Oh, wait, you're cooking. Hold on let's draft this out together - opening scene, nobamaki having sex, monotony in the rhythms of their escapade that Maki is only half paying attention to. Her mind drifting - no matter how hard she tries - to the encounter with Mai. That's finally getting her going. Nobara thinks she's doing something right so continues her dramatics. Maki imagining the warmth of Nobara's flesh as Mai's body underneath her, the way she looked at the bar, the way she /sounded/ despite trying to be quiet. She moans. Nobara stills. Maki finishes. The couch? Her new homestead. Kidding. Yuta's couch.

Nobara didn't even care that it was her sister's name she moaned. Morality or whatever. Just the fact it was another woman - the bitchiest one on Earth at that.

End scene. Anyway, hell yeah - Maki being in an arguably "okay" place within Jujutsu society but literally feeling like the biggest failure known to man is so my thing. Her own realization by this point that, yeah, a lot of her reasoning was for Mai. And some of it wasn't. But the selfishness of proving her family wrong coincides with Mai having a decent life, anyway. Everything connects back to her somehow. She can't even look in the mirror without seeing Mai looking back. And now she's not talking to her. She also hasn't responded to Maki's text, either. Maybe... she'll need to go to more desperate measures. Or, you know, persistent. Definitely not desperate. They need to... talk about what happened or something. Maki's pretty sure she's read that in a self-help book once. Not that she needs, though. Was the only thing around in a doctor's office.

Sigghhhhh I hate this bitch <3