But I’m just slowly getting annoyed of ayako at this point. Just slowly, unless the author pulls something for her, like you know, be more like a responsible parent then anything.
Is she though? A responsible parent that is. The truth is that both Ayako and Asuka… have issues to put it mildly. They wouldn’t fall in love with each other if they hadn’t.
At first glance Ayako looks like a perfect mother rising her daughter alone – kind, caring, excellent at cooking. And Asuka seems to turn out pretty good too – almost genius, studying hard and trying her best to help her mother with chores. But she’s also extremely physically fragile, almost shut-in, neurotic to the point that worrying before exams making her sick and extremely dependant on her mother (which Ayako while being aware of didn’t do anything to discourage hoping that the issue will resolve itself eventually). Asuka’s also antisocial to the point that she has a hard time communicating with any of her peers except for few childhood friends.
On the other side, Ayako was missing clues about her daughter being in love with her right, left and center for at least two years and also missing (or being in denial) clues about herself lusting after her “delicious” daughter. Then the situation exploded spectacularly and while eventually being understandably bewildered Ayako managed it relatively well by discussing the matter and calming her daughter. But after that instead of seeking professional help she made very questionable decision of “appeasing” Asuka with kisses which predictably led to Asuka’s requests to escalate. Then Ayako started to miss all kinds of hints again – such as her being jealous of Asuka’s “experience”. And while trying in some ways (pretty clumsy as was pointed by Akira) to “let her daughter go” she decided to buy double bed for sleeping in it together while wondering herself of the reasons why she is okay with such an arrangement. She continued to be in denial for all kinds of things until the facts were literally shoved in her face at which point it all finally started to make sense for her.
So now she finally registers in her mind that, yep, she is head over heels for Asuka, was for quite a while, was extremely jealous as of late and also quite possibly was lusting after her “delicious” daughter for as long as couple of years. So it’s no wonder to me that while pondering on all that she’s holding her daughter hand while sweating and blushing like schoolgirl in love. Especially considering I have a very strong suspicion that it’s in fact may be a first time in her life that Ayako fell in love.
