#touko

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It's really difficult for Emmet to feel hopeless for long when he's got the World's Most Optimistic Protagonist™ as a best friend

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[crittervillage]

OOPARTS by NILFRUITS: An object of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context that could challenge conventional historical chronology.

Happy 15th Anniversary, Black and White!

[nematodeneedles]

tepig and hilda 🙂

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hi i miss them

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3 of my favorite scenes from the MV.

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Pokemon BW Cheren and Hilda sharing a Castelia cone! 🍦❄️

[uraberika]

midnight thoughts about touko and rika’s friendship

I love the friendship between Touko and Rika, it’s so special to me because it is not a friendhsip that was forged easily by mutual interest but by overcoming prejudice.

Touko and Rika didn’t mesh too well in the Aliea arc and it seemed like primarily because they had very different styles and represented two different type of girls but I like to think that there was more to it than that.

Touko didn’t dislike Rika because she was overtly feminine or because she was obsessed with Ichinose; she disliked her because she didn’t take Raimon and their mission seriously. To Rika, this whole defeating the aliens thing was just a big romance novel taken from a telenovella, in which the protagonist has to earn the heart of their love. But to Touko this mission was a deadly serious thing: it was about saving her father, the only close relative of hers we know about. Rika’s carefree attitude towards the whole thing made Touko’s blood boil in anger. Doesn’t she understand what’s at stake here?

On top of that, Touko was baffled by Rika. The girl just packed up her life and left with Raimon as if it wasn’t a big deal. Rika had a stable friendgroup back in Osaka made up of girls her own age while Touko’s closest friends were her bodyguards who indulged her in her obsession with football on occasion and played with her. Rika also had a comfortable life with her mother and a deep connection that Touko could not say for herself and her mother (whether you headcanon her mother alive or not, the fact that she is absent in the story suggests a weak relationship between the two). Touko was jealous of Rika and frustrated at how unaware the girl was of her priviliges. Doesn’t she understand how good she had it there in Osaka? Why would she give up all those things that Touko has always longed for, just beacause of a boy whom she met two days ago and who clearly does not want her affection?

Rika, on the other hand, had trouble connecting with Touko. When she joined Raimon, she did not expect that the group would be so... well, boyish. No one really shared her interest in girly things and the only one who could understand what it was like to be a female player in an all-boys team was shutting her down. Not only did Touko appear to be so very different in style from Rika’s own, she very clearly made her distate regarding Rika known which Rika filed away in her mind as Touko being a snob. Of course she would dislike Rika, Rika would think; she and Touko had nothing in common; Touko was a rich kid from the very beginning who probably experienced distress for the first time in her privileged little life. Rika grew up on the streets of Osaka and had come from a background that was very different from Touko’s. And maybe (just maybe) Rika was also envious of the bond that Touko shared with her father: how both of them were willing to fight for the other, always keeping the other's safety in mind. In her weaker moments, Rika liked to delide herself with the fantasy that if her own father hadn't walked out on Rika's mom, she could have developed a similar bond with him.

So, all in all, I like to think that they disliked each other first, because they were jealous of each other and resented the other for not appreciating how good they had it. As time went on, the two girls get to know each other better and better and realised that their prejudices were unfounded. They dis not magically realise how similar they were, but rather, gradually learned to understand each others thinking and feelings that were very different from their own. I like to also think that due to this, their friendship ran deeper and stronger than most: because they had to learn to embrace their differences and accept even those qualities that annoyed them in the other. That’s why by the time the ffi comes around they are practically best friends. Neither of them would admit it out loud, but it needs no saying that they would go to hell and back for each other.