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I’m not letting this hide. Y’all are wild.

I think one of the saddest things people tend to overlook (at least in what content I’ve seen) about Yosano’s past is what happens after the war.

Yosano says that the war was one of the worst parts, she was actively traumatized by Mori, and exposed to things no child should see. She was attacks, hated, used and manipulated emotionally. Not only is that horrible and horrific and she lost her only friend in the military to suicide, and that’s a huge amount of trauma for an eleven year old to go through.

To me the saddest part of when she says; “Even after the war they kept me in isolation in a mental facility. I don’t imagine I would have left, even if the door was left open.”

It really shows that Yosano didn’t just leap over her trauma, the war started when she was 11 and the show and manga starts when she’s 24, it’s been years of living with Fukuzawa and Ranpo learning to deal with her trauma in a healthy way. A lot of situations, even if not as severe as Yosano’s deal with the victims feeling the same way!

As if they wouldn’t be able to leave, even if the door was wide open and freedom was right there staring them in the face. The emotional and mental manipulation can even make freedom be scary, it’s new and not routine and not, sad as it is, comforting or familiar.