Waving A Spring Onion Around Is Pretty Fun. The Blue Haired Dame Was Onto Something

favorite cultist simulator hours: the forge of days, the elegiast, the vagabond.

what are yours?

the lesbian tide, 1971. Homophobic dog spans the ages

Hmm, y'know what? Nevermind.

pathologic but it’s a late 90′s visual novel

how the reader thinks of keiichi when the story is from keiichis perspective: this is the dumbest, loudest boy who has ever lived.

how rika thinks of keiichi: beacon radiating light and hope and goodwill to all mankind

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this just makes it sound like akio is the demiurge. which. you know. probably

I dont know how to phrase this thought i just had but this picture of ohtori school reminds me a lot of a church, and also that gothic churches were built that tall to represent how powerful and big god was, making people feel small there.

Also in some latim-derived languages like spanish Dios mean God, which makes sense when he falls from the castle in the sky and "bless" utena with strenght because of her 'faith' in him (as she sees him as a hero and is her biggest inspiration) and that makes me think of the religious (catholic i believe) symbolism of utena.

Dios is God, as he falls from heaven to bless the faithful. He comes from a castle on the sky that promises miracles such as the eternity of your happiness and innocence. Ohtori academy is the church, as everyone there is a small thing compared to the creator of everything: Akio. The students are children, Akio is an adult there conditioning them in following his schemes (like the boys are powerful princes and girls are helpless princesses and if they refuse that theyre witches), which would make him the God of his own illusions.

The students are just believers, Akio controls them in his own mysterious ways as the end of the world, but them when someone is defying him he has to take the matters in his own hands.

Akio could truly believe he is a God, shaping students as he wishes in his endless timeless illusion, but he isn't. Dios, the real Prince, God, doesn't exists. Akio just thinks they are the same, but in reality, Akio means Lucifer, and his Godly version of himself is only what the people who blindly loved him (anthy, utena) saw

This becomes. Substantially funnier. Knowing who his voice actor is.

krauss ushiromiya has to be the just. guy of all time. i think the funniest thing is when he's introduced, he's by far the worst of the siblings. deeply stupid, domineering, leverages past abuse against his siblings, disrespects his wife big time.

and then he dies soon in the next two timelines. and then in the next one we learn he was even WORSE as a teen, being just disgustingly sexist.

and then. everything after that that we learn about him is. neutral to better? like you get the worst over first.

like. okay. he recognizes how awful he was as an older brother and accepts that his siblings would be justified to hate him for the rest of their lives. okay, too little too late, put him in the juicer. he'd be supportive of his daughter's relationship to one of the servants? ...clearly an illusion, doesn't mean anything. oh he survived the initial salvo of ch4 and is revealed to be good in a crisis? that wasn't a fluke last time? al...right? has moments of being a not terrible husband? ...i mean. damage control. was his wife's only ally after she got dragged into a humiliating arranged marriage, and took her lots of places during honeymoon to try to make up for that? ...huh. is ready to divorce his wife and daughter so that, when the family collapses from his terrible business decisions, they'll be spared and only he will be ruined? ...surprisingly...good? he's surprisingly good to the servants? what. what is happening.

even better is that it's in contrast to eva getting a lot Worse (and then better really late!), rudolf having a rollercoaster of getting better and worse and better adn then a lot worse, and rosa being a constant trainwreck you just keep getting details of. like after his ch3 flashbacks it's uphill.

the funniest part, though, is that he is objectively the least problematic of the Ushiromiya siblings/their spouses. never murders anyone in any timeline, and never does any child abuse. like it's just so funny that he starts out the worst and then ends up with by far the least blood on his hands.

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