#accel world

SAO Vol. 5 onward has gradually increasing amounts of kirito having transgender thoughts (see tumblr tag "transfem kirito" for some good examples, here's a couple from my downloads folder. apologies for tumblr breaking the formatting.)

then there is a 20 year timeskip between SAO and accel world, and we are introduced to Kuroba "Kuroyukihime" Sayuki. Official title "Black Lotus", often referred to as "Black Swordswoman", she's out here throwing our vorpal strikes and dual wielding swords and shit. In Vol. 23 we learn that her body is artificial and somebody transplanted their soul into it, and that whoever that person was the date 30th September held a great amount of meaning to them. 30th September being Asuna's birthday. Then in volume 24 we learn that her swordfighting style is called "Aincrad Style".

reki wrote this and got it published

the volume that proves once and for all that im not crazy and that it is in fact that deep, that im not imagining stuff that wasn't intended because it's *right there*

the fact that hime is canonically a fluctlight copy, the birthday, the "amount of information" line, the fact that haruyuki is the first to see through a 2-century old martyr complex, the fucking bath situation that's such an obvious callback to anyone who read progressive it might as well be a neon sign

she's a kirito-isotope, always has been, nothing else even remotely makes any sense

i know im like a broken record on this subject at this point but i cannot overstate how blatant it is, how obvious, how utterly obvious it is that this was always reki's endgame once you know what to look for