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A soft spot for big brother

Rei and Kazuki’s timeline and life event parallels, explained

No, they haven’t lived together for 3 years.

Episode 8 was set on August 10th. Rei turns 26.

Rei left home three years ago, I’d guess it’s around August too, give or take, so let’s say in the summer. He was 22 almost 23. Around the same age when Kazuki lost Yuzuko.

When Kazuki first met Rei, this is how he looked. His hair was past his shoulders. Given that Rei has changed a lot as a person since he left, I think he had shorter hair before, and I doubt that it was long enough to put into a ponytail. To grow one’s hair out to that length, it’ll take at least 6 months.

So Rei left home in the summer 3 years ago + 6 months (2 seasons) of hair growth, Kazuki met him in the spring of the following year. Rei was 23 and Kazuki was 25.

Judging from Kazuki’s clothes, it’s not that warm yet. It supports the theory that they met in spring.

In present time, Miri has been with them for eight months. Let’s back track their time.

First year

Rei left home in summer

Second year

Kazuki and Rei met in spring

Met Miri on Christmas Eve

Third year

It marks 3 years around August since Rei left home

Kyu brought them together for jobs, not roommates. Not on purpose, at least. So when did they start living together?

From Rei’s words here, we know what he thought of Kazuki as a partner and a person, before they became roommates. They had worked on a number of assignments together before Kazuki “started cleaning”. Give or take, they probably had worked together for at least a month or two.

Judging from Kazuki’s clothes again, it wasn’t summer yet. So let’s work the timeline again:

Second year

Kazuki and Rei met in the spring

Worked together for around 2 months before Kazuki barged into Rei’s apartment and started cleaning

Met Miri on Christmas Eve

In conclusion, by the time Miri came into the picture, they'd been roommates for around 8 months. As of episode 8, they've lived together for 1.25 years.

Life parallels

Age 22 turning 23

Kazuki lost his family, the lowest point in life

Rei left his family, the lowest point in life

Age 25 turning 26

Kazuki met Rei and decided that he’ll care for him

Rei met Miri and decided that he’ll care for her

I just think it’s neat when they do this.

I just think it’s neat when they do this.

Kazuki met Rei and started taking care of him

Rei met Miri and started taking care of her

I just think it’s neat when they do this.

The Buddy Daddies dub is really good and underrated. Particularly the script and Kazuki’s delivery on his lines for all the episodes really elevates the show.

FF16 WIPS

FINAL FANTASY XVI (2023) — Joshua & Clive Reunite

Ahhhh, please protect innocent child 😫🥺

[by me]

YESSSS!!

It’s so confusing to finish the games and see the fanfics of him, cloud and secondary characters and EVERYONE is mis-characterized because it’s written from the perspective of someone who watched ff7 crisis core with no context and had to rely on typical anime tropes to somewhat understand it. If the writer doesn’t even know what Jenova is, it hurts the story. Also like who is your target audience boo? Other people who have not played the games and only understand the characters through fanart?

Yall I love all of you Sephiroth girlies but I have a big favour to ask yall.

PLEASE PLAY THE GAMES. Dont just watch only watch the 40 minute Sephiroth cutscene on YouTube and base your entire perception of the guy. If yall at least learned the plot of the game, you would really appreciate the character more.

MORE OVER, THE QUALITY OF SEPHIROTH FANFICS WOULD INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY IF YALL COULD REFERENCES SOME OF THE GAME’S LOCATIONS AND NAIL DOWN SUPPORTING CHARACTER MOTIVATIONS AND PERSONALITY.

Some of yall don’t know Sephiroth’s characterization and seem to go off your personal headcanons or use typical anime tropes when writing him. Sephiroth isn’t some anime bad boy, he’s vindictive, petty and scary soft spoken. Just look at how he flicked Aerith’s blood off his masamune towards Cloud. Or when his hand kept running up Cloud’s back and up unto his neck in one of Cloud’s hallucinations. I get that from watching clips out of context, his actions might seem like a dom daddy and all but he’s more than that if you see it through different perspectives. Like don’t forget, he’s trying to destroy the world with a giant meteor crashing down and wiping everyone out.

Just putting it out there.

I love how Tristan and Duke seem genuinely surprised that Joey actually managed to woo a woman.

Where is this from? Is this an ad or something?

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