#(again. i want to write Kurusu Rei SO BAD)

[varyathevillain]

no joke but what I really want for Buddy Daddies as a fandom is to make fanart and fanfic post present time ep12 where Rei wears an arm orthosis when working.

I think varied disability aids being represented would be fantastic, and personally would write Rei as someone being deeply proud of something he's done for his family, but also understanding with time that using an orthosis also helps him at work and in raising Miri. with a giant portion of mobility/motorics aids being represented by prosthetics, seeing more variety and exploring it in fiction would also help making a step in normalising disability treatments.

#that's my personal opinion and i just thought about how understanding more about physical disabilities #and how to help people with those aids in case something happens and they ask for help #has furthered my understanding and might even help me in the future if i were ever to experience that #Buddy Daddies Spoilers #Buddy Daddies #Suwa Rei #(again. i want to write Kurusu Rei SO BAD) #text post #Varya rambles #also drawing an orthosis would be real complicated for an animated work so i understand why they chose to hide the arm #but i really like the headcanon of Rei using it sparingly 🥺 not everyone uses them all the time #+ it's also not healthy if worn all the time. looking @ people who'd let their characters sleep with their prostheis on. smh #and this is also NOT a 'you HAVE to do this'! just something I think would be fantastic #...also I'm like. apparently looking @ a start of a fic where Rei uses it?? is my writer's block finally over?! #here's a hoping 🙏buddy daddies such a good anime. not perfect not extremely beautiful. but GOOD in HEART #1k

[greatwyrmgold]

I've seen some people talking about what Buddy Daddies Season 2 might be like, and...look, I liked it as much as the next Tumblrina, and I think it would be a bad idea.

Buddy Daddies was a nice, complete narrative. It tied off all its threads in a nice little bow. Rei and Kazuki had their arcs, and they were wrapped up nicely.

And even if you invented new problems for them to overcome, it would still ruin those little resolutions. Kazuki's arc was about whether he could find happiness after his wife's death, and the answer is yes. Rei's arc was about whether he could leave his family's violent legacy, and the answer is yes. Any serious drama would call the former into question, any significant action would call the latter into question.

Let me reiterate that: Any significant plot would compromise Kazuki and/or Rei's arcs. Even if it was some new threat drawing them into the plot, like if Miri was kidnapped by some kidnappers unrelated to anything her papas had done in the past, that would still suggest that Rei and Kazuki are still stuck in those old patterns. The suggestion would be even stronger if the plot wasn't some arbitrary thing that came out of left field so they had an excuse to get into fight scenes.

Now, this kind of thing isn't automatically a problem. Liam Neeson had three movies about one guy violently rescuing his daughter from various kidnappers, and while the Taken trilogy has problems, the fact that Liam keeps getting dragged into conflict isn't one of them. But then again, Liam didn't have a character arc in the first movie about finding a peaceful, joyous family life. Rei and Kazuki did.

And yeah, they could produce a slice-of-life series about the Kurusu/Suwa/Unasaka family. But making a sequel series in a completely different genre from the original is a tough sell to both audiences and producers. It can happen, it can even be good...but that's rare, and usually requires a bit more than "What happy things happen after the happy ending?" You could make that kind of sequel to literally any story, but almost nobody does.

Anyways, if you want a season 2 to Buddy Daddies, go write some fanfiction. It'll scratch that itch better than any plausible season 2 would.

#buddy daddies #anime #meta #themes #family #character development #sequels #or lack thereof #fanfic ideas #technically