TLDR: they both very mentally ill and have abandonment issues that complement each other. the way their relationship develops is supposed to be strange bc they both have never known what is was like to have a functional family so their idea of family is very different from people who did have the privilege of having a functional family
but if u do want to read allat:
like yea, to most people who grew up in normal families (esp with an older brother) the way they address each other is weird. but both rize and kairi did not grow up with normal, functional families and thus don't rlly know what family is. and they both wanted family, people who would stay by their side and support them.
and speaking of marriage, they both have like a deep distrust of marriage... like they both come from broken marriages. rize's father eventually left even though he married rize's mother, and rize's mother never had a relationship that worked out despite her multiple marriages. kairi's mother wanted to completely rid herself of her connection to kairi's father so much that she chose to say that her son was dead.
like this sounds rlly freudian but ur relationships r kinda based on ur parents LOL, but like. if u grew up never seeing ur parents be romantic with each other ever, chances r u're either extremely affection starved and clingy or emotionally constipated and are embarrassed by acts affection (no inbetween). the reverse is also true.
by becoming siblings (kairi assuming masaki's identity) they are legally bound... like u can divorce ur spouse but even if u disown ur siblings u r still on the same family register. they need that connection on paper to assure that they are connected forever. so it makes sense why they conflate the more inseparable bond of siblings as more than marriage.
(also like they were grasping at straws trying to make sure kairi didn't go to jail lmao, they took it and rolled with it... and then the severe abandonment issues kick in lol and they're like 'wait this is actually a great idea!')
rize literally explained that the title of "brother" for her is a concept of someone who will always stay by her side, will protect her etc. based on her perception of her brother's personality when she was a child, and she said she only referred to her actual brother (masaki) as "brother" bc they were related by blood... meaning if masaski wasn't her brother she would have still seen him as this warm, protective figure, who was always by her side, and she would have been searching for her childhood friend named masaki instead lol.
also i see ppl arguing abt how asian cultures call older people "older brother/sister" and that is true, but i'm 99% sure in japanese culture specifically you do not call your significant other that lol (i'm chinese, where it IS normal for us to refer to our s/o as an older sister/brother) like it is supposed to be weird.
can we just appreciate the writing??? like each bit of information is spoonfed to you and it sets everything up, so you kinda know what's going to happen. but it's not boring bc of how well everything is set up and connected. and the PARALLELS. i love parallels in stories so fucking much. both their fathers were scumbags and rapists (assuming rize and masaki have the same father) and both their mothers abandoned them, kairi ending with a similar scar to masaki, the list goes on. also like. the biggest parallel of how kairi grew up to be what rize thought masaki was going to be.
part of the story is how the characters react to the info... like how masaki was so so obviously kairi's murder victim and the readers know it, but when rize finds out, she copes HEAVY and tries to deny that it wasn't true, even though she herself was not convinced.
also i'm p sure the author meant to make a reference to junichiro tanizaki's naomi with their relationship. tanizaki adopted naomi and raised her from childhood to be his ideal bride and even back then that was fucking weird and illegal so he made her say they were cousins to avoid getting him in trouble. sound familiar??
when takumi straddled yukiya i was lowkey hoping that takumi would be the bottom lol,,, i kinda thought the early chapters were setting up for that kind of twist, bc even though yukiya is shorter and skinner, his frame is described as masculine and he has a very low voice... i also just like pretty tops and tall bottoms LMAO i do like them as they are though
Isekai BL
Reincarnation, Transmigration
Reincarnated in Another World
Reincarnated in a Game World
Reincarnated in a Book World
Transported to Another World
Reincarnated Lover
Multiple Reincarnation
Reincarnated in the Past
Time Travel
Time Rewind
Part 2:https://www.mangago.me/home/mangalist/3123306/
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BL only!!!
= triggers (do expect violence, too bothersome to put)
abuse: could be physical, mental, verbal, sexual etc.
= my rating
(5=absolute fav, 4=very noice, 3=goodie, 2=meh, 1=nah)
= mayb +1 star
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My first list got full therefore had to make this list.
So, get ready for some more insane semes~
U can check out pt.2 since this list is almost full ♡♡
>Made this list jst to re-read my collections of yandere
seme's or love interest> ofc adding new ones too <33
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°Trying to find & add whatever I've read this past years°
A yandere a day, pulls me closer to paradise ⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧
《My list also includes yandere Ex/love interest as I LO-LO-LOVVEEE YANDERE CHARACTERS in general》
Ps:Also consist of gl/g×b/others but most of them r bl