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like, ofmd came fairly close, but neil literally knows us, he lives here with us and says hi in the halls and overhears us talking about what matters to us and trading theories and fantasizing about what we’d like to see. and he wrote this for us.

like, this could not more obviously be written for us. for us weird little queers who care so much about these two idiots.

every minute of this was written and crafted and performed to say we love you back. it wasn’t made to be a hip tv show or to impress or entertain anyone except us, and you can see that everyone involved had a blast in the process, because they love these characters too.

it is just so kind, cliffhanger notwithstanding. this show grabbed me by the shoulders, looked me in the eye, and said i see you and i love you too. and that is so fucking extraordinary.

two people who left behind their jobs, their remaining blood ties, the lives they knew for this child and the partner who'd changed the world for them, who'd opened up a brighter future for this little family of theirs.

rei willingly gave up his dominant arm — his deadliest weapon, leaving himself vulnerable and weak in the eyes of his father but the strongest and bravest man alive to kazuki and miri — when he shot himself, rendering himself permanently disabled (at least from the looks and sound of it), symbolically severing the tie with that wretched suwa blood that has haunted him and paving the way for a safe future for his family.

two people who have made it work for over a decade, who opened up a business together to support their family, who proudly display all of the loving photos they've taken throughout the years in the diner for anyone to see.

I find it interesting how Shigeki decided not to kill Rei and seemingly hadn’t sent the organization after the three of them over the years if it’s any indication by the timeskip.

Like I get it, Rei permanently injured himself so he’d be deemed useless to his father, but Shigeki tends to display a lot of callousness and would kill him anyways. Especially after Rei shot him first.

The way he pulls his gun on Rei as he turns his back on his father before lowering it is probably meant to display some sort of regret within him. Maybe, just for a moment, he feels the want to have a family to treasure and recognizes that he blew it when he decided to raise Rei up as a soldier instead of a kid.