mention: this was made before the release of the chapter
after a while I'm back to discuss about the spoilers because this chapter seems really interesting
I love backstories, especially the ones in tr so of course I had to talk a bit about these spoilers
get ready to listen to my long ass rant also please excuse the possible mistakes I had troubles in writing this sooo
btw the spoilers are not in a specific order
the title of the chapter is "Be strong" so is kinda easy to assume that it is gonna tell mikey's story
here we have little mikey( he's so adorable ) with a man who is probably his father
now addressing the elephant in the room. yes, as others, I also thought that mikey's dad(?) looks like takemichi. and of course I wasn't the only one and of course people went crazy. and out of this whole mess we have( I think ) two big theories:
the first one and the most controversial one is that mikey's dad might be takemichi's dad. i've seen lots of reactions, some people liking it and thinking that it makes sense and some really being against it
I don't wanna give my opinion about this one bc we don't have enough info and it's too early to assume. I don't think it's a bad theory but it really has some controversial parts as in takemichi almost sleeping with emma ( bc it would make emma and michi related )
the second theory it will be that this man is not mikey's father and that he is in fact takemichi's (which could justify takemichi's curls and looks)
honestly I don't think so just because later on we see mikey with his mom (an ill woman) so I believe that you know while she was at the hospital mikey's father was taking care of him and shinichiro. and this is basically mikey's origin story so it makes more sense for the man to be HIS father. now idk
this is the spoiler where he appears with his mom
ngl I don't have too much to say about it just that is cute and sad at the same time. mikey was probably talking about his day/how his days went and she seems to be genuinely listening to him😭
i'm so sorry for mikey my baby :(((
the third spoiler shows us haruchiyo and baji
HARUCHIYO MY BABY LOOK AT HIM HE'S SO ADORABLE I WANNA CRY
the way he smiles🥹🥹 he looks so happy tho I cannot understand why but I really love the vibe he gives off
and his fit is so cute, he looks like a school boy and so elegant and he's letting his hair grow <33(you can tell i'm really happy)
now haruchiyo still has the patches at the corner of his mouth so it means that his scars are STILL NOT HEALED. which just makes me wonder even more: how deep was his injury?
we have baji who looks...shocked? disgusted? worried? I can't tell but this specific panel makes me think about the circumstances of this meeting. I suppose they have met mikey here so... why it looks like they haven't seen each other for a while? and why is that? did they distanced themselves from mikey or did something else happen?
we have these 2 panels which show us what happened on that day
as you can see mikey doesn't have blood on his hands
this makes me think about a theory that was left behind long time ago but it seems that it is surfacing again in the fandom, the theory about haruchiyo hurting himself. like it really is weird for me that haruchiyo touches his fresh scars. it doesn't make any sense like wouldn't it hurt even more?? like you shouldn't be doing this you can get them infected
my baby is crying but he keeps smiling and I really don't understand anything😭😭
next spoiler is with mikey and draken my babies(they're my fav duo)
I kinda don't understand what's going on like they also look shocked but why? okay maybe draken was shocked by mikey but mikey?? was he shocked by draken? or what?😭😭
I wonder if here they met with sanzu and baji yk it could make sense but I don't think they are in the same zone? or idk i mean draken,mikey and baji end up going to the same school sooo
anyways I just love how this panel is draken's flashback from when they met for the first time but from mikey's perspective💗
we have this panel that looks really similar to the one we saw in draken's flashback. here mikey so probably explaining that he can fight and stuff
we also have a panel of what ppl think baby mikey because that seems to be his blanket
i don't have too much to say about this mikey is probably talking about himself(or the narrator)
and the last panel(which is not but) with mikey crying bc he lost his mom :(((
I love to see that he is showing emotion
tho I can't get over the fact that he really looks like chifuyu in this XD tho it's kinda clear that is mikey cuz eye color
