#but yeah will do a full theory like the haruka one i posted today once i get my hands on an audio drama translation

[thinkin-bout-milgram]

Tear Drop: Initial Thoughts

Hey, Venus here again with my off the cuff and early morning/late night theory! 

So, on the whole, I feel like Tear Drop gave us a lot less to work with than All Knowing and All Agony. AKAA had a lot of new information as well as some really clear graphics, whereas this one I feel like expands upon stuff I was already pretty sure about. In any case, I’m going to do about the same thing that I did with Haruka and go through my various thoughts and overall standing on Yuno.

Yuno is being portrayed as a cat for some reason.

At the beginning of the MV (0:15), we see a cat silhouette in white light turn into a silhouette of Yuno with the cat ears like hairstyle. I have actually no idea what this is supposed to mean, but figured I’d toss it out there.

Yuno has stopped seeing things through rose colored glasses.

The rose colored glasses initially show up on the stuffed animal she receives as a gift from one of her lovers. The stuffed animal looks at Yuno through these, probably reflecting her clients; the clients see her through rose colored glasses as the “poor naive little girl.”

However, she takes those glasses for most of the MV, seemingly looking at her work through them. Look at this! Her work gets her money, and it’s not all so bad. Clearly, it’s fine. 

Obviously, this is a bit of a front as she cries and the song is called Tear Drop. At the end, after she breaks the rose colored glasses and starts looking at reality, she seems much happier, right? She’s breaking free.

Yuno doesn’t think of her clients like real people and establishes no connection with them.

The thing that interested me the most here was how the different Yunos interact with each other. At the beginning, the Yuno in lingerie (who I'll be calling the real Yuno here) seems almost mad on behalf of the Yuno dressed in white, who appears like nothing more than a doll (0:59). Then, the two Yunos go to bed. Later on in the video, though, the Yuno in white gives a cold real Yuno a blanket (2:07). 

I think that the white Yuno is basically a doll to her, given that it's a front that lacks personality. The scene where they go to bed illustrates that there's no emotional connection there, that it's just her by herself emotionally in those moments. However, as the blanket scene illustrates, Yuno gets what she needs from the relationship: assets in the form of money, and perhaps more importantly, warmth. 

 Yuno's first MV had a focus on "let's reload the warmth," and there's a similar idea behind the line at 2:24: "the fading warmth makes me anxious again." A blanket is a perfect symbol for Yuno, because in her line of work, warmth seems to equal survival. She needs warmth to stay alive. Here in Milgram, she's become cold. I wonder what that'll mean?

Yuno probably had a lot of abortion scares and did nothing to change it.

I’m still not sure about that “hellish” comment, but this is the best I can come up with, really. 

Saturn saw a note by @snakeroll​ that I totally agree with. At 2:45, the windows behind Yuno look like this: 

They look like pregnancy tests. However, because pregnancy tests are usually one line for not pregnant and two lines for pregnant, these are probably tests that are coming back negative.

Still, the fact that she’s seemingly taken at least four negative pregnancy tests if not more means that Yuno is regularly worried about the concept. That means she’s probably not really using much of any contraceptives and has to check basically after every single time.

Assuming Yuno does eventually get pregnant, that does show some irresponsibility on her part. Still, especially if it’s abortion, I still don’t really see how that could possibly stack up to the real murder that others have committed...?

If anyone gets the shots at 2:15 or 2:21, let me know. I feel like they mean something important, but I don’t really get what.

Vampire???

The Yuno vampire cover was really weird, and more importantly, the cover for vampire is in Yuno’s MV. Is this symbolizing the cover getting more important? Is it emphasizing the vampire aspect, that Yuno is gaining by taking away from others? I’m not sure what it’s doing there, but it’s making me uncomfortable.

Current vote: INNOCENT

I don’t see what Yuno did wrong??

Right now, I feel like she’s in a state of self loathing because she feels she, as an unapologetic woman who’s had to use herself to get what she needs, cannot possibly be innocent or forgiven by society. I disagree.

I want to tell Yuno she’s valid! Barring something terrible in the audio drama, I’m currently intending to continue her on her innocent path.

Let me know what y’all think!!