#showing how anthy and dios had a relationship at the moment where she sacrificed herself to protect him

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nanami wants to protect touga from girls who only want him for status and attention, but that protective streak combined with her naïvety about his actual trauma and situation with their father and akio leads him to resent her for even trying. likewise, touga wants to protect nanami from the abuse and trauma he suffered, but his protective streak combined with his warped perspective of how things should be leads her to be suffocated and hurt by how he controls and manipulates her. they both love and hurt each other so, so much, and its easy to see how a relationship like theirs could become warped and damaged enough that only the hurt and the memory of love remains, becoming a relationship like anthy and akio, who no longer truly love each other but are trapped in the habit of protecting one another, even though that protection itself is what is slowly killing their relationship. the key to escaping this cycle for the kiryuus is communication and clarity; they are still at a point where they deeply love each other despite the tension, and if they understood one another better they would have a chance at fixing their relationship. for anthy and akio, the actual love is long gone; separation is the only remaining option for either of them to heal

#it me #revolutionary girl utena #nanami kiryuu #touga kiryuu #anthy himemiya #akio ohtori #idk just thinking about the parallels #you could probably also say something here about miki and kozue and how they are a step even further behind the cycle #showing how anthy and dios had a relationship at the moment where she sacrificed herself to protect him #but idk the kozue siblings as well i feel they dont have me in as much of a vice grip as touga and nanami