#and the heavens have a metric crap ton of crimes to answer for

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

I've been saying this but seriously? for real? father can die in a hole. nora/mizuchi has never stepped one millimeter out of line and yet he turns on her at the slightest provocation. the two most recent chapters (104) are prime disgustingness but I just finished 46 in my reread and right from the beginning he's been willing to fawn over her and then flip to casual threats of torture/death without batting an eyelash. NO WONDER she's like that. she could ABSOLUTELY be fixed with some love and a warm bowl of soup and yet that absolute grease stain had to get his hands on her. ALL SHE EVER WANTED WAS FOR SOMEONE TO GENUINELY CARE FOR HER AND IF SHE DOES NOT GET WHAT SHE DESERVES I'M GOING TO RIOT. one of the BEST examples of getting my opinion on a character turned around I have ever seen. you don't have all the information at the beginning and so you're like "wow she's creepy, and she's doing some crappy stuff to the main characters for no discernible reason, yikes," but then you get to the end and it's like "never mind! sucks that it had to hurt others but actually that makes perfect sense!"

oh and don't even get me started on yato and yukine or we'll be here all frickin day. something something bla bla blah parallels about yukine's horrible dad and yato extending a hand to him and telling him to live and giving him a second chance and then yukine's efforts to do something about mistreated kids in the human world and then looping back to be there for yato (child with a horrible dad). something about two people who are really just young, at the core of it all, thrust into the positions of responsibility and caretaking inherent to the god/shinki dynamic; giving to each other when they barely have anything left themselves. list me three characters in noragami with stable family lives and no deep seated trauma, I dare you. it's absolutely rife with extremely well done and complex theming and parallelism that's ripe for analysis but I've got too much irl stuff to do right now so it'll just have to sit in my head while I scream about the broadest parts on tumblr. AAAAAAHHHHHHH.