#counterpartshipping

happy egaoshipping day (international lesbian day)

yuto does want to be like yuya and still be able to be hopeful and pacifistic, but he...can't. he had to survive his home blowing up and being relentlessly pursued by academia, and he had to grow hard and cold to do it. and the thing is, you can't entirely argue he was in the wrong to do so. yuya gets put through the fucking wringer over the course of the show, oftentimes for not really good reason. the world can be cruel! but...wouldn't it be nice if it weren't? if you could smile again, like you used to?

like the other way i'd put it is. z-arc in yuya can feel like a defense mechanism. kind of lik teh avatar state. from how often it shows up when yuya's in real physical/emotional distress. i kind of think his and yuto's dynamic also works there. yuto can't Egao as well as yuya can, but what he can do is defend himself/sniff out danger ahead of time.

Today on another attempt at a 15 minute sketch on a post it note. I feel like I could have chosen any ship but Yuto in particular spoke to me in the back. Since they have a similar height I went counterpartshipping.