Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
I really doubt Themis is related to Venat, but on the remote chance he is, my ascension to maniacal chaos demon with accelerate a thousandfold. If Themis is her son/brother/what have you and Venat still did what she did to him, and we were truly expected to sympathize and side with her, we have transcended from "kinda bitterly funny in an ironic way" to full Fandaniel-ization farce comedy mode. Soon my hold over Zodiark shall be complete! Mine, all mine! Ahahahaha!



I could write a lot of words about the narrative's choice to actually, in full sincerity, take the stance of "the real tragedy here is how much it hurts me to hurt you," but.
That's Japanese philosophy 101. Japanese society emphasizes the suppression of self, whereupon one is not supposed to speak too much about how something makes themselves feel and instead, direct attention to how someone else feels. It's considered a taboo to even tell someone "No" outright; you always have to mince your words in phrases like "It would be difficult" or "I will put it under consideration" because telling someone "no" supposedly indicates how little you care that it hurts them.

Naturally, it's a system that is highly abusable, since Japan is also strictly hierarchical. Someone who is lower in social standing or in less of a unique position, always has to take the feelings of those above them in mind (and those equal to them, but that's a lesser concern). The constant emphasis on how Venat felt when she sundered the world and how Hermes felt when he...well, basically fisted the universe up its rectum...is a very Japanese thing. It's supposed to be like, "These were very respected and powerful people who held unique agency over every life on the star, so we should be respectful how difficult it must have been for them to do the very stupid things that they did."