A gay Japanese teen diagnosed with schizophrenia and autism I met last year through X, and now through Discord asked me three serious questions the other day:

>If I stop loving that person, it means that the person I am now will die.

>What is the relationship between synchronicity and the soul?

>What can I do to make sure that my relationship with him lasts forever and that the person I am now doesn't change and die?

Unable to respond to such serious questions even with a regular English speaker, I fell silent for about half an hour, unsure of how to approach this; how do I get them to understand?

Around this time, in a flash odd inspiration, his questions brought up Shoujo Kakumei Utena from somewhere deep in my mind. I had always had an odd fascination with this anime, despite at face value being at odds with its themes politically. I've watched it at least three times, and last year I had listened to it as a sort of audiobook while at work, since the episodes are all on Youtube.

I think the only reason I had been compelled to watch it with such attention, is solely so that I could pass it on to this kid in his time of soul searching; the themes and challenges within it are much more aligned to him than myself.