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todayisafridaynight · 1 year ago

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rgg can have a You Did The Bare Minimum award for keepin jo alive and not continuin the trend of one-shottin every interestin antag we meet but they esp deserve it cause lettin jo live the rest of his days in guilt and shame without the power to do anythin is pretty thematically consistent for him. if i may be insane to say.

#snap chats #Stream Of Consciousness dont look at me im rambling #EW this text post is longer than a tweet thats disgusting #i never even tweet outside of art on twitter. ok i do on my personal but i barely post there outside of qrting stuff lmao #In Any Case. i do have an essay on my dome about shame/guilt and jo i aint gon lie #thats been brewing for a while cause like.... lol..... lmao perhaps....#ill just keep it short and sweet rn cause my brain just aint fucntionin how the fuck is it 10pm hold on （；´д｀）#anyway Speedrun Version of what im thinkin tonight #jo's greatly motivated by the guilt he feels for his irresponsibility debilitating masato #he does all he can for him in an attempt to atone for that #but despite those attempts he still shoulders that never-ending guilt #despite those attempts i think its a fair wager to suggest he probably thinks there isnt anything he could do to properly atone #but he at least can and does still try right. this comes back to him going to jail i promise #beforehand jo /felt/ as though he was powerless to do anything- in prison he's /physically/ incapable of doing anything of use anymore #or. he's at least incredibly limited. the most he can do is tell ichi past info but Specifics right #moreover both the arakawas are gone: even if jo was free he still would have no conceivable way of 'redeeming himself'#esp in the case of arakawa that feeling of guilt is worse: this is another case that he arguably couldve prevented #obvi with masato that one is more sure He Definitely Could Have Prevented This but Specifics 2x right we know what im saying #my words are muddy but i hope we know what i mean. in prison all he can do is think and be left with his feelings #all he can do is stew in his regret and guilt. its like. Thematically the perfect consequence for him #like again One Thing to let him live but it also just so happens to play into that eternal guilt/utter powerlessness so well #this type of thing is going to decay my brain until LAD8 comes out and all of this is undone somehow but for now.... i love his misery...#ok this is the only vaguely. I Thought For More Than Three Miliseconds Today post youre gonna get im going back to being stupid

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