Resonance, pt.2

since the anime came out, i've seen a lot of discourse about the differing feelings of original hikaru and ヒカル (and treating them as two completely different ships), and although obviously a big theme of the manga is that ヒカル is not hikaru and that's important for yoshiki to understand in order to move on from hikaru's death, he also... isn't that separate after all.

the ヒカル we know would not exist in this form without the original hikaru's wish for someone to stay by yoshiki's side. hikaru poured all of his love for yoshiki into the entity that became ヒカル, and he was reborn with all those feelings, along with his memories and base personality. yes, ヒカル has his own feelings, but they're born of and built from the feelings of the original hikaru, and i think that's so beautiful...

I feel like the show starts to go that way but eventually it comes to respect him as he is? Like, the two main dudes sort of bump heads about their personalities but eventually the other guy is like “This guy is weird, he just does these odd things… he’s great he’s so awesome wow” and then tries to help him with the girl he likes, but not in a way that makes him something he’s not. Like, MC writes a love letter and the guy reads it and is like “This is a mess but this is also 100% who he is, he should give this letter to her.”

As for the “het junk” I mean IDK I liked the main romance? I saw two quiet people who are passionate about their vocations finding one another and respecting one another for who they were. I really liked the ferris wheel bit with them.

🐼a normal day routine involves an alarm waking up the both of you, he makes breakfast and lets you sleep in if he feels you need more rest

🐼he has to go off to work, but says you can call him any time (loves it when you call him to give him a random panda fact of the day)

🐼he doesn't have you do chores at the apartment, mostly because he likes them done a certain way, but doesn't mind if you dust/cook

🐼when grocery shopping, he leaves you a specific list with alternatives, requires you to call him if the alt isn't there either

🐼he appreciates it when you tape nature shows with pandas for him to watch when he gets home

🐼bath time is something he does alone, but he gets a bit flustered when you joke about going in with him

🐼was weird about it at first with cuddling with you, so you wear pjs that resemble a panda pattern so he can think of you as his own personal panda <3

🐼he often tells you that you're an exception to taking over earth and annihilating humanity, he's truly happy being your domestic partner

🐼the first time you kissed him he wouldn't shut up about it for days and even texted you when he was at work asking if it's supposed to feel like it's lingering on his lips all the time

🐼calling him pet names like "mr bad guy" or "big guy" or "evil hubby" amuses him to where he challenges you to come up with more

🐼his pet name for you is "squish" or "jiggle" names that literally is about you being a soft human he likes being around

🐼he does get jealous though, so be sure to introduce everyone in your life to him and state their status with you so he's aware to not try and bite their head off for being familiar with you 🐼he'll take you to work someday, he just has to figure out how to make that work without you dying within the first 5 minutes

🐼shares food with you, feeding each other is something he enjoys

🐼love languages are quality time, and words of affirmation