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Reasons for Why I Believe Obiyuki could be the “Romance that Cuts through Fate” referenced in the Manga:

In college, I took two amazing courses–scratch that I took one amazing course and one semi-disappointing sub-par course–Fairytales and Graphic Narratives, respectively. And until right this very minute, I believed them to be an utterly, though fascinating, waste of my time and tuition though they made me smile. Okay, it was college so they didn’t always make me smile because finals are the worst but I digress the point I am trying to make is this: 

I HAVE AN EPIPHANY CONCERNING MY BELOVED SHIP OBIYUKI DUE TO MY TEACHINGS!!   

So, first and foremost the birth of my epiphany came from thinking back to my class on Fairytales when we studied Snow White! (Graphic Narratives didn’t really teach me much other than how to think more critically about…Graphic Narratives, so I guess it really doesn’t deserve any cred for this post TBH, lol.)

But like I said we studied Snow White. 

Not this one:

Or whatever this one was supposed to be (sorry not sorry):

But, the original one. There are two versions (maybe there are more but I forgot them if there are) of the Grimm’s version of Snow White. In the very most original version, everything pretty much happens as we all remember it minus the singing: Snow White makes Queen step-trash jealous by her beauty, Queen step-trash tries to have her killed, due to her amazing beauty Hunstman is a wuss and lets her live because he’s weak to a beautiful damsel, Snow White plays Goldilocks and breaks into a dwarven settlement, the dwarves also wuss out and take pity on her because she is pretty and can cook/clean for them, then step-trash gets angry realizing she is, in fact, alive and goes out to kill her herself. Now, this is where everything diverges from what we know. In the original version step-trash has to try several times to kill her. Once with a bodice/corset torture device that basically suffocates her until the dwarves get home and cut her out of it, twice with an evil hair comb that kills her until the dwarves pull it out of her hair, and then thrice with the age-old apple trick. The poisoned magic apple gets lodged in her throat and she becomes a stone statue for all intents and purposes, so what do the dwarves do? What any logical group of men would do with a beautiful woman who isn’t decaying but still dead in their eyes, lock her in a gorgeous crystal casket so that they can still gaze upon her beauty on the daily! From here on there are two different endings to the Snow White saga. The very, very, first one published states that the Prince comes along says, “ooooooooh pretty, let me take her home with me and put her on display” and sits around gazing at her all the time until someone in the castle gets pissed off and hits Snow White’s corpse which dislodges the apple finally and wakes her up. What an awkward way to wake up yeah? And then the poor girl gets married to the Prince–ta-da! The second version makes it a lot better ending for poor Snow White. Someone trips while hauling the casket to the palace and dislodges the apple and then the Prince sweeps Snow White off her feet and yay happy ending they get married and now the Prince doesn’t seem as creepy just staring at a dead person all day long pissing off his staff. 

(Whooo that was a lot of background info, sorry, and also I know that I could also do a huge comparison post on the tales of Snow White versus our Shirayuki tale, but that is for another day!!!)

Depending on what you want to go with there are so many ways you can analyze the story of Snow White–all of them, old, less old, new, even our beloved Shirayuki’s story–but one of the things that stick out in my mind is how in every single version of Snow White she is always a trophy of some sort. The Prince is always going to get his trophy wife in the end. Even in Shirayuki’s case, if she does end up with Zen (which I’ll die if she does) she will be nothing but a trophy wife. Even though Zen is precious and certainly not a bad guy by any means, he is a  Prince, therefore their relationship will not be the same as normal couples have. She won’t be allowed to be an Herbalist and tend to the sick who may infect her and kill her before she can provide an heir. And poor Zen will still be stuck behind a pile of paperwork and responsibility to his Kingdom that he dearly loves.  

But, hey who knows, maybe Sorata will go against the entire universe she has built in her storytelling and let Shirayuki be wild and free and a Prince’s wife…

I think this is where “A Romance that Cuts through Fate” comes in to play. Hopefully, if you’ve made it this far in my post (bless you if you have) you’re thinking what I’m thinking. Or maybe you’re thinking I’m a lunatic.

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All of the obiyuki content by le me. I had this on its own page for a while but having a link no one sees is much less effective than sharing …… a pOsT! Ta dah! 

I sincerely hope you enjoy my mad ramblings.

~ updated kinda frequently ~

Graphs n shit

Shipping panel count / graphs to illustrate change *

Fics

all exceedingly short, wee!

stuff n things - compilation of event submissions but on ao3

gothic lit au

cinders underfoot: ao3 link 

unspeakable things: prequel to cinders underfoot (coming soon … eventually..)

chronic illness au

harry potter au

hacker au

less we say one

less we say two

Discussions

Theory on the original hair pin from Obi *

Ch 66 basically just squee about how cute they are

Ch 86 thought re glow stone *

Ch 90 SUPER feels *

Ch 115 ObiYuki *

Ch 115 theorizing *

Ch 116 Theorizing n Discussion

Ask w/ Discussion 

Foreshadowing? Heavy discussion *

Theory on what Liera is up to at the balls / lead up to 119 knights ball *

Parallels HisaMitsuKiki ObiZenYuki, link to another post *

ObiYuki endgame!? / some foreshadowing discussion *

ObiYuki endgame traction

ObiYuki I understand the fear of believing this too hard

Shirayuki uncomfortable alone with Zen!? *

Shirayuki doubts and development? *

Shirayuki finding out Obi loves her because of the perfume!? *

- pt 2 / revisited here

Small things of Note

Ch 7 Sorata’s sister is one of us

Ch 12 handsome Obi <3

Ch 68 thought *

Ch 69 cute moment

ch 95 sorata is funny

Ch 99 watcha mean, Obi?

Ch 101 everyone knows, Obi

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Damirae Pre-Apokolips/ Sharing music in down time

Donna - “Oh my god, Gar! Leave them alone!” 

The songs are open to interpretation and I welcome people to write a snippet for this!

A sloppy colouring because I got excited in the middle of the night.

In short, obiyuki fever. Again. We've got A HUG!!