#chapter 210

[every-ogata]

[mismatched-ideas]

Me after reading today's chapter

[tinykuroshitsujipics]

[every-usami]

[cosmicjoke]

Alright, so... Chapter 210 of "Vinland Saga"...

Excuse me a moment while I go cry in a corner.

Shit, man, this chapter got to me hard.

Spoilers ahead, for anyone who hasn't read it.

I'm so scared Thorfinn is going to die. He was shot full of arrows, just like his father. Hild saved him, and my immediate question is, "how?". Did she have to kill to save him? To get him on her back and carry him out? The fact we aren't shown what happened after she shot her arrow makes me think she did. Or did she manage to do it while only wounding the natives? She only had four arrows left, and there were more than four natives in pursuit. If she did have to kill to get him out, then I wonder how that's going to impact Thorfinn himself, assuming he survives. To know Hild will have had to take on that burden, of taking a life to save his, would be devastating to him, I think. In it's own way, it would almost be like a condemnation to him of his pacifist philosophy, that because he didn't want to kill, the burden of it has now fallen to another. I know Thorfinn would blame himself, even though this situation truly wasn't his fault, and spun out of his control due to forces beyond his power.

I really didn't expect this turn of events. I thought Thorfinn and Hild would take care of the pursuers in the forest and then make their way to the village. But Thorfinn clearly has a punctured lung from the arrow he took for Einar, and now he's been shot full of arrows, which, at the moment, I'm honestly having a really hard time seeing how he'll survive. His condition also totally takes him out of the game in terms of defending the village and its people at all.

And now Hild and him are faced with Plmk, and I have no idea if he's hostile or not. If he's hostile, they're fucked, which makes me think he's going to end up helping them, somehow. But even if he does, it doesn't do anything for Thorfinn's condition. Like I said, I'm really scared at this point for him.

And then there was Thorfinn's dream sequence, which was just heartbreaking in the extreme. His vision of Thorkill, basically saying 'I told you so', saying war would come to Vinland, no matter how hard Thorfinn tried to avoid it. And even more devastating, Ivar and then Einar, blaming Thorfinn for everything. We see here in Thorfinn's subconscious his true feelings, rooted in a sense of failure. We see how badly Einar's parting words to him have affected him. Einar's anger and bitterness toward him. I've spoken before about how it would, in many ways, be the ultimate sacrifice to his ideals, if Thorfinn were to lose Einar's friendship, his first and best friend, and the man who gave him a sense of purpose in life beyond his quest for revenge against Askeladd. If Einar truly ends up turning against him, if he refuses to leave, and takes the path of war, I don't see how their friendship can continue. Maybe that will change when he sees Thorfinn's condition, but realistically, I think him seeing what's been done to Thorfinn will only fuel Einar's rage and refusal to give up what they've built.

God, Thorfinn wanted so badly to make a land of peace, to atone for the sins of his past by creating a land of peace and saving more lives than he took, but now it's all gone to hell, and people have been killed. His vision of Einar telling him his experiment has failed, and that it was an important experiment, because it shows how peace can never really be achieved, shows the depths of Thorfinn's despair, I think, and the depths of his self-loathing. This is truly just a tragedy playing out before our eyes.

It's made all the more poignant, I think, by Hild's words to Thorfinn, telling him not to lose heart, telling him he wasn't wrong about anything, and if only the world were full of more people like him, maybe there really could be hope for a world without war. She calls Thorfinn precious, and I think that's true. But tragically, as we're seeing, the world isn't filled with people like Thorfinn, and that makes Thorfinn's dream an impossibility. There's always going to be someone who wants to start a war, there's always going to be someone who wants to take what isn't theirs, there's always going to be someone who wants to hurt you or those you love and care for, no matter how much you try to talk them out of it. The world is too complex and brutal for pacifism to ever be a reality, and that is a tragedy.

I don't know what's going to happen back at the village at this point, either. It seems to me anyone could die. Thorfinn was their best defense, and now he's out of commission.

Ugh, man, this chapter hit me on a deep, emotional level.

Don't die Thorfinn. I'll be devastated if you do.

Also, just again, shout out to Yukimura's art. I don't know how this guy does it month after month. His art is second to none.

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Finnian on the run. Yana T.‘s new website header for Chapter 210.

[evildeadfan102]

I re read Eden’s Zero chapter 210.

[bezierballad]

I read chapter 210 last night and I'm still on the edge of my seat. In both a good and bad way.

Like seriously Yana are you gonna kill off Finny or not don't just leave us hanging for another mooooooooooooooonth—

Seriously no wonder it's titled That Butler: Meandering

[one-piece-panels-i-enjoy]

It's over

[sebadztian]

I've spent the last few chapters worrying about Snake and now I will spend the next few worrying about Finny...

I just want the boys to be okay!

But at this point, it looks like the boys are not going to be ok 😢

Spoilers for chapter 210

1. Snake will most probably come back as a Bizarre Doll. Doll wouldn't just leave him there and she'd ask whoever in charge to turm him, regardless of what he might have wanted. Selfish, but oh-so-human. Also, if she's a BD, but her name is already 'Doll', does that make her simply... 'Bizarre'? 🤔

2. It looks like Finny got shot on his left leg, which means he now has two gunshot wounds. Being submerged in the sewer water wouldn't help his situation and although he's super tough, he's still human (is he though? Seb has called him a 'being from outer space' before), and there's a big risk of him bleeding out or getting a nasty infection. Please, please let him be okay! He's my most favourite among the servants and I'd be devastated if he couldn't make it 😭

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Jo Uisin: time to go help my classmates

Hwang Jiho: don't you mean OUR classmates

[every-ogata]

[algumaideia]

Who will save Luffy???

Anyway I like how the consensus was that Luffy would fight Crocodile

It is raining!!!! Bitch was defeated and it immediately started to rain

Finally the fighting will stop

Robin, i trust you to save the king and Luffy

[tinykuroshitsujipics]

[isjasz]

Part 2- At the gate

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(Yep this is the end for the comics because JESUS CHRIST. GAJHWJHDJA. I will probably maybe make more doodles for the au tho but nothing this structured like this again o7 it's been fun!!)

Designs | Part 1 | Part 2 (End)

[iniyaas]

Did Osaragi even know that a copy of Takamura was inside Uzuki?

I think not.

Because, here:

she is reacting to the sudden massive bloodlust behind her. She is shocked and scared unlike any other time. I don't think she would be scared of something she is aware and prepared for (even if dangerous, even Takamura) but if it's an entirely unknown and unexpected variable entering the foray? But familiar in some way.

In fact, a GHOST of Takamura, if you will.

And here is Shishiba's reaction:

Oh god. He forgot. He forgot about copy!Takamura still in the background when Osaragi jumped in to confront Oki. Again, he meant to go up all by himself against Takazuki. He totally intended for Osaragi to stay with the New Order, and not follow him. His decision to defect the New Order were only for himself.

Meaning, he might never have told Osaragi about Takamura!Uzuki. he was shocked when Nagumo told him about it.

But did this piece of info ever reach Osaragi?

I strongly believe Shishiba committed a fatal mistake of assuming Osaragi would definitely stay in the New Order, because it is ideal for pure-bloodlusting-assassins, and so, ideal for her. He underestimated the extent of how much she had changed after meeting him and working for the og Order.

Shit, now, I realize why he thought about this scene next.

At the time, did he simply dismiss it as another of her unintelligible superstitious talks? and the full brunt of what she meant is hitting him now? after she got impaled. after she couldn't defend herself in time. because HE made the mistake of not warning her about Taka!zuki, because of course, why would she ever make an enemy of X/Takamura or leave the Order and the world of assassins, and come help him, right?