#and maybe add a dash of the tsukasa-oukawa cousinhood while we're at it

[always-a-joyful-note]

I think the reason I like the 5 Eccentrics so much is that it's just such a good depiction of the….variety of friendship. Because it was a group literally created to be destroyed. It was, in other words, a forced union of 5 people who might have never or barely interacted. Yet even with that, even knowing that, they all chose to have a meaningful friendship with each other - they chose to be friends and remain friends even if their union was forced, even if the very reason that they met was to be taken down. It's almost the arranged marriage trope but it wouldn't work as well like marriage because it really isn't that. It's like the family system (brought together by chance and a common identity) but it's still different. Because they didn't HAVE to be friends even if sharing the same label, because they didn't have to keep sticking around each other and become a real family. They chose to be friends in spite of all odds, chose to be grateful even amidst their destruction, and forged a precious bond that not even their predetermined fall could break and in this essay I will -

#fandom spamdom #enstars #ensemble stars #stuff i say #welcome to the inevitable five eccentrics post that i finally made you may move along now #BUT NO FOR REAL YOU GUYS IM SO OUGH OVER THE FRIENDSHIPS IN ENSTARS #for all the crazy that goes on in the story the friendships and the brotherhood (or siblinghood in some cases) is just so - #i dont even know the characters that well but i could go on forever about the amagis or sakumas or aoi twins #and maybe add a dash of the tsukasa-oukawa cousinhood while we're at it #and thats not even mentioning himeru and his brother #but the eccentrics have had me in a chokehold ever since the anime and the element miniseries and they havent let me go #its about connections that were forced but bonds that were forged instead #its about being thrust into the fire together and deciding to be the cooling water for each other instead of keeping a distance from them #its about friendship and family and realising theyre human because they found people like their own selves #and it messes me up how they also found people to establish their humanity with asides from each other #idk how to explain it because they always talk about how they werent very human before while im shaking them.... #...because you guys WERE human. you ARE human. you have always been human but never treated as such... #....andfjaisojr eifowjifjsof eive lost coherence #i swear enstars hasnt made me go on about the human condition and the philosophy of humanity #i was already like this before the game #also i just find it so fascinating how the stories establish each of the idol boys' humanity.... #....but at the same time the art and the very nature of the industry theyre participating in also kind of forces them to keep it under wrap #(like come on. even the name idols is so compelling...things made by man but revered as gods and potentially more fallible than man etc) #anyway disclaimer that these are all my opinions etc..