I Think This Is So TamaKyoHaru. Kyoya Is The Character Who Is A Genius And Had To Take Care Of Everything

Little Pandora, sad: Do you think I’m crazy?

Evan: don’t worry Panda you’re just as sane as we are

Barty: Yeah! We’re together at this

Regulus:*nods*

~years later~

Luna: Don’t worry Harry, you’re just as sane as I am

Moody/ Barty watching from afar: …

yall wouldnt barty be the kind to have a jumpscare alarm at like 7am?? like volume max vibrations 100% and the sound is like some high pitched screaming

feeding the desperate (kyokao fans)

never thought of it this way but i love it

i lied put your pants back on im gonna tell you why tamaki hugging instead of kissing haruhi was actually the best option because it shows so much character growth within tamaki. throughout the entire show we see tamaki constantly breaking the boundaries of the club members and specifically with haruhi. he finds younger photos of her, puts her in outfits and dresses her like a girl, and picks her up, hugs her, and says things that clearly make her uncomfortable. he does all of this thinking that shes like his daughter and this is what fathers do but in the last few episodes we begin to see tamaki start to understand his feelings towards haruhi. in the second to last episode, tamaki begins to think that he has ruined all of the host members lives and this all comes together when he is forced to marry the bitch whos name i dont remember and forced to leave japan and go back to france. he agrees partially because he may get to see his mother but also because he thinks the host clubs lives will be better without him. however, once he sees haruhi trying to catch up with him and trying to get him to stay, you can see something click in his brain and he decides to stay with the host club. while its never really stated you can also sort of tell that this is the moment that tamaki understands his feelings for haruhi. he then jumps off a bridge to save her and theres a moment of staring at each other. you can tell that tamaki definitely considered kissing her but altogether decided against it because he finally realized that while he loves her, boundaries are still a thing and becauss theyre in mid air he decides not to and instead just hugs her because 1: he just figured out these feelings for himself 2: he doesnt know how haruhi feels. he still passes affection on to her but in a way that is consentual and doesnt cross any boundaries which is a major change from how he acted prior. despite the fact we all wanted there to be a kiss i think this one works way better because it just shows such character growth and respect

this implies that mori wears contacts/glasses… do we ever see him wearing glasses??

ouran doodle and wip dump

a very rough tamaharu parents comic

I read a post a week or so ago but Tumblr refreshed and ate it on me. But the jist of it was something along the lines of Kyoya not being motivated by romance. And I think that's so correct BUT I would push it a little further and say it's not just that Kyoya's arc is unromantic and he's motivated by factors other than romantic love. I think...most characters are. Ouran is fundamentally a bit of a bait and switch when it comes to romance. It's supposedly a rom-com; where no one's arcs have much to do with love.

The love triangle doesn't significantly come into play until about half way through the manga. I made a post before about the primary character motivations being friendship, family, and freedom. I stand by that! Because sure, people are in love in Ouran. Hikaru loves Haruhi, Haruhi loves Tamaki, Tamaki loves Haruhi, there's other stuff happening lmao. But all of these "loves" can also be read through the frame of friendship, family, and freedom.

Family and friendship is SO important to Tamaki that he's willing to operate entirely in the delusion that his love for Haruhi is familial. Hikaru's realisation that he's in love with Haruhi is framed entirely by the breakdown of his familial relationship with Kaoru, and then as it develops past that Hikaru spends half of his narrative time crying over possibly ruining his friendship with Tamaki. So much of Haruhi's arc is realising that she actually cares about these guys, she has been consumed by their found family, and they are genuinely her friends. Her crush on Tamaki is there, but her actions towards the end of the manga (AND ANIME) are because she loves the host club as a unit, and they can't be a family without Tamaki. Ouran the anime, classically ending with no kiss kiss fall in love but instead the heartfelt declaration that Haruhi LOVES the host club, they all do!

Back to Kyoya- of course Kyoya isn't motivated by romance. I can't think of a less romantic guy. But, like every other character, he's motivated by family, friendship, and freedom. And like every other character, these elements come into conflict. So I think that actually makes Kyoya a hysterical rom-com protagonist. Completely unwilling to be there, adamantly refusing to participate in the asinine qualities of a rom-com, refusal to even accept that this might be the genre he's stuck with. He deserves his corporate BBC drama! He deserves a CBS procedural about international trade! But he's got terminal side character syndrome so he's stuck in this rom-com with these other gay losers!

(cough) Anyway. I don't think Kyoya would ever do anything for love. But he doesn't have to because Ouran is a series where everyone does everything in the name of friendship, family, and freedom. And Kyoya would do absolutely nothing for love, but he would do it for his friends, he would do it for family, and he certainly would do it for freedom.

(And technically, if you're in love with your friend, it's tearing the closest thing to a real family you've ever had apart, and this game doesn't feel like winning your freedom any more; well maybe that's motivating enough without love ever really coming into it. Who said that.)

happy birthday to the best anime nerd kyoya ootori!!!

Merry Christmas