um so. hi guys.
i'm currently rereading catastrophe and sending things i notice back and forth with my friend. very fun. but yesterday i came across this page, which is right after guren and mahiru sleep together. and it was like...
longing, huh. i do have a history with that word. so i jokingly messaged my friend going "haha, what if they used akogare here".
it was a joke. i was joking. i thought there was no way the original would say akogare. but guess what? they did. they did use akogare.
like the absolute champion he is my friend found the exact scene in the japanese version, and it's "紅蓮は肌で憧れを感じた".
the fucking 憧れ is back to terrorise me.
because up to this point i wasn't sure if they actually used the same word for mahiru's feelings towards guren as they did for shinya's in chapter 83. up to this point i could still convince myself that they really just meant admiration and my child wasn't actually caught up in some sad ass unrequited love. because it fits! shinya does admire guren! but you can't even say that they might mean longing for mahiru and admiration for shinya because mahiru literally used 憧れ for both her and shinya in the same damn sentence. and i don't think admiration fits mahiru's feelings. at all.
... which would also mean that both guren and mahiru actually are aware of shinya's feelings. which i'll be honest i personally did not think was the case. i thought they meant admiration. or that it was up to interpretation. i did.
what the actual fuck kagami i'm at your door
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Lightning, water, and fire! Like forever before the plot starts. By the time the plot starts, the lightning and fire deities have been subjected to punishment by the two gods that picked them.
Oh (the fire deity) is first to be punished. They basically decide that since they're going to live for a long time, gotta set some long time goals! And they opt to be the wrath of the gods since most of the other deities are too 'soft' in their opinion. So Oh just. Smites humans. This isn't really a /good/ thing and in their defense mentally, they do it to help Ymber since he's the softest of them all. So their punishment by the gods is to be split in two, effectively halving the power of one into two. (Now they are in a male and a female body and use both male and female pronouns apart since they together make they but apart it feels weird to be they. But prior to the split they use they/them. Also the split bodies go by the names Ohiwe and Ohime.)
Fulj is the second to be punished. She falls in love with a mortal woman and that is a crime according to the gods. Mortals and immortals are not to be together and it will only bring suffering to both sides. So her punishment is her memories of the woman are stripped and her body basically broken to the point she can't remain physical all the time.
Ymber, unfortunately, is the one who blames himself for the discoveries and punishments. If he had only tried to restrain Oh more then maybe they would have chilled out and stopped before being punished. If he had only tried to persuade Fulj to not continue seeing the mortal woman so often perhaps she wouldn't have been punished. So he's just increasing the guilt on his shoulders every day that he remains unpunished since the elder gods have both laid down to rest. They can't enforce their laws anymore and none of the deities are keen on harming one another at this point. They just want to continue existing in peace.
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i remember when i first started playing ikepri. i was new to ikemen series. (actually i played ikevamp first but for some reason in the beginning, i don’t remember spending diamonds on anything?)
anyways i was still new to ikemen series right and the first ikepri event i played was the aphrodisiac event. it was so traumatic but so funny 😻
it was the first epilogue i remember buying, one of the first things i ever bought with diamonds actually. and i was still getting to know leon but it was goofy as hell 💀
ahh good times. getting to know leon’s hor-knee side even tho i just met him 😌
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For the Fallen (spoilers)
I have to say Ostromir has absolutely been a fascinating character to bear witness to over the end of this saga but this quest definitely takes the cake for me at the moment.
It was admittedly surprising as to why Ostromir seemed to have beef with Zadd specifically of all people despite having no personal history with him
Indeed, in examining his pop-up dialogue during the basic combat of the quest I assumed that he was angry that Zadd, and by extension the Rose, was destroying and experimenting with the Shapeless Empire's golems. It would not have necessarily been out the question that some Magesters do see them as more than soul-bounded automatons meant to be at the empire's beck and call given that they were originally people sacrificed to become an Ignominious. Experimenting and destroying them would be akin to a second death and insult. Furthermore, Zvezadana's and Ostromir's comment would have you believe the brute-force thinking of Zadd's experiments on their golems is Ostromir's main umbrage with him.
However, while I believe that to be somewhat the case here still, the reason Ostromir's despises Zadd is all the clearer when and after he puts Zadd down for good.
It was his guilt over the organization he puts his faith into that drove Raven's family away to the LoD, where they met their end, that was really motivating him to kill Zadd. In a way, had the Magesterium not operated the way it does, did, Raven would be a Magester and her parents still alive. So yeah you could say they indirectly killed them by pushing them within the reach of Zadd's careless experimentation with golemancy.
Further still is the guilt Ostromir feels over the children that perished through the experiments made in the Wastes.
It did not particularly go unnoticed for me that Ostromir did not attempt to even refute Zadd's accusation, yet defended our place in siding with them, that him and the Magesterium can be seen as monsters.
A fact I believe circles back to Ostromir's fury toward Zadd's lack of refinement with his work in spite of his talents. From Ostromir's perspective him and the other magesters, in this weird system that was set in place long before any of them existed, are doing what they believe is best in service for the prosperity and security of the Shapeless Empire. Meaning the actions they take, no matter how cruel or harsh, is for, in their eyes, the greater good for their people.
So for a man like Zadd to come along, who experiments for his curiosity, is too much to bear for Ostromir. Zadd's actions from his perspective is an affront to what he desperately clings to and that is the good he believes the Magesterium offers the world. The good that likely called for the experimentation of children in the Wastes. Experimentation that led to many of them simply dying. Yet still I wonder from the way he talks about that time...
Was Ostromir forced to put an end to some of the children that were experimented on?
Either way, it must be hard to reconcile at times with the good your organization is trying to achieve and the reality of the suffering they have caused others regardless if it was directly or not.
It's characterization that I'm completely loving right now.
On a similar note, I think I understand a little bit better what the "Shapeless Wills" means to the Magesterium
To them it is what they believe is within the best interest of the goals and motivations of the Shapeless Empire, be it collectively through census or through individualistic action when the opportunity to make such a choice alone arises.
Doesn't make me any less nervous about their continued presence in the LoD but it is nice to have these reminders that the they are at the end of the day people doing what they believe to be right.
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