5d’s au where yuusei’s character arc actually ends with him leaving the safety net of neo domino
because as important as neo domino city is and how it is the center of where their bonds blossomed and sprouted and stretched out it’s also important to remember that bonds are not stationary, nor is the planetary particle that he’s named after
it moves and flies about even when connected to the bonds it powers and that power it, respectively, and that no matter where they go, their bonds will remain strong
but they all must grow and develop and change
all the other protags get to move on to their next journey why must you, yuusei, remain stationary and static and still? of course. that requires that yuusei actually have a well-integrated character arc to begin with.
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5d’s au where yuusei actually has a character arc that isn’t stilted and vaguely repeated and actually brought to a satisfactory close.