nonny · 7mo
Sorry if my pronoun preference makes you uncomfortable, but I wanted to share something I remember. I don't recall Arashi ever stating wanting to wear a skirt/dress, but she has (in my opinion) implied wanting to wear female swimwear. It was in an old story, Pirates, where she offers to buy Anzu a cute swimsuit and mentions "it's not like I'm allowed to wear them, after all..." or something like that. It's a line that stuck with me personally, despite the writing during that period, and I wonder if that's where some of the "Arashi wants to wear specific clothes" association comes from. At least, for some fans who were here before the wiki purge. I doubt there's a full translation for it anymore.
no pronoun for a fictional character will make me uncomfortable, dw lol. i might get annoyed sometimes (not by you, generally speaking) and disagree but it won't make me uncomfortable.
anyway, two points in response to this:
i just found this story and line and it's part of a discussion about anzu... motivating....... the guys.... which, ick actually, but i think that definitely also flavors the "it's not like i can wear them." i get how someone can READ it as "but i wish i could" i guess but it's not concrete. (and a lot of stuff is going to be "it can be read like that but isn't outright said that way intentionally" because that is how it always is with arashi's character type)
i don't think it's wrong to say arashi sometimes likes to wear girl's clothes. that part is canon! arashi has shopped in the girls' section of stores before, and the reason given was that boys' clothes are boring and come in dull colors (the long pajama dream). what i think is wrong and side-eye-worthy is the continued insistence that enstars is somehow oppressing arashi by not putting him in a skirt or dress specifically--and it only ever comes from people who see arashi as a girl, treating it as if skirts/dresses are the deciding factor of womanhood, which is messed up.
