nobody asked but i will tell you what the oracle revealed to me. spoilers for route 0/first 100 days under the cut
so yugamu's body has been altered to make him the perfect killing machine. eito has his righteous eyes. they are both different and dangerous and neither of them asked to be made this way.
(loud whisper) IT'S A METAPHOR FOR BEING QUEER
and despite all of this, despite his violent upbringing, despite his own wires crossing to associate violence with intimacy, yugamu has... so much tenderness within him. he has so much love to give, even if he gives it in strange ways. i don't know if you've seen his bond events, but they really make my point here. give yugamu a few scalpels, he's worth it.
whereas eito grew up in complete isolation, in a sterile hospital environment. because his family wanted nothing to do with him, and because eito himself wanted nothing to do with humanity, he was always alone. he's never really experienced affection or acceptance.
(even louder whisper) IT'S A METAPHOR FOR BEING QUEER
and who better than teenage assassin, hopeless romantic, and all-around nice guy omokage yugamu to show it to him, for the first time ever?
yugamu isn't going to be put off by the fact that eito is different, or that he's violent, or that he's desperately lonely. yugamu himself is the same way.
and yugamu isn't going to be shocked by eito's hatred for humanity. yugamu himself is the product of humanity's worst impulses--a child, molded to suit humanity's demand for violence and death. on a very basic, ideological level, yugamu understands where eito is coming from.
and yet, yugamu feels totally differently about humanity than eito does. yugamu thinks humanity is beautiful, even when it's repulsive. this is the kind of guy who gets all worked up by looking at the viscera in an anatomical model.
i want yugamu to show eito what he thinks is beautiful about the human body, and about humanity in general. bottom line, i think they could both grow from sharing their unique perspectives with each other.
and. (loudest possible whisper.) IT'S A METAPHOR FOR BEING QUEER
