Even in fiction, men just don't know how to communicate, especially college dudes.
I feel bad for him but I understand her #avoidantattachmentgirlies
i have a feeling the old man in chap1's gonna end up being mr long hair lawl but omgee another wacko added to the mix (altho imo hes waaaaay tamer than prev characters) pls just let my cuties be tgt in peace
i have a feeling the old man in chap1's gonna end up being mr long hair lawl but omgee wacko added to the mix (altho hes waaaaay tamer than the prev characters we've seen)
You know what would solve all this? A hobby. That boy needs a hobby, he’s bored.
Nasu Supremacy!
right before hikaru died in the mountains, he wished for his best friend yoshiki to not be alone. a mysterious being granted this wish by inhabiting hikaru’s dead body, thus becoming ‘hikaru’. yoshiki slowly comes to terms that his best friend is dead, while also slowly coming to accept and befriend the mysterious ‘hikaru’.
yoshiki starts coming into contact with the supernatural through extended exposure to ‘hikaru’. in response to this, they start learning about the village’s mysterious past and how the mountain villages are shaped like a person. most importantly, they learn that hikaru’s family have long been involved in rituals like sacrificing people’s heads to a being called “The Great Brainsnatcher,” a being that also became known as the “God of Curses.”
if we go all the way back to the beginning of history, the land was fated to be cursed because it contained holes that were passages to a supernatural dimension. ‘impurities’ seep through them, and it seems that the unnaturalness of these gateways cause a lot of human misfortune.
at first, they think that ‘hikaru’ is the The Great Brainsnatcher. but this is refuted by that white-haired guy who looks like a diet gojo. ‘hikaru’ can be considered an ‘impurity’ that came from the hole. before the real hikaru made a wish, ‘hikaru’ was keeping the impurities at bay with his presence. but now that he is weakened because of his growing human identity, the impurities cannot be kept at bay, thus the overflow of impure energies suddenly materializing in the sky. and also that scary ghost’s feet in ch 28. basically, yoshiki befriending ‘hikaru’ has put the entire mountain (maybe even the world??) in supernatural danger.
in order to prevent all hell from breaking lose, diet gojo has asked ‘hikaru’ to do something about the holes, since he originates from them. and that is where we find ourselves in ch 28: yoshiki, hikaru, that random old lady driving them, and the road trip to hell.
if i’m being so real though, the real plot is yoshiki coming to terms with his feelings towards his dead best friend and his new monstrous best friend. yoshiki repressing his romantic love for hikaru, hikaru loving yoshiki enough to wish for him to not be alone, and ‘hikaru’ loving yoshiki with everything he’s got. imagine ur forbidden crush liking u back but theres someone else inside his skin lollll rip yoshiki fr. and then yoshiki learned to love the monster anyways… what a sweet guy. i love him.
if missed anything important or got something wrong pls feel free to correct and comment. typing this all out made me realize that there’s actually a lot of convoluted plot lmao
brett is strong asf bc the moment a man like hayden takes me on a scenic date and tells me i make him happy ill pull his pants down then and there
even though this chapter is seemingly very romantic and it seems like a lot of readers just read it that way (?) i thought there also was this off-ness with brett where hayden seemed really into the date but brett was (understandably) more detached/numb and processing things much more passively than usual. imo it's impressive that the author was able to convey this sense of disquiet!
hayden's belief that the boundaries bw fantasy and reality are very blurry is SOOO LIBERAL ARTS like hello were you my classmate..being with hayden is definitely a kind of escape for brett and the fantasy is both real but also kind of fake since we know that hayden is actually being kept in the dark re. everything that has been happening. like we get these pockets of romantic fantasy every time hayden adn brett meet up but we know they are not actually on the same wavelength
brett musing about what hayden has given him when hayden gave him a safeword..in the past brett preferred that things were out of his control/hayden acted unpredictably bc that's what represented freedom was for brett but now imo he's realizing that hayden gave him freedom through CHOICE (via safeword) - i think that's kind of the beginning of a real paradigm switch for brett. but there's still a whole host of issues to contend with between them (including hayden's overly romanticized version of events, still). a real calm before the storm-type chapter.
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I don't know if it's because my period is here or because I miss my mother too but this chapter made me so freaking emotional.