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crystalsuicune wrote:
Manka's transformation into Joubutsu was because of her attempt to escape from her burden,yet now she,as Joubutsu,had to bear a much heavier burden--as the witch goddess/representative of death itself.Ironic hell,I suppose?
This is somewhat true. The transformation of Manka to Joubutsu was not instant, as it required a lot of 'purifications' before she became a goddess in the negative spectrum. Oh and before I forget to mention, each 'purification' will erase a portion of one's memories, and the weaker memories take longer to come back. Really strong memories are retained.
Joubutsu was forced to stay in her barrier the darker parts of the spirit world,made to endure the pains and sufferings associated with death.She was also forced to face all this alone,because hey,no one wanted to be friends with Death,amirite?
Not sure what you mean by 'endure the pains and sufferings associated with death'; each rebirth made her closer and closer to the spirit world, and the influence of her stronger memories inclined her more to the thoughts of death. In her final purification (as of now), she's the one in charge of overseeing the death of all beings in the world, meaning she has to partake in the pain of every living being.
Naturally,Joubutsu wanted to escape from this role like before,but this time it's even more difficult to do so.She tried breaking the boundaries and get to the mortal world countless of times,yet her powers were insufficient to do so.She even tried killing herself,but she simply got resurrected as her role forced her to become somewhat immortal.
Did you just read my mind again... Particularly the 'killing herself' part as that was the reason she slowly became the goddess of death...
I'm a bit confused however as to her
initial objective. I'm actually under the impression that her willingness to escape wasn't there at first since, you know, she wasn't the goddess of death when she first started. However, with how you formed Manka's background (...because for some reason I'm totally taking it seriously...), it is possible that she wanted to escape ever since she fell into the darkness as there was still a portion of her soul that was Manka and not fully Joubutsu yet, which eventually became weaker and weaker thanks to the continuous visions of death that she underwent throughout her life. Eventually the soul of Manka was merged with Joubutsu's, forming the thought of escaping the visions of death by presenting all of the deaths in one instant.
All this was of course frustrating,and it allowed Shimedore to plant a malicious thought in Joubutsu's mind:If you cannot escape from your suffering,then drag everyone else in to suffer with you.Cue the whole burn-down-the-world thing.(alternatively,you can remove the influence of Shimedore and make it a result of Joubutsu's mental breakdown)
Shimedore... has no involvement in Joubutsu's actions. However, Shimedore is waiting for the time when Joubutsu is released from her own curse so that he can start his incident. Shimedore will pick up where Joubutsu left off and will proceed from there. Unlike Joubutsu, however, Shimedore won't destroy the world. Instead, he will gather up all the darkness in the world (which would then be easy to contain in one place thanks to what will happen to Joubutsu in Chapter 30), and is able to manipulate it freely due to
Shimedore being one of the world's nature-binding beings. Once the current world is wrecked enough, he will take the opportunity to form the darkened world into one that he wants. He has enough power to do so.
In short,IMO Joubutsu is quite a tragic character.Her actions may be far from being acceptable (since when is destroying the world acceptable?) but in the end it all stemmed from her lonliness and suffering.
Yeah,that's about it.
I'm amused how you mentioned loneliness but forgot to expound it here.
Since you've been pretty good at your assumptions lately, I will give you a WMG challenge...
How did Fuushikaden play a role in Joubutsu's past?
I will (probably) not answer this directly, but I'm amused to see what you can come up with...