Yes. Someone on Reddit wanted to direct some love toward your Ko-Fi so we want to be sure you have access to it in case people start dropping Ko-Fi but it turns out you donβt.
β‘β
2023-08-25 20:42:53 +0000 UTC
Quim, do you still have access to your KoFi?
Elle
2023-08-25 19:21:21 +0000 UTC
No seriously same, this is dangerous
Janelle Dutton
2023-08-25 17:32:58 +0000 UTC
Wrong time but why is he kinda π they always looks good at their lowest π
Daph
2023-08-25 16:33:22 +0000 UTC
On a more serious note though, ahhhhh I wanna cry thinking about what he's been through. Yui needs to be blotted out from existence.
Julliette
2023-08-25 16:27:32 +0000 UTC
This is terrible, but this may be the first time I've thought Kousuke looked hot. It's the messy hair and the lil frown lines, they're getting to me!!! He's so unraveled and I'm into it!!!
Julliette
2023-08-25 16:26:06 +0000 UTC
Having a normal one πππ»
Carmen
2023-08-25 15:57:09 +0000 UTC
As you can see, this is but a mere sampling of the kind of gushing, passionate, and cheerfully INSANE conversations that are had in the various social media platforms out there. π Be proud of your ability to foster this madness! πππ€ͺ
AuntWacky
2023-08-25 15:40:28 +0000 UTC
Also not that it is happening in this teaser but because it's tangentially related, I cannot get over Nol KNOWING now. Yujing giving him the information Kousuke can't bring himself to. Not just that Kousuke is in this state of panic, that he's been roofied and his MOTHER was there with him, but that it was NOL he reached out to. That as he began to dissociate in the car, he anchored himself to Nol.
There's so much wonderful, aching nuance to their story, to these tragic siblings who never had the chance to be brothers, whose circumstances were against them all along. That Kou was weaponized against Nol ensured they'd both always be so isolated, so fearful of each other. And yet and YET
It's Nol Kou's reaches out to. Nol who he hurt so badly he nearly killed. Nol who he exhausted himself trying to tear down. Nol who vehemently hates tea.
And this information is SO critical to Nol who has always believed what happens to him does so because it's him, because he exists! But no, Yui has drugged HER OWN SON. For years Nol has believed himself the monster but in reality so many people (Rand included) are victims of Yui, that this is so far beyond him. Nol needs to see what Shinae told him - this is Yui's doing and leaving doesn't make things any better. It's time to rely on people, to team up. It's time to focus on the real enemy, the real monster ;A;
Nol isn't in the space yet that he can reach out to Kousuke. Starting to connect the dots, to realize Kou has been weilded as a weapon against him doesn't undo what Kousuke did, the ways he hurt him, how he reduced him to nothing and made him feel so miserable. But it gives me hope that they WILL reach that point, one day. Nol needs time away with himself before he can do that, but it makes me feel hopeful that one day they WILL make peace ;______;
Ashlie
2023-08-25 15:21:04 +0000 UTC
Seeing Kousuke like this honestly really gets to me and wrings out my poor little heart. I understand that a lot of people still cannot be convinced to like him or care about him but, much like Alyssa, he's one of those I just cannot help but care about the more we see him, and what he's going through right now is depicted SO well!!! We've known for a long time now Kou lives with this cognitive dissonance, that it's the reason he contradicts himself so much and so often rewrites reality to adhere to what he believes. The use of drugs on him and Yui's manipulation has created this fragile reality - and it's all been shattered. There's something about being in his shoes as this panic attack is setting in, the things he said last night coming back out, Rand super imposed upon Nol. Nol who is so much Rand's son, everything Kousuke isn't, never got to be. It's implied that be doesn't fully remember what happened last night, just that HE hurt Nol. And he CARES! He's asked about Nol at every opportunity, was panicked and worried. His reaction to Nol bleeding wasn't fear of getting in trouble but actual, real fear because Kousuke says he wishes Nol never existed, not that he'd die. He wishes Nol never entered his life and made him aware of a version of his father he'd never meet, but now that he has, Kou constantly is stopping him from leaving.
He CARES and he wasn't supposed to but he couldn't help it. He hates him but he also cares and he doesn't know how to do it, when all the manipulation poised him against Nol. At the end of the day, Kou's, too, is a victim of Yui's, a weapon whe weilds against Nol, a tool that has never strayed from that path and it's so hard to! He's standing here looking at Nol and his injuries that HE caused in a fit of panic and anguish and the more the events of last night piece together, the worst off it leaves him. How do you deal with all of this? That realization that the ONE person you thought was on your side has been DRUGGING you? That you cannot trust her or anyone close to her. The implications of your drugged tea and the brother who vehemently hates it. The memories that don't feel right. He parrots back these words with little recollection to support them - that Nol is unstable, violent, he must fear him. And yet and yet and yet
He stands before Nol, who nearly died, coveted in wraps holding the wounds HE caused.
Sometimes people who are unwell fabricate realities, and Kousuke is starting to realize who those words were meant for all along.
Ashlie
2023-08-25 15:11:33 +0000 UTC
Whoa...it's been a while since he looked so good. π³π€