User blog comment:ThisIsXenon/GGaD fic -- Chapter 1/@comment-32460917-20180916195242

Actually let me put something more meaningful

So there’s this song called Yuukei Yesterday. It features a boy and a girl. The song follows the perspective of the girl; a highschooler named Takane. I feel like the progression of Takane’s feelings are very similar to that of Micah’s This song is considerably more lighthearted than Micah x Damian though at first Takane starts by claiming that she isn’t interested in love. As a result, she doesn’t get why she can’t look him in the eye. ‘Him’ being her only other classmate, Haruka.

“Glaring at the sun I found”

Her crush is referred to as a “sun” throughout the song. This might also be the moment to add that the song’s name can be translated as “Sunset Yesterday” Takane laments that she can’t suppress her newfound feelings, and she takes out her annoyance on her crush.

“What’s wrong with me?! This is pissing me off!”

Takane then starts to accept that she has feelings for him. She tries to show it through her actions, but her crush doesn’t get it, and days pass. The third part is preluded by “What should I do? The day is ending!” Takane slams her desk and yells out “One more time!” “I stare at the sun again” “Please don’t set just yet!”

So, as the title implies, the “sun” is about to “set” That line about staring into the sun again is a callback to the first chorus. Now she’s fully accepted it, and is planning on telling him straight out, before the day ends. I should probably add now: Haruka has a serious heart disease. That’s why she’s his only classmate. Both of them have diseases, which is why they’re placed in a special needs class. Haruka could die from heart failure at any moment, and Takane realizes this too late The final third ties into Takane’s first song: Headphone Actor. “Before the sun sets, I just want to tell you somehow.”

Headphone Actor is about a girl — Takane — running through a collapsing city because her own voice instructs her to reach a hill in the distance. The song ends with the city behind her blown to bits. In the context of Takane’s story, this song is entirely metaphorical. You can probably guess what happened.

When the sun sets, the world becomes dark. When the sun dies, the planet dies with it

TDLR; the metaphor of the ‘crush’ being the ‘sun’ as well as the path from denial to acceptance reminds me of Micah towards Damian. When the sun sets/dies, the world collapses and darkens. To be referred to as a sun means that the person is hard to look at, and is radiating the good light™. The rays of the sun can be warm and comforting

//final comment; I found it kind of funny how Takane’s sun and Micah’s sun are complete opposites

//second final comment; I actually associate Headphone Actor more with Xenon since if you take it at face value, it's about a girl that survives a genocide because her own voice came through her headphones and told her to run. The parts about rioting people and praying priests reminded me of how Xenon's backstory involved a revolution