🐺 > I’ve gone on essay length rants about this but — I admire her resilience and determination more than anything, she is fiercely determined and refuses to let anything overwhelm that. She is also extremely loyal and willing to do anything at all for those that she loves, even if some see that as a flaw because she’s willing to compromise her beliefs for it — I still think it’s admirable

🌸 > how kind he has remained. How gentle he stays in the face of everything he has dealt with. His acts of violence and will to survive do not overwhelm his love for his mother, for children, for his friends, for simple pleasures like flowers. He’s gentle despite it all but harsh when it’s needed, I love him I want to be more like him

All my answers are to this LOL but my favorite thing about Ogata is how he shows love or respect. He's very cautious and he isn't the most outwardly loving and consciously pushes a lot of people that care about him away or even tries to get rid of them (Yuusaku, Asirpa, Sugimoto - in a way, Kiroranke, etc.), but when he respects you, he truly and deeply does. His relationship with Vasily is one of the clearest displays of him deeply respecting someone. Yes they're constantly on the hunt and trying to kill each other, but Ogata is clearly impressed and values Vasily's sniping skills and respects him as an individual. Even with the others such as Sugimoto and Asirpa, it's clear that he feels something with them that immediately makes him want to push them away. One of his constant internal battles is that he believes he is not deserving of love, so something about how Asirpa was defensive of him against her own best friend Sugimoto, and how she had admired him triggered his need to flee. Even with Yuusaku (and the catalyst of Ogata's internal battle), it's clear that Ogata wants to believe that Yuusaku does love him. I just love how insanely complex he is as a character and how he's more than just some traumatized soldier chump. He's, in my opinion, one of the most compelling characters in the anime/manga.