"now that everything is over-" the black macaque, with six ears started saying, "that orange fits you better than black." to the orange macaque.
"Mihou, i gave you permission to lay down with me. i didn't say 'talk.'" the king mumbled back, with his eyes closed and a monkey snuggling with him.
"..right. Um- just wanted to say it. let's relax now, shall we?" He asked quietly. "..." But didn't receive any answer.
"Do i really look good with my actual fur color?" the monkey king asked out of nowhere, opening one of his eyes to look at the macaque next to him.
"Yes, yes you do. It makes you look unique among everyone else, because there's no one who will have the same fur as you."
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Hiiii🩷🩷 I have a question... does Yohan think that Gaon loves Soo Hyun in a romantic way😳? If so, oh boy thats a huge misunderstanding to clear. Also, thank you for the amazing update!!! I'm sure as hell sticking around on this journey to see these two work out their feelings!!
Hi there! 💜
Yes, he does. Because Yo Han's got no reason to believe otherwise, based on how Ga On is behaving. He can tell that Ga On is attracted to him, sure, but that's physical. And sexual and romantic attraction are two entirely different things. One doesn't guarantee the other and just because you feel one — or even both — you don't actually have to act on it.
I'm more or less writing Yo Han like a bisexual demiromantic, i.e. he's good at recognising sexual tension/attraction but he's not very experienced with love. He's never really been in love before because he's never allowed himself to get close enough to someone to actually fall in love. And when you combine this with his upbringing and lack of social interaction with other people? Love is probably pretty tricky for him.
Not in a "he doesn't feel it" way because he does — and he knows that he does — but he's not the best at reading it in other people. Not at all helped by how he just doesn't get the whole "love at first sight" thing (because, again, demiromantic), which has made him wonder if, just maybe, his concept of love is different from everyone else's. He knows what love means to him and he's seen other people be in love (like Isaac and his wife) but applying that to his and Ga On's relationship is very difficult for him, especially with Soo Hyun complicating things.
Like, if Yo Han tries to compare how Ga On behaved around/treated Soo Hyun (who he assumes Ga On was in love with) to how Ga On behaves around/treats Yo Han, he can see a lot of differences. And it's a problem when his method for figuring this whole situation out is: "That is how Kim Ga On behaves when he's in love and, if he doesn't, he's probably not in love with me." Because that misses the part where people don't always behave the exact same way when they're in love (because it can be influenced by who they're interested in) and, if anything, it should be the other way around.
At this point, it's probably better to look at how Ga On behaves around you, Yo Han, not Soo Hyun, if you want to figure out what he's like when he's in love x'D
... but he doesn't know that, of course.
So, in short: Yo Han knows that Ga On cares about him and he knows that Ga On is sexually attracted to him, but he has no way of knowing if Ga On is in love with him. Yo Han has too little experience with it to be able to gauge that.
But, at this point? He thinks that Ga On is just too in love with Soo Hyun to ever love him (which is what this post was about)
And, in a very heartbreaking way, he's kind of grateful that Ga On made it clear he's not going to act on what's between them because Yo Han assumes it's only sexual attraction and some confused fondness on Ga On's end anyway. And Yo Han would just... rather not if that's all Ga On can give him. Because, for once, he doesn't just want sex — he wants love, too.
... this man is, once again, a goddamn onion.
(and will make you cry just as much as one)
And, for my own sake, I'm going to have to make a detour and write Yo Han's POV of what happens after he's gone into his bedroom because I SWEAR THE FUCKING BASTARD WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE. There is SO MUCH GOING ON in his head and snippets keep inconveniently popping up at irregular intervals, distracting me. And as soon as I push one aside, the next one pops up.
It's like a never-ending game of angsty Whac-A-Mole.
Someone save me.
ANYWAY. I'm glad you liked the update! And thank you so much for wanting to stick around 💜 I was genuinely worried about how you all would react to this chapter. Like, who's insane enough to throw in a rejection 400k into a story? People have probably gotten chased down with pitchforks for less.
So thank you for the trust, support, and dedication — it means a lot to me 💜
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Do you know what my absolute favorite thing about Revolutionary Girl Utena is? It’s the idea that emotional fulfilment does not, in any shape or form, require love.
Every single character does horrible things to themselves and each other in the name of love, and the only way those toxic relationships are resolved is for the character to learn real maturity rather than fixating on love. I strongly believe that by the end of the show, Anthy still loves her brother more than she loves Utena. I also believe that he genuinely loves her as well. The reason she can’t stay with him is that despite that love, he still hurts her. The reason is that love isn’t enough.
There is a scene near the end of the show where Juri and Miki start flirting with Utena, although it makes no sense for them to truly be in love with her. They’re doing this as a way to show that they’ve started to move on from Shiori and Anthy respectively. Nanami shows absolutely NO interest in love from Utena or anyone else, even though she is moving on from Touga. Touga himself is shown to genuinely fall for Utena, which of course he gets no resolution on. Utena isn’t obligated to love him back, nor would her doing so help either of them. All of these characters have to abandon someone they love in order to find true happiness, and not only that, but they don’t need other relationships to fill that void. In fact, both Saionji and Miki are suggested to be trying to do just that by replacing their failing relationships (with Touga and Kozue respectively) with Anthy, when in reality they need to focus on themselves.
In short, Utena is not a show where the power of romance or friendship or family saves the day, or where people are redeemed by their relationships to others. Obviously, the characters affect each other’s lives for better or worse, but at the end of the day, each one has to walk their own path and discover their individual self. Utena helped Anthy imagine a life beyond being the Rose Bride, but the force that actually pulled her out of that coffin was Anthy, not Anthy & Utena, not Anthy’s Love for Utena. RGU is a story about love, but its conclusion is not that love is essential. If anything, it’s that there are things in life far more important than love.
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