No thoughts only silly little guys

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anodymalion
anodymalion

man another thing I really like about tshd is that it doesn't try to defang the monster. I love monster stuff, but I also feel like a lot of sympathetic monster stories, especially ones with an allegorical slant, go really far in the direction of "humans were the REAL monsters all along!" to the extent that it makes the monstrousness of the monster completely superficial. but Hikaru is still a monster. he kills people because he can. he just maimed and nearly killed a little kid, and he doesn't have a particular sense of that being wrong besides in not wanting to upset Yoshiki. he's dangerous, and he's not human on any level, and he still deserves safety and a place to belong and people who love and accept him

suosexual
suosexual

i have kotoha on the mind again. when she first took over pothos umemiya insisted on walking her home after her shifts and she was sooo annoyed about it. Girl who is fiercely independent, not in a girlboss empowerment way but in a feral animal way. and then she grewed up a bit & was like Yeeeesh was i really 14 and insisting on walking back alone? BEFORE bofurin was super widespread?

wonderful-calalini
wonderful-calalini

'Hikaru' considers Yoshiki handsome not because he knows the standards of human beauty, but because he considers his soul, and therefore Yoshiki himself, beautiful. He tells him this very often. Because of this, Yoshiki stops acting shy about his appearance and "wrongness."

At the same time, Yoshiki himself considers 'Hikaru's' body terrifyingly beautiful (like an insect), and therefore he doesn't perceive the shell (Hikaru's body) as Hikaru's body, because for him, it's not him.


Many people think this means he doesn't like 'Hikaru' in a love sense, but in fact, it's an analogy to the fact that they know each other naked on a different level, and for him, his former friend's body is a shell, just as Yoshiki's body is the shell of Yoshiki's soul for 'Hikaru'.

Yoshiki is attracted to and frightened by 'Hikaru's' real body, because in all moments of interaction with it, they both see each other naked on a different level.

When 'Hikaru' looks at Yoshiki's soul, he blushes. When Yoshiki looks at 'Hikaru's' body during intimate moments, he becomes embarrassed. The essence that draws them to each other is different, but they are inexorably drawn to each other physically and mentally.

Just as Yoshiki feels shame about his face, 'Hikaru' feels shame about his body. As a monster, he was unfamiliar with this feeling, but being around people, he begins to analyze what might attract people and what doesn't. And because he likes Yoshiki, he realizes that from a human perspective, he is "ugly" and frightening. He develops a sense of shame, just as Yoshiki developed one because of what people around him said about his appearance.

I think this is a good analogy for how being in society helps him become more human, experiencing new feelings, but not all of them are positive.