Guy who asked Jin question back again because I have brain worms and was trying not to go too hard on a Yuma digression in the Jin and Osamu question but see. My fucking trap card (osayuu mentioned. I become feral. Such is the way)
Anyways Jin-Yuma-Osamu large scale invasion information gap my <adjective> my <sickos image> my <thing that makes me Be Come Evil in the DMs of friends and family>
Because like. I'm sure that after the fact Osamu debriefed about the whole thing with the rest of tk2, so some version of it gets back to Yuma eventually. And his and Jin’s goals are aligned right now so there's nothing to gain by making An Issue of it at this point (plus chika and osamu's feelings about the situation are doubtless a consideration). But also, the black trigger doesn't come out until Osamu is pinned. And he and Replica separate for the express purpose of protecting chika and osamu. And I wonder how all in on helping protect the city he might have been if the stakes were not precisely what they were. And I wonder about what he might feel with regards to being looped into another conflict between nations he's technically only marginally affiliated with. And I wonder if he thinks of politicians either playing on his grief or trying to, in their desperation to win their own battles. And I wonder. And I wonder,,,,
Of course Chika and Osamu are okay. And they're planning on going to get Replica back. So all's well enough that ends well enough, and there's nothing to gain from making an issue of it. But the guy has a lot of hours to himself to think about things so I doubt that it hasn't crossed his mind.
Edge of my fucking seat for the fic! I loved your other two a lot.
LMAO, please come to me with all your brainworms. i don't think you understand. i got into world trigger in like 2013 and it's just been in my brain ever since. it's THE series of all time for me so i have thought about it a lot and am only just letting out so feel free to poke at my brain. i love it <3
BUT YES. osayuu,,, my boys of all time. what if they were both feral for each other within meeting for literally no reason ever. what if they committed to being their most authentic selves and that's what pulled them together and now that they are together, they can be their best selves. i talked about chika only crying when osamu was around, but osamu only crying when yuma was around? goddd.
yuma is willing to not make it an issue, but i do think he does take osamu aside and asks him point blank why he forgives jin, but not kido. and osamu's answer is simply: well, he owes jin. and it makes yuma think a lot about that. about what it means to be willing to forgive someone because you owe them. (should he forgive his father for dying and leaving him alone. should he forgive replica for leaving him. should he forgive osamu for threatening to do the same. it's not as if there's exactly blame in his heart. but can you forgive someone only if they hurt you?)
and like. he knows the answer. he won't lie to himself. he was willing to play docile to people who were legitimately trying to kill him out of consideration for osamu. and yuma knows that osamu wouldn't mind and wouldn't blame him and i think there's a large partof yuma that doesn't want to address how angry that makes him. and maybe angry isn't the right word, but he definitely doesn't like how much power he holds in that respect. how much power jin and chika and all these people hold over osamu because osamu let's them have it.
if osamu had it his way, he would be someone's sword. he wants to be someone's sword so bad. he wants to be the shield. he wants to be fucking useful and he is willing to let himself be used because if he's useful, then people will stay with him. if he's useful, then rinji wouldn't have left.
but yuma flips osamu's wish on its head. yuma says no. you are going to be our captain. you are going to be the one leading us. we are going to put ourselves into your hands and you will have to take responsibility for making us care about you, for making us want to protect you, for making us want to live in a world with you in it even after we parted ways with the idea of us living a long life a long time ago.
yuma wants that power back in osamu's hands. so he'll heel. he won't make a fuss. maybe he'll look at jin a little longer than is polite, but he won't say a word unless jin brings it up first. because he knows osamu wouldn't want that, and yuma will do what osamu wants because those are his captain's orders.
and more importantly: because he trusts osamu would never make him do something he wouldn't want to do. osamu wouldn't make yuma figh for fake ass reasons like it's the right thing to do or it's what they would have wanted. osamu would make him fight because of something alruistic and selfish and stupid and sincere.
