Also! Please stop saying Kris's position on the hemospectrum is "up for interpretation". It is not. They are a Warmblood. Just because their caste is not shoved in your face explicitly does not mean Kris is not a Warmblood. It is canonical. You are erasing Warmblood. And I will not stand for it. I am an ally.
KRIS IS ANTHY. THIS IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE. THEY ARE THE VESSEL BY WHICH "AKIO" DIRECTLY INTERFERES WITH THE NARRATIVE. NOELLE IS MIKAGE. SHE IS THE FALSE PROPHET OF THE BLACK ROSE, WHOSE PROTAGONISM ENABLES "AKIO" TO PERPETUATE ITS OWN EXISTENCE. RALSEI IS JURI. HE MAKES MEANINGLESS GESTURES TOWARDS BREAKING THE NARRATIVE BUT IS ULTIMATELY STILL A BEAD TRAPPED ON HIS SET PATH. I'D SAY SUSIE IS UTENA, BUT THAT WOULD IMPLY I ACTUALLY BELIEVE SUSIE/NOELLE IS ENDGAME IN ANY QUADRANT. SO INSTEAD I'LL SAY THAT, IN THE SPECIFIC CONTEXT OF THE FORBIDDEN PATH AND NOWHERE ELSE, SUSIE IS SAIONJI. BERDLY UH I GUESS HE'S NANAMI. JOKE CHARACTER WHO'S MORE INSIGHTFUL THAN HE LETS ON BUT IS TOO BUSY GETTING CONSTANTLY DUNKED ON BY THE UNIVERSE FOR THAT TO HAVE ANY IMPACT AT ALL.
Your analysis does not include Touga or Saionji. You do not understand the show. Come back when you do. I am an ally.
WE DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT CAROL HOLIDAY TO CONCLUSIVELY SAY THAT SHE IS OR ISN'T TOUGA. BEING TOUGA HAS *BAGGAGE* BECAUSE OF ADOLESENCE.
YOU ARE CONFLATING THE ROLES OF KRIS AND YUU. THE WHOLE CENTRAL CONCEIT OF THE FORBIDDEN PATH IS THAT YUU IS ENGAGING IN NARRATIVE DOMINATION OVER BOTH HALVES OF THE DOOMED FLUSHMANCE. DEMANDING ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION FROM KRIS IN ORDER TO SECURE A SUPERIOR VESSEL. AND INFLICTING WHAT I BELIEVE IS CALLED "COMPTOP" ON NOELLE TO MAKE HER A STRONGER PROTAGONIST. TO PREPARE FOR THE EVENTUAL POV SHIFT GOING FULL "YOUR NAME IS NOELLE."
I BELIEVE THAT CAROL IS GOING TO DIE IN CHAPTER 6 AND BE REPLACED BY A NEW MAIN VILLAIN, OBVIOUSLY. BUT BEING ALREADY DEAD IS INSUFFICIENT TO BE TOUGA. YOU ALSO HAVE TO BE A "SUBSTITUTE PRINCE." AND WHILE IT IS BELIEVABLE THAT CAROL COULD FILL THE SAME ROLE OF A FUCKED-UP AND EVIL SGRUB EXILE THAT THE ACTUAL "AKIO" DOES. THERE IS INSUFFICIENT TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO THROW MY FULL WEIGHT BEHIND THAT IDEA.
aND ISN'T THERE SOMETHING TO BE SAID, aBOUT HOW THIS ROLE IS FORCED UPON kRIS, wITHOUT THEIR CONSENT? lIKE,,, nO ONE 1S ARGUING THAT kRIS IS NOT, hEMOANONYMOUS, bUT,,, wELL, tO GO TOO MUCH FURTHER WOULD STRETCH THE METAPHOR, tO ITS BREAKING POINT, aHAHA,
NO, THERE ISN'T. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FORCE A SPECIFIC CASTE READING ON KRIS YOU CAN JUST PAY ATTENTION TO THE COLORS THEY *ACTUALLY* EXPRESS IN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THEY HAVE FULL MORPHOLOGICAL FREEDOM. SUCH AS THE CERULEAN HEELS FROM THE RHYTHM MICROGAME. TRYING TO FORCE THEM TO FIT INTO AN "AFFECTED BY HEMOISM IN SIMILAR WAYS TO LOWBLOODS" READING IS IRONICALLY DOING THE EXACT THING THAT THE "AKIO" IS DOING. SANDING OFF THEIR ACTUAL INDIVIDUALITY TO TREAT THEM AS A VESSEL FOR YOUR OWN PROJECTION.
i THINK IT IS SAD, tO PERCEIVE ANY ATTEMPT TO, lEARN MORE ABOUT AND RELATE TO kRIS, aND THE1R PERSONAL STRUGGLES AS, dEFINING THEM AND SANDING THEM DOWN,
I THINK IT IS SAD. TO ACT LIKE YOU ARE "RELATING TO KRIS." WHEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY JUST MAKING UP A COMPLETELY SEPARATE KRIS IN YOUR HEAD. TO RELATE TO INSTEAD. AND IGNORING THE INDIVIDUALITY OF THE ONE IN THE ACTUAL GAME. LIKE I GET THAT PART OF THE CONCEIT OF THE "DEVICE" DIEGESIS IS THAT YUU'S EXILE STATION ERODES ANY INPUT FROM KRIS TO MAKE THEM SEEM MORE LIKE A VESSEL. BUT IT'S JUST SAD TO TREAT THEM LIKE YOU'RE DOING.
i AM TAKING EVIDENCE THAT i SEE, aND AM DRAWING CONCLUSIONS BASED ON IT, }:/ iF YOU DISAGREE W1TH MY CONCLUSIONS THAT IS OKAY, tHOUGH }:)