#Sorry in rambling >_< and also probably wrong

[eri-pl]

Lack of redemption arcs in the Legendarium

Surprisingly, I can't find many, if any at all.

I mean real redemption arcs ie character is evil / has done done serious evil at the start and they put actual work and things happen and at the end they're less evil and do less evil (or none at all).

(And ideally, they don't die at the completion of the arc but separately later or not at all.)

I don't mean things like "did evil things out of trauma it ignorance" (therapy or education is a different thing from redemption. All are great, but different people need different of those.) or "did one very minor thing and is sorry" (it's not an arc, it's something smaller). I mean the real deal.

There are implied redemption arcs (elves in Mandos in general), something that feels like a referenced arc but never described (Osse), a heavy edited story that at one point kind of feels like a redemption arc (Galadriel), failed attempts (all the baddies especially Smeagol and Mairon)...

I don't remember book Boromir well, maybe he... But he's not evil, just a little weak. He does very little wrong. He's more serious than makes bad choices.

Elu Thingol sort of has an arc on "don't be racist against humans" but then dies partially at being racist against dwarves so I'm not sure that counts either.

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, whose greatest crime is being a mean relative. I guess this counts?

Even in Numenor, nobody gets it.

I know it's a modern trend to give everyone redemption arcs, but I would expect, with all the talk about mercy and pity, to see some actual results, more results than "yay, we got the evil defeated because we were good to the bad guy". With all due respect. That's a big result too. But anyway.

I suppose Tolkien just didn't vibe with bad people. He survived the war and I guess it needed more... How to call it? More thinking on terms of "if you cross this line, you're lost". I know theoretically he didn't see it like this. But in practice, you may only go so far (and it's not far) until you're beyond repair.

I don't like it. It's not how the world works. I went further.

Also, another thing that irks me tremendously, but it's an observable rule in all Legendarium:

When your aesthetic is dark or wrong, you are beyond salvation.

You like industry? Bye. You don't like light? Bye! You look ugly (not plain, just ugly)? There might be a few exceptions of Elves who went through Angband, but generally: bye. You don't laugh and feel uneasy in company? Out to the void with you, go join Morgoth. You are depressed and not in a nice (Frodo) way, but in a cold way that makes you feel cynical? Bye. You live at the East and like sun more than noon? You're probably evil too.

I may be oversimplifying a bit, but not by much. It is a thing.

That's not how things work!!!

Seriously. I was there. I was all those things. I am dinner if then still and don't consider it a problem.

I hate this in the books. I love Tolkien's work and what he tried to do, but I feel like I'm some places he failed at it dramatically and the general feel it's not faithful to his intentions.

I hope this rambling is understandable enough, I'm bad at English, especially when ranting.

Luckily, there are fanfics

#tolkien #silmarillion #silm #tolkien legendarium #redemption arc #rant #the silm #the silmarillion #sons of feanor #maeglin #hmm whom to tag #mostly those guys #also #smeagol #not tagging eol or morgoth I'm not asking for extremes...

[microvibing]

I like ward *gives him an existential crisis*

Character From marble sky comic by @ somerandomdudelmao, you should def read it right fucking now cuz its awesome

#marble sky #Marble sky fanart #Sculptor when I fucking get you sculptor #Doodle #Hmm wish I had a green pen so I could add cool light effect but oh well ahaha #I think it would be insanely terrifying to know that SOMETHING has been changed about you but having absolutely no idea WHAT #Knowing you'll never be the same again but being unaware of how exactly #Delicious #Sorry in rambling >_< and also probably wrong

[dogtoling]

there's currently a bug in the big run scoring system. Apparently for *some reason*, for the majority of players, the game supposedly defaults to the old announcement and scoring system, which caused it to skip the end dialogue when the event ended. which also means most people did not get trophies.

Since the bug is having the game use the old scoring distribution, it is treating the current rotation as the "big run results" news rotation (which in my case just resulted in unskippable Normal News) as there is no dialogue for this in the new big run system (since the rewards are supposed to come out right away I think.) People who didn't get their trophy when the event ended; which is most players since this bug is VERY WIDESPREAD, should get their trophies right now.

Except because the reward system is bugged into using the old system, you will not get trophies based on the numbers presented for this Big Run, but instead get them based on *actual percentages* like in past Big Runs. This means that even if you got 135 like the gold threshold was... the ACTUAL gold threshold (top 5%) is 165. So you will likely not get gold unless you scored 165.

I've also seen instances of people STILL not getting a trophy at all. Point is that big run is MEGA BUGGED right now and it's kind of funny. nintendo will likely address and fix this somehow in the coming days.

#rambles #sorry i find this super interesting and strange how a bug this massive got through lmao #also the 'gold threshold' for this event is actually Bronze in the percentage system. #so. if you played til 135 and went yay i can stop now. sorry you get bronze #they will probably fix this soonish i have no idea how tho when a lot of peoplw have trophies and the wrong ones at that

[transmascutena]

thinking about how akio sees his younger self in utena and wondering if there's any fondness there. doesn't change the horror of what he does to her obviously but i do wonder

#akio and utena #m #long ramble in the tags sorry: #the thing about akio is that he's so evil bit he's also so human #he has feelings. i just don't know what they are (if anything) toward his victims #he loves anthy at the very least i'm sure of that. even if he hates her too. just like she loves and hates him. the lines are blurry. #and i just. i have to wonder whether any of that extends to utena at all. we know anthy at times feels similarly about utena and dios #(and akio by extension.) the simultanious love and resentment. so it's not too unlikely i think. #like. even though he never had anything but bad intentions in getting close to her #i'm not sure it's possible to do everything he did and feel nothing #not that he has any meaningful amount of guilt or remorse for it. i don't think that. #and i obviously don't think he “loved” her in any of the ways she might have thought he did #but did he not care at all? did he not feel any kind of fondness or sympathy or just. idk. pity? for her? #whatever the case it wasn't enough to reconsider having her killed so you know. how much does that actually matter anyway #idk. i think about it a lot. how abusers are rarely entirely indifferent toward their victims #the role he's playing in her life is so fucked up but it IS a role he's playing and i wonder how much he you know... internalizes it? #how much does he believe the illusion of family that he invites her into? because akio DOES often buy into his own illusions. #(similarly i think it's possible that akio is fond of touga too. their mentor-protégé relationship is horrible and abusive #but that doesn't make it less real. you know? maybe real is the wrong word.) #when he talks in episode 25 about wanting utena and anthy closer that's obviously so he can continue to groom her #but is there something genuine there too? i don't know. #again. it obviously does not make anything he does better or even different. but it is interesting to think about to me. #on the other side of that coin does seeing his own past youth and naivete and desire to do good that he (maybe) once had #reflected back at him through her mean anything? #is there resentment there? that she is what he couldn't be? or more likely he just thinks that idealism is stupid. #either way it's something he wants to take from her. anyway ramble over. #i talk a lot about utena's feelings toward akio (familial vs romantic love and the way the two are intertwined in fucked up ways) #but not much the other way around. probably because utena is actually a sympathetic character whose feelings the show very clearly #wants you to analyze and think about. #which is... less true for akio i think. though he's still a complex character with complex motives. he's just harder to get a grasp on.

[hauntswitch]

Im so sorry but the L word is absolutely fucking hilarious - none of these women have an ounce of morality between them and yet they're all somehow still loveable characters. Despite the atrocities. And the bad 2000s haircuts. And the deeply questionable fashion choices.

#shane your haircuts mean the world to me this isnt about you sweetie #also in general sorry but alice's chart? so unethical but so fucking funny just as a concept #bette and tina? their whole NINE SEASON thing? hilarious #alice liking a uniform? so funny #helena peabody going from being so awful in her first season to suddenly becoming the most pathetic sweetheart as soon as season 3 starts?? #funny as hell #jenny schecter's whole thing?? the random dream things? her becoming more gradually insane? man. i could never ever hate her even though #the writers tried so hard to make her unlikeable and evil #marina being a central character in season one then the writers deciding to have her drive into a fucking hotel then leave for italy or #some shit? what the fuck! also Jodi did nothing wrong ever and she didnt deserve all that. also Dana broke my fucking heart #anyway im losing what i was rambling about here... anyway would i recommend the L word? probably not lol it has so so so many problems #but despite that - all the characters became so important to me despite how batshit and bad this show was. #the l word

[quatregats]

“I’m going to O’Brianize Hornblower in this one specific fic,” I say, as though I was not O’Brianizing Hornblower in every single Hornblower fic I write ever

#sorry o'brian is just way more fun and i am a cs forester hater #i'll probably go back and change it because it sounds odd with no justification but grrr #it feels ahistorical i don't even go to regency england history but it feels Wrong #^ guy whose principal concern in writing is a sense of time and place #also o'brianize very real english verb. obrianitzar in catalan if you were wondering #perce rambles #percy yells at cecil scott #(i really did pick the right personal hornblower tag didn't i lol)

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

Does anyone else get the feeling that at their core, all of mxtx's works are about cycles of abuses.

#idea dump #ramblings of a sleep deprived girl #heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #scum villian self saving system #mao dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #cycle of abuse #I don't only mean the passing down of trauma #I also mean the abuses of an established corrupt system #that systematically hurts people that are less fortunate than those who actively benefit from it #to me this one is more prevalent in mdzs and why jin guangyao downfall is so upsetting to me #because he was coming close to breaking the cycle of abuse of both the system and of his family #but unfortunately it was his past actions in service of perpetuating it that doomed him #if he had realized a lot sooner that his father was not worth it #and started pursuing his own interests from the beginning instead of his father's approval he could have changed everything for the better #not to mention that unlike his father he actually treats his spouse with respect and doesn't intentionally hurt her #emphasis on the 'intentional' part (if you know you know) #just like Jin Guangyao became the new wei wuxian Nie Huaisang became the new Jin Guangyao #so i'm of the firm belief that since the system is still in place the cycle will repeat again #and Nie Huaisang will replace Wei Wuxian as someone else becomes his Jin Guangyao #sorry for this long ass essay in the tags lol #it's 3am so I'll probably do the other two another time #also let it be known that I'm only running on spoilers/fanfictions/wiki when it comes to svsss and mdzs #so if anyone bothers to read my essay tags be free to correct anything if I get something wrong #side note why wasn't mdzs about breaking cycles??? #why didn't yanli become sect leader. Jiang cheng remain coreless. or Jin Zixuan marry into the Jiangs to show worth outside the norms #you can be a strong woman without being cruel. cultivation doesn't equal worth. and powerful women are beautiful and should be respected

[traumasurvivors]

I just want to share something and hopefully offer some hope.

For a lot of trauma survivors, they feel dirty. They feel like they can’t get clean no matter what. They feel like they can’t wash off what was done to them. I was one of them. The keyword being was.

I don’t feel dirty anymore. It took me a long time but I’ve realized that no matter what someone did to me, it doesn’t make me dirty.

What I’m trying to say is… there’s hope. There is so much hope. It can get better.

#my post #feeling unclean #sorry #tw alcohol #I’ve had a couple drinks tonight #so I’m feeling rambly #don’t get me wrong #I believe this stuff anytime #but it’s just making my brain go more #I’m also feeling overly sentimental #and I just want to hug you all #with consent of course #and tell you I’m proud of you #and it’s really going to be okay #even if it’s not right now #I should probably come up with a tag #for nights I drink or smoke #because I post a lot more and it might get annoying #I have had some self control and queued some of it #but not a lot of self control lol

[quartzskies]

random but is anyone else into yosurise but in a doomed kind of way. like kind of one sided. like a yosuke is into rise in a puppydog kind of way and rise keeps trying to find a relationship but can’t and finally decides to give yosuke a try because at least he’s a friend and she knows he won’t try to take advantage of her being an idol etc. And yosuke is ECSTATIC and wants to give her the world but in an unsustainable kind of way, a desperate “i don’t deserve her but she’s giving me a chance and i need to do anything i can to keep her happy” kind of way. And rise is so flattered and like yosuke is nice but she can’t match that dedication, no one can or should, but it’s all so one sided and she feels so guilty about that but she doesn’t want to break his heart or be “mean”. all while yosuke is becoming almost self destructive by trying to give her “what she deserves” but it’s an unhealthy level of dedication and it’s honestly hurting both of them

#rambles #p4 #not tagging this w the ship lol #before anyone even tries anything neither of them are ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in this scenario #just a case of two people who aren’t compatible w each other making a relationship unhealthy #like yosuke lacking in self confidence and thinking he isn’t good enough #and rise trying to be into yosuke as much as he’s into her but you can’t force that! #and also it can be soooo uncomfortable when someone is way more into you than you are into them #in this scenario she doesn’t break up w him bc I mean he’s being so nice. so she’s wondering what’s ‘wrong’ w her #that she doesn’t feel the same way back and can’t force herself to develop those feelings… #btw bc i hate myself this would probably come after rise can’t get over souji no matter what she does or who else she tries to date #she’s a pretty girl so I imagine she would just keep encountering douchebags #and so she decides to give it a try w yosuke bc he’s seen the Real her and still likes her right?? #meanwhile because it’s me ofc it’s because souji has feelings for yosuke but can’t bear the thought of ruining their friendship #and so instead he sits off to the side watching his friends drag each other down in a relationship that’s bad for both of them #THIS IS SO MUCH SORRY ITS SLOW AT WORK

[infizero]

showing my growth by rejecting the “every ship gets happily married and becomes wonderful parents to lovely children” mindset and admitting that many pairings should just not be parents

#long gone are my days of woobifying shadow and sanitizing sonadow down to aw cute hedgehogs and one of them is traumatized #they are RIVALS and shadow will never be that lovey dovey with sonic even if they have been dating for 30 years thats just not who he is #they can find happiness/contentment in each other like i imagined but that sprinkle of toxicity would never rlly go away #and again even if theyre perfectly happy existing like that. not a good environment for a kid! #i dont even imagine them getting married anymore like i still like my idea of the ''cat orphanage w a chao garden'' house that they live in #but they wouldnt be married. they'd be partners and sonic would live there. but he'd ''live there'' in the same way he lives with tails #in that. its a place to come back home to when needed but a lot of the time hes just elsewhere exploring and having adventures and stuff #and shadow would probably tag along on a lot of these adventures. but not all of them #also feeds into part of my idea for the future which has always been present which is just. sonic being romantically involved w a couple #other ppl (knuckles for example) #those relationships dont have a label theyre just friends and then sometimes theyll kiss or go on dates or something #he and shadow are partners. thats concrete. everything else is just fluid/undefined (also should clarify that this is in like a poly way lol #shadow is aware of these relationships and has no problem with them and sonic knows that) #anyways i didnt mean to ramble but i have been thinking about this recently #how i'd modify my older idea of sonadow in the future #thats the end. ps once again promoting the poly sonic agenda. if you look at him and you dont think hes poly. youre just wrong im sorry #(excluding aroace sonic enjoyers for obvious reasons lol) #serena.txt

[gregmarriage]

i may be lame as fuck, permanently single, celibate, with no prospects, but fuck it, i’m eating garlic crackers and watching 90’s japanese women’s wrestling

#they are showing fucked up lesbian sex on youtube.com #akira hokuto with her face covered in blood 😳 #sorry to be a messed up little dyke #as if that's my fault #i always say i’m not into blood but like 👉🏻👈🏻 #imaoooooo #i need to be put down #if my brother saw this post he’d literally want to kill me #he bugs me to watch wrestling properly instead of casually and i’m going about it all wrong #i’m sorry i like it when hot women beat the shit out of each other!!! #i will not screenshot every time it shows akira covered in blood. ​i will not screenshot every time it shows akira covered in blood. #*screenshots every time it shows akira covered in blood #i love her actually #girlie is literally wiling to bleed for her craft #it takes like ten minutes for her to get fucked up #fifteen in total to get covered in it #both her and shinobu get bloody but akira gets completely fucked up and it’s awesome #literally this entire match is lesbian sex. to me <3 #sorry not sorry to joshi post on main x #if i become a joshi blog then also sorry not sorry #imao nah i’d probably save it for my sideblog #but uhhh that’s my night if you wanted to know <3 #gwen rambles #gwenposting

[queer-pagan-witch]

One day I will learn, that just because the bottle is low, does not mean I need to finish off the bottle.

#imma be so fuckin hungover tomorrow #someone should kiss me #and i moght be either asexual or aromantic or both which like woo thats funny to only me for so many trauma reasons #i love #im so drunk #i too drunk #i stated typing thos at 12:30 #imma smoke pot after i post this #if your reqding my tags hi i love you. why are you reading this though like im a schizo bipolar depreased trans girl im unhinged in the tags #i need to stop drinking by myself #if think im an alcoholic as well if it wasnt for the fact that i can genuinely stop when ever i want but idkmaybe that changes? #at this point im just typing to annoy myself cause i think its funny to annoy other people and itd be hypothetical to not annoy myself #im ramblimg in the tags and honestly its your fault for still reading this #trans thought time #i wish i was born with a pussy but i do like having a cock and there is a possibility im genderfluid and fuck me that sucks if true #like how do you transition if your genderfluid? like i kinda want a cock and pussy and i know thats an actual option #but is it the right option? #i hate being trans but not knowing what kinda trans maybe ill hit where im at with my gender and just say tranny #cause i already say faggot for my sexuality instead of anything specific maybe i should just say tranny #this is probably what a therapist is for but idk if i can justify paying for this instead of saving money to buy a hoise #america sucks #capitalism sucks #love is such a bullshit thing #how can i be in love with some ane be in love with someone. being in love is nothing but selfish but also you have to be selfish for youryou #like i know that doesn't make sense sense but it makes sense to me and i also know its wrong #maybe i should give up and spend money on a therapist #i love my freinds and would sacrifice myself for them literally #12:51 and i have one more short tag to add #i hope you didnt read this far cause even in a drunk state this tag is embarrassing and im sorry you know me irl im sorry this is rambly+ugh #but if you dead read all the tags <3 i love yoh and would die for you

[thebeautifulfantastic]

how unfortunate that i have two hyperfixations, several side interests, and a load of homework all clamoring at the same time for priority in my brain

#it’s so frustrating rn because yeah i do have to get some online coursework done so I don’t fail this class #but i ALSO want to relax before to go to bed #so what do i do? #(after i finish another module) #i could start heartstopper season 2 or i could make progress on the book i started today or i could watch a mission impossible movie #or i could watch a greta gerwig movie or i could start that tv show starring rebecca ferguson #there’s no WRONG choice but i want to do it all #& at the same time therefore this feeling that i have to watch things at the ‘right’ time in order to achieve maximum enjoyment #so like. that’s setting me back too because i want to reach maximum enjoyment for all these things #my gut feeling is to just start watching silo since i’m already obsessed with rebecca anyway #and if i watch mission i’d have to start from the first movie which she’s not in (until the fifth movie) #and i’ve been consuming so much alice oseman content lately i feel like i need to take a small break before i watch heartstopper s2 #and my book… well i am in a rush to finish it because i have to get through all my library books before i move #but it could probably wait until tomorrow #idk maybe i’ll watch an episode of silo and then read a few chapters if i’m still awake enough #wow this is such a rambly post i’m so sorry #belle speaks

[starheirxero]

HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW TSAMS EPISODE YET?!!!

Bloodmoon might be coming back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LITERALLY JUST WOKE UP AND THIS ASK SENT ME FLYING ACROSS THE ROOM OMG. WATCHED IT AND HOLY SHIT. I’M LIKE ?!?!!!!! IM GENUINELY SURPRISED HE’S COMING BACK ???? I WAS SO SURE BLOODMOON WAS GUNNA STAY DEAD THIS IS FASCINATING. ESPECIALLY RUIN’S IMPLICATION OF ALTERING THEM ???? WHAT IS HE GUNNA DO 2 THE BOYS……. IM VERY INTRIGUED

#asks #crack-a-lackin-max #honestly tho i rlly can’t stress how much i thought bloodmoon was going to Stay Dead????? #Like don’t get me wrong i am honestly terribly excited because i miss bloodmoon a LOAHT and if they return that means I can pick apart- #-their character more!!! #however to Me this is so out of left field that i’m also just like HUH AHDISNKDLC #i wonder if ruin is going 2 put bloodmoon thru the horrors tho…… #modify them 2 make them obedient is what ruin said. that is smth they have Never wanted to be and I can imagine that will be Maddening if- #-it works. but also like. this isn’t exactly a revival like it is with Lunar. Bloodmoon /died/ died. No nanobots left #A second version of being built. A new version is being built. It’s likely that the new Bloodmoon won’t have any memories #So can you imagine waking up with an insatiable urge to maim and kill and the one person you want to do it to has a failsafe to make sure- #-that you can’t do that and everyone around you seems to know you already and has a deep fear of hatred towards you? #wouldn’t that be more frustrating and confusing than the ever-present hunger? Wouldn’t that drive them a little insane? #sorry this probably won’t happen but could u imagine AHAHBSJABS #sun and moon show spoilers #tsams #bloodmoon #xero thoughts and rambles #bc of my tags LMAO

[simmonsized]

What does distilled sea water taste like

aww man you had to ask the most difficult question huh

i feel like, maybe it's not the same for everyone

and maybe it's different if you are not on a boat, or on a boat that is not the boat i was on, but like

to me it

okay to start, the thing with the water, right, is that all our fresh water came from the ocean. like it was not hauled on board, there was no fresh water to start, it is all pulled up and boiled and then that water vapor is put into the tank and used for showers, sinks, toilets, and, obviously, drinking and cooking etc

right so it's just plain H2O, no electrolytes, no fluoride, no whatever the fuck right it's just. water molecules lol

but it's water that came from the ocean right so like

it tastes like water, at first (if u have ever ingested clean river water i would say even that might give u an idea), but there is an aftertaste that's like

the way that standing on a beach in the northern pacific smells. cannot be clearer than that, i'm afraid.

there's like, eau de seaweed but no but yes but no

drinking water when i got back was very strange and i am now hyper aware of how all water tastes (and i was already a picky water drinker so this is a problem lol) and sometimes i miss it. it's weird.

#i'm sure that if i had been in the atlantic it would have been different but #i'm very familiar with a specific smell like u know when ur on a beach and there is seaweed or dense algae content in the water #gives u a lil bit of that #and like there's so much shit in the ocean i did not even post all the plankton we caught bc it would have taken a hundred years but #the ocean is just lousy with stuff u know #god my kingdom for a giant diatom colony right now i miss them #that's unrelated just a passing thought #anyway i hope this helps lol #also thinking about it because if i was dirk i would probably have an aversion to water if this was all i knew #and not because it's terrible because i guzzled the stuff don't get me wrong but #because he had other things to drink right so why the fuck would u not drink the other things when the alternative is literally #waves hand #and who knows what was running through those pipes man #anyway just some thoughts i suppose #sorry i'm still rambling sorry

[egirlbutternubs]

So what do you think the connection between Chainsaws and eating are in Chainsawman?

Yknow before the latest chapter my answer to this would have been pretty cut & dry. However...

CHAINSAW MAN SPOILERS AHEAD

The new chapter shook things up a lot

So let's start by going over what we know.

Throughout part one of chainsaw man, both food and chainsaws (as well as sex and romance, though since that wasn't included in your ask I won't dwell on it more than absolutely necesary) have been two sides of the same coin; they're both things denji wants to take all for himself, but can't have until someone else lets him.

(Unrelated but wow this manga's art has changed a lot over time, huh?)

Denji joins public safety due to the promises of good food & housing, and stays because being chainsaw man is the only thing he's good at. At first, food, sex, & romance; the mythical "good life" he promises to show pochita; are his dreams and chainsaws are his way of achieving that. However, as the story goes on, chainsaws eventually come to symbolize denji's attempts at self-actualization.

Chainsaws are his identity and his means of achieving happiness, as well as independence from makima. Denji using a chainsaw made from power's blood to kill makima rather than one made from pochita shows denji's willingness to embrace his identity on his own terms, and him eating Makima's corpse shows his willingness to use past bad experiences with love to better himself.

(This scene also VERY heavily ties into the sex & romance thing but again i'm trying not to focus too much on that)

Ok now we're finally getting to csm part two, and how the theme of food and chainsaws both being symbols for denjis goals factor in. Since part two is currently ongoing, some of this will be speculation, but its worth keeping in mind.

The reason I keep bringing up part two of csm is because there's one scene in particular that perfectly answers your question if you give it a bit of analysis;

Denji is told point blank by yoshida that he must stop saving people as chainsaw man and isnt even told why. The closest thing denji gets to an answer for this is an insinuation that his new stable life with nayuta and his pets will be disrupted, though yoshida's explanation of this is vague and denji can't help but interpret it as a threat.

So, what's a guy to do?

He literally decides to have his cake and eat it. Denji's entire character revolves around him being greedy and short-sighted. Refusing to compromise even when probably be reasonable is what drives denji, and a chainsaw; a flashy and brutal yet undeniably effective tool; is a way of illustrating this. Likewise food is a basic necesity that one shouldnt have to make compromises for, so denji's relentless, single-minded pursuit of it shows how simple he is at heart

#sorry tgis took me two days to answer lol #also im sorry this is rambly and incoherent and probably wrong #i love denji so much hes my little skrunkle bunkle