#evilaira

Aira in EE/Jiji's colours, Momo in Turbo/Okarun's...

I can see him and Aira genuinely forming a bond that’s not shallow over it, like there's an intimacy to letting someone see how little in control you are of yourself and all the troubles that come with it… Especially when Jiji is usually silly rather than serious. Aira IS very invested in appearances reputation wise and whatnot so I feel like that’d be an extra fun parallel/theme with them

Like "omg… Jiji is so princely… He’s the perfect man! And handsome too! -… Except when he does all of that" but it’s a cute comedic duo of the girl who tries reigning him in a bit and is super embarrassed about her crush on him and simultaneously thinks he’s out of her league and that he’s. A Lot. Cue a lot of soulsearching etc etc

In the previous EE omake, he refers to Aira as ‘onushi’ - this is an archaic way of saying ‘you’, as EE speaks in a very old-fashioned way. It’s not rude, but not endearing either - just kind of neutral.

By the next EE + Aira omake, something’s changed. He’s following her around and switched to calling her ‘kisama’ instead of ‘onushi’.

To modern ears, the word ‘kisama’ is very rude. Aira tells him to not say ‘kisama’ - probably because to her, it sounds like he’s using fowl language to address her…

But here’s the interesting thing: ‘kisama’ was originally a very polite form of address!

The ‘ki’ comes from ‘kimi’, a fond way of referring to someone, and ‘sama’ from… well, the highly respectful honorific most are probably familiar with.

As noted above, Evil Eye speaks in a very archaic manner - two centuries have passed since he was alive after all. So given this context, it’s entirely possible that while Aira took it as him being rude, it was actually the opposite—

The Evil Eye could have been trying to act politely instead!

Following her request to not say ‘kisama’, Evil Eye switches his form of address once again, now calling her directly by name. Bluntly calling her ‘Aira’ isn’t exactly polite, but I do think it’s noteworthy that he respected her wishes at all. Rather, I’m a bit surprised he even knows her name lol

He calls Okarun by name as well - his surname Takakura to be exact. That’s another interesting point - the fact that he’ll call Aira by her first name and not Shiratori.

Maybe it’s because Jiji calls her Aira as well…?