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a dead ideal
"The Morning Star...also known as Lucifer. The star that was originally an angel, but chose to become the Devil."
AU where Akio drives a minivan
before I upload something I spent about a year working on, I present to you something short and angsty that's specifically designed to hurt
the other thing is more optimistic, promise!
two sides of the same coin
that one scene from episode 8 of RGU but I made it different and possibly slightly tasteless
![[Image ID: image of a page of the exchange diary lying on the table. On the page are crude drawings of three RGU characters - Saionji, Touga and Akio, meant to resemble the drawings seen in episode 8. Touga is jumping into Saionji's arms in Anthy's place. Saionji is stabbing Touga's soul sword into a caricature of Akio in Utena's place - he is bald, save for the ponytail, and his legs are wavy.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1f71d6ff16c3e457181d82305affc097/2cd69ee0d0351fd0-5d/s500x750/b53fec56c29f08b75295470091fb0af54acece34.png)
read more for original screenshot and translation from Japanese (how I intended it, anyway)
"My beloved Touga,
Though for now I must content myself with this diary, I swear! I will absolutely smash that oppressive, restrictive, demonic cage and free you.
by Saionji Kyouichi"
original screenshot taken from ohtori.nu therefore all credits for that go to the Empty Movement team
also I couldn't read some of the text in the original screenshot and therefore didn't use anything in its stead
I've noticed that at least two very (well, one moreso than the other) morally questionable characters in prominent shoujo manga have the surname "Ohtori", or "Ootori", whatever your preferred spelling is
now, their surname is spelled as 鳳, which is the word used for Feng, one half of Fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix; however, you could also read it as just "big bird"
so clearly, when discussing people in shoujo manga with very (very) questionable morals, we must not forget the biggest one of them all:
