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playingdoctor) wrote2006-04-14 07:17 pm
playingdoctor) wrote2006-04-14 07:17 pm
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Ganked from my regular journal. Just something I was thinking about.
Not in really open, obvious ways, but ... Kijima Ryouichi and Hara Akiha are actually a lot alike. I mean, admittedly, they're both pretty much tertiary characters so there's not always that much to say about their similarities -- especially considering how rarely the two of them appear, but.
- Both put on a public face that isn't terribly/entirely representative of their actual selves.
- in both cases, it's Umeda who recognizes what's behind the cheerful/friendly mask.
- Umeda considers them both manipulative, 'unsafe' people.
- On a formal note, in both cases there is an implied or stated one-sided romance of approximately twelve years.
- It goes back to high school for both.
- unlike any of Umeda's other relationships with men, Umeda was seen at at least one point trying to hide or obscure it from public view.
There's probably more, but I'd have to stretch for it. The thing that really interests me there is that in a lot of cases these are things that Umeda observes -- not that he draws comparisons between them, but it's through him we see these features being recognized in each. Coincidence? Not? It might be one of the reasons for why the Umeda interview has Umeda comment that for some reason he doesn't want to get involved with that (Akiha, the situation with Akiha). I mean, I've seen the parallels other ways (Ryouichi is to Umeda what Umeda is to Akiha) but it might explain the almost nervous reaction Umeda gets around Akiha, if Akiha has exactly te traits Umeda tends to fall for hard ... and Umeda's day to day relationships are things he tries to keep very, very casual. I tend to theorize that Umeda's been falling for Akiha for a while and is FREAKED THE HELL OUT BY THIS; I tend to think Umeda does not want to be in love again/with someone else/with two people at the same time, and he's fighting a losing battle. If he recognizes those traits as somewhat similar... it probably makes it that much more of an "O GOD" thing.
Food for thought, anyway.
Not in really open, obvious ways, but ... Kijima Ryouichi and Hara Akiha are actually a lot alike. I mean, admittedly, they're both pretty much tertiary characters so there's not always that much to say about their similarities -- especially considering how rarely the two of them appear, but.
- Both put on a public face that isn't terribly/entirely representative of their actual selves.
- in both cases, it's Umeda who recognizes what's behind the cheerful/friendly mask.
- Umeda considers them both manipulative, 'unsafe' people.
- On a formal note, in both cases there is an implied or stated one-sided romance of approximately twelve years.
- It goes back to high school for both.
- unlike any of Umeda's other relationships with men, Umeda was seen at at least one point trying to hide or obscure it from public view.
There's probably more, but I'd have to stretch for it. The thing that really interests me there is that in a lot of cases these are things that Umeda observes -- not that he draws comparisons between them, but it's through him we see these features being recognized in each. Coincidence? Not? It might be one of the reasons for why the Umeda interview has Umeda comment that for some reason he doesn't want to get involved with that (Akiha, the situation with Akiha). I mean, I've seen the parallels other ways (Ryouichi is to Umeda what Umeda is to Akiha) but it might explain the almost nervous reaction Umeda gets around Akiha, if Akiha has exactly te traits Umeda tends to fall for hard ... and Umeda's day to day relationships are things he tries to keep very, very casual. I tend to theorize that Umeda's been falling for Akiha for a while and is FREAKED THE HELL OUT BY THIS; I tend to think Umeda does not want to be in love again/with someone else/with two people at the same time, and he's fighting a losing battle. If he recognizes those traits as somewhat similar... it probably makes it that much more of an "O GOD" thing.
Food for thought, anyway.