Final Thoughts on T&B2.2: ORIGA Edition
One thing I wanna point out, re: Origa, the relationship Yuri had with her the entire series was performative. It wasn’t real. She had already chosen Legend over Yuri when Legend was alive, and well, and she stayed by her man.
Yuri was desperate for someone he could love. It’s why he put up with her bad days, just so he could make it the good ones. Even the good ones weren’t real love. It was an old woman idolizing her dead, abusive husband all the while ignoring Yuri’s actual reality.
And it hurts to be gaslit like that. It hurt Yuri that she ignored his reality, dementia or no, but if he shut his mouth, performed the way she wanted him to, she rewarded him with motherly affection.
Their dynamic was toxic as fuck. He was in a codependent relationship with her, one that would never improve for two reasons:
Even while sane, Origa must’ve loathed and blamed Yuri. She was already far down the path of hating her own child.
There’s no cure for dementia. Dementia is the #7 disease-related cause of death and folks usually live 8-10 years after onset.
Yuri was never gonna be able to hold her accountable, or at least confront her, which woulda gone a long way to validating his own reality and bringing him to his authentic self. He instead glommed onto her as his only chance of redemption, love, and kindness. If he’d had friends, I doubt that would’ve happened. This is where Kotetsu’s influence came in.
I wonder if the hauntings Yuri created for himself were because his mother denied his reality, so he had a hard time trusting what was real, i.e., love, friendship, trust, forgiveness. Yuri built a world for himself where he was the executioner, was condemned by a dead man, and occasionally shown affection by an insane woman, and none of it was real. He was never gonna heal living with Origa. Which was why I was ok with her dying—it made sense with her dementia and his healing journey.
I wasn’t fine with the senseless violence. Nature taking Origa from Yuri is a progression that could lead to him letting go and realizing who he is, what he wants from others, and what his values really are. Murderers taking Origa away? Let’s fucking destroy any love and affection this poor guy gets and end him.
Hopefully there’re fix-it fics out there or will be there that gets this man the healing he deserves. I hope someday he can see, yeah, she did the best she could, she still sucked, and I still loved her. Because that’s how life is—complex, confusing, and worth living.
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