Especially During The Destruction Of The Black Order Arc - Tumblr Posts
Komui is a character that goes a little unappreciated, I think.
But he is fucking amazing.
A secret militant organization takes his little sister away. And he couldn't do a thing to stop it. He is this girl's only guardian and she's going to be a soldier in a hopeless war to save all of humanity and there's nothing he can do to protect her.
It is a parent's worst nightmare. It is the cruel reality of how powerless individuals can be in the face of governing structures.
But what did Komui do, in the face of it?
He decided to fucking be the leader of that same organization???
Komui seriously decided, if there was nothing he could do for Lenalee as her big brother, then he'd just have to become someone with the power to help her.
The sheer emotional tenacity and hardwork it must have took is insane to imagine.
And then there's this moment that we see from Lenalee's perspective. It is incredibly touching: a shining light of hope, a great reunion.
But imagine how this must have looked from Komui's perspective. The first time he gets to see his sister in three years: three years working relentlessly to reach her within a power structure he must have already despised, probably fully aware that she could die at any point and that’s she’s basically being tortured in the meantime, and when he finally gets to her, he finds her tied down to a bed by his now coworkers, her finger nails broken from clawing at everything she could reach, her wrists bloody under her restraints.
Can you imagine the hatred he must have felt for the Order, in this moment?
But he smiles. For Lenalee's sake.
We see later on that the Black Order can really be divided into two ages: Before Komui and After Komui. Komui not only takes over the Black Order HQ for Lenalee's sake, but he takes the entire HQ staff under his wing. He changes the entire culture of the organization, and assumes responsibility for not just Lenalee, not just all the exorcists like her, but every human fighting this war.
Honestly, in a series full of incredible character moments, I think Komui's off screen journey is by far the most impressive.
In many ways, Komui is the Black Order: its heart and soul. His Black Order is the one that becomes our protagonist's home, the Order we come to love. He took what must have been the thing he hated most in the world and remade it with love.
Hence the absolutely gorgeous volume cover yet to come:
