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The capacity to find something adorable only when they're absolutely no threat to you

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neon genesis evangelion (yoshiyuki sadamoto, 1995)

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i'm so proud of you

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Music make you lose control

Music make you lose control

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Madoka Magica x Squid Game made of delusion

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madohomu

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sorry if this has been done already

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new mizi comic is an insight to her character. she isn’t manipulative nor is she evil. she just believes for her to be able to live, she needs to be loved by others.

“I want to live a little longer. So please keep loving me.”

The tragedy of Alien Stage isn’t the deaths, slavery, or the apocalypse. It is the fact that even though humans were raised completely different from how they should have been, at the end of the day, they all wanted to live. They wanted to love because they wanted to live.

In their minds the reactions we deem to certain emotions are connected to other things. Crying is a humane response to sadness, it can be seen as unsightly but here her crying because of her pain is seen as “adorable”.

“I just felt like I’d be at peace being in a place where I’m not the one being crushed but a place where I could crush someone.”

“Crush” in Mizi’s definition means protecting but also suffocating. Her “provider” got crushed in front of her, most likely whilst trying to protect her or by the Segyeins.

Her finding Sua “adorable” is directly linked to how her owner found her “adorable” while she was being “crushed”. She associates certain emotions with certain experiences, which are inherently different experiences from what a normal human would associate it with.

It is so important to remember that the Alien Stage characters are slaves, that they are in a different planet after Earth got razed and invaded by aliens. Their societal rules and responses are fundamentally different from ours. I believe trying to analyze their pasts and psychologies with customary, run-of-the-mill thoughts is doing them injustice.

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The only thing weaker than the most helpless creature is the doll it squeezes for comfort.

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Mizi says and thinks a lot, but her actions speak louder than her words-- We know that she handles Sua tenderly because she's not the cruel person she thinks she is, but her view of herself is so distorted because of the grief and guilt she feels. She can't properly decide who she is anymore. Is she as bad as her mother? Is she truly the manipulative person everyone thought she was, or is she a naive and helpless pretty girl? She can't stand this confession-- She can't stand feeling no different than the aliens who hurt her, because to herself, she willingly acted like an idiot and caused everyone around her to suffer. She regrets looking down on Sua like this, she regrets feeling like she deceived and used Sua, just that eye contact alone, she misses Sua and adores her so much. She regrets not having understood and being ignorant in the past; if she had known, she could've changed something, so she could've done something before Sua died (Oh disc: MiziSua I love you so), Mizi villainizes herself; she needs to believe she's the villain because this, the death of all she cares about, being brought back to point one, alone and miserable, is all her "Karma" for being such a selfish, terrible person

(I really love this sequence, bro, it's so gentle, it's so regretful)

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Sua looks so passive in this comic the whole time, letting herself be touched and worshipped and moved around like a pretty doll, Mizi's dress doesn't even really fit her, I think that's meant to emphasize her fragility and how small she is because Mizi sees her as so beautiful and breakable underneath her, she's drawn to Sua's fragility and unthreatening demeanor. It's actually very reminiscent of how she's treated by the aliens, like a little snow doll, delicate and brittle, dressed in white frilly dresses too big and too loose on her, yk. Mizi even speaks to her like she's an "adorable" doll. In the underlying message, I think this does well to portray how Mizi sees Sua, and it conveys a part of how Mizi and Sua perpetuate the same hurt and abuse they go through. Although Mizi's thought process is unintentional, it's dehumanizing. Mizi reveres Sua like a god, points out her fragility. Like what I said in my last post, the aliens became a blueprint for Mizi's understanding of love and what she wanted to find in it, even if she bitterly knew how belittling it felt to be treated like a toy by the aliens, her coping mechanism for these expectations she had placed on her and the discomfort she felt was finding comfort in projecting that onto Sua, making it so that she's the one in control over a malleable doll-like person and treating them gently even with the knowledge that she was so, easily, at her whims. And Sua is so easily adept at fitting that role for Mizi's idealistic reality and dream, no matter if they hurt each other. Indulging in that facade of control, that bubble of naivety and agency that Sua created for them both to escape in, lying to each other with facades and selfishness, and finding escape and comfort in it

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Guardian Shine's influence on Mizi is so visible it makes me ill (/pos)

— Only able to find some(one)thing adorable when it's no threat to them

— Adopting their vocabulary, taking "crush" to mean kill/death

— Tying her personal value to her ability to bring joy, to be cute and lovable

— Becoming a people pleaser because only if she's loved can she survive

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what i really like about the new alnst comic is how it explicitly clarifies how in truth , mizi did not have it any better than anyone else (despite her initially being shown as "happy" with shine)

it further shows that none of the segyeins are able to connect with humans in a parental way, even if they seem to "care". the dynamic between any human and a segyein is closer to a pet than any parent-child relationship.

to shine, mizi is cute, innocent, but so so so fragile. shine does try harder than other segyeins, but still will never understand/know what mizi needs on an emotional, mental, or healthy level. kind of like those pet hamsters that explode out of nowhere

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AAA THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOT BEING MAD AT THE PING AND RESPONDING <3333 I barely write on any of the blogs I have so I didn't know if it was even okay to ping lolol

And I understand the Luka defense, most of my friends have hated him since the beginning 😞

@babygirlluka (I wanted to respond so I'm very sorry for the notif!! <///3)

The whole "they're not evil but that doesn't mean they can be considered good people" is something I agree with GREATLY, they simply have no access to outside influence that they can mirror for it to be that way nor are they built the way normal humans are, seeing as we know some if not most of the contestants are made artificially. Due to these reasons it's not fair to view these characters under the lens of what we modernly think is normal. At the end of the day all of what the humans in Alien Stage can do is try to survive doing what THEY feel is normal, which, from an outside perspective, could be seen as manipulative, cold, or just "evil". This is just something viewers need to keep in mind when viewing the content and characters because it IS extremely nuanced and it can be easy to slip back into the mindset we use in our day-to-day lives.

And I really do love Luka, so I wasn't trying to push blame onto him just because I was talking about Mizi in particular. I don't know if what I said came out that way or if you were speaking on prior thoughts you've seen but I felt like I needed to get that out there 😭

Again, very sorry for the @/!! I enjoyed reading your thoughts and I didn't think we had really different opinions so I wanted to talk more about it instead of leaving you high and dry. Triple sorry for my writing as I am by no means an author and have no clue how to put my thoughts into words, I hope this isn't too hard of a read because I am NOT checking over it at all.

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I'm just waiting to see people villainize Mizi after these panels.

This isn't her saying she's going to beat everyone in Alien Stage, this isn't her being manipulative. She just wants some form of control and to feel superior to something or someone after being inferior all her life. People compare her to Luka by saying they're both evil and all that due to the readers not really understanding the meaning behind the words.

Both Mizi and Luka want to experience some semblance of control over their lives. Mizi managed to do that just a little by getting Shine to send her— of her own will— to the Anakt Garden, and Luka had some control over himself when he was on stage. When they're with their guardians, they don't have any control.

Anyways, if you don't know by now, Vivinos dropped a new Mizi comic (where the above panels are from). It's called "My fragile god, fading fast". The comic also gives more details as to how Shine raised Mizi.

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New Mizi comic :((((((