I Want To Squeeze Them - Blog Posts

Do you mind talking a bit about Enji and Rei? To me they have one of the most interesting relationships in the series, but discussions around them never really go anywhere. Pls I'm starving 😭

You'd have to be specific about what you want me to talk about lmao, there's a lot to be said.

I think their relationship is so tragic, because they could 100% work. "Right person, wrong circumstance".

In the right circumstance, Rei cools Enji's fire, and Enji builds her self-confidence. They balance each other nicely, like in My Father's Warmth.

But in the canon series, they're both so awkward, emotionally weak and have some many flaws that they're doomed to crash. With my interpretation, they both saw each other as a means to an end (especially at the start), Enji was enabled, and Rei was so cold. It's really interesting, because they WERE happy before Touya’s Quirk started hurting him, and Fuyumi is trying to put the broken pieces together. Both Rei and Enji neglected their kids (in the books, Natsuo mentions disliking Shoto because he took away their mother, and wanting Enji's attention), they blamed each other instead of working together before Touya's "death". Fuyumi replicated her mother's behaviour of "smiling through it without confronting the issue" and Natsuo replicated Enji's, "anger and running away", while Touya is the extreme of both (mutual destruction), and Shoto is the good of both that they have (which despite what the fandom claims, there's a lot of good in both).

They're both broken victims of the same society that the LoV wants to destroy, all the while being part of the problem (Bystander effect, a huge theme of the series). Generational trauma and all that (Enji with his father, Rei with the Himura)

They are so wonderfully nuanced and complex but ofc nobody is willing to talk about it because nuance is scawy.

I could go on, if there's something specific you want me to talk about, ask me!! :]