Confession~ ❤️💙
This is my take on older Yuji and Megumi and how things might have gone!
I feel like Megumi would slowly realize he has feelings for Yuji in their younger days- realizing that it’s romantic maybe after the detention center or after Yuji “comes back from the dead”, but he tries to push it down. Then the Culling Games happen and they get closer, but…yeah. Definitely not thinking of romance. I think a little after the Shinjuku Arc he’d be like, “oh. this is love. I love him.”, but that doesn’t really make anything better- it’s kind of like a solemn, just honest and kind of somber, realization for himself. Megumi comes to terms with himself that it’ll always be unrequited and he’s just happy that he has Yuji in his life (he wants what’s best for him, even if it’s not him. C’mon though, ‘Gumi- you’re inseparable).
Yuji, on the other hand, my take is that he always viewed Megumi as his best friend. They grew closer, and were infinitely bonded by the end of the Culling Games. I feel like as time went on, as he got older, Yuji definitely started feeling things for Megumi, but didn’t really have a name for it. He always thought that he was pretty though, so it’s not anything new really!! But then maybe around like 18 (maybe early 19?), Yuji suddenly realizes that his feelings for Megumi are different and this is how I thought things might’ve played out! But yeah!
I hope you enjoy and thank you so much for reading my rambling!! I tried to keep their designs what I felt might be more canon- so I hope they’re okay! I feel like ‘Gumi might grow his hair out a little and it looks like a cross between Togi’s and Mama-gumi’s :) (I’ve seen lots of people give Nobara a kind of shag cut when she’s older and I think looks so cool for her, so I went more that direction. And she’s going back to her og hair color? Who knows.)
