you know what I've always wondered? if being a hero is genetic, and heroes have extra strength and vitality and shit, what in the world could have happened to sparrow and roses parents? do you have any fun theories?
So I've always been in the camp of something similar to what we see at the end of the perfect world quest. Like i know its a test, but it seems to be digging into Sparrow's subconscious. With how they and Rose are having their perfect day, but the parents aren't there to me has always indicated that either the memories of their parents so blurry they can't visualize them like they can rose, or they're supressed for some reason.
Then when they leave, like their parents did that morning before they woke up, and are greeted with corpses. The wiki says thats meant to represent the death Sparrows journey has brought into the world, but I think it could very well be attributed to how the parents died.
Likely caught unaware while leaving to go and make money to keep their children fed and cared for-maybe not necessarily as farmers, they could have lived in Bowerstone and just had regular jobs- and killed, could have been bandits, could have been nicky the nick names crew. But if they weren't ready, or were unarmed, they could have been overwhelmed, especially if we go with the idea that the Hero of Southcliff is their father, because their story takes place 50ish years before 2, so they'd be aging and no longer in their prime.
I've also always liked the idea that sparrow may have actually seen the deaths, or at least the immediate aftermath, leading to them suppressing a lot of their childhood,- and that also being why during the begining and in her diary rose doesn't mention them at all-but while on the precipice of death themselves these memories get brought back up, just like how when you leave the scream Rose lets out is the same as when Lucien shot her.
8 notes
·
View notes
my friend asked me to put together all the ways oumen & apoptosis are connected as songs today & i love those two so naturally ive been on this since i woke up & after really going thru the lyrics Yet Again i think i FINALLY have my answer about tenshi's song right.
so basically we know the nami no ne no motif from aru sekai shoushitsu being present in a song means whoever in the song is still a "person"/still has their free will & gets to continue into the next loop. standard info. in all the other songs this is mixed into the instrumental, the only times its sung are in shoushitsu of course & in oumen mokushiroku. didnt think much of it when the song first came out bc like yeah thats just whats in series songs. but more & more across various songs, shoushitsu, apoptosis, kanon, oumen itself it talks about sacrifice & implies that sacrifice was a permanent death. oumen as a whole is her not wanting to accept that sacrifice role, she doesn't have a choice in it, but she doesnt want it either, (& apoptosis being it was originally that girl who was supposed to be the sacrifice but she pushed it off on someone else, therefore is the reason tenshi's song goes the way it does in the first place)
so then why does she have the motif if everything else including her herself say that she dies permanently.
i propose to u my newest theory.
the whole song is her wishing she had more time, not wanting to do it, she wants to live. so. since she's specifically singing it. im willing to bet its a last wish of hers. that somehow, someway, she still has enough free will to counteract the act of sacrifice, if she wishes hard enough, if she holds enough of her own desires, then maybe against everything, she'll get to live on into the next loop. basically, not a sign that she Does live, rather, just that she desperately WANTS to
2 notes
·
View notes