#yes this is absolutely a reach and super pretentious and im reading way too much into a little thing but it just

[cyrillean]

"The [comedy] revolution will be televised"

I've been unable to stop thinking about this line ever since I first saw it, like... maybe this is a localization and im reading too much into it, but to me it instantly raised a billion red flags because it follows with a trend sasara's been displaying since forever

like... I genuinely think Sasara is one of the most chaotic neutral people in hypmic and i dont mean that as in haha funnyman be wild, i mean that as in I don't think he has a moral compass AT ALL.

Like, I think currently, all the divisions could be considered anti-chuoku; if not in action (eg jakurai having his hands tied and now working with them, WHICH IS ITS OWN CAN OF WORMS THAT CANT END WELL), then at least in spirit. If tomorrow you asked all the division leaders whether they wanted to press a magic button to bring chuoku down, they would probably all do so! Because they're tyrants exploiting the divisions to keep the masses distracted, and by now they have directly and personally hurt all of them in one way or another. Chuoku's system keeps the divisions as cogs in the eternal machine to make sure nothing will be made substantially better if it's not convenient to Chuoku, it's all just empty theater keeping them spinning endlessly in the circus wheel.

...the issue is... when I say "all leaders", really I mean all except Sasara. Sasara would probably just lean back and go okay, and why should I?

Because Sasara really seems to have absolutely no qualms with how good or evil Chuoku may or may not be, how the society they create and keep in place may be better or worse with or without their presence- he just cares about how things affect him and his goals. The DRBs are empty and meant to keep the divisions from rising up and overthrowing them? Yeah, so what? He couldn't care less about whether he's navigating a world that's 100% authentic and meaningful, or totally artificial and meaningless; if he can easily navigate it and get to the top, then it's cool in his book.

Sasara keeps openly and gladly allowing people to use him as a tool in their plans- so long as it aligns with his own goals. I mean, that's literally how Rei keeps getting him to do exactly what he wants with no resistance: every single time, Rei presents Sasara with a situation made ENTIRELY out of red flags, but every time, Sasara goes "well I can get something out of it and I'm smart enough that I won't get taken advantage of without me knowing, so why not"

Which is bizarre for someone whose entire Thing spirals out of trust issues?? You would think he wouldn't like being manipulated. But I think the thing is, as long as Sasara FEELS like he has control over what's happening, he doesn't give half a shit if the situation itself has been very blatantly engineered for someone's benefit.

And that's what scares me: Sasara is the one leader who is 100% totally fine with Chuoku's regime on every level. If Chuoku want to use his team as puppets for some nefarious reason, then, like, whatever? As long as he and Rosho get to win the DRB together, who cares about who benefits from their win.

Between him and Rei, Dotsuitare Hompo have the potential to be the villains of this DRB, maybe moreso than Fling Posse ever were when they were directly sponsored and ordered by Chuoku, and even more than Matenro probably will be even now that Jakurai is officially working with them, because at least Jakurai has massive moral quandaries with the whole thing.

But Sasara is chaotic neutral to the extent I'd be willing to believe that, if Chuoku play their cards right, he would he happily willing to sabotage any uprising among the divisions.

"The revolution will not be televised" is a phrase because true revolutionary activity goes against the interests of those in power, and they will try to supress it or at least control the narrative to paint it as a negative. And I don't think Sasara has any interest in biting the hand that feeds him... no matter how much blood that hand is stained with.