#satsuba

Both. Historically, there has actually been a trend (especially in Western cultures, which the world of Lugunica is based on) of nontraditional gender presentation and same-sex attraction/behavior. There has also been a trend of bisexuality…not being a recognized Thing. In line with these, I’m thinking of making it a very funny misunderstanding where certain characters (and specifically Rem) come to the conclusion not JUST that he’s attracted to men, but that Subaru’s apparent attraction to women is the result of said women either being involved in some sort of brainwashing (knowingly or not) or of them openly manipulating him into reciprocating their feelings.

I wonder how you’re gonna do Subaru’s reaction to the shadow garden scenes.

Honestly so many people have been pushing me about it even AFTER I said I was planning on including it that now the pettier part of me doesn’t wanna include it lmao

I mean, sure. But think about how that’s gonna come across to people who see her as an individual and not a character — and ESPECIALLY as an individual whom they are not primed to give the benefit of the doubt:

Subaru somehow gets transported to another world out of nowhere, without any warning, and entirely against his will. The only real suspect that they have as to how that happened in the first place is the Witch of Envy.

Subaru can die and come back to life. Nobody ever, like, TOLD him this: it just happened. It’s painful and deeply traumatizing, and he’s given no explanation for how or why.

Subaru is forbidden from telling anyone about what he’s going through via the threat of bodily harm. If he tries to tell his loved ones anyway, then the Witch of Envy apparently has no qualms about killing THEM instead, and then leaving him to suffer the consequences. Puck straight up tortured him to death because he was left to take the blame for her killing Emilia, even.

At one point the Witch of Envy possesses Emilia and starts rampaging across the Sanctuary, explicitly because Subaru FINALLY managed to get someone to hear him cry about his trauma. She kills everyone he cares about and then attempts to trap him by her side forever, and the only way he gets out of it is by killing himself on the spot.

Subaru has a deep, instinctual affection for the Witch of Envy despite never having even heard of her before in his life. He was also attracted to Emilia specifically because she looked like the Witch of Envy (long, silver hair). He has no idea who this woman is and yet he’s apparently deeply in love with her. …In a world where magic exists, it is not at all a stretch to say that the others would grow suspicious that she straight up BRAINWASHED him into falling for her.

The Witch of Envy and Satella are two different people, but like. They’re still in the same BODY. And they both still have this very strange fixation on Subaru, who doesn’t remember meeting EITHER of them. —Hell, for all the others know, the Witches were straight up lying about them being different people after all.

Subaru wants to save her. He has absolutely no idea WHY he wants to save her.

"I think it would be worse with male Rem. Stalk femBaru by watching her while she sleeps. Follow her everywhere. Shouting strange things to the white whale. about how only he can smell Subaru. Being willing to be second. under Emilio. Just to secure his place at Subaru's side."

Well I can assure you Rem as a male would definitely not be as much loved as she is right now if that happened 😂 I genderbend the author actually tamed her obsession by a lot because she's a "guy" now and so it seems he thinks it's "incorporate" Sarah Sep 14 A cute maid can get away with her comments and behavior labeling it as "cute" and enduring behavior, a boy however would immediately get stoned for this and of course if "that" group of people discover this we will need to defend how re zero is not "misogynistic" or something 😂

I mean: the whole reason Rem GETS AWAY with everything she does is because she’s playing into the image of a Perfect Submissive Waifu that Subaru loves so much (even if he only likes it as an abstract concept or a familiar anime trope — see: his reaction to Shaula). This applies to both the audience and Subaru himself: Rem can disguise her more…insidious traits, because she‘s a pretty girl and knows how to use it. It makes perfect sense that male Rem would tone it down, then, because he would know better than to think he could get away with that sort of thing. He’d probably present himself as more of an ikeman prince or something.

Yeah but would THEY know that? And even if they figured it out/Subaru told them himself, what’s stopping them from concluding that the reason for his love of silver hair was that Satella had her hooks in him for a while before his eventual kidnapping?