#because I’m a sucker for both polycules and sweet endings

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#hanahaki brainstorm while half asleep🤘 #working on two ideas at the same time because that’s just how my adhd ass functions #platonic familial hanahaki you know I’m thinking either Bruce or Jason #(when have I thought about anyone else honestly) #getting over unrequited love hanahaki. I’m thinking one sided superbat that’ll probs bleed into hopeful future polycule potential #because I’m a sucker for both polycules and sweet endings #unrequited love being a type of mourning is literally the only way I can relate to romance unfortunately OTL #I’m a morbid motherfucker 😭 #getting over unrequited love hanahaki for Jason tho #idk who he’ll have a crush on but he’s perfect for the repressing emotions thing too #unfortunately a big fan of body horror #and Jason whump so that might be a thing too #platonic familial hanahaki where it’s both Bruce and Jason struck by it #post red hood era grief and mourning #your son’s alive and love blooms painfully within your lungs but everything’s a mess and you can do nothing about it #your family doesn’t want you the way you are now parading in the skin of someone they once loved #you don’t need them don’t need (your dad) /him/ most of all #you ignore the taste of flowers and blood blooming at the back of your tongue #suffocate on the perfume of it alongside the part of you that still hopelessly pitifully loves them #unrequited love Jason with the story ending without him confessing to the person that he loves #it ends with him thinking about them and the time they spent together and that he doesn’t regret falling in love with them #it ends with him admitting his feelings to himself and getting over them #they don’t have to be entangled that way to be in each others lives and he’s more than content with that #ooof okay I think I channeled a specific type of fanon royjay for the last few tags so maybe that’s how I’ll proceed 🤔 #I keep projecting qpr on royjay or just Jason in general OTL this time accidentally I must add 😭 #I’ll try to brainstorm the superbat turned cloisbat one later as a challenge to myself to just remember what romance is #*slapping myself with a slipper* #ramble #fic ideas #eepy so I go sleepy for now

[curewhimsy]

something I posted on reddit

Yutaka and Minami from Lucky Star are two of my ultimate comfort characters.

And of course, Hiyori too. I identify so much with Hiyori. Yutaka and Minami are my OTP. I just want to get this out there and also wonder if I’m alone in this or not? Because when I think of Lucky Star, my mind always jumps straight to Yutaka and Minami instead of any of the four girls in the main cast.

I’ve been shipping YutaMina since I was 11, before I even knew what shipping was, or knew the words “lesbian” or “yuri”. (I would learn very soon though… lol)

They were just so sweet together that it touched me. I always felt so bad for Yutaka since she was always sick and left out. The “helpless” trait always makes me feel sympathy for a character. I’m a sucker for hurt/comfort in writing. I also personally relate to it so much. I’m autistic and have struggled with depression for as long as I could remember.

I’ve always got the vibes that Minami and Yutaka both struggle(d) with it too, and the friendship they share with each other helps them through these times.

Minami feels really shy and misunderstood, not to mention lonely. There’s no “proof” per se but it’s also pretty easy to envision her on the autism spectrum, along with Yutaka, as they both seem outcasted by their peers.

Yutaka has had a history with illness where she had to miss school, and was isolated and lonely as a result.

For Yutaka, I feel that from moving in with Konata and enrolling in Ryoo academy changes her life. She always had her big sister Yui, but now she has all this warmth in her life with Konata and her father being there for her, along with all her friends at school! (I admit that I’m not a fan of Konata’s dad because of his creepy tendencies, but I sort of remake him into just a wholesome nerdy dad in my mind)

Little quips that the characters mention across the series that “Yutaka has been well since she’s been at Ryoo” and that “Minami has been smiling more since she met Yutaka” just melt my heart…

And let’s not forget Hiyori, who ships them. I love the gag that there’s a character who ships their friends, it’s funny and also really relatable as a huge Yutaka x Minami shipper myself. She’s also their third wheel arguably, and provides the comic relief and is a good friend to them both as well. I can totally see her being the one who gets them together and holds them togethr, and perhaps even forming a polycule with them later on perhaps?

There are two special segments of the manga that I find really sweet. In one of them, Yutaka writes a story about a princess who contracts an illness that turns her to ice, but being with a special prince melts the ice and she lives happily and healthy. It was implied that the prince represented Yutaka’s bond with Yui, which is also sweet, but… I interpret it to be about Minami.

In another special segment, Yutaka wants to run an annual marathon race, and Minami is willing to stay behind and run with Yutaka so she won’t be left behind by the healthier students. But Yutaka feels she is becoming Minami’s burden and says she doesn’t need Minami’s pity. Minami wonders if she was being too overbearing with Yutaka, but Hiyori gives her insight that “Yutaka just doesn’t want to always have to depend on you.” In the end, Minami comes back to cheer Yutaka on and gives her the motivation to finish the race.

I interpret that as Yutaka wanting to become stronger and more resilient for the sake of Minami and herself, so she wouldn’t have to worry everyone. So that won’t have to be the “helpless character” anymore. I feel like lowkey, they have a lot of character depth that isn’t shown outright.

They also remind me of Nagisa and Tomoya from Clannad, another KyoAni show, one I watched after Lucky Star.

I’m 26 now and they make me feel so nostalgic. I love the group of three to death.

#lucky star #out of touch thursday #kobayakawa yutaka #Iwasaki minami