Personally, I always believed that the reason Touko developed such intense feelings for Byakuya in such a short amount of time is due to Genocide Jack.
Genocide Jack states in her FTEs that her feelings for Byakuya are pure love.
„To be honest, this is the first time I’ve ever had feelings for someone, but not wanted to kill them… […] But Master’s something special. It’s not about killing or not killing. It’s not that physical connection… My feelings are totally pure this time! Yeah! It’s pure love! […] I wouldn’t even mind not killing any other boys, if it meant I could be with him!“
Personally, for me, this always implied that she has actual romantic feelings for him and not just a crush based on looks and/or money.
The reason I stated this is that it’s said in UDG that Touko and Genocide Jack share the feelings they have for other people. (When Nagito forces them to switch hoping Jack would attack Komaru, but she didn’t because since Touko saw Komaru as a friend, she did too.)
And in THH it’s stated that Jack remembered everything from her time at Hope’s Peak: The school days, the tragedy, everything up until the memory wipe. That is the case because she doesn’t share her memories with Touko and it were Toukos memories that Junko had taken away.
Touko and Jack both knew Byakuya for two years prior to the game, which is a perfect valid time frame to develop healthy romantic feelings for someone, especially since one year normal school life is also a pretty avarage way to form relationships.
And Jack remembers these two years, she remembers how they all spend time together and they might’ve started to become friends etc.
For Jack it’s never been „Oh hot rich boy, instant crush“ at the start of THH (even though that still could be possible, but it’s shown in one of the group photos from that last trial, that she had something going for Byakuya even during the school years), for Jack Byakuya was someone she knows for two years and still acted the way she did.
But what does that mean for Touko? If they share feelings, it would mean that Touko would share Jacks intense love for Byakuya from the very start of THH without remembering WHY she has these feelings, because unlike Jack she doesn’t remember the last two years. For Touko it’s kinda like love at first sight, she probably just randomly notices these super intense feelings for someone she just met, which of course would lead to some weird unhealthy obsession in the beginning, because she can’t even explain her own feelings and why she has them.
Jacks feeling brimming over to Touko without her remembering how she developed these feelings in the first place is probably also the reason why she over steps his boundaries in the beginning so much. She probably has no idea how to handle these feelings, which is totally understandable, I’d say.
On another side of things, in SDR2 it’s said that the Future Foundation helped the survivors to recover their lost memories. So during SDR2 and probably also UDG Byakuya and Touko both should remember the two years at Hope’s Peak. And what also happened in these games? Their relationship improved.
Byakuya makes a device for Touko so she can force front Jack in case she needs too. Touko becomes more independent in order to help Byakuya out etc. (Also remember that line where Kotoko is like „Oh you mean that guy that looks like he has beautiful nipples?“ and Touko is all like „That has to be Byakuya“ implying she has seen him topless at one point (which isn’t such a big deal since Byakuya is a guy, but combined with the „Don’t ask why we come together“ - „I wear red lingerie“ it is something))
Furthermore, in DR3 it’s shown that they apparently video chat from time to time. When Byakuya calls Touko immediately knows it’s him (apart from that a reunion scene was planned but was cut due to time)
And in SDR2 you could even argue that others know that there is something going on between them. Kyokos remark about „Someone is waiting for you to return“, clearly meaning Touko, to encourage Byakuya to go back with them. And we know Kyoko isn’t someone who would make such a statement to tease someone (she was the one who said that Byakuya should start to consider other people’s feelings and to not treat them lightly, so I doubt she would say something to purposely hurt him, which she would’ve if Byakuya had actual negative feelings towards Touko.
So, remembering the school years imrpoved their relationship, which is interesting.
I’m really hesitant to make transparents of Hiro, because the Sanrio character they decided to assign him is a monkey and I don’t think I should post that?
Also I saw someone reblog this with #fanart and I think I need to say that this is official merch, I’m just making transparent versions of them. I’m sorry if I didn’t make it clear in the captions of these posts.
A little throwback to how far we’ve come by now. I’ll post the Chibi versions of all characters I’ve done so far, all throughout Mermay.
I’m thinking about making these Stickers or Acrylic Charms in the future. I’d love to get some feedback from you guys, if anyone would be interested in that. Thanks and happy Mermay!
My good buddy @rat2rrj had this lovely piece made for me on my birthday (26th of March, for those who don’t know), but because life kept on getting in the way, I wasn’t able to upload this sooner >_<
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