For a long time I really thought that Worick had betrayed Alex and Nicolas because he didn’t want to die in the chaos that Gina said would hit the town (since he’s a normal guy) but you’re probably right when you say it goes deeper than that. I hope so because I loved his character and I don’t want to start hating him.

Hey Anon 🙂 Ah, well, I think Worick is one of the most complex characters of Gangsta. to be very honest with you, so doubting him, especially after what he did, is natural (and probably what Sensei was going for).

However, there was only one real betrayal so far and it was Daniel Monroe’s. Uranos Corsica doesn’t count, at least not for me: we always could guess he was shady since it was said from the beginning that he hated the Twilights.

But personally I could never doubt Worick (~~he’s my son and I will fight against everyone if I have to, just like Georgina said men and women used to fight over him~~), at least I didn’t till now because we’re talking about this man:

Like, I know we know nothing about Alex yet: we don’t know why she remembers Nicolas from obviously before ch1, why Worick wanted to save her in the first place (there is probably a reason) but still, he extended a hand towards her, he gave her shelter and even a way out, so no way is he a total asshole who betrayed her and Nico.

Besides, Nico obviously still believes in his partner

so even less reason to think Worick did what he did to follow in Monroe’s footsteps.

…Not to ramble, but to make a final point about why I don’t think Worick could ever become a full villain in the story: I remember checking the tags a while ago and I saw a post that said that Uranos Corsica’s and Daniel Monroe’s backstabbing was Sensei’s way to denounce white supremacy.

As it is, I don’t entirely agree (gotta be careful with that kind of concept), because Loretta and Gina are white too, but I think the point the person was trying to make was overall valid: Sensei does add all kinds of representation as much as she can and that’s amazing.

So yeah, two powerful white guys stabbed everyone in the back for their own interests, destroying the fragile balance of Ergastulum and it’s indeed up to the lesbian leader of a mercenary guild

and a young girl trying to uphold her father’s legacy

to try and stabilize things as much as they can.

And to help them? The Benriya, composed of a disabled swordsman of mixed Asian-White origin, a black woman suffering from PTSD because of her days as a drugged prostitute and, since I don’t believe Worick betrayed them, a gigolo aka a man who prostitutes himself (and who has tons of issues to solve).

You see, Worick fits the same pattern as Loretta, Gina, Nico and Alex

(I didn’t mention slightly more minor characters like Delico, Chad, Nina and Theo, but you get the point): yes he’s white, but he’s not of the same brand as Uranos Corsica and Daniel Monroe, so he too will be used as a pawn to play against them and the rest of the government.

That’s a little simplifying things, since I’m not even sure I really trust Gina, but you get the idea.

And honestly if Worick’s going to reach for the government through using the Corsica family, then he’d better act the hell out of everything and make even us readers doubt, eh? 🙂

Eventually though, I’m pretty sure that, just like how Worick decided to try and “get in the way” for the sake of others, he’ll need to be saved too, hopefully by Nico and Alex who will believe in him till the end.

My son is a good man (or well, maybe not good, but not exactly an asshole to the people he cares about), so please don’t hate him. :))

Thanks for passing by Anon and have a nice weekend!

About Gangsta I’m still emotionally damaged about Connie and Marco .I mean ,I know this is isn’t some fluffy shoujo but still the whole thing really hit home .Part of me was glad they at least died together and no one was left behind .

Hey Anon! And yeah, I feel you. Personally I really realized that there would be no hope for a large part of the cast when both of them died.

I mean, Doug was one thing: he was a minor villain for a few chapters but then he turned out to be a sweet kid and his death was used to introduce the return of the Destroyer. So I wasn’t particularly sad, although I felt bad for Galahad.

Connie and Marco though… Well, Connie was one of Alex’s rare friends and, I won’t lie, after the way her parents died, until the last moment I thought maybe Sensei would allow her to survive if just for her grandmother’s sake, who lost so many loved ones.

As for Marco, he was one of Loretta’s right-hand men, a strong support and a protector, and his death weakens both her position but also her as a person: she’s young but she’s already carrying a lot on her shoulder and now she lost one of the two most important men in her life. ://

I think the reason Connie and Marco dying hit so hard is also because of what they represent, as a couple: they fell in love despite that horrible past between them. And it was one of the few examples that, yes, Ergastulum is a horrible place but, at the same time, there can still be hope if you know where to look.

And Sensei killed that. Literally.

That’s kind of why I ended up realizing that I shouldn’t hope so much for pretty much anyone in the cast and a few chapters later, as you know, we had that reveal about Nina probably “having an expiration date” as Theo’s research. T_T

The only consolation I find in all that happened is, exactly like you, that…

at least they died together yeah, and also Connie managed to pull a fast one on Beretta and Striker.

Speaking of which, it really feels unfair that Striker and Beretta are still alive after all that they did to them, even if I strongly suspect that the whole point was so that Sensei could show us that even them are treated like the worst shit ever by the Corsica family (who still used them for their plans):

And I’ll bet you that the point is to reinforce that the Twilights and related experiments like Erika, Striker, Beretta, etc really have the worst fate.

Ultimately it ties with what Worick is trying to do, so it fits with why Connie and Marco (who found solace in each other) had to die while Striker (who always was treated like shit) survived, even if it still hurts a lot because everyone loved Marco and Connie.

Gangsta. is really a harsh series, but at the same time it forces the reader to enjoy all the simple and nice moments we sometimes are given, because we know it’s not going to last and the situation can always go

downhill

even more.

Like, I remember when Nico took Nina to see Alex sing that one time, to cheer her up because bad stuff had happened: when I read this part the first time, I was like “if only Worick could be here too” but now I’m just glad it happened at all, considering the even bigger shitstorm that hit right after. T_T

Anyway, Anon, I think that even if they died, Marco and Connie are still going to be a part of the story, which is comforting me a little too. The memory of them will haunt the ones who loved them and they won’t be forgotten. And there still is the mystery of that key…

so they’re bound to be relevant again!

Thanks for passing by Anon, I wish you a great weekend! :33

Yuri, artificially inseminated?

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Answer next month probably, because the timeline finally fits, and…

It’d fit with the whole point of Section 13 being about experimenting in order to give powerful demons a durable vessel.

They tried baby clones in tubes (iirc?),

so next maybe…

they could try experimental surrogacy, starting with Yuri?

Personal opinion, but I just can’t see Yuri doing the do with Satan next month, since she’s clearly still in love with Shiro ~~(Sensei said after the chapter was released that there was no hope for them, I’m sad ;_;)~~ and having sex with him probably isn’t supposed to be a part of her whole “maybe helping Rinka” idea.

However carrying what could be a new vessel “for Rinka’s sake” might be something she could agree with? At least initially?
Obviously the concept is horrible because, if this is what happens, then she’s probably going to be injected/experimented on with stuff like elixirs/Satan’s powers daily, so that the vessels (the twins) will develop to be powerful enough to withstand Satan.

And things are probably going to take a turn for the worst at some point, because…

…otherwise, if the twins are originally a project of Section 13 (which has the support of the Order’s top brass), why would the Order ask Shiro to get ready to kill the babies?

Maybe Yuri ended up realizing she didn’t want her babies to become Satan’s vessels? Or the twins turned out to be way more powerful than expected?
Or she didn’t know what the plan was initially and when she found out, she turned out to be against it? Could be why Satan possibly burned her to death…

I don’t know but there has to be a twist to the twins’ existence somehow, because the flashback is really building up to this and also because we know that learning about the truth in alternative universes didn’t help with Yukio’s issues at all.

I just can’t see something physical between Satan and Yuri, even less the violent alternative of it not being consensual if it somehow happens so, eh, let’s go with the science option for now.

I think Yuri still doesn’t realize how bad section 13 is. She eventually finds out and Shiro and Mephy help her escape somehow?

@rottenprincessshura100 Forgot to mention earlier, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if Mephisto really didn’t have to force Shiro into raising Yuri’s sons (so Shiro going against the Order for Yuri’s sake => yas). 🙂

There is that deal between them, that if Shiro ever caves in front of a demon, he’ll have to do something for Mephy. However, seeing how bad the situation will probably suck for Yuri considering how kind-hearted + how she indeed doesn’t seem to realize that Section 13 is the worst, I could see Shiro deciding to raise the twins out of love for Yuri but also out of a giant “fuck u” towards the remnants of Section 13.

About Mephy though, he knows everything at anytime, literally speaking, so I’m guessing Mephy not interfering with Yuri’s predicament might be the same as having his authorization and him “helping”. xD

I know several readers in the fandom have this theory that maybe Mephy is the big bad as far as the twins are concerned (and not Satan or the Illuminati), because he’s the chessmaster…

and he controls every development in the story, because he’s always a step ahead and… Honestly it’s a very cool idea.

Hard to pull off, I hope Sensei knows what she’s doing if she’s heading there, but hella impressive if she can manage it, because Mephy is on Assiah’s side, no doubt about that, so for him to be Assiah’s big chance but also the big bad towards the twins’ situation, that’d be amazing writing.

Anyway, I’m rambling, but all that to say that…

Satan, Yuri and Shiro are all a reason the twins exist, but Mephy (omniscient as he is, as Samael), is the one who allowed all of it to take place.
So whatever is going to happen to Yuri, Mephy already knew probably way before she was born and is probably going to let stuff unfolds the way he wants it to, for his own plans. Or he plans according to the developments he already knows about (same deal).

He’s a great character: I love to despise him. And I have mad respect for Shura since she’s the only one who constantly calls him out on his bullshit (Arthur too, but it’s less emphasized on). :))

A chess game between brothers

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That’s all it is: real!Ciel is using his pawns against his brother’s in a real lively chess game. I’m a bit iffy as to what the twin ultimately wants, but let’s save that for later.

It’s a chess game and our!Ciel stepped right up to it in ch129 when he came back to the manor…

and he definitely had a late start because of the shock and confusion when realizing that his older brother is back and Lord Sirius, the blue star of the blue sect, but…

I’m sure he’ll manage to recover. 🙂 Because Ciel has people he can use against his brother too.

Without already mentioning that Abberline and probably Edward will end up on his side (Ed because he already accused Ciel wrongly in the Weston arc and came to regret it + he and Ciel investigated most of the arc together), Violet, Sieglinde and even Soma have several ways to yell bullshit about our!Ciel being the mastermind behind the sect:

For Violet, it’s a question of motivation and wanting to pay Ciel back for helping him several times + saving his life in ch125.

For Soma, he’ll first need to hear about our!Ciel having a twin brother to connect the dots and realize that his friend didn’t kill Agni

and for Sieglinde, it’s just about friendship, considering all that Ciel did for her in the past and how she’s the one who analyzed the blood samples for him.

Obviously Lizzie knows on the truth on this matter too, she knows who the real Lord Sirius is, but her heart is being held hostage by real!Ciel’s side right now so she’s a major pawn to use against our!Ciel for the moment,

but it could change because her love for our!Ciel makes her a wild card.

You only have to see how sad and empty she looks in the whole chapter: she’s not siding with real!Ciel out of a 100% heartfelt choice.

The servants will side with our!Ciel, who is their master, out of devotion, but they have no idea as to what’s really going on unfortunately. Except for Tanaka, who probably saw it coming (’how’ is still the question) but who’s as tied as Lizzie I’d say, seeing how sad he also looks.

So yep: chess game. Brother vs brother, Seb vs UT, Grell and Othello probably being confused af and Mama Midford hopefully still missing for a reason

(maybe Alexis telling her what happened will trigger something?). Can’t wait :))

Heyyyyy, you know who else is missing and could be considered a chess pawn for our!Ciel’s side? Lau. And Ran Mao additionally, I guess.

Not that Lau showed up in the arc so far, so the probability that he’ll play a role isn’t that high obviously, but still, Sensei said before that, even though Lau is busy running his own business while following the Watchdog’s rules, he’s mostly “interested in our!Ciel”.

Undying Seb doesn’t seem to faze or interest him so much, so he’s…

…hanging around our!Ciel mostly for his own enjoyment of things.

So I’d say he’d (knowingly) rather play the part of the pawn to our!Ciel’s side of the chess game over real!Ciel’s anyday (if real!Ciel is to become the Watchdog for a short time after our!Ciel’s arrest), because he always bets on our!Ciel to provide him with a lot of amusement.

Ran Mao will follow Lau, but she too seems to like Ciel a lot anyway…

…so that’s two more people that our!Ciel could use wisely against his brother.

In fact, friendly reminder that Lau is the most mysterious character of the whole cast as of right now (and that’s really saying something), so having our!Ciel owing him could be rather interesting for a future arc focusing more on Lau. :))

Whole post here, I cut it for the reblog to focus about Lau.

Personal opinion but I still think that Lau and Ran Mao have no reason to side with real!Ciel. Actually one way to interpret the newest cliffhanger can be as them getting in Scotland Yard’s way, waiting to see if Ciel is going to ask for their help so that they can make him owe Lau.

Because that’s actually a much more dangerous development.

From a narrative point of view, it makes a lot of sense to have our!Ciel owing Lau for helping him one way or another (for example, to help them go to France using the Kunlun company…

or wherever else they may go), since that’s how we can then get an actual build up to Lau maybe becoming a problem later.

Sensei also said in the guidebook that Lau was “probably the strongest character of the manga”, altho’ it was downplayed by her basically going “lol” afterwards, but all that to say that he remains extremely mysterious and that’s not to have him switch sides whenever it’s extremely convenient for him.

Not when he finds Ciel way more interesting than Seb dying and then coming back to life + when he represents a whole point of Father Knox’s decalogue that Sensei so far seems to enjoy deconstructing.

In my opinion, if he ever goes against Ciel (which I think is likely for a lot of reasons), it will be when the game is built to be way more interesting for him, not when Ciel is at his wit’s end. As always though no one has to agree with this!

Griffith & Charlotte vs Guts & Casca: the mirror effect of vol 9

Just one more of those posts where I’m amazed by how far authors can go with symbolism, parallels and the like.

I didn’t notice it just now, but I felt like mentioning it because I miss updates + it’s also motivated by a post I’ve seen about not being fond of how Miura-sensei handles sex (as in, artistically speaking) in Berserk and, while I definitely respect that opinion, it reminded me that I wanted to write this for a while.

So, nsfw post ahead! I don’t mean to speak about context for once, but simply about how the way Sensei chose to draw the two moments actually illustrates just as well in what these two dynamics differ.

Where do I start? Maybe by the fact that Griffith/Charlotte opens the 9th volume while Guts/Casca ends it, which is definitely not a coincidence.
And also the settings: super stormy night with Griffith slipping undetected in Charlotte’s room vs sunny day in the forest near a waterfall for Gustca.

As for how it all begins: as soon as Griffith shows up, Charlotte hugs him and starts crying about all the many things that happened recently and he’s still so damn shook by what Guts pulled on him that he jumps onto the occasion to reinsure himself that his dream can still be achieved/seek some comfort and

that’s the result: she’s very surprised and he just went “to hell with it”, with both their eyes wide opened as they kiss, full of disbelief.

In comparison, for Casca and Guts the discussion leads to a fight because #confrontation and #confused-feelings and while it also ends with Casca crying on Guts…

…unlike Charlotte and Griffith, the first kiss comes from a mutual desire, not at all unexpected and fully committing to the moment (= their eyes are closed).

Coming up next, we have foreplay: still in a hurry for Griffith, to show in what state of mind he was, and with Charlotte barely registering what’s going on…

even going as far as to utter a slightly hesitating “no” before they reach the bed

vs Guts and Casca taking a lot more time and undressing each other first.

This leads to one of my favorite contrasting parts, just after Charlotte says “no” and is pushed on the bed, we get this…

whereas Guts noticed how Casca, too, was afraid

but it’s followed by 4 pages of her explaining why with Guts listening to her and…

providing comfort. Of course, the two dynamics aren’t the same at all, but still, it’s worth mentioning because I’m sure it’s a part of the mirror effect.

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I could go on with how the whole Griffith/Charlotte sex scene is cut by a few moments showing the Band of Hawk, or even the maid who caught them, when the moment is never interrupted for Guts and Casca.

Also, the act of penetration itself is just like the very first kiss for both couples: without warning and rather rough, considering Charlotte’s expression, with Griffith thinking intently about Guts the whole time, which emphasizes on the angsty atmosphere of the whole scene…

vs Guts at least warning ahead the first time, even if him too will have a flashback about when he was raped as a child, but with their second time flowing in continuity with the whole moment ‘till they reach climax together.

Also let’s talk about the following:

Because where Charlotte being most likely in some pain does nothing to stop Griffith’s pace, Casca’s expression triggers an intense stress for Guts, bringing him back to his own trauma (also eased in my opinion by the fact that he’s taking her from behind at that moment, which is exactly what happened to him).

Speaking of which it’s interesting to point out that, while Casca and Guts both get to do some introspection (first Casca about her feelings and then Guts about the fact he was abused as a child), which brings them even closer, Griffith is fully haunted by Guts’ departure but does not utter a word about it, just like we do not get any thought at all from Charlotte.

Similarly, while Guts is having a breakdown about his past and Casca manages to comfort him just like he did with her at the beginning

Charlotte doesn’t even know how much Griffith is angsting over Guts’ departure and as such he doesn’t really find the comfort he was looking for.

This is overall illustrated by when the two couples climax…

(I don’t think I need to point out in what these two scenes are so opposed) and also by how the two moments end…

even if I have to mention that Griffith was considerate enough to leave a flower for Charlotte after he spent a large part of the night probably crying as she slept (which is actually really sad & I’m not being ironic: the flower was a nice touch).

That being said the flower itself is contrasting with Guts asking Casca to leave with him once they’ll have freed Griffith (I know, it’s vol10): there is a wish for a future together for Gutsca, meanwhile Griffith leaving a flower for Charlotte is more akin to “thanks for that one night together (maybe there’ll be others)”.

There may be more that I haven’t mentioned but you get the idea. 🙂

Overall I think a point I really wanted to make was that, yes, Miura-sensei is always extremely explicit and detailed when he draws and it doesn’t always please everyone on the matter of nsfw (not that it has to, obviously).

That being said, personally I really enjoy that the man is so skilled that, even if he’s being vividly graphic all the time (as in he draws naked characters on plenty of different occasions and it’s always with a lot of visible anatomical details), he can still easily show a lot of contrast between

a moment that’s about sex for the sake of reinsurance, with two characters being in fact disconnected and one of them hurting
and another that’s about emotional lovemaking after two characters realized that they were in love with each other.

So I disagree that being graphic in both the beautiful and horrifying, awkward or disgusting moments is not differentiating enough. The Griffith/Charlotte and Gutsca sex scenes, albeit both explicit in the exact same way (we see the same body parts + foreplay, penetration and climax), are in fact completely different.

It’s a matter of context too obviously, since the 4 characters and their dynamics are vastly different, but still I believe that nsfw material can be used to make a point and I like the different ranges of just “how” in Berserk.

Crack theory about Tsurumi and Umeko (spoilers for ch179)

A really cracky idea I had for a while, but the big reveal of ch179 made it slightly more likely, at least in my opinion, so I’m sharing.

First of all, it’s been a while since we had anything about Ume in the story, when she used to get a little focus before (both in flashbacks and present timeline) because she’s obviously very important to Sugimoto’s character arc.

I rambled previously that maybe it was because Sugimoto’s own motivations in the story went from 100% “gold where?!” to Asirpa slowly getting priority, because she and Sugimoto got extremely close and there was the whole matter of her dad at Abashiri, before they got separated by Kiro and Ogata and the plot took a turn towards Karafuto.

Anyway, despite that, I’d still be extremely surprised if Umeko turned out to be irrelevant until the epilogue or something, especially since nothing guarantees that anyone will ever get even a tiny portion of that gold…

…and one way or another Sugimoto has to eventually feel better about himself, which is something that cannot be achieved only thanks to Asirpa in my opinion (same for other characters, like Ogata for example, the point is that Asirpa can catalyze a change but eventually they will have to confront their past anyway).

Moving onto the theory itself, it’s going all the way back to vol4 and this scene that we get of Umeko and her mom discussing her getting married again:

Initially, my personal take on why Sensei would even show us something like that was that it emphasized on the parallels with “Ezo owls” mentioned in the same chapter, implying that even though Toraji is dead and Sugimoto went to find gold for her sake, Umeko had to go on with her life and couldn’t wait and stay a widow forever.

However since I also always hoped that Umeko would one day be present in the plot in person (instead of remaining a warm memory and motivation for Sugimoto), later I started considering that maybe the man in question her mother mentioned was Tsurumi.

After all, when you see Tanigaki’s or even Tsukishima’s flashback, it is shown that Tsurumi goes to great deals to find out about people he has an interest in or who might be useful or a threat to him. With Tsukishima for example, Tsurumi went to investigate about his past, his father and the girl he loved in order to later manipulate him and turn him into a devoted follower of his:

So the same could be applied here for Umeko if we’re considering that, logically, Tsurumi might have done some research about “Sugimoto the Immortal” at some point, since he proved to be quite a thorn in his plans until fairly recently.

Sugimoto is quite famous amongst war veterans in the first place, so I’m sure Tsurumi easily knew where to look to find out where he came from and, from there, by asking around and putting a few facts together, he could have found out about Toraji and Umeko.

That was the initial crack theory, with the whole “getting married again” for Umeko being maybe one way to get her to Hokkaido and use her later as leverage against Sugimoto (similarly to how he slowly turned Tsukishima into his right hand man, or even how he told Inkarmat about Tanigaki’s past in order for her to initially use him).

The reason I’m saying ch179 made this idea more likely is because of the parts I highlighted: I have no idea if Tsurumi can be considered wealthy but that doesn’t matter since he could have just lied. However he’s indeed charming, very eloquent (iirc Ogata even mentioned that he always knew how to appeal to younger soldiers) and also most likely in his 40s.

Finally, as for the “his wife and child passed away” part…

…well, with ch179, we now know that this is true (of course being a spy this part of Tsurumi’s life could be something he never told anyone, only using it to be introduced to Umeko as a widower, but from a narrative point of view this could be a hint Sensei meant for us readers once ch179 would be out, kinda like all the foreshadowing about Kiro in restrospect).

Besides, Sugimoto remembered Toraji being worried about “no one wanting to marry a widow with bad eyes and a kid”, therefore asking him to take care of her, so is it really a coincidence that a random widower turned out to be interested?

I know it’s a crack theory, because the most likely explanation for this scene in vol 4

for now

remains that Sensei wanted to show that Umeko wasn’t going to wait for Saichi forever (understandably).

Still, Tsurumi who was dead last in the run after the 24 tattoos took the first place back after Abashiri: as such that makes him the most likely to be the most ruthless when it comes to using Asirpa and so the most likely to be Sugimoto’s main enemy again.

How fitting when they’re missing brain bits buddies, right?

That’s why Tsurumi having a little leverage against Sugimoto would be clever and interesting.

There, this crack theory doesn’t have to convince anyone but I’m personally super fond of it. So far the cast is great and diverse, so

personally

I’d love to have Umeko join the list. xD

you know what would be super cool, though?

Crack theory for now, but what if Yuri was the one who actually managed to put an end to the Blue Night?

Until now, personally I always considered that Mephisto or Lucifer (through deciding to go forward with creating the Illuminati or something) were the ones who were the most likely to manage talking their dad out of destroying more of Assiah for the time being.

((I also wondered about “Shemihaza” (aka most likely Shiemi’s grandmother), as a parallel to Shiemi protecting everyone from Rin’s awakening in ch98, but also because Lucifer himself seemed to be a little receptive to her.))

However, Yuri still remains the only one so far who was ever shown to have any kind of control over “Rinka”

on top of being acknowledged as a very good tamer/exorcist.

…And maybe that’s even how/why she died?

As I said, crack theory, but I would find this a really ironic development because today she’s known/seen in some parts of the Order as “the apostate who gave birth to Satan’s sons”, thus who is maybe held responsible for the blue night, when the truth could turn out to be the opposite.

In a way, it’s really on the same level as Rin and Yukio taking turns believing that Shiro raised them as weapons for the Order (mostly Yukio tho’), when the real reason he decided to take care of them was most likely out of love for Yuri.

Besides, imagine if Yuri’s death is because she wanted to protect her sons/people from Satan’s Blue Night…

…when Shiro also sacrificed himself to protect Rin from Satan: very ill-fated but tragically beautiful as far as Shiro/Yuri is concerned. ;_;

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Hey I wonder about if Yuri will ever search/find out about why Oku and Obaba used to be exorcists but quit at some point? Which led them to become homeless, I suppose?

With everything about Section 13 and Asylum, it would be interesting if Sensei were to show that a few exorcists couldn’t maybe handle a few secrets they found out about and chose to leave the Organization instead of being associated with it?

Especially since one could argue that the way they died was a little suspicious. I mean, there is no real argument or proof, because Yuri was 6, the scene was quick and they said it was a fire but was it really accidental? Who knows.

… Now that I think about it though, It’s kinda the same about Yuri’s biological family’s situation because…

what about this super shady family business that’s quickly mentioned?

I’d consider it random, just giving a reason to why she had no family in the first place, but her family name is also the name of the demon king of water at least in English. Maybe there is a difference in Japanese when it comes to how it’s written, I have no idea, but it would be interesting if it wasn’t a coincidence, leading to Yuri reasearching about her past and the people she used to live with.

I’m wondering also because, while the twins’ first name are related to “Rinka” and “Yukiotoko” (Yuri’s nickname for the two men she probably loved??), their family name seems to be related to Oku himself.

So was Oku’s name really “Oku” and Yuri decided her sons would have a (made-up) related family name because he was like her surrogate father?
Or maybe it was actually “Okumura” and it’s because she’ll research about him, find out about this and why he left the Organization, that she’ll give his name to her sons?

I don’t know but I feel ch100 and ch101 still have bits that are shady despite this trip in the past being supposed to be about giving Rin answers…

I was thinking about this again and I wonder if the cliffhanger of the last chapter couldn’t eventually lead to Yuri researching about all of what’s mentioned above, especially Oku’s and Obaba’s defections. Because…

…finally meeting Goro/Rinka/Satan (and seeing him most likely getting captured again) might make her find out/understand about Section 13, thanks to what Shiro already told her about his life.

Unless it will really have to be for later because she won’t think about her foster parents until she’s going to be pregnant herself?

In any case, there is no way that Yuri, who believes that “exorcists save people from demons (but don’t kill perfectly safe demons)”, wouldn’t be against everything that Section 13 represents, even if that gave Rinka a vessel.

I’d really love Yuri realizing that the Order is full of bad business (namely through realizing that Shiro’s awful childhood is totally linked to that) and that she will follow in the steps of Oku, the man who raised her, and leave it behind.

It would make a nice symbolism as to why she then decided (or Shiro did, if she told him about it?) that she’d give his name/a related name to her sons.

Besides, Rin is witnessing all of it and so it’d make sense that he has to see something like this too: Shiro was chained to the Order from birth to death (as Mephisto claimed in ch101) but nothing says Yuri will agree to it for herself and that could lead to Rin wondering about what he will do in the current timeline.

Bringing this post back again, because…

I can’t believe Yuri will not ever start to question if she really wants to work for long in a place like Section 13, especially when we still don’t know if there is a meaning as to why Oku would have rather remained homeless over working as an exorcist apparently.

Besides, even if just for Shiro’s sake or for these clone kids who are still going through all of this…

…I hope she realizes what she was thrown into. If she’s doing it for Rinka’s sake, because she had to get involved due to their bond, then fine, but I hope it will go beyond that and she’ll eventually call them out or something…

Source: midnight-in-town

Timeline about UT and his scythe?

Cracky thought, but actually I wonder about if UT didn’t happen to really leave his scythe behind when he deserted…

only to get it back right after the events of Vincent’s death and the twins’ abduction…

which would explain why he said he had so many troubles managing to rescue the twins in the first place? He arrived after the contract was made (that’s why he wanted to check Seb’s CR during the campania arc) and just in time to collect the twin’s corpse before it got burnt.

Maybe that could also explain the change of design, from simple-looking scythe

to “skeletonized” after he got it back, even if we still don’t know whose skeleton it is (either Claudia’s or Vincent’s, but someone he most likely thinks he can’t bring back if he cut up the skeleton to make it a part of his scythe).

I know he said that he “found it hard to part with it” and that’s why until now I always thought that it was justifying why he had possibly deserted with it.

However, who knows if the English translation isn’t a little misleading and the whole thing may actually be meant as “it was actually very hard to be separated from it after/for such a long time” (aka about 45 years) “and I had a lot of troubles taking it back”.

We don’t know why UT deserted, we don’t even know when exactly in his punishment he deserted, like:

was he super close to being forgiven and he decided that he didn’t want to go “rest in peace” soon?
or did he still have some time to work and he got so fed up with it/curious about humans that he left?

but maybe his decision to desert was one he took after he got back to HQ from that mission with Othello 50 years ago and, in that case, he could have left without his scythe (especially if he was throwing away his shinigami life and wanted to meddle a little with humans).

It’s when the situation got total desperate, when Vincent was killed + the twins were nowhere to be found, that he imagined that the whole case could have a supernatural component and that’s when he had a lot of trouble getting his scythe back? Without his scythe, it’s harder to fight against other supernatural beings after all.

As I said, just a crack theory, I’m probably reading too much into this x) but otherwise I fail to see what else could have taken UT so much time to find the twins?

HOLY SHIT

midnight-in-town:

okokokokokok so I was just discussing with @thedarkestcrow AND WE JUST REALIZED

GUYS FOR REAL DOESN’T THIS REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING?!

I AM SCREAMINGGGGGGGG

So I got a few questions over the last few months about if demons are really the only ones who can trick humans with the “dead people coming back” lie (when UT is doing it too literally with the BD project) and it took me a long time, but…

here is the panel I was talking about!

So yeah, it really looks like only demons can do that and it doesn’t even work on Shinigamis who can see through that hability of theirs (just like Shinigamis can see through their human disguise no problem).

That means that the probability for Brown to be a demon (angel?) still seems higher than for him to be a Shinigami, since he seems to be doing that with Victoria, in my opinion.

As for the sunglasses, I spoke about this before, but maybe they are a double feint (Sensei making us think Brown is hiding Shinigami eyes beneath it, like UT with his bangs, when nope) and Victoria is just enjoying when he’s wearing them so he constantly does or something. xD