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[tgaa spoilers/ximi-adjacent] thinking harder about yujin and death, shu takumi was really constantly throwing rocks at this poor man off-screen huh
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imagine you cant stop your best friend's early death no matter how many stupid things you try, and then after you break the news to his wife and kid the wife dies, so you have to take that kid in
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and just as you think you're doing right by your late friend and helping your foster son get the educational opportunity of a lifetime THE KID DIES IN THE STUPIDEST POSSIBLE ACCIDENT
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
and then because your daughter went to england you have to hold all the memorial services yourself and also get his grave set up by yourself lol. and then a year later kazuma's not dead jk jk
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the trip of him going home post-canon like um.... i just.... started to figure out how to grieve.... WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE GRAVE...
Robin
....geez lmao
Peil Wiggler
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I CAN'T BELIEVE I NEVER FUCKING CONSIDERED THIS BEFORE
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Setting up a grave w/o any actual remains too bc someone lost the fuckign body
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which maybe should've been a hint. I thought you were genre savvy, Yujin
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
YEAH HES JUST TRYING TO DO THIS TRADITIONAL JAPANESE FUNERAL LIKE
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
NO REMAINS! NO REMAINS. MY SON'S BODY GOT LOST AT SEA 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
(kazuma rolls up a year later causing problems) UFCK
fermentingbones
god
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how is it possible
fermentingbones
that i never considered the fact that
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YUJIN WOULD HAVE REACTED TO KAZUMA DYING?
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SITS DOWN
Peil Wiggler
yujin getting the fucking telegram that kazuma was shoved so that he tripped over a cat and hit his head on a bed post and fucking died
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the explanation is so batshit
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it's straight up a ghost trick death
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oh I just had a thought I can't share bc of ghost trick spoilers
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but. you know. crossover au where.
fermentingbones
you know it was like, a much kinder vaguer message
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and literal forensic doctor yujin mikotoba was like THIS IS BULLSHIT, TELL ME THE WHOLE TRUTH... oh.
fermentingbones
oh i see
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
ghost trick crossover... lays down
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
also yeah lol yujin just like oh cool.
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
oh ok he had his whole life ahead of him and he broke his spine in a freak accident cool 
fermentingbones
nbd, man
fermentingbones
(but it was a bd)
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(it was very bd)
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that potent nightmare when not knowing how much you're allowed to love someone gets polluted by not knowing how much you're allowed to grieve them
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
YES EXACTLY
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
just full nightmare mode because he isnt allowed to be his dad on purpose so why does he feel like he lost his son
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
and he has to just process this himself because his one friend who might get it does not, in fact, get it
fermentingbones
i'm literally in hell thinking about this
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also susato is gone so he cant even talk to her about it
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l o l
fermentingbones
I KNOW I WAS THINKING THAT
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
alternatively he can talk to her about it
fermentingbones
HE'S LITERALLY WITHOUT
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
like once a month
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fermentingbones
anyone who is privy to their home dynamic
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bc he has to SEND HER LETTERS
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
YEAH LIKE. NO ONE GETS IT!!!
fermentingbones
and you know he would never burden her with the real deep stuff
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
YEP!!!!!!!!!
fermentingbones
the complicated messy stuff that he doesn't have answers to, why would his sixteen year old daughter!!
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
yeah like anything he HAS been able to allow her to see is incomplete because he's her dad! that's not on her! he's already burdened her enough by not being there
fermentingbones
lays down
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please........
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please have this come up in game, someday, please
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
and then all his like colleagues from the college and all the acquaintances and surface level friends are just like oh im so sorry you cared for him like a son
fermentingbones
god
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
and the one friend who could probably surmise his real feelings, jigoku, is not emotionally intelligent enough to help even if he wanted to do that much lmao
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
love you jigoku but you suck ass
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hey ever think about how kazuma probably still has a room in the mikotoba household too
Peil Wiggler
LDSMFLKDS JIGOKU SUCKS AT THIS KIND OF THING SO MUCH....
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Lex don't you dare make me think about Yujin looking at the empty rooms in that house
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I'm also thinking about how surprised I was on replay realizing that Yujin and Ryu were exchanging letters on a personal basis and then I thought about how he probably really threw himself behind supporting Ryu after Kazuma died, in as much as he could from halfway around the world
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all this...
Peil Wiggler
Kazuma's dead but Yujin knows how much Ryu mattered to him and Ryu is trying to see his dream through so like obviously he's gonna put his full support behind him
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
ryu and yujin both trying to realize kazuma's dream in his memory OWWWCH
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MMMMHM
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y'all killing me oh no I NEVER thought about how yujin and ryu might have bonded behind the scenes over shared grief
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going right into my headcanon tho bc otherwise it IS kinda odd they'd be in personal contact and how else would that have happened!!!!!
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fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
YEP
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GOIN THRU IT
fermentingbones
Still goin through it
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STILL
🌸 Mɪᴋᴏᴛᴏʙᴀ
NEVER NOT GOIN THROUGH IT
Peil Wiggler
YEP. YEP!!!!
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Yujin working all of his connections to make sure that the government agrees to let Ryu take over the study tour