Pretty venom in my veins
Adam and The Snake: Ainosuke's twisted Eden metaphor
I am once again asking Ainosuke to realize that Tadashi is his Eve because it's the only way the actual Eden metaphor works 💀 he thinks his Eve will come from somewhere outside of him, that God or the universe will just make her appear before him like some kind of angel. He forgets Eve was made from Adam's rib—she was shaped from a bone that was once his.
In this sense skating itself becomes the snake with the forbidden fruit of knowledge. Tadashi as Eve fell for the temptation first. Then, Adam followed suit out of devoted childlike love. He knew he wasn't supposed to take the fruit, but he trusted Eve, and how would either of them know it would lead to their banishment from Eden, eve's punishment or the snakes curse?
Pretty venom in this case is actually the poisoned idea of love that Ainosuke's family has fed him until he believed it too. He made his Eve into the snake out of fear and a need for control.