You seriously have no idea how happy your over-analysis makes me, truth.
I mean, I was just going to go off about the lack of a father-figure in his life has caused Tsuna to value more feminine virtues (he's very kind and sweet, every slashfic ever makes him a raging uke), typified in the ideal of his mother. Of course this is very unbalanced, so along comes Reborn (who, depite being initially made non-threatening by his baby state - a state in which you could throw him under the blanket of 'women and children', is VERY much the masculine father/mentor figure) with his Dying Will bullets (insert penetration joke here) that force out a more masculine, aggressive version of Tsuna.
Essentially Tsuna tends to regard his more feminine aspect as weak and unable to do anything - he needs his mentor figure, Reborn, to influence him into his aggressive masculine state so he can take control of his surroundings. In his feminine state he's weak, a pussy, but in Dying Will mode he does things like save Haru from drowning (the initial incident that made her fall in love with him) and really met Kyoko for the first time, actually talking to her for once. Really, he's trying to reject the feminine aspect within himself in order to be desirable to the ultimate personification of his mother/the feminine....
asdgkhf blah blah blah Freud gender studies yah. :P BUT YOU ROCK ANON. I don't think I can stop myself from writing fic now...
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I mean, I was just going to go off about the lack of a father-figure in his life has caused Tsuna to value more feminine virtues (he's very kind and sweet, every slashfic ever makes him a raging uke), typified in the ideal of his mother. Of course this is very unbalanced, so along comes Reborn (who, depite being initially made non-threatening by his baby state - a state in which you could throw him under the blanket of 'women and children', is VERY much the masculine father/mentor figure) with his Dying Will bullets (insert penetration joke here) that force out a more masculine, aggressive version of Tsuna.
Essentially Tsuna tends to regard his more feminine aspect as weak and unable to do anything - he needs his mentor figure, Reborn, to influence him into his aggressive masculine state so he can take control of his surroundings. In his feminine state he's weak, a pussy, but in Dying Will mode he does things like save Haru from drowning (the initial incident that made her fall in love with him) and really met Kyoko for the first time, actually talking to her for once. Really, he's trying to reject the feminine aspect within himself in order to be desirable to the ultimate personification of his mother/the feminine....
asdgkhf blah blah blah Freud gender studies yah. :P BUT YOU ROCK ANON. I don't think I can stop myself from writing fic now...