miamiatzo’s 30 Day Bandori Challenge!
Day 18: Your favourite family dynamic
I love all the sibling relationships!! But I’m lowkey using this challenge as an excuse to shout into the void about various things so let’s talk about this instead (I reread Roselia’s BS1 again and it got me thinking)
Like the potential of this intrigues me. I know Bandori doesn’t give much focus to parents bc that’s how idol-esque franchises are but there’s so much here we don’t see that I’d love to see. The thing with Yukina’s dad obviously must’ve affected him really badly bc it’s what turned Yukina into the girl we’re first introduced to. But we never actually see her life turn upside down bc music had always been what connected her with her dad and suddenly it was gone and she had to watch him deal with the aftermath and had no idea what to do (a bit more is shown in the Roselia manga but not much). It’s easy to say “Yukina’s just an angsty overdramatic teenager” and don’t get me wrong she IS overdramatic have you seen her lyrics—but what happened really was a big deal and led to all of them ignoring the elephant in the room and acting like everything’s normal and it’s like, how long have things been like this? How long has it been since Yukina’s had a conversation with her parents without hiding anything?
I wanna see how things progressed to this point, how much Yukina hated the whole situation but had to slowly get used to it. Waking up one morning wanting to sing and remembering their family doesn’t do that anymore. Or coming home one day to find all the music magazines and every other reminder of music in the house gone. Absently humming one of her dad’s songs from force of habit and not realising until he gets up and leaves. Sitting alone in her room wondering how to make things go back to the way they were. I’m just making myself sad now
So anyway we get this whole setup and then in A Song Unfinished Yukina’s dad suddenly waltzes into her room, reminisces about LOUDER and gives her singing advice and Yukina isn’t surprised or anything?? What happened there was it a retcon or did something happen offscreen I wanna KNOW. Craft Egg give me the secret Minato household content