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What do you think about Akito and Shiki relationship?

Good but also unhealthy. Shiki seems to really admire her mother, respects her, loves her. Same for Akito. She loves her son the point she wont mind sacrifice her life for him. She tries to separate her past from her son so that her son can be happy. She wants her son to have his own life and be happy.

Their relationship might defined as ideal mother son relationship but there are some unhealthy parts. Such as; Akito never had a chance to live her childhood, thats why she learnt everything together with her son. Its almost as they grow together as "siblings/friends", not as child-parent. Also because of everything happenned, Akito seems to deal amount of guilty to the point she starts self destructing. She is suicidal and of course watching her mother being like this traumatized her son too. For some reason, Akito (and fandom) thinks Shiki can be happy, if he just leave from here while all Shiki wants her mother to not be in pain. Because people harrass her, abuse her and she says she deserves it. And obviously calling this "payment/redemption" is bullsh.t too.

Basically, Akito unintentionally hurts her son by being "suicidal" and "self destructive" because if a mother is sad, obviously her son will be sad too. which is why her son wants to stay in Sohma place, to save her, instead of finding his own dream. Because his dream seems to become saving his mother/happiness of his mother cause well, Akito is suffering and unhappy as hell. And the fact that Shiki deciding that its his job to save his mother means he doesnt trust other people enough for it cause apperantly, they dont do anything to help Akito. Basically, its such a nice warm relationship but its also tragic one :')).

To be honest, i find it weird too cause yeah there could be another place they meet but i guess, it doesnt really matter anymore because Sohma place is changing and its not unsafe place for them anymore. And seeing Akito wouldnt change,. Like, they dont have to run away since Akito isnt chasing them.  She is not their god, they can interact normally since there is no curse anymore. Having curse/god in their life was what made them want to run away, not really Akito person. Also since she changed, its fine now. Also it might be memorable place for them, idk, i guess. It was unnecessary really. They could meet in somewhere else too to avoid uncomfortable situtions. Maybe it wasnt problem for them but it was for Shiki and Akito so ://///.

I think Akito doesnt interact and talk with them while bringing her son. She puts her distance so that they wouldnt feel uncomfortable. I dont think any of zodiac members have a grudge for her. If we look at the timeline, this is at least after 20 years so i dont think they would care that much. I think most of them (maybe all of them) forgive her but it doesnt matter since Akito will not be there anyway. And of course her son would feel uncomfortable. Everyone's parents are there except his mother. Her mother is being outcast and he knows it and what is he supposed to do? Ignoring this?

And the fact that he thinks "there is a side he should be" its such a big burden for child to bear. Though, if i was in his place, i would choose my mother : )). Its such a weird sitution. I dont know why Akito thought her son should/can be friends with zodiac's children. She probably didnt want her son to be not part of the group cause of her but i think its still so unnecessary. That there is still some group exist. And her thinking that everyone should be part of it except her. I wonder she secretly wished to be part of that group (like, still wishing) but she knows she cant so she wants at least her son to be cause she thinks thats how she can make her son happy, maybe...ooof.

I think it doesnt including her but the fact that he says this is another proof of he never seems to look at his wrong actions. And seeing a person you love as something you obtained, giving up everything (your job etc) to beside with them is not love. Its a classic toxic relationship. Its an obsession. This is NOT love.

I actually talked about this before in this analysis. Yes, Kureno is passive enabler and people pleasure and he chose to ignore things so yeah he is also responsible for the abuse but he is not the only enabler in zodiac. Hatori is also passive enabler (though cause of curse, Hatori didnt much have another choice) and Sh.gure is even worse cause he is active enabler means someone who intentionally provokes other person to be destructive. I found the "you should have left Akito" advice very stupid cause that would make things worse.

Actually, there wasnt much thing Kureno could do in that sitution. Kureno's biggest problem was he decided that he is the one who should be her savour when there was nothing he could do at that age and alone. If only he get some help from someone else/done adult figüre like Kazuma, things would change a lot. At the end, Kureno says "this place is no good for you, lets change, Akito", i am not sure what he was planning to do. If he tried to help Akito earlier as taking her to somewhere else or getting some help from another adult, then yes, Akito would change earlier.

But its no surprise Akito didnt believe in him and said "all you do is talking" because Kureno keeps waiting Akito to decide when Akito has no idea what to do. She desperately needs someone authority figüre who will out some rules, dicipline, someone who can say "no" to her. Not just constantly asking "what should we do?". Especially, Akito knows that Kureno doesnt actisllywant to be with her, forcing himself.

What is Akito supposed to do? She knows Kureno doesnt want to stay but she cant say "leave" cause then she will be lonely. She cant say "lets leave from here" cause her father's legacy is here and she is terrified of outside. This is why in tension moment she stabs Kureno and says that "you are killing me with your Pity". Imagine, you are completely alone and desperate for any human affection. Only person who stays with you stays not because they want to but because you need it...

Yes, it was toxic for Kureno too but he chose this while it was such a torture for Akito. This is why the one who reach out to Akito wasnt older zodiac's pity, sense of responsibility or obsession, it was empathy. Just someone choosing to be friends with her.

Hmmm. I mean i always saw zodiac-god relationship as some kind of weird family meeting and they all basically grow together so its hard to not miss them. I think if she ever had a outside life friends love, even she had those things, sometimes she could still miss them time to time. There wasnt much good memories and she feels guilty a lot but its eventually something she needs to move on so :')).

This is why Fruits Basket's ending is sucks. So many things arent adessed, unnecessary drama and pain, even though they should have been happy already. Akito deserves better.

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