I just realized.
Dib is a threat to Zim’s mission, but isn’t really a threat to his well-being unless a few different things line up for him because he’s a twelve year old going against a trained soldier with a million different weapons attached to his back and a canonical 99.7% accuracy rate with throwing knives.
Zim is a threat to Dib’s well-being for the same reasons that Dib isn’t a threat to his, but isn’t a threat to Dib’s main mission of proving the paranormal because Dib doesn’t actually need Zim to accomplish it. Zim is the best option because he’s right there, but there’s hundreds of other crypids and supernatural creatures that Dib can also capture and use right here on Earth. When it comes to proving that the paranormal exists, a picture of Zim and a picture of Bigfoot can serve the same purpose and work just as well as the other.
Dib is a threat to Zim’s mission but isn’t a threat to his well-being, while Zim is a threat to Dib’s well-being but isn’t a threat to his mission. They parallel each other.
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something so terrible and tender about being willing to throw away the entire world for just a chance at the one you love staying alive. even if it means going against everything he stands for.
i don't know, i think about it a lot. they just feel so real, in a way that an explicitly canon relationship wouldn't be able to. there's something so awful about being akira and having to go home at the end of the day knowing that the person you care about is probably dead.
the one you care for more than anything else, to the point where your core wish, the thing you want more than anything else, is some variation of "i want him to be alive and well," or "i want him to be happy" (underlying connotation of "with me.") the way i interpreted it — he could have wished for anything else, but that's his deepest desire. to see akechi happy, and free to be his true self.
and your choices are —
1: risk losing him, risk him dying a second time and knowing that you did nothing because that was his wish. he wanted to die. he would rather be dead than controlled once again.
(tangent here: i do sincerely believe that akechi's motivation there was a double-edged sword? is that how you use that phrase. i don't think so. double-sided coin maybe. two sides of the some coin.
anyways i think he had two reasons there — first and most obviously, he's fucking tired of being a puppet. of being a bargaining chip in some massive cosmic hellscape. it's happened several times at this point — shido, yaldaboath, and now maruki all using him as their pawns. he doesn't care if he dies, as long as he isn't under maruki's control.
secondly — his entire motivation for working himself to the literal bones (apple a day, anyone?) was for his revenge plot. television, keeping up appearances, school, assassinations, was all to get closer to shido so he could kill him once and for all.
but if he turned all that rage and fire inward, and burnt himself into a boy obsessed with revenge, what does he have left to live for? what sort of stable person would turn themselves psychotic in a last-ditch effort to stop the phantom thieves from keeping him from his literal lifelong goal of being the one to end shido?
anyways, that was a whole lot of talk to say i think he's suicidal. and needs to have a long, long, long talk with a trauma therapist.)
or 2: betray him, betray his most fundamental ideal and the thing he's been fighting against since he was a frightened little teenage boy offering his persona to shido as a way of getting his revenge the only way he could think of. and cling to the knowledge that he's going to hate you, for as long as he can think on his own, but he'll be alive.
i don't know where i'm going with this. 2/2 is such an incredibly insane thing to me like they really put that in there. they really just said hey you know what would make this new edition of the game great. giving this guy gut wrenching terrible grief and moral dilemmas and making him choose to possibly kill the one he cares about and connects with more genuinely than anyone else in the cast.
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this songs been stuck in my head genuinely the entire day
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neighbor has now aquired a car that's engine sounds like a sudden crack of thunder when it starts.
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