#ds!mimi

…I’m not going to say anything.

Absolutely, it probably explains SOO much to these people that Subaru was legitimately not considered an adult by the standards of his culture when he first arrived in Lugunica lmao.

Honestly when it’s not being used as an…excuse…the cultural differences regarding when a person is considered an adult have SO much potential for comedy. Like, Subaru was treating Felt like a little girl instead of a grown ass woman because she WAS a little girl as far as he was concerned. Subaru sees the Pearlbaton triplets as little kids because demihumans straight up did not exist where he came from, and so he had the double-whammy of not considering 15-year-olds grown adults AND not being anywhere near accustomed to the idea of kittenpeople being a thing. And, of course, Subaru acts so young all the time because as far as his homeland is concerned he is genuinely still a kid — or at least, literally JUST stopped being a kid.

It really differs from person to person, but here’s a couple:

Rachins: The one where he stabbed Subaru to death. It was largely an accident, and there are other, worse deaths that come after that, but he just can’t get the image of his own self murdering someone in cold blood out of his head.

Eridna and Beatrice: The first Arc 2 loop. Beatrice wasn’t his contracted partner yet, but she is now, and — she apparently once abandoned him to die, despite the fact that it would have taken her five seconds to just remove that fucking curse. Beatrice is devastated, Eridna is furious.

Rem and Ram: I don’t think there’s any possible answer that isn’t the loop where Rem tortured him for hours before Ram killed him in order to keep him quiet.

Wilhelm: The second Petelgeuse death. Not because of the grotesqueness of the Archbishop’s actions — he’s seen worse, probably — but because of the very painful and haunting realization of the similarities between his own righteous anger and the anguish-inducing display of rage that Subaru presented in response to Rem’s death.

Mimi, Crusch, Felt, and Reinhard: The third Petelgeuse death. Nobody was there. Mimi, Crusch, and Reinhard are all anguished about their failures to be there for him when he was outright begging for help, but Felt is just completely pissed with the lot of them (sans Reinhard, who was legit just not there due to a spell of bad luck).

Ferris: Both of Subaru’s suicides offend him on a very personal level, but the one he does in an attempt to save Rem (and by extension, Crusch and the rest of that lot) from Gluttony has so many other complicated feelings tied up in it that he just — it’s a lot.

Julius: If you think Julius is getting a little too overprotective now, imagine how that man is going to react to watching Subaru attempt to PET THE GREAT RABBIT.