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I have been surprised about how much I am enjoying this monogatari. Willig has well managed the pronouns and identification of the two siblings through the various changes in the tale.

“Yet a passionate action like that in Chūnagon’s mansion would be bad. What shall I do?”
How about, Saishō, you DON’T assault this woman and go back to taking care of the first two lives you ruined #allssishosarebastards

“[Saishō] felt sorry for Chūnagon and thought things ought not to be this way”
Well if you didn’t r—- your best friend’s wife and then your best friend, then pretend you loved them, maybe you wouldn’t be in this “mess”
#AllSaishōsAreBastards

He’s been guilted into carrying his assaulter’s child (his best friend), and while the ‘friend’ constantly misgenders him, the translation itself does not. He has no will to “live as a woman” but the baby, changes his guilt levels.
Though trans masc experience, wow is it emotional.

Well the author is really trying to make Chūnagon the new Genji and even called him a “shining light” and everyone weeping when he is gone