Sumeragi Subaru ・ 皇昴流 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
limerences) wrote2013-09-11 10:32 pm
limerences) wrote2013-09-11 10:32 pm
Must-Read Meta
Leaving this here because it is perfection and everyone should read it:
"I have been changed by you" - a study of identity in Tokyo Babylon and X/1999
Hurting Subaru, in the end, only winds up hurting himself in a roundabout way: in identifying himself so closely with Subaru, he can no longer claim to be impassive, thus damaging the perception he has of himself. Indeed, X/1999 takes this metaphor further: in hurting Subaru – i.e. in shoving a hand through his chest – Seishirou literally ends up hurting himself, via Hokuto’s spell. By then, Subaru’s self-destructiveness has become so closely entwined with Seishirou’s self-destructiveness that the two are inseparable.
This brings us to the main theme of this essay: how Seishirou’s identity becomes conflated with Subaru’s, and vice versa – and moreover, how this is almost always linked with death. How they define themselves based on a flawed recognition of each other.
And then also this:
"I have been changed by you" - a study of identity in Tokyo Babylon and X/1999
Hurting Subaru, in the end, only winds up hurting himself in a roundabout way: in identifying himself so closely with Subaru, he can no longer claim to be impassive, thus damaging the perception he has of himself. Indeed, X/1999 takes this metaphor further: in hurting Subaru – i.e. in shoving a hand through his chest – Seishirou literally ends up hurting himself, via Hokuto’s spell. By then, Subaru’s self-destructiveness has become so closely entwined with Seishirou’s self-destructiveness that the two are inseparable.
This brings us to the main theme of this essay: how Seishirou’s identity becomes conflated with Subaru’s, and vice versa – and moreover, how this is almost always linked with death. How they define themselves based on a flawed recognition of each other.
And then also this: