anon · 14d
aww feel free to gush as much as you like, it's lovely to see and i'm happy for you! it really is such a special feeling to know someone you hold so dear has picked up some of your hcs that have personal significance to you :)
and yeah, the new event.....! i quite enjoy several aspects of it, but it was especially fun to me to see eichi having longer hair as a child confirmed because that's been my personal hc for a while. of course that doesn't have to mean anything wrt gender! but it's still nice. i specifically like to hc that eichi was just more comfortable presenting however they wanted to as a child. for social gatherings, they'd still have their hair tied back neatly and stuff. in private, they'd try to tie cute little ribbons into their hair. it ended up looking very messy and keito had to fix it for them and eichi got soo excited over it, it's a memory that's really stuck with him just because of how happy eichi was. but over time they just slipped into a state of denial due to long periods of hospitalization and becoming very disheartened over feeling like they might never get to live life the way they want to anyway so it'd be better to stop 'playing around' and just focus on the goals they want to achieve instead + becoming more aware of the benefits and social power that come with presenting in masculine roles. so they've resigned themself to play those roles, just as they've resigned themself to fulfill their familial obligations, just as they've resigned themself to always play the role of the villain and to be the one that gets left behind. < something that came up in the new event as well...
and, i believe i've shared this one before, i also like to hc that eichi eventually gets inspired by wataru to explore their own gender identity more + with the new event i've been thinking it'd be nice if tori played a part in that as well! though that's not the main thing i want to take away from the new story, of course, because any kind of development between tori & eichi is MUCH needed and very important to me. but, to me, tori is someone who has figured out his own identity pretty early on and expresses it confidently (and in a very gnc way as well), and that could surely lead to some revelations for eichi...!
I HOPE YOU DON'T MIND ME RAMBLING ABOUT THIS A LITTLE... i'm always like 'i just want to mention this one thing' and then i'm like 'wait i need to elaborate more for it to make sense' and then i get too carried away .
someone i hold dear and someone whos opinion on these characters i respect deeply jhsjdfhf we literally met because i was a regular commenter on his wataei longfic. this is why you comment on ao3 guys: you may meet your future partner on there. JHFDSJLK ok no but for real it does just mean a lot that people share this hc Because of me, partially at least.
eichi with cute ribbons is soooo cute i love that. i really like the idea of eichi like messing w/ their hair as a kid/trying to braid it or trying out different hairstyles, out of boredom and bc they could. i would also vote eichi fairly highly on "would take scissors to random streaks of hair" for the same reason. idt theyd chop it all off but yknow. sometimes the ends would be notably uneven in one spot....
and yeah i honestly feel similarly abt eichi and gender in a lot of ways, especially what you said re: eventually deciding to "stop messing around". i think eichi is very aware of the privileges he does and doesn't have and the power of any of those choices even from a very young age. eichi has big goals and he's very, VERY willing to sacrifice his own happiness and wellbeing for those and while that is primarily something that affects his disability, i feel like that same attitude could also keep him in the closet abt his own gender (and in other ways his sexuality, even if hes More Open about that).
and i really love that re: tori and agree!! gender expression being an avenue in which tori and eichi can start to bond that doesn't have as much baggage as a lot of the other interests and shared traits they have (e.g. love for idols...)
