#sxf chapter 99

[1alchemistart]

preparing emotionally for ch 100 JDKLFKLSD

[tare-anime]

The way Martha always reprimand Becky for homewrecking, now hits different after chp. 99🫠🫠

[yuzukahachimir]

I am on the side of the belief that Henry managed to get out of that alive because his last name was recognized in the society of that time, otherwise he would end up underground.

It is a shame that due to the tremendous blows he lost part of the sight in one eye.

[pikinanouart]

Chapter 99 sucker punched me right in the FEELS but Clueless!Henderson was still funny.

I mean yeah he eventually got it but a billion years too late man

Now Becky Blackbell better makes it her life mission to reunite them together, I swear to gawd.

[friesucker]

My heart was aching so much through the whole chapter.

[queenofapeacefuldawn]

An Analysis of SPY × Family Chapter 99

Manga spoilers, and a very long post ahead!

I'd like to preface this with saying that all of this is my own analysis, and I'm not very smart at these things, so take this with a grain of salt!

This chapter was extremely heavy: with Henry realising his feelings for Martha, and how it echoed the main theme of this story: how war destroys relationships and how innocent civilians are forced to enlist out of fear for their families' safety.

The chapter starts off, continuing off the cliffhanger of the last chapter— it turns out to be a false alarm, but Martha leaves her feelings for Henry unsaid.

She begins writing letters to Henry, and they keep a regular correspondence to substitute for their tea parties--

The war continues to grow dire, and Martha's squad hasn't been given any combat training, yet, they're forced to go to the front lines, under the pretext of "serving your country" and "keeping your family safe".

Henry is obviously shocked and scared for Martha when he finds out she's on the front lines, but we never get to hear his thoughts with the introduction of this fucking bitch-

🤓☝️ lookin ass--

In this chapter, we get to see Donovan's own ideals, which are shown through his argument in the debate. Interestingly, Donovan is almost the same age as Demetrius is in the present-day. (At least, that's what I'm assuming-- Henry mentions being in charge of the middle schoolers, and Demetrius is a middle-schooler.)

He claims,

I have a couple of thoughts about this. First,

"I know that solving differences with dialogue and weapons is ideal". The phrasing of this is interesting, because it kind of sounds like he doesn't believe in that-- he just knows that solving differences with diplomacy instead of war is 'ideal', but does he really believe in that? I don't think he does-- and, his own definition of 'peace' is definitely... ambiguous. What does he think 'peace' is? Subjugating other countries with his own power?

He already has a strange concept of humanity and other humans' own ideals-- he believes that, at our core natures, human beings are liars. That the only thing we're capable of is war and destruction.

This is also very similar to his own ideals that we see in modern-day. He doesn't care about either of his sons, as he says, they are essentially strangers to him. And, you might have raised them (though with Donovan, "raised" is a stretch), you might be their own father, according to him, he will never truly know his sons. Which is why he doesn't even attempt to understand them. His own ignorance for human nature and for others around him is really what makes him a failure of a father-- we are never truly born "knowing" others. Yet, every day, we make an attempt to learn the people we care about-- and isn't that a little of what love is? Take the Forgers-- they are three strangers to each other, each concealing their own natures from the others. They're all liars, and yet, they're making an effort to heal; they're learning to love and they're learning to learn about the people around them, the people they care about.

This is his flawed ideology. In his world, humans are strangers-- humans are nothing to each other, they're always hiding their true intentions from each other. Humans can't be trusted-- humans don't trust each other, which is why war and destruction and pain is all humanity is capable of.

But it's really not. SxF's message is of how three strangers--- three orphans of a war they were forced to partake in--- come together and form a home. Yes, they are liars, yes, they're hiding their true intentions, but they're making a home for themselves, a home where one can be safe, where a young girl, who's experienced horrors no child should, can feel safe and in her mother's arms.

Which is why I think Donovan's ideology is so flawed--- and how beats of it echo in the modern-day SxF story, especially when Twilight meets him.

Yes, by mere dialogue, reaching a mutual understanding is idealistic, but the most important thing is to not stop seeking to understand each other.

Humans are flawed, humans are selfish, humans are kind--- there's a debate on whether, intrinsically, humans are good or bad. We're all given different cards to play with, but really, it's up to us to decide on our faith in humanity.

It seems like Donovan has a wholly negative view on humans--- we can never know each other's true intentions, and it's with this doubt that humans wage wars--- it's with this doubt that humans lie and kill and cause destruction.

It's because of this doubt that Desmond is planning a war himself.

Martha writes Henry a letter, and she talks about a dream where all the students are holding hands, circling Henry. She can't join them because her hands are filthy--- maybe it's guilt? Maybe she's feeling guilty, maybe she feels like she can't join the others because her hands are stained with blood.

She's scared. She's regretting joining the front lines. Her only solace is the letters from him. The only way he knows she's alive is the letters from her.

I feel like another story would have taken a turn, making Henry regret his own feelings for Martha because the war had torn them apart. Instead, Henry realises his own feelings and his own wants too late-- and it becomes the last letter he gets from her.

It feels like an extra gut punch, as in the beginning Martha was embarrassed to call him "beloved", but now, he's calling her beloved, and he misses her so much. He cares for her so much, and doesn't know how she is.

All he can think is---

His hands are stained with ink. The nib of his pen is almost breaking. Ink is bleeding onto the page. In Martha's dream, her hands are stained with blood due to her desire to protect Henry and her country. In Henry's reality, his hands are stained with ink due to his desire for Martha to come back, be with him again. The Soldier and the Scholar, each trapped in their own Hell.

Henry finds out that Martha's squad has been killed. Their lives were a "sacrifice" for their country. This is blatant propaganda, and, he feels they're sullying her memory by mythologizing her; by using her life, using her death as a way to snare more students into a violent and hopeless and painful battle.

He speaks out. He's punished.

He's been brutalised so much, that he needs to wear a monocle.

We learn more about Donovan's and Henry's own ideals. Donovan gives up on people who've disappointed him-- people who he deems as fools. Henry doesn't believe in that. He believes that everybody deserves to not be given up on--- every body deserves a person in their own corner.

Towards the end of the chapter, Henry's forced into a marriage by his father, believing it's "for the best", because the soldier he was waiting for never came back to him.

We cut to "Somewhere near the East-West border", to a home with a fireplace. Martha is just opening her eyes, and is severely injured.

This definitely isn't a safehouse or military barracks or a military hospital.

A home with a family, or at least a person, with a fireplace and a chopping block for firewood.

This place is also near the sea,

which makes me think it's somewhere near the south. (If I'm remembering the map correctly).

Edit: The map is faithful to irl Germany, which means the sea is to the north, not the south. Sorry for the discrepancy before!

I'm thinking someone rescued Martha while she was injured, and brought her to their place to rest and recuperate--- which is why she's presumed dead, and why Henry wasn't ever given closure.

The next chapter is no doubt going to be explosive--- the 100th chapter. I feel like this arc will segue into something bigger, something more heart-wrenching and painful (I don't know how that's possible, but I trust Endo-sensei.)

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Thank you for making this far and reading this whole thing! I hope you enjoyed, and I hope I wasn't annoying with my hatred for Donovan lol.

Also, on a more light-hearted note, I explained the plot of SxF to my dad, and he's intrigued and wants to read the manga. I'm planning on showing him the first ep of the anime, to see if he likes it. I feel like he will.

[spencer-is-dead]

God chapter 99…

This is such a good arc. I always love it when Endo is able to write something darker. This chapter is just tragic. The fact that Henderson’s realization came to late, the fact that Martha was willing to sacrifice her life just for the people she loved (Henry).

Can we just take a moment to look at the expressions in this chapter? The way Endo draws expressions is so beautiful. It really portrays the tragedy of the war

Also, these pages. He realizes that he loves her, and then it’s too late

while it’s brief, they did outright show dead bodies on the page. I know these will get censored in the anime since you can’t exactly show stuff like this in what is basically a pg-13 show, but god whenever Endo shows the war it’s always horrific.

Loid’s backstory arc is one of my favorites because of it’s strong anti-war themes, and this one is definitely going up there with that arc and the hijacking arc as some of my favorite in the manga because of their depressing nature.

I also saw someone say this was supposed to be “Westalis” instead of “East-west border” but something tells me it might have to do with our main cast’s history, because we know both Loid and Yor lived near the border. I’m leaning more towards Yor, since we know there’s an ocean in southern Ostania (as mentioned in the movie and seen on the map) and it’s been mentioned she lived in the south. Though, looking back on the chapters where we see Yor’s home, it doesnt look anything like it. But I do believe this will segue into something more

[cocktailjjrs]

How does a Action-Comedy Manga has such a pure, heartfelt and at the same time tragic and heartbreaking love stories.... It's something so wholesome...

Spy x Family is soooo...

Because at some point or the other, we understand what's going on with Martha or Henry -

Even in today's age we struggle to express our feelings freely, we chicken out at the last moment and then keep thinking back to what-ifs. Let alone doing so in a war-ridden world.

We can relate to Martha...

And there's this situation....

It's always difficult to keep in touch with someone who is even a city away... Distance is the biggest enemy of any relationship - platonic or romantic.

War changes a person, i think we've seen it so many times in the history...

It broke my heart when i read this😭

On a side note, if being pessimist was a person, it would be him -

Because while i understand where this narration is coming from... This simply can't be the only outlook of everyone in the world... If it was, this world might have burned to the ground ages ago.

But it also seems that kids seen some shit to turn out to be the man he is today... And honestly i can't wait for his back story too... because the question comes, is it a generational trauma that got him? Is it the war-ridden society? How did the situation get more fucked up, leading upto experimenting on humans?

All that shit... it just went down the hill from this...

Any ways, i was downright crying by the end of the chapter. Knowing Henry tried to move on, thinking Martha was never coming back... Only for Martha to be out there near the east-west border...

That's angst right there...

It's said -

That those who die, just pass away. It's those who survive, suffer...

And isn't that true...

How did we end up here again?

[binks-brew-co]

hmmm I wonder why Martha discourages "adultery" so strongly...

or... you know... definitely not something she might be tempted with in the next few chapters...

[such-a-downer]

HOLY FREAKIN BOMB

[kilfeur]

Bon sang ! Ce chapitre le drama est total, entre l'attaque des avions, la déclaration qui n'est jamais venu, les lettres censurés et le fait que malgré ils étaient pas sur la même longueur d'onde. Mais le bataillon de Martha va devoir servir la première ligne et les déserteurs se font exécutés. Et Martha s'y engage, malgré son envie de protéger ce qui lui reste c'est le fait que justement elle est coincée et que même si elle continue encore et encore, elle pourra toujours se motiver par ses propres convictions. Pour à la fin n'avoir plus rien à perdre et c'est ce qui arrive quand Henderson entend la nouvelle à la radio, c'est déchirant ! Surtout que dans sa lettre, il souhaite tant qu'elle revienne.

Poussé par le chagrin, il interrompt le discours de propagande avant d'être mis en cage. Et Donvan enfant, j'avoue que je l'ai pas vu venir mais en soit c'est logique surtout avec son discours qui se superpose avec la bataille de Martha. Bien que je sens qu'il est sincère quand il apprécie les lectures d'Henderson malgré son grand détachement pour les autres. Et au final, il se marie et à cet instant, Martha se réveille.

Goddam it! This chapter is total drama, between the airplane attack, the declaration that never came, the censored letters and the fact that they weren't all on the same page. But Martha's battalion is going to have to serve on the front line, and deserters are going to be executed. And Martha joins in, despite her desire to protect what's left of her is the fact that she's stuck, and that even if she goes on and on, she'll still be motivated by her own convictions. In the end, she has nothing left to lose, which is what happens when Henderson hears the news on the radio. It's all the more heartbreaking when he hears the news on the radio, especially as his letter makes him wish she'd come back.

Driven by grief, he interrupts the propaganda speech before being put in a cage. And Donovan as a child, I admit I didn't see that coming, but in itself it makes sense, especially with his speech overlapping with Martha's battle. Although I feel he's sincere when he appreciates Henderson's lectures despite his great detachment from the others. And in the end, he gets married and at that moment, Martha wakes up.

[thetreeshavenotongues]

Spy x family chapter 99 not-really spoilers:

Endo is not playing games this week yall

[tare-anime]

SxF Mission 99

(Beware spoilers)

I-.....

I don't know what to say.

This chapter really broke my heart to pieces 💔💔💔😭😭😭😭

Martherson really is Endo's way of incorporating the TwiYor angst trope.

Oh. My. Gawd!!!!

Let me count:

1. The intended confession that never had a chance to happen

2. The ask through letter that never come, causing misunderstanding because third party interference

3. When one's soul was broken, the other wish to help but can't be there for the other

Also that panel of broken Martha. I can't help but imagine the same case happened with Yor during her first time kills. 😭😭😭

4. The yearning to see each other

5. Wishing to whatever deity that could heard them, and yet, death separate them apart.

This "come back come back come back" panel is so strong, followed by desperation full with regrets that crush any remaining hope right after......

Oh. My. Gawd!!!!!

😭😭😭😭

Endo really compiled the TwiYor angst prompt, and "with mercy" gave us the Matherson version.

Still, if he can do this to the "side characters", what will he do to the Forgers???? 😭😭😭

Nevertheless, this chapter really broke me.

What will happen at chp 100???

I have no idea.....

[yuzukahachimir]

SxF CH 99 SPOILER ALERT

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I don't know what could happened to Donovan Desmond but he looks he saw ghost at night

[wingzoffeather]

Just read chapter 99... Y'all it just made me cry! It's my fav tragic war-scarred ship all over again AHHHH!

Just read the chapter 98 of Spy x Family...

Gosh Henry & Martha's backstory has me hooked! I never thought there'd be another tragic-almost-canon ship quite like Roy Mustang & Riza Hawkeye, yet here we are. Totally different personalities of course. But the "spending teenagehood together > developing crush > slightly older person pursues his own goals > younger person loses their life stability in meantime > briefly re-unite > & get interrupted by the reality of country being at war" pipeline is here.

[queenofapeacefuldawn]

BITCH