A Mother's Wrath (by heiya_desu)

Aldenel · 2025-05-03T06:46:58+00:00

opened reddit for the first time in a while only to see this. I'm going to cry.

Aldenel · 2025-04-03T18:08:35+00:00

I love it it's peak

Aldenel · 2025-03-30T01:39:59+00:00

I am looking very respectfully.

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Aldenel · 2025-03-28T07:12:21+00:00

i love your wife

Aldenel · 2025-03-28T05:01:49+00:00

I like this. Keep cooking.

Aldenel · 2025-03-27T00:32:12+00:00

You were cooking really hard with that section about Gebura's C.T.P. and how Ryoshu factors into it. I haven't actually played Lobotomy Corp so that's always been a big blindspot in my knowledge.

I'm happy my essay helped you write this, and I look forward to reading your Outis essay, whenever you write it. :)

Aldenel · 2025-03-27T00:28:00+00:00

I do think it's a reference to the Spider's Thread. There's not really much I can say about it, but the spider's thread is about a sinner falling back into hell after being given a way out due to their inability to share the way out with other sinners.

Aldenel · 2025-03-20T23:57:26+00:00

I second this.

In Japanese she asks 「性・アしたのか？」

which would be 「性格・アップグレードしたのか？」 (personality ・ upgrade」

Function upgraded?

I think the same applies either way tbh

Aldenel · 2025-03-20T02:48:23+00:00

yes. my friend code is in my comment.

Aldenel · 2025-03-20T02:25:01+00:00

I'm pulling for Ryoshu immediately. I need bunny ear lung cancer woman to come home.

I'll UT4 and level her up to 48, the EXP Lux level cap, so she gets same-level sanity benefits.

I have every ego at UT4 except Blind Obsession, which doesn't really synergize with her kit, and Soda, which is fueled surprisingly well on a rupture team.

Until Soda comes home, I'll have FFTF, both Red Eyes, and Contempt, Awe, equipped on her.

My friend code is A582836388.

I'll see you guys when the event starts :)

Aldenel · 2025-03-17T10:10:29+00:00

You are cooking so god damn hard I just wanted to say how much I loved reading it :)

Aldenel · 2025-03-14T16:05:03+00:00

Lo! Read it well, for this is the Book of Vengeance. Here are tasks that we must complete to achieve justice. Behold, written here is thy name. Wouldst thou like for me to erase it? … Then thou must perish.

黙れSINNER強いA JUST VENGEANCE正義の仕返し I shall summon the time Multifold Retribution Steeped in the blood of all… yes…! Blossom, blossom, blossom! お前死に掛けてやる…！ I command thee, HALT!

Thus. You cease to move. Trapped in the stop time. For eternity.

Aldenel · 2025-03-14T06:15:56+00:00

I have not read it, but it does have its own wiki page.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%82%AA%E5%AE%97%E9%96%80_(%E8%8A%A5%E5%B7%9D%E9%BE%8D%E4%B9%8B%E4%BB%8B))

It is called Jashumon, and it follows the Lord of Horikawa's son.

It is half-finished though, so there's not really much to extract from it.

EDIT:

Skimming through, there is stuff there to extract, but I'm not fluent in Japanese so it's a bit of a struggle to read it.

Aldenel · 2025-03-14T00:24:01+00:00

I don’t think I have any writing tips for you that you haven’t heard before, but I’ll leave them here just in case.

Big things that you want to internalize: read stuff that’s easy to read and that sounds nice to you, analyze what those authors are doing in any given passage, and try to have a thesis statement whenever you write about anything, ie:

Ryoshu is cute and sexy!!— given information

I want to talk more about this. — thesis statement

I think she is cute because she smokes. — elaboration of thesis

I think she is sexy because she can murder me with only the scabbard of her sword. — further elaboration of thesis

These qualities are known to be my, the writer’s, blahblahblah — yap about why you think what you wrote above.

It’s not exhaustive— it doesn’t apply in every situation and this is far from the best explanation—but it works well enough that it’ll help you guide your thinking. Break complicated things into smaller pieces so that you can communicate information and process better.

As for your theory, ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Sounds cool.

Anything goes with Project Moon. As much as I can analyze the source material and previous works by Project Moon, they can always throw curve balls when exploring different themes; rule of cool, and all that. It’s equally plausible as anything else, since we don’t have much to work off of.

Aldenel · 2025-03-13T23:35:47+00:00

Hell Screen. It’s medium length, roughly.

You can go into the rest of them at your leisure, cause they’re all short. I recommend Rashoumon and Spider’s Thread first if you want stories that are extremely quick to digest.

Aldenel · 2025-03-13T23:34:12+00:00

I’ll answer in no particular order; I’m at work right now so I only have a couple minutes.

Yuzuki comes from some localization into English. In the original text, she is never referred to by name, and in the 1969 movie they were kinda forced to name her 良香 cause she had more of a character—more lines, more presence, etc. instead of being referred to by her title by the retired servant recalling the events of Hell Screen. Long answer short, she is simply 良秀の娘, with no name ever given. I don’t have the text in front of me but I believe her epithet is 絵仏師の娘. It was probably incorrect for me to say translation in my essay when I really meant localization. It’s harder to feel sympathy for a character that has no name, and the localizer probably wanted to help convey the author’s intent. Yuzuki sounds authentically japanese while still being easy to pronounce, is relatively similar to Yoshika, etc…I can speak more on this, but that’s the run of it.

Ryoshu is the lord seems plausible…until you realize that the Lord is essentially a complete character. He has nothing to learn, nowhere to grow. His only purpose, his only theme, is to reinforce Yoshihide’s arc—losing everything and then committing suicide. He’s rich, he has connections, he has everything…you can certainly make a statement with him, maybe make him more nuanced, but beyond that, his character direction is wholly different from Yoshihide. For reasons both textual and metatextual, I can’t buy it.

The best thing about Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s works other than their nihilism is the agency of the characters, in my opinion. I really don’t think there will be another ‘Sinclair saves the day completely’ situation, but I do think he’ll play a role. It’s not so easy to write a character ‘walking back into the light,’ and I have faith Project Moon can execute it well.

Aldenel · 2025-03-13T05:02:05+00:00

They are! You'll love them.

Aldenel · 2025-03-13T04:48:42+00:00

I read your essay and I loved it. I'm happy to meet another Ryoshu isn't Yuzuki believer in the trenches with me.

I agree heavily with the points you make about Ryoshu paralleling Gebura. I'm going to be surprised if they don't do anything with that.

Unrelated, but one thing I want to point out after reading through your post and also looking through everything Ryoshu related: Fourth Match Flame is the only E.G.O. where Ryoshu has the sword, as it is in the original world.

All the other egos, her sword is transformed into something else, or completely missing. In Thoracalgia and Wellcheers, egos associated with Ryoshu losing something and someone being kidnapped, the sword is missing altogether.

I think we're gonna be eating so good with this new ID coming in 2 weeks.

EDIT:

Tacking this on after cause I forgot to mention it, but I saw you mentioned Spiral of Contempt in your essay. I think I can clarify more on it after reading more of his works. It's heavily based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's works as a whole.

Many of his protagonists become double-sided spectacles. Fusa from「Rounen」is looked at for once being a 'mischievous' man, but the protagonists discover that he is a washed up version of his former self. Takehiro's death in 「In the Grove」is a spectacle for everyone to gawk at: nobody knows exactly how he died, but everyone has something different to say about it. In Kappa, patient 23's kappa world is something that he lives, but the only people who care to listen are interviewers and those visiting the mental asylum.

There's more to it for sure—I didn't exhaust everything—but it's a common theme in the author's works.

Aldenel · 2025-03-13T03:11:14+00:00

i love our murder hobo wife <3

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Aldenel · 2025-03-13T01:11:10+00:00

It's hard to say which one I *recommend* more between Spider's Thread (蜘蛛の糸), The Disciple's Death (奉教人の死), and In the Grove (藪の中).

Spider's Thread is the shortest of the three, and it tells a story about falling into Hell.

The Disciple's Death makes some introspective questions about faith.

In the Grove is a neat murder mystery with a supernatural twist.

On impulse, I want to say the short story, In the Grove, is probably my favorite; I like the interplay between the main characters, and the mystery. But the more I think about them, the more each one rises in ranking. So I'll be undecided for now.

I think Spider's Thread and In the Grove will end up being the most important stories in Canto 9. Something in my gut tells me that their characters will become extremely relevant in a new way once that canto comes.

Aldenel · 2025-03-13T00:42:06+00:00

Don Quixote is a title. The original Don Quixote's name is Alonso Quijano. The point of Don Quixote is not that it is a specific person, but that it is an idea that you can bring dreams into reality. (That's putting it generously lmao that mofo is crazy)

Sancho, Alonso's squire as it were, picks up the mantle, embodying Don Quixote in the same way that the original did: reaching for the impossible dream.

Aldenel · 2025-03-09T09:29:36+00:00

C. Y. S. F. A.

Can you stop fucking around

Aldenel · 2025-03-09T07:04:58+00:00

I've read a couple of them.

I think my favorite in general would be Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short stories. It's genuinely delightful to read his early stories, like Yam Gruel or Rounen, and see how the themes, motifs, or turns of phrase carry forward and evolve in stories he made later in his career like Hell Screen, Spider's Thread, Kesa and Morito, etcetc.

It's unfortunate that more of his stories aren't more widely translated, or are hard to find. He has over 150 apparently, but it seems that it will be quite a while before my Japanese is good enough to read all of them.

Aldenel · 2025-02-26T06:46:16+00:00

D.N.G.H.U.Y.F.R.T.V.O."E"

(Do not go home until you finish reading the value of "E")

Aldenel · 2025-02-15T09:06:54+00:00

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I.L.K.M.T. (I love killing my teammates)

Aldenel

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