Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi o Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 42 - The Uprising of the Nosey Girls

[peortega1]

I feel Yami has a much more dominating personality than the other characters and I think she uses that to her advantage a lot in her interactions with them.

"I feel" is a very soft word when literally being dominant is the main point of her personality, is the main reason why she falls in love with Yuu first, and later feels attraction for Hikari.
She even says "I gave my first time to the one and only guy in the world I didn't hate" at the end of chapter 25. Is precisely the submissive personality of Yuu, the fact he will never do nothing she doesn´t want, the fact he never will asks for sex to her, one of the main reasons why she loves him during all this time.
Is precisely because these themes of female domination/role reversal, I thought precisely in Shikimori is just a cutie as the main inspiration of Maruto for this work.
Maruto was so zero subtle with Yami being a dommy girlfriend he literally gave us a scene of her grabbing by the dick to Yuu in public -and yes, this happened in Shikimori-san (manga chapter 144), and in a light way, in the White Album 2{s chapter where Kazusa grabs Haruki by the tie (a phalic substitute) in a station.
And precisely for that my disagree with story645. Yami definitely enjoys be the dominant girlfriend in the relationship. Yami enjoys to be the boyfriend of Yuu.

 

[peortega1]

I don't think they are similar. Yuu doesn't really feel guilty, he did try to find the reason to feel guilty, but ultimately couldn't. So I don't think he was seeking punishment. He returned because a girl who was dear to him clearly had something important to tell him, no matter how unfair it was.

Yes, I agree with you, but Yuu definitely still wanted know what was his failure either, what was is the reason why Yami thinks he deserves punishment, what was is the reason why Yami dumped him. The girl who was dear to him clearly had something important to tell him, and also he thinks he deserves this punishment from her.
Even if he knows is an unjust acussation from her, is still enough to making him feeling guilty after the mental breakdown, and the Yami words seems really still hurt him in chapter 43.
And yes, this backs my theory he was close to say: "I really tried to look you, Yami-senpai", when she ordered him to shut up -and again, he obeyed-.

As for this, I agree that we probably won't get an answer for this. I also can't deny the possibility of your view being closer to truth than mine. But if I play out this same situation but without Hikari watching, I think it is still a natural development of her outburst. She let him know how much she was hurt by the whole breakup and then it only makes sense she'd then let him know that her feelings are still there. But of course it's just hypothetical, so this can't be used to prove my point.

Both are in the right. She is being emotional and really wants to kiss Yuu, and, we don´t lie to ourselves, the only reason why she didn´t have sex with Yuu there is, just like Kazusa Touma, she doesn´t like have sex in public spaces. And of course, is already very serious kiss your ex-boyfriend before your best female friend, to also have sex in a classroom of your school and got in jail or at least expelled from the school.
But the point here is she would have kiss Yuu in any case, but, precisely as Kazusa with Haruki in the ending of White Album 2 before Setsuna eyes, she definitely wanted show to Hikari that Yuu was hers and she was graciously giving him to Hikari. She wanted to mark her territory.
This is the same reason why she couldn´t resist the desires of show off in the face to Hikari she was the first time of Yuu. She wanted to show off her victory over Hikari, like Kazusa taking the buttons of the Haruki´s uniform as a thing Setsuna never will have from him.
As any good soap opera, definitely this was an emotional goodbye, but was too a "he is mine, bitch".

 

[peortega1]

I insist on the re-watch of this scene for the current topic of discussion
Maruto definitely homaged Yami kiss on this infamous moment:

 

[peortega1]

I wish a meta reference where somebody in Imasara remembers the airport kiss of WA2, just like Yami being a declared fan of Utaha-senpai of Saekano...
Also, Utaha also had her own airport kiss moment, and in a station, and also as a form to say goodbye to Tomoya, and also was a SA, and also as a form to spit her own childhood friend rival
Yes, definitely Yami was thinking in this when she did what she did:

 

[story645]

Only skimmed so forgive if something has been covered.

question whether Yami's internal thoughts specifically are true or false because she's constantly contradicting herself

Been thinking how we tend to get Yami's thoughts at the end of a narrative block/much later - like that she's gonna "pretend like always" on the second to last chapter of the relationship arc, or the crash out all the way in 40, or how her knowing Hikari would see the kiss comes in chapter 41. With Yami in particular, Maruto delays "bringing light to the dark". Like yeah I tend to argue there's all this subtext/foreshadowing/setup for it - but I kinda think Maruto is playing a game of Aya filtered through Yuu' & Hikari's POVs.

Even though he left in tears? Sounds like a pretty huge reason to me.

They hooked up when he was in tears over Hikari. Which is to say sure he was crying, but she's seen him get over when opportunity presents itself. Which is exactly what he does so maybe I have to give her more credit for knowing him than I usually do.

But these situations and her actions are just completely different.

Unlike her step father, Hikari and Yuu are the two most important people in her life and in both these situations she's pushing them out of her life. When she ghosts Yuu, she returns to where they met b/c she's hoping he'd find her there. In this situation, she's staying in the classroom, which is what Hikari calls her out on.

but then gets upset when it turns out Hikari decided not to ignore what she saw before and didn't simply forgive her.

It's the exact same thing as her crash out with Yuu, where she also (she knows unreasonably) hopes that Yuu will forgive her ghosting and chase after her. She's pushing Hikari and Yuu away hoping they won't let her.

Aya flat out thinks she may have kissed Yuu because Hikari was there - what way is there to read that other than self-destructive, especially knowing that Aya wants Hikari's forgiveness?