#also the fact that nahida literally has dialogue critiquing mass incarceration indirectly LMFAO

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the interdarshan championship arc is peak storytelling.

on one hand you have a message about how dismissing kind intentions and generosity in the name of nihilism is ineffective and irrelevant because human society can only be improved, and has only been improved, by people who dared to do good and altruistic things; there is a difference between fantastical hand-holding idealism and the principle of compassion and community aid, because humanity has always ever thrived in groups - in the support and conditions of unconditionality we lend to one another. helping one of us is helping all of us.

on the other hand, you discover that the wanderer joined the vahumana college accidentally because he keeps fact-checking researchers about events that he actually lived through but obviously can't say he did. nahida registered him as the representative of vahumana under a pun for cat. she expects him to write a dissertation on the validity of nihilism and existentialism in human nature while also wanting him to make friends at the championship. peak sibling behavior.