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I've been calling Memories by Conan Grey the ReoNagi song to my friends for the longest time. CAUSE LIKE IT IS REO WHEN NAGI LEFT HIM IN SECOND SELECTION

Also I'm so excited for the gay shenanigans of the episode nagi movie ✨💅

The first couple of pages of Episode Nagi parallel Nagi's journey and hint at Nagi understanding his originality after death

Episode Nagi chapter 1 page 3

Nagi wakes up and gets pricked, causing him to awaken- just like how experiencing frustration for the first time in the team Z match "awakened" him.

Despite being awake, Nagi doesn't get out of bed bc "getting up is such a pain..." so instead he focuses on "beating the daily challenge" This may refer to Nagi wanting to/succeeding at beating Isagi, though I think it more so parallels Nagi’s decision to start “making an effort” in blue lock, given that he dies.

So then Nagi dies, which forces him to get up and go to school. At the same time, he realizes he's hungry

This is a pain, because to be hungry is to want things and be human. Being hungry makes you do things to sate that hunger. It forces you to live. And to Nagi, living is a pain.

After chapter 298, we have reached the part where Nagi “dies”, which will forces him to get out of bed. Right about now is when Nagi should be getting "hungry" too, which can be understood as understanding his “originality” as Ego describes. This is whatever deep intrinsic desire he feels he wants to fulfill.

Maybe the reason why Nagi’s death kickstarts this understanding is because it denies him of what he wants, causing hunger. Maybe it’s because it’s only at rock botttom, having lost everything, that Nagi can face what he wanted in the first place. After all, if he’d faced it earlier, he’d have to face the possibility of losing it. Now, that’s moot point, as he’s dead and lost it all.

What is this originality? It may be related to his fear of losing Reo, which he expressed in his dying moments. But what he hungers for shouldn't just be being by Reo's side. That's settling. Settling in a place like Blue Lock is no good.

Nagi got mad at the implication that he was Reo's toy. What he should aim for isn't just Reo letting him tag along by his side, but being Reo's true and real partner. He needs to find the bravery to chase that instead.

What Nagi's been doing through his lack of communication with Reo (and, what Reo has been doing by assuming certain things are impossible) has been settling. They need to stop settling for a situationship and get together. They need to get to a point where they have a mutual understanding of their partnership that isn’t functioning to keep them together, but rather only exists because they decided to be together and understand each others feelings.

For an example of settling, take Reo’s 300 mil proposition and Nagi’s unenthusiastic agreement. Nagi clearly doesn’t care about that, but he wants to be with Reo, so he doesn’t object or correct him. He settles for being a passive participant in the relationship despite getting mad at Barou for calling him Reo’s servant, and later gets to the point of begging Reo to let him stay by his side by 298.

For another example of settling, take Reo’s assumption that without soccer they could never be together, and that they will separate once the World Cup is won (in the extra chapter). This is part of what leads him to react the way he does in 2nd selection.

By the time of 298, Nagi clearly thinks the same- though this wasn’t a given to him like it was to Reo. He’d asked Reo in the harujuku extra chapter what they would be if Nagi had no soccer talent, and Reo had told him Nagi’d be abandoned- though there was no way Nagi didn’t have talent in Reo’s mind.

Even if Nagi had gotten past that idea by the time they entered blue lock, it would have been reinforced when Reo accused him of forgetting their promise/not caring about him anymore by choosing to play with Isagi, demanding Nagi to throw him away. Being rejected because of not playing soccer with Reo despite working toward their dream would send the message that their partnership is reliant on soccer. At least, to someone as passive as Nagi. Thus, “I am not your toy”. But it seems like he’d settle for that.

After that moment he uses kanji instead of katakana to refer to Reo which has been confirmed to mean he feels more distant from him.

The fact of the matter is that playing together doesn’t necessarily make one play better. Your motive cannot be being helpful or useful to someone else, out of transaction for their company. Partnerships only work when mutual interests align instead.

That may beg the question- doesn’t that mean relationships of convenience are the way to go? Ie the Karasu Otoya route, for instance?

Well, no. Relationships of convenience are for when two different/opposing mutual interests align. What we haven’t seen (yet) is when mutual interests align because they are so similar- because two people want to win together at the end of the day. They understand this shared desire, and trust each other to do their best to carry it out- resulting in an ideal partnership.

The nagireo endgame… potentially.

the voices won…

tye animals are cushions that they made for eachother because i said so.

the vector tool is my best friend🙏🙏

just putting this out here before it doesn’t see the light of day and nagi’s hair is so white it blends in w her skin oml need to shade it or something.

why’d it get so depressing at the end um hello😃😃

fem!reo who would do anything to piss her parents off while maintaining a good image

fem!reo who would go through thousands of phases until deciding to be gyaru

fem!reo who would drag fem!nagi around the mall while the latter complains about her feet hurting

fem!reo who would cut her hair short but still wear extensions

fem!reo who would cuddle with fem!nagi and say it's only platonic (it's not)

fem!reo who would be tomboy-ish since her parents want a perfect daughter

fem!reo who would shamelessly kiss fem!nagi when drunk

fem!reo who isolate herself from fem!nagi when she got reminded of the night before

fem!reo who blames herself for liking girls

fem!reo who forces herself to date a guy to get over fem!nagi

THE VOICES🤯🤯🤯🤯

but oh em gee it’s so scruffy rn

just wrote 2k words of foreplay ans haven’t gotten to the main part yet😞😞

nagireo yall have me in a chokehold and aren’t letting me go…

the nagireo editors on tik tok do NOT play cause why are the edits so gut wrenching☹️☹️☹️

ik for a FACT that nagireo writers ans artists are having a field day w the newest chapters cause- OMFGGGG

i need to find time to get through the nagireo tag

literally writing an essay but all i can think of is nagireo…

well to be specific a nagireo fic based of In my room by icp

save me

made nagi to join reo in tomadachi life and no matter what i do they just won’t get a 70% or higher on the love machine like they been getting 3% ALL THE DAMN TIMEEEE ive done everything i could and even changed nagis personality to reo’s personality’s match but they still won’t rate high💔💔💔

but tell me why i make chigiri and give him the matching personality for reo and they INSTANTLY get an 89% or something liek that like okay😭😭

looks like tomadachi life ships chigireo and they aren’t wrong for that🙏🙏🙏

nagireo in where nagi gets isekai-ed into a romance game but instead of him being the protagonist he’s one of the love interests and reos the protag. and at first nagis like ‘it doesn’t matter reos obviously going to pick me’ but turns out there are other men doing the absolute best to win reos heart ans it’s apparently working?!

we have chigiri dragging reo to cute cafe dates and yukimiya who’s woo-ing him by being an absolute gentleman and talking about stocks, isagi’s awkward act is somehow endearing to reo, bachiras eccentric personality is keeping reo interested and wants to know more ab him, kunigami catches reo’s eyes w how gentle he is w his sister and he’d probably be a great father to their kids, rins whole ‘mysterious and i hate everyone but i like u’ guy act has reo entranced . etc etc blah blah blah u get the jist

and now that nagi realises that he actually has competition he goes above and beyond trying to woo reo and then the day comes that reo has to pick his lover and before reo can announce nagi wakes up in a hospital bed with reo by his side and the first thing he says is how he wants reo to pick him and reos obviously confused.

and then cue nagi being salty to everyone for tryna steal his reo away from him

lol here’s something tahst been rotting in my docs i might add more to it cause liek o ahve a whole thing planned but i don’t have the motivation to write 0x0

Everyone let out gasps and screams of horror at the scene in front of them. “It's a dead body!”

“Isn't it that kid?”

“This is absolutely horrible. Who would do such a thing?!”

Bachira shoved past the crowd and stared in horror at the body lying before him. “No…” he staggered towards it ignoring the shouts and cries around him.

Every step he took made his body feel heavy. His breath caught in his throat. “this can’t be. No no no no!” the no’s escalated into screams as he dashed to the body. His knees met the floor with a heavy thud, the skin breaking on impact and he cradled it close to his chest. “No stop you can’t leave me [redacted] we need to go to nationals together remember?! Please don’t leave me! I'm begging you don't leave me, you can't do this to me!” Bachira wailed begging for the other to not leave him. But it was too late.

The brunette cried into the chest of the body not caring about who sat beside him and wrapped a comforting arm around him. Everything was a blur from when he saw the body, to when he felt the warmth slowly fade, to when he was ripped away from the body, to when the paramedics took the body away and into the ambulance.

___ months before(?) maybe years?

“Hey Nagi you wanna try this move?” Reo asks

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omg such a cliffhanger😱

did the dead person acc die? who is the person to bachira? who committed the crime?

let’s all find out when i acc decided to write it and share it w whoever’s reading thisε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘

「im in my multi shipper era so idk what woudl be teh main ship but i’ll for sure add nagireo😋😋」

can someone plz plz plz make a collage(?) au w ngro and the whole romeo and juliet play thing🙏🙏

like plzzz it could go like their class are doing the play so reo obvi goes for the romeo position to make his parents proud (but he doesn’t really casue they’re hard to please=( his dad woudl rather have him focus on business instead of this ‘useless’ thing)

but anyways nagis liek he’d be part of the side cast so he gets less lines but he realises that if reo gets romeo someone else will be his juliet (it makes him feel jealous but he doesn’t know it yet >x<) so nagi auditions for romeo so reo wouldn’t kiss someone else. nagi aces the audition (gasp) teacher and classmates are split on who would be romeo so they come to a conclusion that nagis romeo and reos juliet.

now reo is kinda proud that nagis putting effort into something but he’s also pissed that nagi took his role liek how could he do that too him (father would be even more disappointed that he’s not teh main male lead) so miscommunication happens due to reo very badly covering up how pissed he is ans nagi has a feeling that reos acting different but can’t put his nose on it (jeez nagi😒)

blah blah blah they talk stuff out and they fall in love

we also can’t forget the whole realising that they live eachother and have their first kiss as ‘reo and nagi’ instead of ‘romeo and juliet’ on stage cliche

i gobble that stuff up no matter how much i see it😋😋

bonus points if reo notices nagi getting closer to isagi and gets jelly

i would make it but i’d butcher it so bad but who knows i might🤷

anyways if anyone writes this my life is urs🙇🙇🧎🧎