when she silently thinks Kusuke's behavior is comparable with Makoto's.
Kusuo will have so much memory altering to do.