susanoo is like that one meme that's like "Killing myself in front of my brother to forever change our bond and the trajectory of his life" which is pretty based tbh
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#nightebooks i think i forgot to mention this awhile back but i thought it was interesting that despite having been working with bethel for Some Time, yuzuru hadn't met hayao either until our return from daat. strongly implies then that for whatever reason, hayao went out of his
amaterasu has two brothers both of whom are like rabid dogs just in very different ways
i keep thinking about tsuku seething putting up with millennia of systemic misogyny in human society and just being like are they stupid. none of this makes any sense. My Sister's Very Existence proves this is all just bullshit. but he's been explicitly told murder isn't allowed.
also getting to the end of CoV for the first time and they were all like tiamat can only be killed for good by a demon with the dragonslayer divine aspect or whatever and i was just like damn tsukuyomi you're so useless why didnt you slay a dragon or something back in the day
that reminds me, when i did true neutral and got to the end i was yelling at MC not to go through with it and to think about the fabulous hair he was gonna lose
#nightebooks further thoughts. i guess the mandala system is probably just representative of like...samsara basically, cycle of reincarnation and all that. the 'goal' is to eventually break free of the cycle but i think the existence of the cycle itself isn't inherently 'bad'.
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hayao should also commission a giant painting of susanoo and hang it somewhere conspicuous in the research lab or something to make everyone increasingly uncomfortable like kinzo did with beatrice in umineko
#nightebooks ne-no-kuni and its association with susanoo is fascinating to me but it's very vague apparently as to what exactly it is and its connection to other realms like yomi, tokoyo-no-kuni and nirai kanai. in general these realms have a lot of aspects that blend together.
i'd like to examine the parallels between dagda and susa/aogami sometime but i've haven't played smt4a yet and i have a whole backlog of atlus games i'm trying and failing to get through bc smtv has a chokehold on me 💀. connecting related themes across diff media is insightful
#nightebooks i usually like looking at yuzuru as a window of sorts into tsukuyomi. the things he expresses feel kinda like the 'pure' form of tsuku's true will and desires, before it got muddled by all the fuck shit going on with him lmao. the short scene with yuzuru at school
everytime i'm like surely there won't be much new to glean from my like 8th playthrough of smtvv after like 4 consecutive runs of CoC too and then i start up the file after some time and immediately begin hallucinating new insights from every little detail 🧍