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★ 【Ducartoon】 「 Rumors from Cecile Hall 🥜🦅🍎 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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Happy Valentine's Day. Don't forget to give an applin to that special one (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡

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itafushi will never deny the accusations of being soulmates 🤧🤧🤧

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"...When you know, you know..."

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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | Ep20 | Yes, nineteen, just like you.

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*Minor SxF manga spoilers*

In the latest chapter, I just noticed that Anya did the clenched-fist gesture that Yor does whenever she’s determined! She’s copying her mama’s mannerisms too! This is so cute!!!

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New Spy x Family illustration

😎 Look how cool everyone looks...

First time we see Chloe in an official illustration 😃 She and Yuri look so young!

And we can even see Yuri's captain *coughs* (Twilight's dad) together in the same panel/illustration as Twilight for the first time 🤩

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New manga illustrations for the upcoming volume 13 just dropped! First is this gorgeous picture of "WISE vs SSS." Nice to finally see Chloe officially in color 😁

And this cute drawing of Yor for the title page!

Also, if you haven't seen the actual cover for volume 13 yet, it was revealed a while back - the city hall employees!

Volume 13 will be released on March 4th. Hoping there will be more new illustrations and/or an omake chapter! 🤞

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Fake Twiyor vs Real Twiyor Moment

Remember that theory about Twiyor having a fake moment and a real moment? If you don't, you can read it here.

Now, let's add another one! This one is fairly recent. Here's the fake moment:

Remember, at this moment in the story, fake Twiyor moment is exciting. While true Twiyor moment is quiet, calm, but very real.

Do you want to guess which is the real Twiyor moment? Yeah, I bet you know it 😄 This one is pretty big! It even has two parts, one Yor, the other one Twilight. Here it is:

Here, Yor tells Twilight she wants to take care of him!!! Can you imagine this super spy who relies on no one, who's been taking care of himself since he was a little boy hearing someone wants to take care of him???

Yor also tells him that she's strong enough to handle hard times and he doesn't need to protect her. And to top it all, she tells him he doesn't have to be perfect, that he actually makes her happy when he's imperfect, vulnerable and asks for her help.

It went straight to his heart and that last panel is the proof: Twilight ends up talking to Yor in his mind.

This is one of the most genuine moments they've had. If you ask me, much more exciting than the fake Twiyor moment. Didn't I tell you at some point the fake and real moments would switch? It's starting to happen 😎

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Spy x Family's Secret Story

A few days ago, I learned something interesting at school: some stories have secret stories.

Hopefully, I can explain it: a secret story is what is not told explicitly in the narrative, but that the reader can understand by the character's behavior, thoughts or actions.

The most interesting part is that this secret story is, in many cases, what pushes the main story forward.

So, of course, I had to apply this to my sxf brainrot 😏 It took me a while to figure it out, but I think I got it...

Remember this panel?

It's one of the most celebrated panels in the manga. We finally got to see Twilight shirtless 😎 and we've enjoyed countless fanarts of it (thanks to all the wonderful artists 👏) Well, it was precisely this panel and the timing of it what made me realize about Spy x family's secret story.

This is the first time we see Twilight naked, right? This was also the first time he realized he was vulnerable.

Here, Twilight, master of disguise, best spy of Westalis, rips his disguise, admits that he has weaknesses and shows us that he's injured because of this vulnerability.

Think about the symbolism of it; a person is at their most vulnerable when naked and we didn't see him in this state until he had that conversation with Yor. Even though the arc was about catching Wheeler, the secret story of that arc was about weakness. Wheeler himself mentioned it several times and it's not a coincidence that in this arc Twilight shows weakness not once, but three times:

1. By not killing Yuri (and getting shot)

2.By getting hurt during the confrontation with Wheeler and lastly...

3.When he sees Yor again!

It's also not a coincidence that he got physically hurt because he showed weakness. I suspect it won't be the last time this happens. Keep that in mind for the future...

All this is related to that secret story l mentioned at the beginning. I think SxF secret story is precisely that, not weakness, but vulnerability.

That conversation he had with Yor was about that; she was trying to convince him to be vulnerable with her (more on that here). And his thoughts were about that too; he's telling Yor in his mind he lives in a world where he cannot be vulnerable.

And that last line!!

It's exactly what secret stories are about: unsaid things.

The fact that an arc about weakness and vulnerability started and ended with Yor and where Twilight acknowledged his weakness is very significant. Do you see it too? All this happened because of her and I think he knows it too.

Twilight's struggle with vulnerability is what pushes the story forward and ultimately what makes so many of us connect with the characters. Clearly, he's losing the battle with himself and he's trusting and relying on his wife more every day; we see it in his behavior. We all want that to happen too!

Because, what is more human than to become vulnerable because of love?

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Just realised this interesting similarity Endo-sensei put in the manga.

Both Yor and the Lieutenant pointed out that Loid and Yuri were 'tossing and turning' in their sleep. And both woke up in shock. I'm definitely thinking too much into this (i desperately need something to obsess over), but their characters are quite similar.

All Yuri wants to do is create a world where his sister doesn't have to work so hard, and so he can provide for her like she did for him. Loid wants to create a world where children don't have to cry and experience what he did when he was a child.

I hope this means we'll start finding more parallels and similarities between Loid and Yuri because I personally believe both of their characters are written very well.

I can't explain how much I need more scenes with them together. (preferably Twilight and Secret Police Yuri (because regular Yuri is absolutely insufferable))

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No way......

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Loid is just better at hiding his locker pictures than Yuri is.

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I love re-reading the earliest chapters of Spy x Family, because it's so cool to see the difference in the character designs then vs the ones now!

Like, this was Loid-

He doesn't have as much of a big difference in appearance as Anya, though. She almost looks like how Damian imagines her in his shoujo filter 😂