#also why she and falke look the same beyond the dissolution of self thing

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The Red Eye, Godhood, and the King in Yellow

red eyes are everywhere in signalis. surveillance cameras with blinking red lights following your every move, the symbol of the nation is a red eye, those monitors with red hexagons like a wall of red eyes, hell even your viewscreen

Even Ariane's eyes are red, as she's associated with the red eye, which itself is associated with The Flesh and The King in Yellow and The Empress and bioresonance.

I think this is because in a lot of ways, Ariane is the god of this time loop. It is by her will and bioresonance that we're trapped within it. In this place where reality is in debate, where her beautiful dreams ARE our reality. Some interpretations of the King in Yellow view him as a metaphor for the death of god in the face of decadence, of when artists and philosophers decide that there is no truth higher than their own art, where the beautiful mask becomes reality.

God in the West, in many ways, is connected authoritarianism, what with the Calvinist idea that he predetermines who goes to hell, his all-seeing eyes, his demand for strict obedience. In a lot of ways, Ariane is stuck recreating the Nation's authoritarian control over her life with the power of her own authoritarian godhood, over and over in those loops, like the cycle of abuse, trauma, flashbacks, and learned helplessness, until we put God out of her misery with our own two hands.