YEAH........... YEAH..... LIKEWISE, NO NOTES AT ALL, THAT'S EXACTLY IT... Main antagonist deaths are often treated as "comeuppance," but that would be the ultimate comeuppance for Aoki. As it stands, the only people who actually suffer for it are Ichiban and Jo, and Ichi didn't even do anything wrong. Also please I'm positive there's more to wring out of Aoki and Jo for an essay 😭😭at the very least, I always love to hear your perspective!
"he'd made a social circle for himself where people predominantly liked him for the power and influence" <- incredibly Mine-core of Aoki btw (I also feel the rest applies a little in terms of Mine probably being very quick to write off people who Do care about him as not caring about him, as with Katase, but it's nowhere near the extent of the Arakawas)
Wait actually it's kind of funny... for both Mine and Aoki, I was so sure their endings would go a certain way. Mine and Kiryu'd fight Richardson off together and Ichi'd, I don't know, shield Aoki or hug him so Kume couldn't get to him in the first place, or after that INSANE direct parallel to Arakawa running to the hospital with Masato, he'd miraculously pull through like he did on New Year's. Tormented with visions of the better timeline... With Aoki in particular, it makes me want to tear my hair out because the moment of him choosing to put the gun in the locker was REVOLUTIONARY for the series, looking at the characters he was most heavily based on.
Anyway. Bottom line. These bitches need to hug it out. It was so evil Arakawa didn't hug Ichi at Omi HQ or on the waterfront like bro stop being """manly""" for five seconds you're ruining my life you're ruining your own lives
There'd genuinely be nothing more painful yet more satisfying for an antagonist than being confronted with the consequences of their actions and having to navigate life after having making those decisions, ESPECIALLY when it comes to mending the bonds that- for anyone else- would have shattered long ago. With Aoki being motivated by the want to be loved and appreciated for himself, it would've been nice to see him finally acknowledge that he did have that love and start to better himself as a result (however much he'd be able to while in prison anyway lmao).
The Mine and Aoki comparisons are so real though, I remember joking to myself about it days after beating the game but it just fuels my mental illness every time I think about it ☠️ I LEGALLY AM NOT ALLOWED TO GO OFF ABOUT THE Y7 ENDING I'VE DONE IT TOO MUCH it makes me so mad every time I think about it 😭 ESPECIALLY THE PARALLELS WITH ARAKAWA AND THE LOCKERS UGGGHHH IT COULD HAVE BEEN SUCH AN EPIC CONCLUSION WITH THAT... Arakawa running from the lockers at the start of Aoki's life compared to Ichiban running from the lockers and getting Aoki to the hospital so Aoki can restart life I'm Going To Kill Someone (myself) (in Minecraft)
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Another OC lore dump post because I want to and because I can
This is Null!
It is the god of Eterna, creator of everything, and the embodiment of light and void. I've talked about it a little before but it wasn't as fleshed out so I didn't go into to much detail. Now I have more things figured out so I can actually talk about it!
So, Null is the creator of everything- including the Penumbra and Umbral Beasts that plague the world of Eterna.
Eterna was once a relatively peaceful world. It wasn't without conflict, of course. No world is. But it wasn't terrible. That is, until shadowy monsters began to appear, and some areas of the world were consumed by eternal night.
No one knows why this darkness has fallen upon their world. Null never shows itself to anyone anymore, and it doesn't seem interested in stopping the Penumbra, so the people of Eterna feel lost.
Null created it, though. So there must be a reason, right?
(More under cut)
Null may have created the world and everything in it, but it doesn't quite understand everything.
See, when the universe was first created, things were simple and perfect. No conflict, no good, nor evil. Simply light and darkness.
But something was born from that light and darkness. Things began to form within the empty void. Colors, shapes, cold, warmth... it was without order, it was nonsense, yet Null could understand it, could create from it.
So create it did, making a vast universe filled with twinkling stars and planets of all shapes and sizes. The universe it created was beautiful and perfect.
As it continued to create, something else was born. Something that could feel. As time went on, more and more of these things were born, creatures that began to populate the universe, and eventually, people.
These people then gave one of its worlds a name and claimed it as their own. They named it Eterna, and with them, they brought love, happiness, sadness, fear, hatred, and conflict into the universe.
Null, despite having created them, didn't understand these creatures. It didn't understand their emotions, they developed those on their own. It wanted to learn, so it watched them, sometimes coming down from its place in the astral planes to see the world for itself. The people saw it, some reacting with fear, and others with reverence, and eventually it was recognized as their god.
It watched as the people bonded and fought. Created and destroyed. Loved and hated. Yet it still didn't understand.
In its desire to learn, it sent out a piece of itself down to explore the world and experience all it has to offer, all the feelings the people seemed to know intrinsically.
The Little Traveler was born.
Through their eyes it saw many things. Many beautiful sights, and many terrible things, too.
From what it saw, Null deemed the world to be imperfect. The people destroyed and ravaged, killed without mercy. This world tainted its beautiful universe. Null sought perfection, and Eterna was anything but.
So it began to destroy the world, hoping to start from scratch, create a world without Eterna's imperfections.
In its pursuit of perfection, it begins killing the first world that had known to feel.
The Little Traveller, after learning what it truly means to be alive, decides to fight back, and fight to protect this world. Fight against their very creator, and perhaps teach it that, despite it being imperfect, Eterna is worth something, and that it should be saved.
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