#the soldier is a late add on but he coutns too
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ginko 🤝 killy 🤝 the soldier from angel's egg 🤝 hopefully kim dokja: being outsiders/alone, even among any groups of people they join.
#i do not mean any of this in a tragic way no more than life itself can be tragic#it's a comfort to be alone. to be away from the eyes of others#all three of these characters (*idk fully about kdj so no spoilers pls for orv) exhibit these in different ways#ginko and killy have set duties (kdj has a plan and the duty others expect of him but he doesn't abide by those expectations just his own#plan) though ginko's is a mix of self chosen and bestowed by other mushishis (he's been involved in this since he was a kid and what else i#there really for him to do?) and killys purpose was coded into him by someone long forgotten but he still holds onto it tight#arguably most of nihei's protags are like this. zoichi is an outsider with a set purpose and same with denji. the difference is that they#have other people -- zoichi his sister and denji the twins. they're all alone but they're alone together#there's no one like killy and there won't ever be. there's no one like ginko. there's no one quite like kdj#(musubi also doesn't count because she went from someone heavily integrated in society to shoved out of it. ginko and killy don't remember#being with others. i think i did see a spoiler of kdj having memory issues? anyways he was ostracized at a young age so that counts more#than musubi)#and then there's the fates of these characters. killy will never rest. he doesn't know how *cue nihil strength*. ginko does rest but he#always moves again in the end. it's a cycle he's in.#idk what happens to kdj but what i really want to happen is for him to escape the story#that would be the ultimate form of rest. to die to sleep; to sleep perchance to dream.#though here it is not a literal death i wish for kdj. the death of the character he is. the death of him having to be in orv if that makes#sense. loathe to use the words but let him escape the narrative. let that be his death#the soldier is a late add on but he coutns too#he is very similar to killy first off#and i'll leave it there for now because i really gotta do work so i can rest#there are other characters i can argue (alexei karamazov is coming to mind for starters)#i really feel characters who are alone on account of the leaving.
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