#instead that choice makes the reader acknowledge their own complicity in whatever. and asahina is the same as [struggling to remember names]
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Last word on Asahina—he is the lone sane man, he is not the lone good man, he’s eaten of the tree which means he’s choosing his path knowing full well what that means
#kelsey liveblogs manga#good. Yuri Espoir has committed to its bit. you can’t have that easy out or the comfortable character#there was a post going around a while back for asoiaf (a book series I haven’t read) talking about how there’s always an adult in the room#or specifically that grrm has a point of making ‘good’ or more reasonable adult male characters complicit in child abuse#to reinforce that there are no good characters and also that the many many pov characters all in some way contribute to the worst acts#the audience can’t have their self-insert fixer upper because that makes it too easy to say ‘well good can stop evil!’#instead that choice makes the reader acknowledge their own complicity in whatever. and asahina is the same as [struggling to remember names]#…those guys in the ASOIAF post. I think sandor and stannis or whatever
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