#I really do love Souichi he's such a fascinating character study

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I really should clean up that KoiBo essay I started, I got like 3k words deep and it was all just mushy rambling about how much I love Souichi

#Koisuru Boukun #I really do love Souichi he's such a fascinating character study #I guess like half of that is also about Morinaga - he's also really interesting but I'm a lot more clinical about him lol #With Morinaga I'm like ''Ah yes his trauma stems from xyz and presents as abc and thus efg happens'' #Whereas with Souichi I'm just like ''Ahhhhhhhhhhh he loves his family so much and he's so stupid but so smart fjdkslafj'' lol #Like there IS analysis in there! I'm particularly fascinated by his perception of nuance in others and himself and how that grows over time #Even just in Challengers - hell /especially/ in Challengers they're already such well fleshed out characters #I consider KoiBo to basically be a soft reboot and some of the decisions are uhhhhhhh questionable #But other than the glaring one they're mostly logically consistent with what Challengers set up and just fjdsklajfldf #They're honestly such interesting characters!! #They're also codependent lol definitely had no impact on my tastes in literature going forward #What's the line I have buried somewhere in the file uhh #If I had a nickel for every time I got fixated on a guy who goes around wearing long coats with lapels has round glasses long hair an... #Interesting personality and whose story centrally focuses on trauma and queer themes in the 90s I'd have two nickels #Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice #I am also fully open to more recommendations of that particular niche if anyone has some because lbrh - they are few and far between #JFKlsfd every time I think about KoiBo I'm just like ''I wish this was written this way on purpose'' lol #It can be cracked open into some of the best writing I've seen about learning to love yourself as an ace person! #But it super does not feel like it was written with that intention!! Agh my conflictions lol #Well that's also part of the charm lol I trend towards forgiveness for things that I love that much #I still always feel like I'm making excuses for liking it as much as I do tho lol ahh......the self consciousness of loving something lol