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i literally was trying to type the word cards on my ipad and my mind just typed carbs instead. this is how hungry i am smfh 😩
i literally was trying to type the word cards on my ipad and my mind just typed carbs instead. this is how hungry i am smfh 😩
Happy birthday son, I love you and you are incredibly adorable; just, do me a favor and stop kissing girls. They’ll give you cooties *cough cough liberation cough cough*
cute dead kids turned into divine swords for a jack-of-all-trades former god of calamity, what a premise
All of my favorite characters have most of the same qualities
-sad backstory
-daddy issues
-gay/ally
-dress like they’re homeless or is actually homeless
-best friend/ally is a happy sunshine smart idiot
-has a villain arc
-is dead
-arson
-considered the ‘red’ character
-tall
-runs away
-smart
a while ago i put a tag lowkey asking for requests and @burn-all-q-tips responded and i missed it i’m so sorry
I’ve never watched noragami; from what i know from dashboard osmosis, this guy needs a hug and also needs to chill. And has a very cute smile. I hope that’s accurate...
Thanks for the request!
Chapter 97-1 Thoughts (Part 1)
(Part 2 here)
I’m like, barely awake, it’s 8 AM, but I’ve been trying to get this done for like, 6 days now and it’s finally here.
I believe this is actually my longest chapter thoughts to date because apparently I have a lot to say (don’t I always?) so, strap in. A lot of good discussion has already taken place on Twitter that put certain aspects of the chapter - especially concerning Nora - much more succinctly than I could ever hope to put them so I will focus on the one thing I know best: Father.
Obligatory disclaimer: The goal of this post is not to excuse or “justify” Father’s actions but to explain them; my purpose here is to analyze his character in connection to other characters & themes in Noragami.
Without further ado, let’s begin.
First thing I want to start with is the cover of this particular chapter thoughts post, actually:
"Just try and save them. That's what you gods are supposed to do after all, right?"
A very biting remark indeed, and not the first time we've seen such a remark from Father. In the end pages of Chapter 64: Dear One, he says the following:
"But I'm sure [Yato] will realize his mistake before the day is out - he'll realize he can't save anyone."
I found this very intriguing for two reasons:
1.) This line was THE foundation for my so-called Projection Theory - the idea that what Father says to other characters is a reflection of his own personal experiences because he is projecting those experiences onto others - which got a canon confirmation in 96-1, with Father's comparison of himself to Yukine (top), which is actually a reflection of ANOTHER thing he said to Yukine earlier, way back in Chapter 88: Motive (bottom).
2.) Chapter 64: Dear One (note the title), in which Father says the initial "he'll realize he can't save anyone.” Chapter 64 is the chapter in which Father compares himself to Bishamon in their desire to protect something dear to them, even if it means being forsaken by the Heavens.
Chapter 64 is honestly quite the double whammy for things that Father seems to talk about or refer to quite a lot when monologuing: the concept of salvation/being saved/saving and abandonment/being forsaken.
He does it when talking about Yuka and Hagusa in Chapter 89, ("why she abandoned you", "why she didn't save you"), in Chapter 76 ("abandoned by the Heavens") and indirectly in 87 ("even though all that happened, they're still praying [...] those prayers are worthless.")
When I first read the end of Chapter 64, my first thought went to "Father is saying that because he himself has been unable to save his dear one and thus, it should follow that no one is able to save anyone else." Because if Father had something he wanted to protect no matter what and if he's saying that you cannot save anyone by the end of the chapter, that means he failed to protect it, no?
But Chapter 97 adds a new dimension to that, because the connection is that the gods cannot save anyone and thus, because Yato is a god, he could not save anyone during that arc, either (in Father POV).
Obviously, this says a lot about Father's viewpoint on the gods but is it really just the gods who cannot save anyone? Can anybody truly save anybody, like I've interpreted it in Ch 64?
Is it possible - considering Father's constant monologuing about abandonment (himself being a creature abandoned by the Heavens, like he said in 76) and the act of saving/being saved - that Father not only feels bitter that his loved one could not/would not be saved, but also that he was not saved from his fate by the gods?
I could go on about this at LENGTH because there is a lot to be said but for now, I will leave it at two things:
1.) His dialogue to Hagusa about Yuka.
"It seems you've been forgotten... you'll just have to meet her and jog her memory" "abandoned" "why she didn't save you"
"I'm sure you'd love to ask her what was going through her head..."
An Amaterasu theorist friend once said "Just say you want to dropkick Amaterasu and go!" in relation to this page and. Yeah, basically.
Father is canonically projecting his own experiences onto Hagusa and I recommend everyone reread the latest arc with that in mind because it opens up a whole new perspective. Father is both the perpetrator of violence but also the victim of it (at least on a systemic scale), but I’ll touch on that later.
2.) Father killing the rice god.
I know a lot of people don't know what to make of this scene except "Father just went ham on a god onscreen", some people think it's because the god just proved Father wrong .5 seconds after saying "those prayers are worthless", but if you ask me, this scene stinks very strongly of "you answered their prayers, why did no one answer mine?", fueled by anger. Especially after he just got done saying those prayers are worthless, no matter how many times it happens.
This chapter (87) is also the chapter where Nora questions if Hiyori would be able to forgive the gods if Yukine was killed by a landslide or a swipe of Bishamon’s sword, saying that “Calamity bears a face in this world, too.”
I’ve been blasting this Yukine page on Twitter for the last few days and like... I’m just saying, man.
"They have everything, so why do I have nothing?!" "What's wrong with taking everything?"
"Why me?"
“They should all die, like I did...”
(It also calls to mind Tsuguha saying "why didn't you save me?!" as she turns into an akayashi.)
Just some food for thought.
(Continued in Part 2)
I HATE THIS MANGA I’M ABOUT TO START EATING BRICKS LIKE A FUCKING CHIPMUNK
Hiiro and Amaterasu is like baby on baby violence, Yukine is having mental breakdown after mental breakdown, and Baby Father internalised his self-defence as "sin" and decided to be the meanest fish in the pond. But at least Yato is "the necessary one", even if I'm not sure whether he would like to be that or not. (...If you have some comforting/soothing Hiiro fic recs, could you spare some?) Also, do you think Amaterasu can remove names that were written by Kotonoha?
Yeah, if one of the babies in question had a significant and unfair advantage over the other! I know we probably don't have the full story yet but I am currently a little bit pissed at Amaterasu for her dismissive attitude so I cannot see her as baby, I gotta get through wanting to squish her like a bug first LOL.
Well, nothing new about Yukine there, he's been having one long continuous breakdown for the last (checks chapter release schedule) year worth of chapters?
Baby Father internalised his self-defence as "sin" and decided to be the meanest fish in the pond
Ooh, can you elaborate on Baby Father internalizing self-defense as "sin"? I don't think I've picked up on that reading. Man, Father's behavior still reminds me so much of early manga Yukine... like, yeah, he absolutely decided to be the meanest fish in the pond. Be on the defensive all the time to protect yourself, get them before they can ever get you. Trauma is a bitch.
Unfortunately, I don't have any Hiiro fics to recommend, sorry! I'm not much of a fic reader, except when the brain rot gets really bad. I usually just check the Fujisaki Kouto tag for fics and call it a day lol/
As for the Koto no Ha names... I would say no? Perhaps the names are also in the "realm" of Izanami where the sun doesn't reach so she has no control over it. I really hope so, because otherwise... Yukine, Father, AND Nora are all toast.
Father, please pull through and kick Amaterasu's ass lol...
“The wounds of those parted by death can never heal”, huh........
@spiraling-back-to I’m gonna assume you’re asking your question in good faith so I will try my best to answer, even though my area of expertise as a meta writer is not Yato and Yukine:
Why does Yukine suddenly warm up to Yato after the ablution?
I’m not quite sure why you’re saying this was never touched on in the manga because it certainly was, even if it wasn’t outright said “I changed my mind because [reasons].”
This is the pivotal moment of their relationship, where Yukine goes from being angry and even somewhat resentful of Yato:
The size of the panels and the emphasis on Yato’s words, especially with the second page, convey to the readers the sheer importance of these words: I gave you the name of a human, so live like one. Live.
The whole point of the first arc was that Yukine was this 14 year old who is mentally forever stuck in the mindset of a 14 year old, who’s angry, who’s acting out, who’s stealing and behaving badly... in hindsight, we know that this is partly also because of how Yukine was treated by his father in his previous life - childhood abuse causes all sorts of behavioral problems and an impaired ability to form lasting and meaningful relationships - but the reason we see in this arc itself is that Yukine is acting out because he realizes that the things he wants - namely, a normal human life - is something he can no longer have. He is dead, stuck with a homeless bum god, and has no purpose in his life.
But Yato gives him that purpose. He tells him “you have a person’s name, you can still live even though you’re dead, you have a place here.” Not only that, Yato backs up his commitment to Yukine with his actions: the fact that even though Yukine has hurt him so badly, stung him almost to the point of death, he still will not give up on this kid that he has taken in - Yukine needs that, because he’s just a child with massive abandonment issues, carrying tons of subconscious baggage from his previous life, who was abandoned by everyone. That sense of purpose and belonging is extremely important to someone like him, hence why his attitude changes so fast.
I can’t find it at the moment b/c it’s been a minute since I reread the manga but there is a certain moment where Yukine states that he knows why he exists now, again showing that Yato has given his existence a sense of purpose.
Yukine himself even acknowledges this in Chapter 78, a whopping 67 chapters later, when Nora talks about taking on all of these names but still feeling like she is missing something.
And that’s where we also see a parallel between Yukine and Nora on this exact topic - Hiyori mused several chapters ago that because Father gave her a name, he also gave a purpose to her existence, hence why she keeps coming back to him and why he is so important to her, despite treating her horribly.
Hope that clears it up.
sort of kinda a very sketchy redraw of a yuki fanart i did three years ago i'd love to talk about the events of the last few chapters here but i honestly have no idea whats going on
a lil side by side as a treat
blonde anime characters pt.1
naruto uzumaki - naruto
edward elric - fullmetal alchemist
armin arlert - attack on titan
irina jelavić - assasination classroom
sanji vinsmoke - one piece
kurapika kurta - hunter x hunter
violet evergarden - violet evergarden
denki kaminari - my hero academia
yukine - noragami
