One of the interesting things to me about Rika and Zhores' relationship is that it's really very outside the mold of Rika's normal relationships, because Zhores is in his way an authority figure who wants to protect her. One of the reasons Rika is so screwed up is that no one does! The people who are supposed to protect her either fail in such a way as to cause more damage (and that includes Hanyuu, her parents, and even Akasaka for a very long time) or are the people who are hurting her. She's protected by her friends, but that's very much a thing of equals, rather than protector/protectee.
Rika does not expect Zhores to protect her! I mean, she doesn't not expect him to, because it hasn't really come up much. But his assumption that he's... okay, he doesn't quite see himself as an authority figure over her IIRC, but it's...hmm. I don't really know how to put it. It's an interesting adult/child dynamic where he seems to feel the responsibilities of an adult for a child they care for, while Rika's overall the one who dominates in their relationship.
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One of the interesting things to me about Rika and Zhores' relationship is that it's really very outside the mold of Rika's normal relationships, because Zhores is in his way an authority figure who wants to protect her. One of the reasons Rika is so screwed up is that no one does! The people who are supposed to protect her either fail in such a way as to cause more damage (and that includes Hanyuu, her parents, and even Akasaka for a very long time) or are the people who are hurting her. She's protected by her friends, but that's very much a thing of equals, rather than protector/protectee.
Rika does not expect Zhores to protect her! I mean, she doesn't not expect him to, because it hasn't really come up much. But his assumption that he's... okay, he doesn't quite see himself as an authority figure over her IIRC, but it's...hmm. I don't really know how to put it. It's an interesting adult/child dynamic where he seems to feel the responsibilities of an adult for a child they care for, while Rika's overall the one who dominates in their relationship.