i’ve thought about writing something in response to this challenge for a couple days now, and it’s hard for me to truly express why i love my two best girls, but i’m going to try anyway because they’re both really important to me!! my two favorite girls in the franchise are sayo and hina. hina is my number one best girl and sayo maybe takes the one and a half spot, but i felt like i couldn’t only talk about hina without mentioning sayo as well, and as they’re both dear to my heart, i thought i’d go for it.

first things first: i really relate to hina. i have adhd which makes my social interactions awkward sometimes, so i’ve mostly stopped talking to people i don’t already to avoid being seen as strange. seeing her bear her awkward self, stay positive, and continue to just be who she is is really comforting to me. i’m also quite clueless, similar to her (and tae, haha). i guess i just see a lot of myself in her and she just… fits. she fills up empty places in me and she’s like a friend.

for sayo, i was drawn to her initially because of her pretty design and the fact that she was hina’s sister. getting into the game at first i didn’t like her (nor hina really, for that matter) but after reading about the two of them, sayo became my favorite roselia girl and hina shot all the way up to battling with my original best girl for first. i came to love sayo because, while i don’t relate to her struggles with guitar, something about the whole arc really spoke to me and i’ve been holding her dear ever since. she cares about roselia so much and wants to let others know she cares, like in the silly sweets classroom event, when she makes roselia (+ hina!!) cookies. she does that because she wants the people around her to be happy and to resolve conflicts that might happen.

the two of them together and their dynamic is a big factor too. seeing how they interact with each other and grow from their mistakes in the past has made me love them a million times more. they grew up together and they love each other so much even though they’re going through relationship problems, which is so sweet. and after certain event stories, they learn to repair their relationship and work on getting closer despite their troubles. people say hina doesn’t know how sayo feels, and while i think hina doesn’t quite understand it, hina understands sayo feels negative about herself and that something is different about her compared to how things used to be.

the both of them mean so much to me… they’ve inspired me to start my own band and learn electric guitar which has so far been really successful. i love them with my whole heart and i hope i’ve successfully expressed that through my writing!