louiselux | WA rec and Ukoku (Reply)

Wild Adapter rec: this is a brilliant Komiya story: Kohai by Mikona. I'm very fond of Komiya and I wish there were more Komiya/Kubota stories, or at least in places where I can find them. I think in this fic I like the feeling of tension most of all and Komiya's frustration, because the thing about Komiya is that he's teetering on the edge of knowing what it is he wants but is just not quite brave enough to admit it.

Because of something on someone's journal this week, I went back to read Ukoku's bit of the Burial arc and sort of fell in love with him, a bit. A lot. Or more accurately with him and Koumyou.

I thought that Ni looked sad and a bit desolate in that image at the end of the epilogue, alone with his rabbit. But I wonder if he had a hand in Koumyou's death. I suppose I'm thinking that Koumyou knew that Ukoku would stop at nothing to win whatever game it was they were playing, even killing Koumyou despite the fact that they appear to be friends. I don't know-- it's a sad story and I prefer to think that Ukoku misses Koumyou and didn't kill him, but then he spent years torturing Kami-sama with apparently no remorse, so perhaps he'd find it easy.

And later on I noticed a startling similarity between this picture of youkai Hakkai and this one of Ukoku.

Maybe Minekura likes to draw that pose-- who knows, but I like putting them side by side. Considering they're in the same story arc, it'd be surprising if it wasn't deliberate. I mean, they're very similar.