Nicholas Roerich, Battle in the Heavens (1912)
Nicholas Roerich, Battle in the Heavens (1912)
Ultima III: Exodus artwork from Nintendo Power magazine (1989)
the kurapika life drawings with varying degrees of polish
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characters who are so inauthentic. characters who only show what they want other people to see of them. characters who simply must have control over every part of themselves. do you even get it
characters who are inauthentic even to themselves. characters who cannot allow the mask to slip. characters who struggle to have an identity past what they project out to the world.
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i need to press that man like a flower. get in the book boy
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there’s something to be said about the fact that the door to anthy’s coffin couldn’t be opened with a sword but instead with a girl’s hands but i’m not gonna be the one to say it
To me, that represents the very essence of Akio’s flawed attempt at regaining what he once was - he still believed in the idea of the prince and the princess, the binary of the savior and the saved. The dueling system as a forge to create the perfect prince, so their sword/heart could be used to force open the door to restore the (false) past.
But the binary is a lie, the world isn’t fixed by anyone forcing open the door to restore the persons involved to a specific title, role, or essence. The world isn’t something we can fix, but the way forward for Utena and Anthy is not for Utena to save Anthy, it’s to show her that she is not an object. That when all roles and symbols have been stripped away, she is a person. And deserves to be free, which gives her what she needs to save herself.
If Utena had “won”, they would have lost, because then they would still be bound by the logic of that hateful world.
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