stitching threads of truth; [essay]
#1, for Kajio, Akemi's state of mental health
Akemi is at his core, very unstable. He's very good at hiding it-sure, he seems off, but of course he is, he's a King of Bel, a human that's become a demon, it can't be that bad-but he is, to be honest, a walking, ticking time bomb of crazy. He was mostly okay, if with some latent tendencies towards ( Read more... )
Akemi is at his core, very unstable. He's very good at hiding it-sure, he seems off, but of course he is, he's a King of Bel, a human that's become a demon, it can't be that bad-but he is, to be honest, a walking, ticking time bomb of crazy. He was mostly okay, if with some latent tendencies towards ( Read more... )
Michi's mental state isn't much better. He had the powers of God plus the powers of Bel to deal with for around three hundred years. And as you said, humans aren't meant to become demons - or gods. Not without the structure of their souls being altered, at least - blessed (or cursed, depending, I suppose) into a more divine or demonic form by a more powerful being.
But there wasn't any such change for Michi. Adding the stress of that on a human soul, plus having gone through ten years of bloody war before taking down God, plus all the stress of the Lockdown, plus having killed Naoya (and he's still not sure if it was on accident or somehow subconsciously on purpose even after three centuries), plus having to deal with the politics of heaven and the demon world, plus the fact that everyone he ever knew or loved is now dead...
And that's not even getting into the whole thing with what humankind is doing and watching another War of Bel break out and the aftermath of that.
... Really, he's got a major dose of crazy, but isn't showing it so much out of his mun's fear of being called a drama-llama. The best analogy I can think of is this:
Take something made of glass. Put pressure on it. Pile heavy books on it. Look at it through one of those things at a science museum that lets you see the stress lines on it. The pressure builds up and up and up until it finally just... completely shatters.
That's kind of what his soul is like right now - very close to the shattering point. This is the major contribution to his crazy.
... Aside from centuries of boredom and watching humanity fuck up over and over. :|
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Akemi and Michi can be crazy-buddies together. :D obviously we should do a crazy post at some point
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There's also the matter of something trying to push him to eliminate humans for being... stupid, basically. No, Michi, you may not pull a Nyx. :|
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