#his opening rigidity sets a tone that speedfreaks fm subverts moreso than the gay or asian parts

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I'm not sure that's the vibe we are meant to be getting?

I think the halo imagery is tied to Harry dubois fucked up worship moments, where the halo ties the saintly (otherworldly, better than you Harry, incapable of wrong) kim to the Dora (Dolores Dei) who he previously grasped onto to find meaning in his life.

"When Dolores Dei was anointed innocence, her lungs started glowing through her body, for the world loved her and she loved it back!"

"An innocence is infallible. The decisions made by one are not decisions. They are inevitabilities -- what would have happened anyway, only accelerated, packed into decades instead of centuries. An Innocence is a continuous, compressed event, a sacred human being. It is an honour and a glory to live when one is in office. "

"Dolores Dei was shot in the chest with a fowling piece, eight times. The man, thought to be insane, said he once touched her and her body had been unnaturally warm, like a furnace -- and that sometimes while on duty he observed her forgetting to breathe for over ten minutes... "

"*Sunrise, parabellum*," the lieutenant says. He's in the middle of a freshly cleaned room, with the fan above his head like a halo. His face is covered in bruises"

Tying those quotes together, Dolores dei represented Harry's ex fiancee Dora, who once gave him meaning (I think it's widely speculated that it was her that pushed him to b a cop and a gym teacher but I'm not sure the quotes for that). Without meaning, Harry becomes adrift and goes on bender after bender. He wants that guidance back. So he latches onto Kim, who is given the halo, whose decisions are inevitabilities, years of healing condensed into a week. Who's only in text halo mention is when he is saying, wake up, prepare for war. Kim guides the players quests, harrys decisions, as the new Innocence in his life. I don't think we can analyze the halo without leaning on that foundation.

Tldr Kim is Harry's new patron saint and this sainthood in de has never been unbiased

do you ever think about how kim kitsuragi's halo imagery ties into the desexualization and emasculation of asian men as well as tie him into the idea of the catholic messenger (the angel, clarion call and all) whose presumed reliability comes from its lack of earthly desire (represented by the child-like form and lack of functioning genitals in the same way the desexualization of asian men is argued to be tied to their "child like appearance" by phrenologists) when kim is gay (an often hypersexualized identity) and wants so, so much and kinda sucks at objectivity and is skeptic and fearful of higher powers?

i do.