Crime And Punishment Version XD

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Agency is important to Viktor as a character, as someone who not only rejects the fragility of the organic body on the basis of his personal hangups about labor and emotional turbulence, but also in that he is always willing to use his own body as a test subject.

In Arcane, canonically, the judgement cast upon him for being visibly disabled has been an obstacle in his career in a way that doesn't grant him the privilege or funds needed to work on projects geared towards improving the lives of those bearing the brunt of prolonged work in industrial labor. His body is a front that people are unwilling to see past.

In his masking there is of course a sense of hiding his true self in a very literal interpretation, but this mask can be seen as liberatory: He is the one choosing the version of himself people see, and it does not diminish whatever is behind it. In body-modding there is a choice of what to show, what to hide, what to keep and enhance, what to reject.

The hexcore arc has been described as him being used as a flesh puppet, and this is in direct contradiction with Viktor's defining characteristics circling around the concept of control (of one's image, of one's flesh, of one's living circumstances, of one's emotions). I imagine that possession of this sort is body horror to someone like him, the vulnerability of himself as an organic, fallible human a door to this loss.

Where the hexcore uses organic tissue to grow, the inorganic becomes a symbol for reclaiming one's agency. Viktor and Jayce are scientists, engineers - in times of hesitation and grief, they do what they do best. I imagine machinery to be an opposite to the arcane: Metal is reliable and human where the arcane is unpredictable and beyond the confines of humanity as a species.

To bring yourself back to the body you rejected, that rejected you, you must go back to being human, and what's more human than invention, creation, a product of the earth sculpted by human ingenuity?

In our factory, we made hammers. You always save yourself. There is always a choice.

part 1 of mob vs brainwashed reigen :) man i love making characters face against their controlled/evil loved ones

part 2 here

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MWAH *CHEFS KISS* beautiful, masterpiece of an analysis!

Eren and Mikasa’s Anti-Love Story

The manga of Attack on Titan begins and ends with Eren and Mikasa’s relationship. This is because the story’s themes are built on the complicated relationship between these two characters. The various complications, miscommunications and struggles for the both of them to grow up and change, is also a metaphor at large for the world to change. This is a pretty common storytelling technique, for example Katherine and Heathcliff is also about the inconquerable social divide between the classes. I am also going to use Katherine and Heathcliff as my go to example to try to elaborate why a story would spend so much time focusing on an unhealthy relationship, where neither character develops. 

No I don’t think the author took inspiration from Wuthering Heights, however comparing two literature pieces with similiar ideas at their core can help highlight some of the ideas inherent in the text. With that out of the way, let’s begin, the central conflict of the story is also the conflict between Eren and Mikasa’s love for each other, and that’s why the central theme of the story is “This cruel yet beautiful world” which is the words Mikasa uses when she’s trying to process her conflicting memories of Eren. 

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based on headcanons i found in the tags of previous drawings of this au!

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