#im a huge fan of duality as well if you couldn't tell

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also a favorite “play” method or tactic that goro uses is becoming “your mirror image.” 

the mirror isn’t a necessity to show a “reflection” ... but it does add a creep factor he likes given people are already so distrustful of their own reflections. (we’ll talk reflections in another post with ren/yori shortly). it’s basically appearing to you as yourself, but in a way you would recognize.**

** this plot for like anything is always hard for me because technically we wouldn’t be able to really see our clone / doppelganger / etc as looking like us because we don’t know what we truly look like, if that makes sense. we always see reflections, we don’t see ourselves, so recognizing “us” as an entity outside of our reflected vision, which can already be skewed by a variety of factors (from lighting techniques to mirror types to emotional view of the self, etc). so...you know me, i have to make it somewhat reality oriented, so i think goro would appear to you in the way you would recognize yourself. taking your face for real would mean he’s taking you as you really are, not as you see yourself, which is how other people would also see you. the first is taking an emotional form whereas the second is more equivalent to taking the legitimate physical form of someone. i say “face” but he really does take the whole body, especially if he’s taking that identity for himself. there’s no limit to “who” goro will become, seek out, or engage with. **

he likes to bend or distort reality, so he typically uses this technique (this “trick”) mostly for fun, but sometimes to move a “plot” along. it’s a way to a) challenge someone, who better than themselves? and b) to have fun, it’s boring having ji-hun and deng (and others) do everything. so, while he doesn’t do everything himself, there are some things he still enjoys doing, and he likes to “get out in the field.” 

since he is not “taking” the actual face, just “using it,” it falls under his “parlor tricks.”

i also use this imagery for ren, but that’s in the comic with another character. it’s good imagery. 

a lot of it comes from when i first saw evil dead 2 when i was a kid. this part really stuck out with me, and i’ve used it before in other storytelling, but not as obvious. i also find it fitting to other characters i’ve ended up writing, such as yagami raito, because mirror imagery and mirror play are used a lot in death note to symbolize specific changes in yagami when becoming kira.

“i’m fine...i’m fine...”

“i don’t think so!”

#* ( goro ) ♡ — ace of spades #* ( ooc ) ♡ — headcanon #the read more just has a gif #it's the mirror scene from evil dead 2 #but this single scene has inspired me in so many different ways #but this is the most direct homage with the mdiah cast and series to this imagery in particular #i love it #im a huge fan of duality as well if you couldn't tell #with identity always being something i try to write about even if im not meaning to #but it's a huge theme and you see it in my canon and oc choices such as the ren and yori duality #and of course yagami and kira #who even is goro for real given his many fake identities and us knowing next to nothing about him for real #combined with how differently deng and ji-hun deal with duality and identity and the loss of identity