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I gave into a spoiler tease at fandom_wank and got the most interesting about-face spoiler for Fruits Basket ever.

Seriously. This changes how I see everything in the show/manga. I have to go back and reread everything now and take in this new revelation.

I've avoided most spoilers up to this point, and to be honest I don't think this spoiler is connected to any others so I'm still mostly clean. But, damn. What a spoiler. I'm going to shriek about it in a comment below.

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Akito is a woman.

AKITO IS A WOMAN!

A.KI.TO. IS. A. WOMAN.

She has breasts.

Or, maybe Akito is a hermaphrodite. Or maybe he's on funky hormones like Gren from Cowboy Bebop.

BUT OH MY GOD AKITO IS A WOMAN!



Heh.

Thus dies a million and one Hatori/Akito fics. Good riddance.


Actually, I feel even worse for Yuki now. But story-wise, a female-to-male domestic abuse is more unusual in anime/manga/television/comics than male-to-female abuse.

It actually kinda explains some stuff.


Though I suppose Akito/Hatori fic isn't really dead. It's just het now instead of slash.

Ugh. I still don't like that pairing. Maybe pre-Kana, but... not after. I don't think you can forgive that kinda thing. Well, Hatori might forgive her/him, but any smut post-Kana seems non-existant to me, in terms of canonical characterizaion.

[octopedingenue]

HA HA HA HA IT'S AKITO ISN'T IT HA HA HA HA and actually? It changes very, very little of the series for me. Why (except for some sexist reason) should I think about Akito or the rest of the series any differently? He's always been a Bitch Queen From Hell. Now he just matches the gender.


(I'm going to keep referring to Akito as "he", because I would to be polite to any other transgender person. And again--changes very, very little of anything for me.)