as for my dilf: - yujin has figured out there's a very precious part of him that is always going to be a little bit in love with herlock sholmes, but he's not here, that time isn't now, and it's okay - yujin likes stephen a lot, like A Lot a lot, he's really normal about it
additionally i fucking ldskj made a comparison to avie about his whole crosscanon-canon situation to the film 2046 and in this metaphor frogwares sherry is robot faye wong but not in a romantic way
backing up, basically like. yujin being in ximi has kind of forced him to come to grips with where he left off with sholmes in canon actually? they come together for just a few days after 6 years of being attached at the hip as partners and then 10 years of period homo epistolary nonsense lmfao so it's like
how do you love this person who isn't here and cannot be here even in the limited way he was before? how do you not idealize those feelings while also not locking them up like you have for a decade bc you thought it wasn't gonna be possible, but also you just saw him again so maybe it is.
and this comes back to the mission that made me want to stick around in ximilia - ciraiwei - because it was like this big mortality wake up call for him because A WHOLE PLANET LITERALLY GOT DESTROYED that is FUCKED UP no matter how many people the orbers were able to save, and he has not stopped thinking abt that since it happened
and there he was like - oh fuck time is fleeting. ive admitted to myself i DO want to go back to london to be with my idiot again when this is over - oh fuck time is fleeting, even on ximilia, i think i need to loosen up?
which is how the fumbling the bag with emerton 'played by idris elba' haughtford happened lmaoooo, he shot his shot and missed due to all of the complex plot happening there but he DIIIIIIIIIID realize that he could trust stephen strange in this mission
and to have a guy who is a peer who he can actually trust and be a mess around is huge because i would like to direct you all to the big corkboard of friends and colleagues yujin had for over 10 years who horribly betrayed him
(special shoutout to jakethedog adventuretime for both bullying him into being gayer on main and for bullying him into being messy more often and allowing yujin to realize: oh i can be a wreck and people who arent sholmes will still like me LMAO)
so like, this cute gradual wooing of stephen is a culmination of a whole big character arc of acceptance & learning to take the risk and put your full trust in people again, actually, and it kills me that it is parallel to stephen's "stop being a jerk and express that you care about people" arc
back to dlsfkjg sherry he has NO interest because this man is not his man and hes SON AGE, but it's also kind of bringing him full circle to what imo his early feelings for sholmes were when they first moved in together
which is "holy shit this guy is crazy and WILL die out there unless i intervene" while simultaneously remembering "oh shit i was a wreck back then lol i would have lay down and rotted in my depression pit if this whackjob had not intervened"
so while he's distracted by his stephen feelings i think having sherry around is nudging him to a final place with herlock 'haunting the narrative' sholmes which is:
so tl;dr - his weird soulmate love for sholmes has deepened in a way that is and is not necessarily romantic, while he's giving himself the freedom to explore whatever the fuck this wizard situationship is. and then im going to laugh at him when he's inevitably sad that it has to end bc the game has to end, even though he knew this was going to end
Don't forget the Yujin has started helping others realize their feelings and acting upon them because go forth, be gay, do crime, don't waste it like me
if this game ends with people keeping their ximi memories he's going to write a very touching letter to sholmes, and then 50 days later sholmes will show up in his home unprompted
Sherry has already started with saying "my Watson" which honestly is not just an easy way to talk about Watson from home he doesn't fully realize it yet because he is a DUMB about his own emotions
he doesn't need one honestly.- yujin has figured out there's a very precious part of him that is always going to be a little bit in love with herlock sholmes, but he's not here, that time isn't now, and it's okay
- yujin likes stephen a lot, like A Lot a lot, he's really normal about it
and two things can be true at the same time
- oh fuck time is fleeting. ive admitted to myself i DO want to go back to london to be with my idiot again when this is over
- oh fuck time is fleeting, even on ximilia, i think i need to loosen up?
he doesn't fully realize it yet because he is a DUMB about his own emotions