#sumizomi

[takuzomi]

Nozomi turning her Takkers into a tomato! 🫂🍅

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oh while i'm at it

this is roughlyhow i see takumi's love interests (not counting ones that only have feelings/romantic tension for him in only one route) re: jealousy and possession. for the record if you could get eito and hiruko to fight over takumi i think those are some of the most incredible fireworks you could see, because both of them are willing to be extremely unethical for him. eito led people to turn on nozomi just bc takumi liked her and hiruko let the group die just to keep takumi.

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you ever think about how second scenario takumi and nozomi's dynamic ends exactly how it began

with her able to visit him where he lies, just a weapon of war, dreaming of a happy life with her while she's able to share her problems with him but ultimately has to leave for the real world. with her leaving to be real but so alone and him rotting away in the cruel purpose he was made for

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takumi is the prince to karua/nozomi's princess. but he's the princess to hiruko's prince. everything he does to nozomi, hiruko has done to him sometime or another. there is a dynamic of Protector (To The Point Of Toxicity)/Protected.

i'd say they differ in that karua is a deliberately crafted idea. there is something genuine in takumi wanting to ease her worries despite that he never can, but she exists first and foremost to get takumi to fight without questioning if she would. those evil invaders are going to kill and assault your girlfriend, of course you have to kill them. whereas nozomi is...an actual person. either takumi can see her for who she is and that she wants to protect him too, and they can form a bond of equals for real, or...he doesn't, and their relationship sorta deteroirates from the atrocities he's willing to commit for an image of karua he projects over nozomi.

whereas hiruko is herself...well, at this for longer than takumi. like i realize it's a messy comparison but homura is really the best eway i can put it. person whose heart has already been hardened by the time we get to the present day though judging by her bond events hiruko was already kinda a perfectionist thrillseeker and only person they feel much for in the many timeloops. like hiruko mostly needs takumi for moral support. he is the only one she's been able to tell her secret and be genuinely soft and hopeful again with, it's just that she'd ensure their doom stays put if it ensures they have that moment of connection together. he's her ideal of hope and happiness.

eito's takumi's princess but only in the slay the princess kinda way in like. person you're inextricably connected to in the eternal torment together. person who does change quite a lot based on how you treat them. if you come in with a knife you cannot complain about the timeline you've got coming full of violence and hate. they're most often like the witch and the opportunist but like that's juts. scorpion frog stuff. but like the element of to kill them is ot kill a part of yourself/in your parting you left a shard of yourself in them, and a shard of them in you there. and that you can be so many things to each other over the infinite timelines.

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sumizomi being junepei 2.0 is not a surprise or spoiler, i think anyone couldve guessed that from far away

that nozomi isn't the akane, takumi is is the real surprise

nozomi's. shockingly normal. doesn't look like it but she is. the uchikoshi girl i'd soonest compare to is diana - not incapable of contributing to the madness, but by far the most normal person on the team

takumi? maybe he started normal before he came back in time but he quickly loses it. guy who lives in loops. guy whose doom in one timeline will come back to doom many, many more. guy who makes such a good dead wife for nozomi (and hiruko). guy who can't accept a subpar ending and will ruin timeline after itmeline in search of the good one. holds on constantly to the happy childhood memories even after his actions have ruined that relationship thoroughly.

the real twist of second scenario was that takumi was the uchikoshi girl in the relationship