[ SECRET POST #1844 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #1844 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02. [broken]


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03.
[Venture Bros]


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04.
[Benedict Cumberbatch]


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05.
[Dungeons of Dredmor]


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06.
[One Direction]


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07.
[ASoIaF]


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08.
[That Guy With The Glasses]


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09.
[The Black Jewels Series]


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10.
[Les Miserables]


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11.
[Doug Walker/That Guy With The Glasses]


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12.


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13.
[Tripping Over You]


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14.
[Supernatural]


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15.
[Todd Klein]


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16.
[Bakuman]


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17.
[Dragon Age 2]


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18.
[VVVVVV]


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19.
[Sherlock Holmes]


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20.
[House M.D]


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21.
[Charmed]


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22.
[Farscape]


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23.


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24.
[Miss A and Wonder Girls]


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25.
[Pepsi Man]


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26.
[the hunger games / lady gaga]


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27.
[Friends]


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28.
[Star Trek: TNG]


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29.


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30.
[Anno 1790]


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31.
[Happy Endings]


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32.


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33.
[Doctor Who]


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34.
[The Muppets 2011]


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35.
[Hetalia]


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36.
[Dune]


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37.
[Bravestarr]


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38.
[Dreamstone]


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39. [SPOILERS for Pottermore]



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40. [SPOILERS for something not specified]



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41. [SPOILERS for Berserk]



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42. [TRIGGER WARNING for incest, shota]



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43. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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44. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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45. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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46. [TRIGGER WARNING for suicide]



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47. [TRIGGER WARNING for dub-con, domestic abuse, BDSM]

[House]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #263.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Your looking at the situation as a Watsonist. There are no choices because Watanuki is immortal. I'm looking at it as a Doylist. CLAMP made choices, CLAMP decided to have Watanuki become immortal and that his immortality would preclude a romantic attachment (I've read some very romantic, but tragic, stories with an immortal and a mortal falling in love and staying together as long as possible).

To be perfectly frank, the way I read the ending was as follows:the great tragedy was that Watanuki's love for Doumeki was purely emotional and not sexual, while Doumeki's love for Watanuki was more emotional than sexual, there was a sexual element. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, Watanuki chose Yuko over Doumeki (there were a lot of mitigating circumstances, but in the end that's what happened - note: I always felt that Yuko was a mother figure not a potential sexual partner, so this isn't a case of choosing a heterosexual relationship over a homosexual one, but choosing a parental one over a sexual/close friendship).

I do believe that Doumeki's marriage to Kohane is them making "the best" of the situation and as someone above said, dedicating their lives and future family to taking care of Watanuki - and that this is melancholic because it's not hugely healthy. I don't think that they were necessarily *unhappy*, I like to believe that they were content. I just would have like this to be a bit more explicit in the manga because as it stands, any positive outlook on the ending requires a rather extensive headcanon. There's leaving loose ends for the reader to think about, which is good, and there's cutting things off before the emotional payoff. In this case I think CLAMP came way closer to the second.

I also wanted to mention that Doumeki struck me as demisexual, I just couldn't figure out where to mention this earlier.