
This is gonna be a long comment:
The hesitation, the inability to act on his emotions, burying them so bad he doesn’t recognize them, pushing away other people’s affections because for him it equals the pain of them leaving him later in. It’s all subconscious, and been happening for so long, satoru’s career and his life kept going and he feels fine almost all the time.
He lashes on people’s new years wishes because he’s sore of his loneliness, as he said, he feels that way despite knowing the good intentions.
This may be wrong but i read about avoidant tendencies because i suffer from them and it was so deeply characterized in satoru sensei..
I was so surprised when shishio mentioned his confession and sensei reacted that way -he didn’t take him seriously- because i relate. It’s not only your emotions that you don’t understand, others emotions don’t reach you as well with how caught up you are in that avoidant pit. They’re not familiar to you in the first place.
Oh how i want a shishio in my life ;-; he is outspoken, doesn’t shy from his emotions and needs. He is patient, confident, and doesnt let sensei’s apprehension affect him ;v; He handled sensei’s questions calmly, no blame.
He got to know sensei and live with him, see his likable and unlikable qualities and had dealt with them. This case was different with sensei’s ex, and i think the breakup reason was normal, but his guilt hadn’t been dealt with.
A friend once told me to ‘be courageous’ when i was avoiding something. It really hit me, and it is what shishio did when he affirmed the desire to be special to someone is bigger than the fear, just be courageous and face it for the sake of the bigger feeling. I was repeating BE COURAGEOUS in my head before shishio confessed he was actually afraid of rejection but but instead is facing it and when he said it i was like THATS IT RIGHT!
At this point I’m jus rambling, but I’m so happy to have noticed that, and this story goes into my favs now ;v;
He kept his hair long like his father..