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it's about the fact that ultimately haru would not have access to such privilege had her father been shittier and thrown her out. it's about how the amount of power a child has is ultimately dependent on their parents, and wealthy parents does not necessarily mean a wealthy child. it's about how, ultimately even after everything, haru very much does not experience losing her privileges and her socioeconomic standing because of the way circumstances played out.

i feel they'd never be able to understand each other and i feel they'd resent each other for a long while. haru can never understand the experience of living in poverty and akechi can't see past haru's conditional privilege, at least not yet, not while he's still living through the tragedy of a rejected child by the privileged in society. but that's what makes their dynamic oh so fascinating

okumura is haru's dad, he's akechi's boss, and he's terrible to both of them (explicit in haru's case, implied through the way he treats his employees in akechi's case). haru will never get her justice the way she wants it just like how akechi will never get to deal with shido the way he wants to.

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And losing mind games in the sense that Kaeya is playing but he’s not doing it right. Overthinking people’s intentions and decisions, interpreting them as if it were literature with massive implications.

But he pays the price of it when he's out of his element. He lives an exhausting life of not being able to see things on a surface level and/or the bigger picture. Not only does he trust no one, he also doesn't even trust himself. He's lived under so many secrets and lies that he automatically assumes that there's something hidden in every corner.

He's still young, because if we truly follow the game and manga lore, he should be 21 at worst or 26 at best (and I doubt he's 26 because that means we follow irl time which just. Doesn't make sense. I hate the genshin timeline)

It's the same way where people assume young people are naive because they were taught to rely and trust people, Kaeya was taught to hide and only rely on himself. He can't differentiate a threat vs someone with genuine intentions, so he automatically defaults to "everyone wants something out of me and I'll find out what" and realizes far later that "oh. They just wanna be my friend. Odd." Which is funnily enough the exact opposite for normal people. But we already know that he's far from normal so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

He trusts the knights and a few other people but we can argue how much that trust runs because of how many DAMN SECRETS HE KEEP GOOD LORD. Every time I actually consider the way he lives, I get very sad. Because wow that just sounds exhausting at every turn.

Tldr, he's cunning to a fault. It's like how loyalty is good but it can hinder someone greatly when they're loyal to a fault. He sees every little detail to the point where he tires himself out searching for clues that aren't even there

People don't recognize it as a fault until they get really close to him. Because this exact trait is what got him to such a high position in the first place. People weren't lying when they say he pulls strings, he's weaving schemes, he's playing mind games. They just rarely ever notice whenever he loses because they don't even know they were playing mind games. Kaeya playing 4D chess with someone who isn't even staring at the board <\3