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Date Posted: 11:30:54 11/30/03 Sun
In reply to:
Colapso
's message, "Who he was..." on 09:40:59 11/30/03 Sun
You're sort of missing the entire point with TB!Subaru. You see, his kindness was a FAULT, not a blessing. Even Hokuto says so. She says that she feared from a very young age that if anyone that Subaru loved were ever to betray him, that he would just die. Because his feelings were too pure. And despite all his kindness, he never ONCE actually SAW Seishirou. He's very concerned with the rest of the world, yes, but never turns these concerns to Seishirou until he sacrifices his right eye for him. He never wonders about why Seishirou lives alone, or why a man of his age seems to be very eager to seek their younger company, why he doesn't seem to have any other companions besides them, why he has no life outside of being a vet and hanging out with the twins.
Besides this fact, Subaru may be kind yes, but he's flawed to a fault. He's extremely self-destructive and submissive. I know a lot of his fans like to see him as a victimized saint, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of what happened to him is really his own fault. I'm a very intense Subaru fan, and I have observed this.
And I WILL say that X has no clean-cut evil, just like the world itself. And I will gladly argue that Seishirou isn't clean-cut evil either. I am by no means saying that he's a nice person, or that his love for Subaru is pure or any of that crap, because I don't believe that either. But I'm confused by the extremely generalized definition of evil above. Is it saying then that people who kill and then feel remorse aren't evil? Is it saying that people who have MENTAL ILLNESSES that PREVENT them from having remorse or consciences (such as sociopathy) and kill are evil?
The fact of the matter is, the point and theme of Tokyo Babylon is summed up by the little ghost girl in the final chapter: "Maybe people do bad things because they're lonely." Seishirou, as the Sakurazukamori, was forced to be alone. Even so, he found something to fill that void in his life (and this quote was paraphrased from a fic a friend of mine wrote). And there were only a few ways that he could keep that thing in his life. If Seishirou hadn't killed Hokuto, Subaru would have remained in his self-induced coma until he rotted away within his own body. Also, by taking away Hokuto, Seishirou fixed it so that Subaru could think of no one but him. Perhaps a comforting thought for someone who has always been alone. Is it evil to seek comfort, even if it is in the only way you know how? And what he did to Subaru aside, another fact of the matter is that it's Seishirou's duty to kill. If he had a conscience about the killing, he'd either go insane or turn into an angst-whore like the boys from Weiss Kruez.
I'm not really trying to argue about good and evil here. I just find it sort of irritating when someone generalizes and trivializes those subjects.
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