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buttercupshands · 20 days

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Chapter 419 Analysis or "How to make allies not pawns" a helpful guide from League of Villains (part 2)

This is now a second part of Tomura character analysis.

With chapter 419 being probably our last time seeing Tomura for a while, since we need to learn what happened with Aizawa now is time to remember that not only bad things exist it Tomura's life.

Warning of spoilers to the whole manga to the point of chapter 419! All of the warnings from My Villain Academy side of manga are applicable

So like... mentions of death, killing other people, manipulation, emotional abuse and many more!

This is Part 2 - See here for Part 1 of this depressing mess

With AFO being so sure that he knows better and actually controlled every single part of Tenko's life creating a Symbol of Fear without any redeeming qualities or even hope for saving after he destroys him. There's one thing that AFO still doesn't understand about Tomura and never did - and that's his allies, or the League of Villains that he created.

Even Kurogiri, being a Nomu who's views do not stray from what AFO thought was important didn't exactly understand what did Tomura think about his allies quick to assume that he thought of them as pawns all the was back in the Training Camp arc. With Tomura making game examples to explain the situation, he still didn't think of LoV as just pawns on a desk, like AFO does.

At the time of USJ arc there weren't many people Tomura called this, which could make you wonder how much it was just AFO's plan rather than Tomura's with him never worrying about those other villains yet getting so worked up over losing Nomu not only because he was strong enough to defend him from All-Might, but treating his defeat as something that must be avenged.

And that was long before Stain even entered the picture, the first of three people who greatly affected Tomura's view of his own motives alongside AFO's manipulation of literally everything else.

Tomura was terrified of fighting All-Might seconds before this and yet as this goes on it's becoming more noticeable - Tomura doesn't care for his own fear or worries as long as he's fighting for someone else's good. Not so different from how Izuku is ready to disregard himself for the sake of others, resulting in many injuries and being so close to dying so many times.

It never was a secret that Tomura is highly dependent on others to keep himself from losing confidence, or even will to fight, getting either too anxious to continue without anyone's reassurance.

And while AFO's "help" was mostly given only with some kind of lesson as we saw in "Tomura Shigaraki: Origin", with AFO literally sitting there, saying how Tenko is weak for not killing but showing some restrain instead suffering himself, never actually helping or comforting him. Only offering what he deemed nessesary for his own plan of making Tenko kill those thugs not caring that he's feeling sick from those hands.

But in USJ it's not AFO who's there with Tomura, it's Kurogiri, who was shown to still have some care that Shirakumo had that even Aizawa and Mic couldn't argue that it's similar to how Shirakumo couldn't just leave a kitten in the rain. No matter the responsibility that it would bring with taking a little one in.

A helpless little kitten that didn't get the help it needs from anyone else. Sounds way too familiar.

This never was a direct order from AFO other than he needs to "tend and protect" for Tomura, which can mean anything from just looking out when Tomura's sick, or protect him from any tread like someone trying to kill him.

Not helping him getting over his anxiety to fight or helping him and guiding him to do better as a leader of the League calming him if it got out of control. Which is somewhat opposite to the way AFO deals with Decay and Tomura's temper - letting him destroy anything even the hands that he gave him, just offering new ones when he succeedes and never really caring for his pawns, he can always get new ones.

And surely not asking if Tomura's well the first thing while talking to Heroes.

Which then leads us back to how Tomura never viewed anyone that he chose as pawns calling them his allies, with the word '仲間' which can even be translated as friends in needed context, but usually used as comrade or ally when Tomura says it. And the same thing is usually translated as "friend" when used by Twice.

In any case Tomura never once doubted his allies since he saw them as reliable, even if his first meeting with Toga and Dabi went so wrong that Kurogiri had to stop them from killing each other.

Up to the point of Training Camp AFO describes as him teaching Tomura to be independent which was at that point too far from the truth than he thought. If Tomura begging for AFO to leave with them is any indicator he actually was even less independent after All-Might almost caught them, making him doubt his own worth as a leader. Even if AFO's defeat finally let him think and wonder about himself and his past.

AFO believed that Tomura just knowing how to recruit people would suddenly make him great at using those new "pawns" which was proven wrong by Overhaul no so long after that. Showing how Tomura believed the same thing AFO did as well, fully trusting his judgement of anything including himself, all the while parroting what AFO says without fully understanding what it means.

Only after losing both Magne and Mr. Compress arm does Tomura slowly start making progress in becoming someone more than AFO tells him to do. Even if as we see in part 1 it used Decay as the ground to make it stable since he believed it was his quirk. And yet.

Even if Tomura didn't simply instruct his allies how to choose who to recruit, he never blamed them for it. On the opposite, when Twice was hard on himself after bringing Overhaul to them Tomura just looked at them for the first time without a hand on his face, or even on himself at all, showing how he trusts them as much as he would trust himself and believes that they can do it.

Taking off hands of his family would mean not relying on the conflicting feelings that they bring into the picture, something AFO would very much dissaprove, since he was now like an equal to everyone in LoV instead of being above them. He

And with this instead of making them blindly trust his decisions and following him from fear or adoration like people had been following AFO or Overhaul, he instead was an equal to them both in failure and victory that wasn't even all that guaranteed yet.

Each one of them had their own somewhat selfish goal that just seemed like they were just using each other without any worry being each other's pawns. Or maybe that's just how AFO would see them.

Yet it doesn't explain why did Toga care for Twice's trauma response of not having his mask on, since he already did his part and all that they both needed to do was done. But LoV was never about following orders or giving them, expecting for the pawns to follow without question. It was about a leader of the group that would stand up for his allies while allowing them full freedom, except when they needed to also accept that something is needed to be done for their own sake.

Like following Overhaul for a while all for cutting off his hands leaving him with nothing. Did that sound like something reasonable to do? No! They literally lost their chance at having sushi instead of just living at some abadoned building all the while occasionally searching for money or food, stealing and killing just to survive all while Tomura was just... waiting.

Nothing was really stable at the start of what we call My Villain Academia and yet no one from the LoV left while their state was... bad at the very least. No matter how AFO was teaching Tomura he was still left mostly waiting for something to happen rather than doing something to change the situation himself.

Sure, Tomura now was a famous leader of League of Villains that suddenly needed to be stopped rather that underestimated like before. But that was in the future, now LoV was laying low on funds and slowly Tomura showing his face became the norm, with him usually never wearing hands around LoV.

And with Tomura becoming more and more comfortable around LoV, the LoV itself was becoming more like a place that had one core value that accepted anything else added without anyone wondering about the past of others, like Compress said. Just some selfish people, who still followed their own needs first.

And yet somehow Toga, who joined just because she loved Stain and disliked how life was too hard found her place in the LoV alongside Twice who just needed to be trusted and trust in return. If Tomura only followed what AFO deemed to be the best way to lead no one would actually feel like they're accepted in the LoV as much as they were.

Goal or no goal Tomura succeeded even without having the whole world at the palm of his hands by just never pressing anyone to actually follow him - if they wanted to they could've just left here and there, but since they chose to follow he did what he thought was the obvious best - let his allies do what they wanted.

Which was okay for someone like Toga or Dabi who were either already comfortable by just being allowed to be themselves or being free to plan their own things for their own goals.

But not exactly that for Spinner. Who was instead literally searching for someone to show him what to do, not so different from Tomura, who still only followed whatever 'his Sensei' deemed worthy for him to look into, like letting Kurogiri go find unknown "power" that AFO left along with contact with Doctor.

And while Spinner was not fine with still being hollow even while following Tomura pretending that it's the same thing as following Stain... all it took for him to look differently at how exactly was Tomura thinking was the last real "barrier" that there was - Tomura basically spilling his whole backstory and motivations mostly for LoV to listen to, since Doctor was just testing Tomura's will all according to AFO's plan.

And after that it didn't took too long for Spinner to now follow Tomura, even if it was still not the time to really see the 'warped horizon that was waiting for them'. And yet in times where Tomura still showed some doubt over his decisions - that one old trait of his showing up like it was always at the back of his head not so different from USJ, only thing changing that Tomura got better and better at not letting his emotions control him so easily.

Since the price of that would literally be lifes of his allies.

And neither that or using their emotions to his own benefit was ever in his plans, contrast to AFO manipulating Tomura to do just that. Letting his emotions consume him completely just for his own goal and for his own sake. But as a person who was so familiar with this Tomura still was adamant at NOT allowing something like this to happen to his friends allies.

Effectively creating a bond between all six of them, including Toya that in the end kept them together until the very final arc, with Spinner keeping what Tomura would've thought and with him waking up and calling Machia to get LoV first and foremost Spinner did understand their's leader wishes, as well as Twice's who literally died for his friends.

With all that happening in the War arc the moment AFO returned with both being in control of Tomura's body and just abadoned anything that Tomura would care for like leaving Mr. Compress and Machia behind just to punish him for not getting OFA or not even caring to show any actual respect for Tomura's wishes. Instead showing how little he actually cared for anything but his own good.

But while AFO made so many pawns that he could change like gloves at any given moment, threating them and manipulating them with his power and quirks, Tomura only had 6 allies who stayed after AFO was caught and who were willing to die just to live the life they wanted.

And AFO couldn't give them that.

Even if Decay isn't Tenko's quirk and even if he has so much guilt for killing without it being a little bit justified by it...

LoV still followed him as a person who allowed them to live as they please and so what they want, not some all-powerfull overlord but an ally and a leader who had his flaws and fallings.

#bnha #shigaraki tomura #tenko shimura #league of villains #bnha manga spoilers #bnha analysis #character analysis #character study #kurogiri #toga himiko #twice #dabi #spinner #mr compress #and All For One can go to hell I won't tag him again #with the Kurogiri part you may notice how I just want to see Kurogiri actually helping Tomura #it's either him or mr. compress now #and yeah the fact that both Twice and Himiko died remembering LoV was painful #AFO calling Tenko weak all the while he himself didn't make any lasting good empression like that on anyone #while Tenko just was like 'yeah my friends need something they'll get it'#insert that one page where he literally just got them sushi first thing after becoming a new MLA commander #how dares AFO call Tenko pitiful if he literally did his best with what he had #all the while AFO just made his life insufferable for him to be angry and hateful #and yes I didn't call them family or friends for the most part since the canon INSISTS that Tomura is saying allies #which is a really neutral way to say friends imo #I'm still thinking about a Tangled crossover with LoV like Tomura literally got his only taste of freedom with LoV by his side #bnha 419 #my villain academia #five years later and it's still the best arc of MHA #an honestly it's more of a ch 418 analysis

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labyrynth · 1 year

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*deep sigh*

don’t make me tap the sign

#mdzs #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #if nie mingjue thought jgy was trying to kill him #if he even had the barest *inkling* that jgy might be plotting against nmj specifically #jgy would be dead!#long since dead!#nmj is not the kind of guy that just sits around waiting to be murdered!#nmj DID NOT KNOW jgy was trying to kill him and the fact that his corpse was trying kill jgy has NOTHING to do with his death!#instead it has everything to do with the fact that nmj fucking hated jgy’s guts and wanted him DEADDESTROYMAIMKILLGRRR for unrelated reasons #nmj literally died trying to kill jgy over being ‘ungrateful’ or some shit #because jgy was like ‘da-ge isn’t very nice to me :( ‘ in a private conversation with SOMEONE ELSE that nmj was eavesdropping on #huh you know i just thought about how nmj seems to eavesdrop on jgy’s conversations w lxc a lot doesn’t he #if i had a nickel for every time it happened i would have two nickels #which isn’t like a LOT but it’s weird that it’s happened twice (and both times with disastrous consequences)#anyway i don’t think we should have to go over this as frequently as we do #mdzs talk #jgy tag

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illiad-von-bun · 9 months

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More of him 👍

I wanted to color these but I did not feel like it

#art #digital art #fanart #doodles #doodle #drawing #the heilwald loophole #heilwald loophole #dr randolph #//#gRAAGH i love his character #I love how he only shows up twice but his presence is still there in the effects of his actions on literally everything #also love how it brings in the morality of death like #no ones died here #but theyr suffering #death is a mercy type shi #ok imma stop now

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kwop-kilawtley · 1 year

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Hey Bella. Perhaps all of the catastrophic events happening around you when you involve yourself with Edward is a SIGN.

#i laugh when ppl r like they r soulmates they were meant to be #bitch no they were NOT sorry #he literally just sniffed her n hypnotized her #that’s it #bella died by choosing edward and involving herself with him #jacob saved her twice in new moon (: she would’ve been dead #do y’all forget this?#idc if Edward stopped the van I don’t think it would’ve KILLED her #bye #team Jacob #twilight #twilight renaissance #jacob #jacob black #new moon

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irregularbillcipher · 2 months

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“doomed by the narrative” this, “doomed by the narrative” that, literally none of your blorbos are him

#for anyone who doesn’t know starkid’s stuff this isn’t actually a joke #he dies in literally every single timeline he is in and often dies twice because his insane future self #is nearly always wandering around the same timeline #and eldritch god looked at him and for no apparent reason went ‘ooooh the skrunkle 💖💖💖 I hope he explodes’#and then made sure that he does and goes insane and ruins his own life in every single timeline #and then when he dies in his physical form he goes to the bastard box so that eldritch god can torture him more #like ‘facilitates him traveling through time so he can accidentally kill his first love and best friend who he thought left his life’#‘without any warning and who he has been grieving and ruining his life over ever since’ type messing with #and there’s like no reason for the god to be so obsessed with this man he is LITERALLY just a sleazeball office worker #AND said god has a weird fixation on his little brother too!!!#literally cannot catch a fuckibg break #also said god is usually called Tinky which is just another layer. imagine your life being ruined by a game named after a teletubbie #the narrative HATES this guy

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akoichoi · 11 months

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something I love about the new Zelda game and it being a direct sequel to BOTW-

Okay. So playing BOTW, Zelda and Link's relationship always felt professional, at least, to me. It was a princess and her knight. And by the time the calamity started, their relationship 'ended' right when it started.

We see this in most of the memories, with Zelda brushing off her appointed knight and Link, stoically performing his duties and not getting personal with the princess.

Link waking up after a hundred years and fighting Ganon felt like due diligence — redemption for failing as Zelda’s knight, a second chance to save humanity, and maybe a few side quests but that’s besides the point.

I like to imagine Link's story in BOTW as an opportunity to become human, experiencing a life away from knighthood. Hems finally experiencing a life that he never got to have. Zelda mentions a bit of Link's past in one of the memories. Specifically how his fate was essentially locked-in from birth. Like Zelda’s role as the princess of Hyrule, he was destined to be the knight that would seal away the darkness.

I like to think that him waking up from the shrine of resurrection as a literal rebirth.

but TOTK. TOTK is where the real story starts. Zelda and Link have an established relationship that they've cultivated over the few years in between the two games. We see this in the intro of TOTK, where they don’t even have to exchange words or gestures to communicate. Their backs are no longer turned against one another and they’re working in true harmony.

We immediately pick up that, at this point, the two are able to work as one. So the quest to find Zelda has some real weight to it.

At this point, Link (and the player) knows Hyrule and its inhabitants. Everyone is talking about her disappearance, as if Link is running everywhere, from town to town, trying to find any clue about her location. There's no need to explore the surface after doing it once, but he is running around everywhere, desperately trying to find her.

And he is traversing the depths and climbing the skies; doing the absolute impossible just. to. get to where she is.

#literally no facts to back up my point I'm just playing TOTK with my emo headcanons #in this essay I will give you reason 472 why Zelink is my canon #BOTW Link has glittering eyes. He is carefree. He's a boy again.#TOTK Link is TIRED. His eyes have rings around them. There's no time. He lost Zelda once. DIED TWICE and will still try to find her.#I almost wish TOTK made Zelink visually older. Just like the rest of the townspeople. Writing that down in my headcanon diary #koi plays totk #totk spoilers #me #totk #edit: added a bit abt the torch scene

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kosmiccarma · 7 months

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I'll add myself to the pool of ppl who (might delusionally) believe gojo ain't dead dead

#karma.talks #jjk manga spoilers #jjk 236 leaks #listen. I was cackling in the work parking lot this morning looking at the server leaks #1. narratively his death would serve nothing for the plot. and the whole fight wouldn't have moved anything forward #2. head ain't cut off. eyes aren't destroyed. shoko and angel literally still on the same continent. body could be healed easy peasy #3. gojo was saying bye to his dead friends instead of them welcoming him? so he could be goin' off to limbo #or have his second enlightenment hit within the next couple chapters to off sukuna once and for all. and get to kenny #and 4. uhh kenny??? he still exists gege. can't have a fight with him paired with anyone else tbh just wouldn't thematically fit #best of both worlds scenario: kids kill sukuna with gojo's resurrection #gojo goes on to fight kenny. kenny dies by the six eyes and/or infinity once and for all and gojo sacrifices the six eyes and/or infinity #so kenny can no longer body swap and will end the tale of his terror. geto comes back into consciousness for a couple more moments #OR his body is at peace once and for all and THEN gojo dies from wounds / overexertion of his cursed energy #OR gojo lives but remains a normal human w/o the six eyes or limitless. and this is bc he cheated death twice and that's the toll #gege make some of this happen or you've given a good side character a nonsensical death (within the scope of the story and character arc)#give it 10 chapters to see where this goes. if he's dead dead that's a fumble of an ending to their fight and a death scene #btw if anyone wants to talk abt this more just DM me I ain't fighting the tag system over more spoilers

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worstloki · 2 years

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Thor and Loki on opposite sides fighting to the death but still following ground rules like no pulling hair or crotch shots

#Thor: i would've gone for his face but Loki is sensitive about that and it should not be done after a hit to the knees besides #Avengers: HELLO???? you guys were fighting FOR YOUR LIVES???? what r u talking about?????????????#Thor: well there's no need to be disrespectful while at it #Avengers: HE LITERALLY BIT YOUR LEG TWICE THO???#Thor: and not a single one above the neck. what is your point?#Avengers: YOU ALMOST DIED ?????????????????????????????#Thor: yes that is the point of opposing him why is this a surprise to u guys ...?#Avengers just don't get the rules of honour #they're trying to kill each other sure but they're brothers #😤😤😤

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designernishiki · 11 months

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for real tho? especially if you consider tachibana kiryu’s equivalent to makoto in majima’s side of the story, i really believe something in kiryu snapped when tachibana died just as much as something did in majima later on when makoto got shot– if not more. the mad dog persona was a conscious choice that didn’t come about the second majima snapped and fought everyone tojo hq, but kiryu was straight up ready to kill a man by the time he was fighting shibusawa, no persona or anything to blame it on. arguably he went off the rails way sooner and held it together for way less time than majima managed to.

#and I mean. say what you will about majima’s spontaneity and all that but kiryu’s just as violent as him and THEN some #and it’s not subtle. from square one he solves all his problems with violence cause that’s sorta what he’s been conditioned to do #but I think when tachibana dies it goes from just doing what he’s programmed to do to genuinely channeling anger and resent and emotions in #general into beating the living shit out of people and not thinki by twice about the consequences #which is a trait he maintains throughout his entire life- with better and worse periods of course but #overall. yeah. look at his heat actions in y5. he’s miserable and it shows through how fucking unnecessarily Violent his moves are #smashing someone’s face into the pavement and rubbing it back and forth on asphalt? yeah I think even majima would be like #woah. take it back like. fifteen steps. breathe for a second #kiryu #majima #rambling #y0 #yakuza 0 spoilers #majima’s self control is actually sort of fucking incredible if you think about it #cause look at what kiryu went through in 0 and before 0 compared to majima- yet majima still didn’t go apeshit after all the #literal torture and god knows what else in his background

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skitskatdacat63 · 6 months

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— Emperor Charles VI's diary entry on Count Althann's death

[text: "My only heart, my comfort, my most faithful servant, my soulmate, who loved me dearly as I did him for 19 years, [we] had a true friendship, we were one heart and one soul, and we never concealed anything from one another. He will always be in my heart, [my] beloved friend..I. have lost everything."]

#this is like. incredibly niche.#but also hopefully a quote one can look at without context and still feel emotional damage about #idk. i think about this quote probably at least once a week and then have to stare at it and cry a bit #its just GOD. yknow??????#theres this one paper(which i linked) that i originally read as research for the AU #but i go back to it probably twice a month to reread it bcs im so !!!! abt it #i think its cause charles vi is just not that relevant but is relevant to me so to have this paper abt his personal relationships is very !#its both nice as ref for the au but also very interesting to hear about historical queer relationships/dynamics #the sections about him and his wife are very endearing as well #but god like him and count althann. im literally so invested in this 300 year old relationship #this is obviously from his death which is incredibly depressing and heart wrenching to me #but the other things he wrote about althann in his diary are very sweet to me #they were inseparable to the point of often sleeping in the same bed and charles called him his 'eternal love'#AND ON ALTHANN'S DE WIKIPEDIA PAGE IT LITERALLY CALLS HIM THE EMPEROR'S FAVORITE #anyways literally every part of this quote absolutely destroys me but especially how he refers to althann and then the ending #and its interesting to me bcs apparently his diary entries were usually pretty to the point #but when various people in his as althann died he would write these extremely emotional entries that are so </3 #if you have any questions abt their dynamic pls i will talk abt them 🥰🥰 i find it fascinating #theres a book about his diary but its in german and 500 pages and kinda hard to get hold in but maybe one day!!!#also in AU contexts: althann and charles vi would be mark and seb so take that as you will 🤭😭#as i said this is great for ref but also made me sooooo fucking invested in him #i have no idea how to tag this #historical #holy roman empire #emperor charles vi #catie.rambling.txt #historical quotes #habsburg #habsburg monarchy #ah wow if only my german prof could see me now. fucking...habsburg posting. why am i like this

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bookwyrminspiration · 10 months

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hey quil. hey. what is babel about. youve been babel posting and it looks interesting. tell me quil. please quil. quil.

Oh how to explain Babel. Babel is a historical fantasy work set in the 1830s about colonization and exploitation with a particular (though not exclusive) focus on language. On the power (quite literally) of words, on facing uncomfortable realities, on inequality, on revolution, on sacrifice, on survival, on, as one of its names says, the necessity of violence. On how the British Empire takes from peoples it oppresses for its own gain and justifies it by characterizing others as barbaric and lesser. On injustice and grief. On how empires aren't actually inevitable or infallible. On so many things

The story follows 4 characters (told through 1 main POV) who are incoming students of translation at Oxford University, studying at Babel, which is the hub where the literal power of words is harnessed via translation. It's incredibly prestigious, only 4 students admitted each year. And even though it's the first half of the 18th century England, 3 of the 4 in our group are foreigners (one Chinese, one Indian, one Haitian), and 2 are women. This is not by their choice, but rather because of the 3's native understanding of languages foreign to the British, as they want access to these student's knowledge. They have been curated specifically for this through the will of powerful white men they cannot go against. These men want them to attend Babel, and then upon graduation use their language and translation skills to contribute the power of their words and fluency to aid the empire.

And yet despite being specifically curated and shaped for this, these 3 find they do not and never will belong. They are there to be used and drained and expected to be grateful for what a tremendous opportunity they've been given, the opportunity to be exploited and saved from their "lesser" homelands and genes. As it turns out, this dynamic is not unique to the personal level, but is rather a reflection of the prejudice, oppression, marginalization, discrimination, colonization, and exploitation happening to peoples across the globe. This realization made, the decisions and actions to be taken escalate, exemplifying the themes and messages I already mentioned.

I won't say more for spoiler reasons, but that's kinda a general gist of it. There is, however, so much more that could be said and I don't even know where to begin. I'd definitely recommend reading it--I know I made a lot of light-hearted, joking posts as I was reading, but it's quite an emotional and involved work and I think it's well done. It's very straightforward about its message and topic, and it's rife with information about language and etymology. I hope this helps give a semblance of the story, and that should you read it you enjoy it :)

#babel rf kuang #babel an ancient history #babel or the necessity of violence #quil's queries #camelspit #I had to answer this twice. the first time I almost finished and my laptop died (i didn't realize the battery was low)#coincidentally it died literally as I typed the word grief #my dad likes the author. and so he read it. and immediately was like quil I think you should read this #so I did. and it has this quality of like #it leaves you like. quiet. reflective. you gotta think it over and really process #I don't know if this is making sense #it makes you sit with it

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