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#yes I know Yugo will long outlive her
geekgirles · 1 month
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Yumalia's Reunion
Back on my Yumalia brainrot, I can't get over all the layers and depths of their brief interaction in episode 11.
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The moment Yugo is done defying his mother and forced to watch her leave, for she had long made her choice, Amalia doesn't hesitate to reach out to him and hold his hand, which Yugo immediately squeezes right back. Even with the threat of imminent war for her people's safety, Amalia's first instinct is to go to Yugo and offer whatever comfort she can, and he just lets her because if there's someone who can ground him, it's Amalia.
That's exactly what she did at the end of season 3. Not only did she tell Oropo he would never be Yugo because Yugo would never willingly or knowingly sacrifice anyone for his cause (even during his fight with Ad during the OVAs he always thought his brother would eventually come back), but she unknowingly dissuaded the fears and insecurities that'd been plaguing him throughout the entire season, both regarding his past actions and his own relationship with her. Because even after all they'd been through and his insecurities hurting Amalia deeply, she still chose him, and she still reaffirmed her love for him in such a way it would allow for their interactions in season 4 to be that much more openly affectionate and less restrained.
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But not only that, back then she was also there to ground him when Oropo's passing and his absorbing of the Eliotropes overwhelmed him, helping him see all the good despite what they had lost.
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And she is doing that yet again when they finally reunite.
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But there is so much more going on here. So many emotions running deep between them.
Look at Yugo's expression, that mixture of surprise and awe etched onto his face. I feel like this is the moment where it truly clicks for him just how much he's changed and all the possibilities his new body entails, especially for their relationship. And Amalia is just happy, happy that he is alive and happy that he can finally see and feel like the great king and warrior she always knew was already there.
For the first time since he's met her, Yugo doesn't have to look up to meet his love's eyes, and you can clearly see how the mere thought takes him aback. But I believe there's so much more to it, so many things left unsaid.
He's looking at her like she's finally within reach, and not only because now they're closer in height. Yugo had to spent the last few years of his life watching how the love of his life grew into the most beautiful flower in Sadida's garden, into a queen, while he remained stuck in his child-like body, with only a title for show despite he too being royalty.
It's all in his eyes!
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He isn't just looking at Amalia. He is staring at her like a dying man stares at his salvation, like someone who's been wandering in the dessert for ages looks at an oasis. And it's not just because they might finally have a shot, but because she is there and she is real.
Despite Yugo's unrelenting optimism and will, upon being captured by the Nécromes, a part of him had probably been forced to accept he would never see Amalia again, either because he would remain the last of his days as their prisoner, or because she would too fall soon.
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Given his predicament, thanks to Oropo and Qilby's intervention, Yugo was most likely running on adrenaline when he noticed the portal in the Sadida forest and what it would mean for Amalia. His mind was set on protecting her, not on the fact that they would be reunited after such a horrible ordeal. And I don't think it really sunk in that he would see her again until she touched him, until she literally became tangible and attainable.
But she is real, and she is with him, they are together again. Only this time, they might actually get to be together.
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Look at such level of intimacy! Such tenderness mixed with the underlying unbriddled passion they feel for one another! Yugo might have been shown being okay with revealing his wings to his friends, but he always took the hood off himself; but not with Amalia. With her he trusts her enough to let her do the honours and all he can do is melt under her touch.
Seeing Amalia again after being held prisoner in the Nécroworld and forcibly aged has allowed Yugo to fall in love with her all over again and, more importantly, to finally allow himself to love her with his whole being in return. No more holding back, no more second thoughts, no more take-backs. No more denying themselves what they have been desperately yearning for.
He loves Amalia and she loves him. And he's going to hold onto her for as long as they both live.
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And I am so not normal about them.
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antimnemonic · 6 years
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bloody roar headcanons that no one asked for but y'all gonna suffer through anyways
-yugo likes horror movies, especially old classic universal monster movies. hes a complete cornball and a total sucker for werewolf media. he'll made Alice and Kenji watch them with him and she'll be like HHHHHHH but Kenji just likes spending time with his older brother
-Alice is GOTH. she doesn't dress up that much anymore bc she's a ~professional adult~ and all that but as a kid she was out there, listening to malice mizer, spending money on shitty coords, and making shallow surface level interpretations of Alice in Wonderland
-Kenji's a bookworm and doesn't like violence
-Uriko's base form (before she was experimented on) is actually a black footed cat, deadliest of the wild cats. She lost her ability to completely transform for a bit and was just a half-beast, but then she started getting better at it. When she grows up she'll have access to her chimera powers again
-she has some access to her chimera abilities when she's in stress or extreme danger, but isn't really aware of it
-Shina is peak Useless Lesbian. She's out there fumbling around, looking for her dad, distracted by femmes every 2 hours. Someone please help her.
-Shen Long took over Uriko's training after Jin left to go find himself or w/e. Partly to show up Jin, partly bc, even after the whole kidnapping thing, she was nice to him and one of the first people to treat him as a person and not a tool, so he eventually came to genuinely care for her
-MY STUDENT NOW
-Shen doesn't have any goals besides beating Jin and partying hard, but he's not above (begrudgingly) tagging along when the world needs to be saved or w/e. He lives here, after all
-mom nonomura is p strict but also accepting of her daughters' weird friends. she's since become accustomed to the rotating cast of weirdos at the dinner table
-Alice bringing home a WHOLE ASS TERRORIST was too much tho. she nigh had a conniption
-being fed a home cooked meal and bossed around by strict-but-caring boar mom sets Xion on the path of redemption
-yah busuzima probably likes ska. This isn't a mark against the character of ska, ska is still good. but he seems like the type to base his personality around listening to ska
-dyed his hair back when he was a human, probably can change it naturally now
-does he feel remorse for hurting his best friend? has he ever regretted anything in his life? is he loyal to humans or zoanthropes? does he have any ambitions beyond being as awful a nuisance as possible? We Just Don't Know.
-ugly ass randall boggs looking mf, i hate him
-Stun tracks down busuzima every few months to beat the shit out of him. partly to break up his evil schemes, but also bc, even on the days when stun's memory is not the best, his strongest and most undeniable instinct is KILL HAJIME BUSUZIMA
-but if the fate of the world depends on it, they can be pressured into working together, ideally with supervision
-"just like old times huh" "yeah BEFORE YOU RUINED MY LIFE YOU--" *incomprehensible angry beetle noises*
-OH YEAH stun recognizes uriko from when she was experimented on. He makes a point of looking out for her if their paths should cross, out of penance from when he used to work for tyron and out of kinship for both being failed test subjects
-Jenny is a Real-Ass Vampire and hundreds of years old.
-most of her relationships are shallow bc she's a secret agent and she's outlived everyone she's ever been close to, but she's genuinely sympathetic to stun bc she also unwillingly lost her humanity and has to feed on humans to survive. she doesn't tolerate his moping tho and will start bossing him around if he gets too depressed
-"hey are you gonna eat that" "YES???"
-bisexual, like all vampires
-i don't have anything for nagi
-she's boring bye
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