#kentomo

Title: そうして‥抱きかかえて寝る

Source: inkdusteddreams

Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/113091304

I find it challenging to express why their story captivates me so profoundly. It's an unusual connection between an assassin and a spy who seems detached from life, compelling me to uncover their fate.

Picture a young woman confronting a teenager, the very one who took the life of her fiancé. Yet, when she gazes at him, she sees not a ruthless murderer but an immature boy, despite the blood on his hands and her lack of affection for him.

Consider an idealistic teenager, entrenched in a world devoid of personal sentiments, making calculated decisions for a revolution. Then, he encounters a woman, experiencing an immediate and deep attraction that evolves into profound love. Her mere presence brings him solace, even amidst the most tumultuous times.

Perhaps it resonates because these two teenagers, worlds apart, find a connection through blood, deceit, and revolution. Despite societal forces working against them, they are willing to go to great lengths to protect each other.

Maybe it's the enduring impact that, even 15 years later, with his newly reconstructed life shattered, merely conversing with her spirit brings an immediate smile to his face.

A story of a cold, calculated, and idealistic young warrior navigating through a spectrum of emotions akin to any young man deeply in love.

“You have to come back to me,” she said hollowly, tears falling freely to land with gentle taps on Kenichi’s sling. She could not bear the loss of a second love. It would kill her; she knew it. “I will always come back to you,” he murmured. “So long as I’m able, I will always come back to you.”

Tomoe taught me that you don’t have to be a warrior to be a strong female character.

I really love them I wish they had happy ending or be reincarnated to have happy ending. Wrote another poem for them.

Death is not the end I wait for you promise me  you always love me, promise me you redeem yourself, promise me you would love again. I love you the second man, you have given me happiness in my last days, and I will wait for you but don't be in rush to reunite with me, I want to see you laugh, smile and love again when time comes I will wait here, and we be together for eternally  

It’s finally here. My magnum opus (ok not really but). The result of about a months-long task of drafting this and mapping out how I visualize these scenes in my head. Please click on the individual panels for better quality. Also be gentle, my dinky old phone’s camera can only do so much…

So I’ve been continuously returning to the manga’s depiction of them. And there’s just something I love about the subtlety of their interactions with each other. The little things that are said as well as the things that are not said, but implied heavily throughout. And I wanted to give a more visual depiction of what was going through each of their heads…emotionally…the traumas and burdens they both carry and keep under wraps beneath a cold exterior of which they instinctively adopt.

I like to think that Kenshin sees a part of himself in her quiet suffering. He tries to brush it off and put on a front of insensitivity but finds it hard not to pick up on the deeper pain that she carries. Because it resides in him as well. She’s a mirror for his subconscious. It’s such a short interaction but it’s one of my favorite moments. We as the audience don’t know what’s going through Tomoe’s mind in that moment but it can be felt through the subtext which just adds to the intrigue that much more. And Kenshin realizing that he’s catching feelings is just…adorable. I can’t with his expressions ok?? So yeah, I became fixated on this interaction and just wanted more of a glimpse of Tomoe’s perspective because the manga tends to more heavily focus on Kenshin’s viewpoint and inner musings. (Well until later on as the story progresses but still, where are my traumatic flashbacks damn it?)

It's tomoe x kenshin from samurai x

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