Trying to understand the twins.
As an elder and younger sibling I have deep sympathy for the Yugi Twins, the idea of murdering your own siblings, espically your younger sibling is gut wretching I cannot imagine how it went down but that's for another post. Let's first dicuss the brothers relationship from what we know, theorize, assume, and peice together.
Red House Arc
Due to being twins, Amane and Tsukasa are basically always together, both seem from this enjoy eachothers time and care about eachother very much. Amane however did seem to still have more matruity even at four, that doesn't mean he didn't engage though.
When going to his brother about his wish, Tsukasa wants to try it again, Amane listens and Tsukasa pursues this. This god under their house needs to be tested! Once again though Amane is bed ridden. Not able to play with his brother, however right now it seems to not be a concern. Amane suggests a book he wants, and that's when things begin for Tsukasa being a wish giver.
After a chat with this "god" he starts trading for more and more gifts for his brother. As the days pass he continues to trade, a wish comes with a price yes and what is this "price". Well..
A life, a soul, a price.
Sound familar? Well when the day comes when Amane says those fate words "If I could just be like you Tsukasa, I wouldnt ask for anything ever again..."
What Tsu believes is he hates him, that being his takeaway he uses his gulit to give Amane his only wish.
To live.
It wasn't only Amane's wish but both of theirs, to live to be happy, but Tsukasa traded himself for his brother.
And I think well enough Amane regrets the words he told his brother. Why do I think this well y'know the black eyes the twins often manage to do in creepy scenes.
Amanes are associated with negative emotions I'd say.
Anger, seriousness, (denial), shock, fear.
His firstinstance of using them eyes, was a child. Tsukasa isn't in his room...
Where's his brother?
This is where we leave off in the earliest part of the childhood of the Yugi Twins. Afterword Tsukasa IS found, but we don't have enough information about their latter relationship. Theres a few things though-! The festival arc.
Now this IS the fake Tsukasa, however it could just be the fact Tsukasa is very very into katanuki. Maybe too much, Amane doesn't want to bother him so he doesn't drag him away.
There is the chance they had been playing during the festival, and Tsu got distracted. Omen is the newest arc with possibly being FINALLY some information on their relationship. We don't really know 100% how Tsu actually treated Amane after he returned home.
I can get a idea though..Possibly they slowly drifted apart. It's not impossible for siblings to not hangout anymore, a conflict a large shift in your life can do that. I think this is what happened. Why? Well one I'm not using Picture Prefect yet- because it isn't really what we could say an accurate depiction of them. These are the spirits playing a role in a story in PP.
Because Tsukasa in Omen's flashback, and Tsukasa in Picture Perfect act completely different. Tsukasa in Omen is more calm from what we see, he's not as jumpy maybe and then with PP well-
Dramatic entrances as always Tsukasa. But he's much much more jumpy like he is as a supernatrual.
Which in all honesty had me cackling a little- bro jumped the moment Amane even spoke.
But this is where it gets interesting, in Hell of Mirrors, Hanako says he'll be taking No. 3s seat back
And IMMEDITALLY Tsukasa goes anime villian on their asses.
Just a moment ago he was hugging and squeezing the Seventh Mystery, at the worst time he did the same with Mistuba!
So thats the question he goes from one mood to the next which could mean the real "Tsukasa" is still there. Maybe when he traded his soul? Hes' still in there but now he's been twisted into some far worse. Much. Much. Worse.
Amane still loves his brother, he isn't able to fight back a lot because Tsu always has another card up his sleeve, Tsukasa is very very smart, even if at first it may not be the case...
He can get into his head.
"I love Amane" can hurt. Tsu knows this he knows he can break him. Amane has lost it on his brother, he's trying to not screw up again, and even when he tries to stand up, Tsu has the strongest weapon of all words. This fake verison of distortion of Tsukasa Yugi still has love but it's more disturbing and twisted. Curiousity killed the cat.
To add not only does Hanako even comfirm that's he's afraid of his brother, but we also know, Tsu is most important thing in the world to him. His yorishiro, it gives the user power, and it's like a battery, destory it you lose your power, you lose everything.
Tsukasa is Amane's everything. Maybe it's the same for Tsukasa, because it was. If this was a switch up where Tsukasa was the Seventh Mystery Amane definetly would be his yorishrio.
I realize this became a completetly different rant damn okay fuck uh..BYE??
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Ahhhh there’s so many things I could say about chapter 106 but instead my brain focuses on this.
Despite all earlier shenanigans, the moment Nene calls for help Tsukasa jumps in no hesitation! And honestly it’s funny because Hanako could never be this cool
But when I saw this my head instantly went back to this moment way back into the Hell of Mirrors arc:
Even when Nene was knocked out and on the verge of being “replaced” by the original number 3, Tsukasa never interfered. He only saved her and Mitsuba after hearing a call for help.
He even calls number 3 out for picking on things weaker than himself…
Now I’m not gonna sit here and say “see this proves Tsukasa is actually the good guy here” because he’s far more complex than that. But I do think it’s interesting to point out that Tsukasa will jump to your rescue as long as you ask.
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Meaning of ー...
In Chapter 108, when Nene and Tsukasa are plummeting to their doom, this happens:
Tsukasa goes... 「ー...」
This on its own could mean anything, but here I want to argue--without a shadow of a doubt--that he was uttering Amane's name. Not a crazy thing to argue, I'm sure, but when I've seen so many people argue otherwise I feel the urge to speak up!
First, I think some people remain unconvinced on the issue that Tsukasa is even saying anything at all, and while it is up in the air, I want to direct your attention to this screencap from AidaIro's old visual novel:
Ehem. So the character speaking here, Esterio, is muttering something almost unintelligible to the protagonist, Neige. These lines he's speaking represent each censored syllable of the word he is saying, which we later find out is the title of the game ending this scene comes from. I will now refrain on uttering any further spoilers from this point onward...
So, here we have a clear-cut example of AidaIro using lines, like the ones from Tsukasa's dialogue bubble, to censor a word being spoken. I personally find this pretty convincing.
Beyond that, we need to address the actual context of this scene.
Nene had been pestering Tsukasa to call Amane's name in the hope that he would come and rescue them! (Side note, I think it's cute that Nene is so insistent on this when she just learned how precious Tsukasa, as Hanako's yorishiro, is to him... she knows, just trust her!!! ♡)
I personally think this moment falls flat if Tsukasa stayed silent after already stubbornly staying silent the entire chapter. What's the big deal if he continued to not call his name? Why focus a whole panel on Tsukasa's persistent resignation?
But! It doesn't end there.
Near-instantaneously after this panel, Amane himself showed up!
Is that not incredibly strange? How do you explain Hanako finding them so fast if Tsukasa hadn't called for him?
Take note of Hanako's expression, too. He looks sour. He's looking at Tsukasa. He's asking... "What?" He's ANNOYED!! He would not be treating Nene this way. And he demonstrably is not--he isn't looking at her. He is responding... to Tsukasa. He's responding to what he said.
And I can think of nothing better for him to have said than "Amane"!
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That's it! I hope that this post, while brief, was informative. Feel free to reference it if you ever need to.
And if I had to guess why AidaIro censored it like that, I want to direct your attention to the visual novel once more... I like the idea that Nene, our point of view character, couldn't hear him. That Tsukasa's whisper was so soft you could barely discern it from silence. A whisper that represented the tiniest sliver of hope that Tsukasa still allowed himself to have, after all the times Amane ignored him... thank you for reading!!!
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