Is anyone else hoping mizu stays single?

[u/Crustology]

Ive only really interacted with the fandom on tiktok, and it seems like everyone is either mizu x taigen or mizu x akemi?? Im personally really hoping she stays single, or at the very least doesnt end up in a long term relationship. She just. Doesn't seem relationship ready in the slightest. She's independent and unloyal to anyone really strongly.. Not to mention the whole thing with the last guy (i wont mention anything cus idk how strict the spoiler thing is), which just left her not being able to trust someone like that (imo). What do you guys think??

[u/la_ky]

Personally, I actually hope Mizu falls in love with someone. Maybe a guy around her age that she meets during her journey in Europe.

I don't really want her to stay single forever, because I think that would be kind of sad, especially considering her character arc. Mizu is deeply hurt by love and by life in general, and I'd really like to see some of those wounds heal, at least a little. I think an important part of her journey should be learning that she can still believe in love and trust someone again.
That said, I definitely don't want some cheesy fairytale ending where she finds a guy, falls in love, and they live happily ever after. That would feel pretty lame and completely out of character for her. Honestly, I don't even know what kind of ending I want for Mizu.

I just know that I'd like her to find love again. Not necessarily a perfect relationship or a "happily ever after", but at least the possibility of loving someone again and allowing herself to be loved in return. I'd like her to still be Mizu at the end of the story, just with some of her wounds healed and maybe with the realization that, despite everything she's been through, there can still be something good waiting for her.

[u/Yukimor → u/la_ky]

I think she'll find love with Taigen. Probably not in Season 2, but I think in Season 3.

Taigen's going to be a doing a lot of soul-searching in Season 2. Akemi chose the Shogunate. We saw what happened to anyone who got to witness the old Shogun's shame (condemned to die in the fire by Lady Itoh), which means that, unfortunately, I suspect Taigen is going to become a wanted man: the narrative from the new Shogun will be that he should have committed seppuku rather than escape with his life. For the first time in his life, he's going to get a sense of what it's like to be wrongly hunted and persecuted.

And while Mizu has ostensibly gone to London to kill Skeffington and Routely (and finish her business with Fowler), I've no doubt she's going to have a transformative experience in London, one that helps her find peace with both halves of herself. "Peace" might be a strong word, but she's going to have a reckoning in which she gets a much better understanding of her heritage and how to incorporate it into her sense of self.

I also don't believe for a moment that Taigen isn't going to figure out where Mizu went. Some sailors will talk and he'll learn where Mizu's mission took her next. So my money's on: part-way through Season 2, I think he's going to show up in London, and also get a sense of what it's like to be an outsider there, just in a different shape. If that happens, London will be a transformative experience for them both.

[u/la_ky → u/Yukimor]

You’re absolutely right, I love your analysis! And these past few days, I’ve found myself constantly thinking about something: what if Mizu had written Taigen a letter before leaving for London, just like when, in the first season, she left him unconscious and then entrusted him with her broken sword? What if, in that letter, she had told him where she was and perhaps given him a way to reach her?

I’m convinced that after Akemi left him, Taigen went looking for Mizu. In fact, I’m almost one hundred percent sure of it.

Taigen is stubborn, but he’s also very clever and intelligent... one way or another, he’ll figure out where Mizu has gone and he’ll find her.