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Caged Wings Had this idea in my head for a while now. Finally gave it a go. Though my original idea was of a caged tiger, it somehow became birds as I sketched. Maybe I'll make another version with a tiger in the future~ Here's a quick timelapse. The full hours long 6 recording sessions for this painting, plus HD image and PSD file will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on April 5th.
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Night Wings Turning the day into the night, the sun into the moon This print and more are %15 off on my website with code SPRING25
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Spy x Family Manga Chapter 114 Thoughts
Well I must say that this was a nice surprise to have this chapter be focusing on the Briar Siblings and at a good time as well.
I feel like it's a good reminder to see Yuri act like a younger brother because there is more to him than simply a secret policeman especially when he is with Yor, his beloved older sister.
These two obviously love each other and, despite the secrets they're holding from one another, truly do care for each other's well-being and happiness. I really like how we can see that Yor is shown to be so caring for the needs of her loved ones when the siblings are out shopping. She's such a nurturer and I feel that her life now has become much more light-hearted given that now she doesn't have to worry about her little brother anymore and now can simply live a simple life with Anya and Loid.
However Yuri is still somewhat stuck in the past and still reliving the memory of himself as that little boy who loves his sister and wanted to grow up quickly so that he can take care of her but it's different now that they're both grown with jobs and responsibilities. This situation is very similar to what his sister had to go through during the Cruise arc and Yuri now has to confront the terms that his older sister has her own life to live and has to figure out his future without her.
I'm curious to see where his character arc will go now that Yuri has fully realized that his sister has someone else to love and take care of her besides him. Hopefully he'll find that same feeling of comfort and love from someone else that he can also call family.
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Was not expecting a Yuri/Yor chapter, but it was a pleasant surprise! First thing I want to mention is the fact that Yor is not wearing her usual Thorn Princess earrings, but instead has rose earrings similar to the button on her red blouse.
I could be wrong, but I believe this is the first time we've seen her with different earrings. Perhaps it's an indication that she's feeling more "at ease" as far as her relationship with her Thorn Princess identity, since we know that her usual earrings function as weapons if needed. Maybe she doesn't feel as much of a need to be "on guard" all the time as she used to be.
As for the bulk of this chapter, it featured great character development for the Briar siblings. What stood out to me the most is how hard it is for Yuri to understand that Yor's happiness truly does come from the happiness of others, plus the fact that she has very few desires for herself, especially materialistic ones that can be bought at a store. It's hard for him to grasp because he spent his whole life watching her selflessly sacrifice her own childhood to take care of the both of them, so he feels he has to overcompensate. But again, because he can't fathom that she actually enjoys taking care of others, the only explanation he can come up with for her lack of wanting things for herself is that the Forgers are "controlling" her somehow (also due to his own bias, lol).
It was amusing how Yuri's attempts to frame Loid and Anya as "brainwashing" Yor failed miserably...it only served to highlight how much she cares about them, especially Anya. I loved the below panel โค๏ธ She's such a mom.
By the way, this next panel cracked me up the most ๐คฃ I was curious what the "go at it" part was in the Japanese version, and it turns out to be the verb ็ตกใ ("karamu"). It has several meanings, but mainly it means "to be entangled with" either with physical things like vines or wires, but also to be entangled with a person in a problematic way, such as by quarreling. I can only imagine how Yuri interpreted this ๐
In the latter part of the chapter, Yor finally made it clear to Yuri that he doesn't need to keep pitying her. She states that she enjoyed the time she spent taking care of him, and whatever negative feelings she had after he left her are in the past, so he doesn't have to keep trying to compensate for it.
For a brief moment, Yuri daydreams about the two of them going back to their hometown to live peaceful lives before ultimately realizing that they have responsibilities in the city that they can't just abandon. The emphasis on their respective "real" jobs that they can't reveal to each other, plus the later scene of Yuri lamenting that he feels distant from Yor because he can't show her who he's really become, definitely gave me a feeling of foreboding. Plus the fact that the chapter ends with him possibly being assigned a new job.
Even though the rest of the Forgers didn't appear in this chapter, we did get this precious little panel when Yuri was musing about why he feels so lonely. So thank you for this Yuri and your rolodex wheel of anxious thoughts ๐
I think it's still too soon for any kind of big, story-shattering reveal, but I feel like Yuri's next assignment could be something akin to the mole hunt arc, where something big almost happens...the fandom focuses a lot on a Twilight/Thorn Princess reveal, but a Briar sibling reveal would be just as major in my opinion, which is the vibe I got from this chapter. Since Yuri already had an encounter with Twilight, what if he had some kind of run-in with Garden next? ๐
...or maybe this was just a standalone chapter and we'll never find out what Yuri's next assignment is because it's not important and the next chapter will move on to something else ๐ I'd say it's 50/50 at this point, lol.