#also tbf i get mad when characters get misinterpreted in general for jokes. like maybe a little ooc sometimes for a specific text post meme

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#Not to mention I have posted about this before but all of this combined with everything he tells aira in that sequence during feather touch#About not minding if others dont believe and what religion and god itself means to him as a whole a subject he seems very passionate about#And he ends that rant in a rather cute way actually he seemed glad someone was there to listen 😭. I find tatsumis views on religion#Fascinating and that scene seems to be a very important yet overlooked part of his character! for the sake of jokes that ignore it to make#the white suburban mom kind of christian. the fandomization of characters for the sake of memes. sigh <- tatsumi enjoyer#I recommend for anyone who cares about tatsumi or his views even remotely to read feather touch even if not an aira fan#tatsumi does believe in god but it's more in the context of what he means to people and thinks faith is important#more.. what god represents. and thinks there is no importance in proving him to be real or not since he religion clearly has#an impact regardless#he kind of doesmt necessarily believe that he is real or anything... so that is true#And even with his own personal views aside its important to remember that he is kakure kirishitan ... which like you said is a minority#ens via @newdimension

#nods. shoutout 2 tatsumi kazehaya#also prev i think in feather touch that was um#tatsumi was talking abt his personal theology#and said smt along the lines of (i am not referencing screencaps so take this as a paraphrase)#'my belief is not in god as an omniscient and omnipotent being#but rather as the material effect on reality created by those who believe in god'#'and use god and their belief as motivation for the material reality they enact'#which is such an interesting take via @seishun-emergency

putting these two together bc they are related but yeah very much this. I knew he talked about his personal theology in touch of a feather but like i said i'm not a tatsuP or anything so the specifics evade me so thank you for the examples. He's got a really nuanced take on Christianity that a lot of people just glaze over for jokes and it really does make me mad even if I don't produce him

yes give me the tatsumi rant

god okay so like we know Tatsumi is Christian it's a pretty important part of his character that he is like in his first feature scout story he mentions that he wanted to wear his father's vestments but was scolded for it because they are something that you have to be serious about like this is the most obvious thing anyone would know by looking at Tatsumi.

HOWEVERRRRRR since a lot of Western fans only really think of Christianity as like. Southern Baptist/Mormonism/Jehovah's Witnesses/Extreme Catholicism and like yeahhhhhh those sects are not Great but that's not all there is to Christianity as a religion. I went to an Episcopal service a few weeks ago and it was very fascinating how different it was to the Southern Baptist youth group I attended as a child. But Tatsumi does not follow any sort of American Protestant denomination because he doesn't fucking live here. He's a religious minority in his own country holy fucking shit.

Anyway there is ample evidence within even what has been officially translated that Tatsumi is a chill guy. In the current gacha story Ushimairi pt. 2 we get to see his first interactions with Koga right after moving in and he's literally.

They're chill!!! They're chill and they get along just fine. Koga asks about if Tatsumi thinks dogs are dirty because of his religion right after this and Tatsumi explains that it was because of the historical context and that stray dogs had rabies which is a completely valid reason to not want to like. Interact with dogs, but it's completely fine now because most dogs aren't walking around with rabies!!!

He's also stated that he believes he's going to hell before and that he's accepted that fact but he still believes in God anyway (and he has a conflict of faith later on where he debates if he even still believes or not). He would not be a bigot he wants to accept everyone as they are that's literally why he had the fucking revolution at Reimei over his belief in equality. Goes insane.

Anyway I haven't read most Tatsumi stories I stated in my last post I do not actually care about him all that much because he doesn't appeal to me as a character but mischaracterization on this level drives me up the wall like we are not reading the same stories we are not playing the same game clearly.