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dgray_man2008-09-23 08:41 am
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What if...
As I was re-reading the most recent manga issues, a rather disturbing thought occurred to me.
So, when Cross gives Allen the low-down on his true identity - i.e. the host for the memories of the Fourteenth - he asks him a question: "If I told you that when you turn into the Fourteenth, you'll have to kill the humans who are important to you, then what would you do?"
Allen, of course, is outraged--as we, the readers, are supposed to be. After all, the Black Order, the Exorcists and the Finders and all those people, they're the good guys, right? Right?
Well...what if they aren't?
What if that is part of the "hidden side of the war" that Cross alluded to?
There are several things that seem to indicate that the truth behind the war and what we have been led to believe are two completely separate entities and that the Black Order might not be the righteous organization that everyone thinks it is.
1. The references to hatred and monstrosity in connection with the Innocence.
Upon numerous occasions, Lenalee states that she hates the Innocence for what it does to her, her family, and her friends. Also, look at what happens to Parasitic users like Krory (I still think his name should be spelled CROWLEY, gorrammit!) and Allen when their Innocence is activated, particularly in the early chapters of the series. Allen develops this horrendous claw while Krory turns into an actual *monster*--a vampire that feeds on the blood of Akuma. There are even moments when some of the Equipment users mention that the Innocence makes Parasitic users into monsters. Suman Dark turns into a monster because he supposedly "betrays" his Innocence. The Earl calls the Innocence "the Devil. Furthermore, as time goes on, we see the Innocence using the bodies of its hosts with little regard to the wellbeing and safety of that host.
2. The imprisonment, torture, and sacrifice of children.
Again, I'll start with Lenalee. She's brought to the Order apparently against her will, as evidenced by the number of times she tries to escape in one way or another before Komui becomes a member. She is even told, by Leverrier (Rouvellier?) that there *is* no escape for her, no matter what she does. Leverrier's own family has a long connection involving Hevlaska that seems to suggest that the daughters of the family are sacrified to become a part of that entity. Likewise, Lenalee, Komui and others make frequent mention of experiments conducted on what we see are children (in the flashback drawings anyway) to determine if they are compatible users with the Innocence. Add to this Leverrier's words and behavior during the Level 4 attack, and a picture emerges of an organization that is more than willing to send children off to slaughter in the name of righteousness.
Incidentally, The Children's Crusade was a very real instance of children going off to fight and die for the cause of Christendom in the latter stages of the Crusades. I see certain similarities in DGM in that people tend to refer to the main Exorcist characters as "children".
3. The true nature of the Akuma
About the time of the Edo/Noah's Ark chapters, the Earl is playing on his pipe organ/piano/whatever, and he mentions that the heart of the Ark is the place from whence *both* the current race of humans and the race of the Noah originated. Since the heart of the Ark tends to be closely connected with the "Egg"--which we know as the Akuma factory--this might suggest that humans, Noah and Akuma are more closely related than we might otherwise suspect. When the Level 4 attacks, Bookman is quick to point out that in all the records of the hidden histories, they've never had any confirmation of what Akuma look like beyond Level 3. He and Tiedoll (I believe) both marvel that the Level 4 looks strangely human. Later, the Earl comments that he's happy the Order never got a chance to run full experiments on the Egg, because that would mean discovery of certain secrets about the true nature of the Akuma that he does not want revealed.
So, my thought is that maybe Allen (and hopefully others) will come to see that the Order is not necessarily fighting for the side of "right" in this case. I also think that the Fourteenth's rebellion indicates that *he* didn't think the Earl and the Noah were any more right in their own respect. Perhaps what Cross meant was that Allen was going to have to eventually turn against his friends in the Order just as the Fourteenth turned against his own family in times past.
Thoughts? Ideas?
So, when Cross gives Allen the low-down on his true identity - i.e. the host for the memories of the Fourteenth - he asks him a question: "If I told you that when you turn into the Fourteenth, you'll have to kill the humans who are important to you, then what would you do?"
Allen, of course, is outraged--as we, the readers, are supposed to be. After all, the Black Order, the Exorcists and the Finders and all those people, they're the good guys, right? Right?
Well...what if they aren't?
What if that is part of the "hidden side of the war" that Cross alluded to?
There are several things that seem to indicate that the truth behind the war and what we have been led to believe are two completely separate entities and that the Black Order might not be the righteous organization that everyone thinks it is.
1. The references to hatred and monstrosity in connection with the Innocence.
Upon numerous occasions, Lenalee states that she hates the Innocence for what it does to her, her family, and her friends. Also, look at what happens to Parasitic users like Krory (
2. The imprisonment, torture, and sacrifice of children.
Again, I'll start with Lenalee. She's brought to the Order apparently against her will, as evidenced by the number of times she tries to escape in one way or another before Komui becomes a member. She is even told, by Leverrier (Rouvellier?) that there *is* no escape for her, no matter what she does. Leverrier's own family has a long connection involving Hevlaska that seems to suggest that the daughters of the family are sacrified to become a part of that entity. Likewise, Lenalee, Komui and others make frequent mention of experiments conducted on what we see are children (in the flashback drawings anyway) to determine if they are compatible users with the Innocence. Add to this Leverrier's words and behavior during the Level 4 attack, and a picture emerges of an organization that is more than willing to send children off to slaughter in the name of righteousness.
Incidentally, The Children's Crusade was a very real instance of children going off to fight and die for the cause of Christendom in the latter stages of the Crusades. I see certain similarities in DGM in that people tend to refer to the main Exorcist characters as "children".
3. The true nature of the Akuma
About the time of the Edo/Noah's Ark chapters, the Earl is playing on his pipe organ/piano/whatever, and he mentions that the heart of the Ark is the place from whence *both* the current race of humans and the race of the Noah originated. Since the heart of the Ark tends to be closely connected with the "Egg"--which we know as the Akuma factory--this might suggest that humans, Noah and Akuma are more closely related than we might otherwise suspect. When the Level 4 attacks, Bookman is quick to point out that in all the records of the hidden histories, they've never had any confirmation of what Akuma look like beyond Level 3. He and Tiedoll (I believe) both marvel that the Level 4 looks strangely human. Later, the Earl comments that he's happy the Order never got a chance to run full experiments on the Egg, because that would mean discovery of certain secrets about the true nature of the Akuma that he does not want revealed.
So, my thought is that maybe Allen (and hopefully others) will come to see that the Order is not necessarily fighting for the side of "right" in this case. I also think that the Fourteenth's rebellion indicates that *he* didn't think the Earl and the Noah were any more right in their own respect. Perhaps what Cross meant was that Allen was going to have to eventually turn against his friends in the Order just as the Fourteenth turned against his own family in times past.
Thoughts? Ideas?
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