Hey everyone, I wanna talk about Asuramaru and Yuu for a minute.
As we all know, demons are aware of their humans’ deepest desires and use them to open their hearts in an attempt to possess them.
The first example we could use is Shikama Doji. He insists on making Shinoa accept her feelings for Yuu to open her heart to her demon. She had none of it, though, and kept the door to her heart shut.
Now, knowing that Shikama Doji keeps using Yuu to open Shinoa’s heart is interesting considering that… Asuramaru (and the demon from episode 3) mainly used Mika.
The first form demons take to possess Yuu is Mika. Making Mika repeat his endearing nickname “Yuu-chan” sweetly and even hugging him and whispering in his ear. All of this to “open Yuu’s heart” because it’s “Yuu’s softest spot”.
This is only the beginning, though.
Later on, when Yuu had to face his worst nightmares and childhood traumatic memories, Mika’s image appeared once more as his main motivation to keep fighting, his strength.
(Notice that Yuu blushes??)
This is because Mika is the representation of “family” within Yuu or, rather, the meaning of family has such an importance to Yuu because of Mika. Mika was the first person to make Yuu feel wanted and the one who taught him the meaning of family. Thus the origin of the concept of family for Yuu is no one other than Mika.
In the scene where Yuu regains the strength to overcome his worst fears, he talks about the promise he made to save Mika and Mika says “let’s protect our family”, making it more explicit how family, the representation of what Yuu loves and obsesses over the most, is deeply linked to Mika, more than anyone else. Everyone Yuu loves is family for him. Family is safety and warmth. The fact that Yuu went from absolutely loathing the word to idealizing it like this shows how meaningful Mika is to him.
Notice that the meaning of family in OnS is different from the traditional one. It’s about a group of people you love and trust rather than “mom, dad, siblings, etc”. Therefore, Mika being Yuu’s imago of family means Yuu’s feelings for Mika translated to his feelings for family. Family = feeling wanted, feeling safe, in contrast to what Yuu felt towards his parents: worthless and afraid. Yuu himself stated he might not understand the common meaning of family.
What Yuu does have is the association of family with the concept of feeling wanted. Later on, he stated he wants to save the people who took him in.
And what did Yuu say about Mika?
“He was the first one to ever need me”.
And this is particularly funny considering Shinoa said the same about Yuu.
Actually, there are several parallels between Yuu’s feelings for Mika and Shinoa’s feelings for Yuu. Among those is Shinoa’s blush and eyes cast down from chapter 24.
Yuu had that expression for Mika on chapter 37.
Pretending Yuu’s feelings for Mika are merely platonic while seeing Shinoa’s as romantic would be quite the double standard lol
This leads back to the topic about demons and their ability to know their human’s deepest feelings. Just like Shikama Doji with Yuu, I’ve noticed the one person Asuramaru talks about the most is Mika.
During the battle in Shijuku, Asuramaru told Yuu he should have ran away with Mika, to stay away from the JIDA’s experimentation.
Later on, something interesting happened. Asuramaru stated he cannot see what Yuu doesn’t see. However, he is capable of sensing Mika. This hasn’t happened with any other character before.
What this tells me is that Asuramaru, the one who hes complete access to Yuu’s heart, deems Mika to be the most important person to him, both his main weakness (thus using his form to possess Yuu) and strength (Yuu used Mika to break free from the nightmare). Their connection is stronger than with anyone else’s, that’s for sure.
This concludes my “Mika is Yuu’s most importan person” post of the day.
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