tucked away in a corner of the archive of the starship aurora, there's an old advert with a familiar face.
[image id: two versions of an illustrated advertisement for "Katabasian Computing," featuring ashes o'reilly from the mechanisms. they lounge on an ornate armchair, one foot coming down to rest on a tasseled pillow. they wear black-and-white oxfords and a dark 1920's style suit with a black coat over top; the trim of the coat looks like circuitry. the symbol of the acheron, a simplified skull with circuitry coming out of its exposed brain, floats to the left and right of their head. above the border of the ad is the paper name, "The Oracle," and the date June 18, 2022. underneath it is the name "Katabasian Computing" and their slogan; "There's no processor more powerful." the second is the same drawing, just without the effect that it has been printed on a folded and stained piece of old paper. (without the acheron skulls). end id.]
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not new information by any means, we been knew Amane's motive, but. im never never NEVER gonna stop thinking about how its implied so so often that Amane's murder was, at its core, self-preservation and out of "self-interest" (i hate phrasing it like that because that word has a pretty negative connotation but i hope u get what im saying). like i was listening to her 2nd trial voice drama again and it just hit me how obvious the information is given, how Es just told us straight up that it wasn't the cult that lead her to murder her mom, it was Amane herself. that she's playing a game of pretend acting like shes doing this all on the cult's behalf when, really, it's just her.
its her that wants to help Fuuta. its her that wants Shidou punished. its her that tried to attack Es. its her that killed her mom. its her that was horrifically abused. its her that helped the cat.
theres a sort of cognitive dissonance happening with her and the cult (wow who knew being brainwashed and tortured could do that!). on the one hand, shes Amane and she has always been Amane and nothing is forcing her to act in any way. just cause shes a child doesnt mean she has no free will and is brainwashed! her insistence that she can choose to murder someone and its of her own volition sorta implies thats what she did with her mom. SHE killed her, no one made her do anything. but then on the other hand... it was for the cult and it was something that was mandatory to do for the cult because her mom broke the rules to such an extent that it warranted the worst punishment, death. it wasnt really Amane who did it, she was just acting on the cult's behalf.
she is both Amane and Not Amane. these coexist but they are also inherently contradictory. she is Amane. she is also her faith. her faith is and always has been at direct odds with Amane. they are constantly in conflict with one another. her faith wants to purge her of everything that makes her Amane Momose. but she doesnt want to be anyone else but herself. she cant.
so she has to be both of these things. she wouldnt be able to function otherwise, would she?
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i am taking minor artistic liberties by going Against my personal headcanons and against one Tiny Minor Detail of canon for the sake of Artistry in this animatic and i need u all to know that it is in fact killing me a little bit
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