Remember Your Powerlessness Well: an Abe/Mihashi (or Mihashi/Abe?) manifesto

[herongale]

Title: Remember Your Powerlessness Well
Fandom: Ookiku Furikabutte/Oofuri/Big Windup
Pairing: Abe Takaya and Mihashi Ren
Spoilers: mostly just for the first three or four episodes.
Wordcount: 9,883

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[herongale]

My second, longer manifesto comes in the form of fanfic. XD That's usually how I show my love; writing this was a very new and fun experience for me!

I don't know if you follow the manga, but things get even better after the events of the second anime series. So much stuff that makes me so happy. The pacing may be slow but it is meticulous and thoughtful and very astute and consistent. I just love how the story continues to unfold. I love that it is a work in progress that doesn't look like it will end any time soon.

The fact that the two of them are not friends has always really jumped out at me. Of the members of their team, they seem to be the two who are FARTHEST from friendship. I think that a part of the problem is that they jumped over a lot of the normal, organic growing together process... on that very first day they intentionally chose to stick to the other like glue, and then on the day of the Mihoshi match, they leapfrogged over most normal steps of friendship into a creepily emotional level of attachment that neither of them really understands, let alone grasps the magnitude of. That's why I think that in some ways they are more intimate than friends, even though they understand each other far less than friends usually do. Their emotional connection is so strong. Neither of them really knows what they are doing to the other, and yet the both of them can see how important it is that they get along, and so once they decided to try, they will never stop trying, and are so stubborn in their determination to figure each other out that they make it more difficult than it has to be.

I just... love them. I really, really do. Writing this was actually embarrassingly easy since the words just came tumbling out. Thank you so much for reading it and I'm very glad you enjoyed it.