Yeah, I was thinking afterward that if one had to talk about subsumption, Harada came very close to subsuming both Rika and Shuuji in his personality - they were both yin to his yang, and that's why they couldn't help each other pull through afterward.
I think of that kind of "animal intimacy" as being familial - parent/child, say. Not that it stands in the way of my conceiving of Shuuji/Hagu as romance, it just makes it more complex to ponder (well, complexity is a positive in my book, fannishly speaking XD).
Actually, IMO it was important that Morita said that to her - or anyone, because it could have been Shuuji. I think part of what confused Hagu and what she struggled with was the outside pressure to perform as an artist, and the opposite choice had to be validated for her in order for her to be certain once and for all that that's not what she wants. (more, but I have to run XD;;)
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Date: 2007-09-28 01:05 am (UTC)I think of that kind of "animal intimacy" as being familial - parent/child, say. Not that it stands in the way of my conceiving of Shuuji/Hagu as romance, it just makes it more complex to ponder (well, complexity is a positive in my book, fannishly speaking XD).
Actually, IMO it was important that Morita said that to her - or anyone, because it could have been Shuuji. I think part of what confused Hagu and what she struggled with was the outside pressure to perform as an artist, and the opposite choice had to be validated for her in order for her to be certain once and for all that that's not what she wants. (more, but I have to run XD;;)