---She peeked at Momo again through her fingers and once again saw that flash of teeth. And yet, despite their ferocity, they still belonged to a little girl, one who looked at Seiko with wonder.--
this line will always send me catatonic i literally die.............
----She could remember doing the exact same thing to a traveling miko back when she was Momo’s age. A child changeling, huh…? She didn’t seem like an angler fish, nor a shark. Nah, Momo reminded Seiko more of a kid waving a sparkler, gleefully illuminating everything around them with the light. ---
ahhhh ahhh AHHHHH. [ash baby meme insert] the mirroring.... seiko seeing a piece of herself in this tiny changeling...... understanding.... humanizing... sympthazing. 💀 oh ... no.
this is not good for my poor heart ..... i'm gonna explode.
---But really, if she was being honest with herself, it was much simpler than that. Seiko took her in because she just couldn’t bear the thought of that little girl crying any more.---
oh good heavens.... i'm ... dead.
----“I think my powers beat yours,” Seiko said. “But I’ll make you a deal. I’ll do a ritual tomorrow that will make me immune to your tricks. Then you’ll never be able to scare me. Deal?” “Deal,” Momo said, exhaling loudly in relief.---
FOREBODING IM SCARED!!! MARTY IM SCARED .
---And every week, after her prayers were not answered, Seiko approached the locked chest in her room, the one that held the iron dagger and thought, Just throw it away. Just let her pretend she’s human. Just throw it away. But her duty didn’t allow it, and Seiko hated herself for it.---
this passage hits so hard because everything seiko tries so hard to get momo to accept in herself and the fact that she's raising a changeling child... and momo rejects that life. she wants to be normal and human. and seiko.... despite wanting to believe her... wanting to just accept that and pretend she's human she can't. and it's a love in itself i think that seiko doesn't throw that dagger away. because... how kind it is to give her the grace to pretend. but you also must protect yourself... and you know if she did have to use it against momo, there is nothing more meaningful at least to me, than to die by the hands of someone who loves you. that's family.... 😭
---“I know,” Seiko said. And she did. Momo couldn’t tell a lie. But even if that hadn’t been the case, Seiko would have believed her. Because it was Momo. And the only thing Momo had talked about in connection with that boy was how badly she’d wanted to help him, that strange little changeling who was completely human. ---
i'm gonna vomit up blood i'm literally teary eyed again. i'm so... aargghhh. momo is so canon changeling to me now. i'm gonna think about it and reframe how i read dandadan now....
---“But, no matter what…” Ken said. “I’m glad you’re the one who’s here, Miss Ayase. You’re the one who stood up for me and who’s helping me get rid of this curse. Whatever happened to that other baby…to me, you are the real Momo.” “Huh. But isn’t that kind of messed up?” “Maybe…but it’s how I feel.” “Huh,” Momo said, but her voice was more relaxed than Seiko had heard it in years. Absolution, perhaps, something Seiko had never been able to fully give her. ----
AAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH 💀 this is so. you do want me to fucking die!!!!!!
----“Because there won’t be a happy ending,” Turbo Granny said. “Even with all the love in the world, that changeling child will leave and snatch Four Eyes back to the fae realm, and I…” “And you’ll what?” Seiko asked, but Turbo Granny either never answered or Seiko fell asleep, because the next thing Seiko knew, it was morning.---
you're sick and i hope you know that please god bring my family back together ......
what the HELL patster223 ?!!!!!! 💀 what else could i possibly say other than i love the reflection of seiko during this, i love her point of view she's the realest seiko ayase (oops full name) i've read. it's just and the scenes with tg .... like way to ruin my turboseiko heart and the parallels between .... seiko - okarun.... momo - tg.... the iron dagger.... the leaving the light on in case they decided to come back after all. the fae realm......... i'm so .... i'm in agony. okarun himself like a changeling in a lot of ways, willing to follow momo into the deepest pits of hell.
i wish i was more eloquent on how real changeling momo felt to me. something about her nature.. and in time could possibly let that nature win... but her kindness ... and that pull of humanity still within her because she was raised by someone like seiko ayase. someone..... so down to earth and also says things that have layers within layers. there's always more than meets the eye with seiko. and you captured that duality. that anti-hero, older woman willing to take in a dangerous fae that could very well fall to her nature at some point. it's just wow. it hits all of my favorite tropes of found family. there's so much of the lines i really had to reflect on and i think with your writing it just sticks with you for a long time after.
wow. i'm gonna cry again!!!!!!!!! this is ... impeccable. it is so profound and metaphorical......
God, the ending where Seiko actually used the dagger…an even sadder au for this sad au. I had to study my Seiko textbooks for this one so I’m so glad you think I did her justice <3 and changeling momo IS canon, tatsu is gonna confirm it next chapter (along with singles mixed and pekuro).
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