OK here’s the sigma post. something i see people throw around a lot is the idea that fyodor / the decay of angels was responsible for bringing sigma into the world. it seems like a pretty popualr fanon / fan theory, and as fun as it is i believe that is… just not true, which i think is clearer if you think about what fyodor says regarding him
fyodor is a very particular guy. he wordsthings very particularly. when he talks about things the doa have used the page for, he says “the page” (example here)
however, when he talks about sigma’s birth…
“sigma was written into the book” he says. and the visuals are very specific, too–when the pageis talked about, the visuals are always that onepage. take this example, when tachihara breaks from the page’s hold:
or this, during the sunday tragedy conclusion
it’s just the one page, every time. but with sigma, it was the whole book. so i think we can assume, yeah, he was written into the book proper, not just onto the page. the problem with that is, well, the decay of angels doesn’t havethe book. they only havethat one page, that’s why it’s guarded so heavily (being kept on fukuchi at all times). if the doa had the book they wouldn’t have to worry so much about the page being taken from them
so, uh. that brings some pretty big implications, and bigger questions. the decay of angels doesn’t have the book, but someonemust havewrote sigma into it. which means there is someone out there we haven’t seen yet who has the book,or at least access to it, and they’re responsible for sigma’s birth. so. who is it, where are they, and why was sigma created, if it wasn’t by the doa to help with their plan? what’s their goal?
I mean I did sort of wonder why Sigma would have been human trafficked if the DoA wrote him into the book for their own purposes. Like wouldn’t they know where he…I don’t know, spawned? Or would he have appeared in front of whoever wrote him?
There’s the argument of “they wanted Sigma to be desperate to have a place to belong, to better follow the DoA’s orders,” but they could always alter his personality using the book.
And another thing, the hand writing the page. They are wearing gloves, it could be anyone.
However, Fyodor knows the origins of Sigma’s birth, so that arises other questions: if Fyodor did not write Sigma, how did he know where he came from? And is Fyodor manipulating them as well, or in vice-versa?
I don’t think Fyodor is actually religious, my theory is that he grew in a really religious environment but he stopped believing at some point (probably caused by some sort of trauma) and he started dividing the human in two different categories: ordinary and extraordinary. (Like Raskolnikov in the book)
Following this idea i don’t think he has a god complex, he has a savior complex, he strongly believes that he is a extraordinary and that gives him the moral superiority and obligation to get rid of the filth of the world (in this case, the ability users that have the same function as the old woman in crime and punishment) and “save” the humanity.
His theory is probably going to fail at some point or it’s going to have some changes if he founds his “Sonia” that symbolizes de redemption and christianity. I don’t have really clear if he’s doing to find redemption alive or at the moment of his death.
One of the most interesting parallels between soukoku is Dazai’s detachment from his humanity that he has by nature, he rejects and despises the true nature of the human being. On the other hand Chuuya wants to feel some kind of humanity, to be a real human, to feel and perceive the world as a real human and craves this humanity
That’s why they complement each other so well, they find what they do not have in the other.
The same happened with Rimbaud and Verlaine, the reason why Chuuya and Verlaine appreciate(d) and treasure(d) their partner it’s because they always saw them as humans, they didn’t care about their “true nature”
Mori’s ability is so interesting because it is supposed to be a materialization of his desires, but we don’t know anything about how Elise was created or why she has the ability to foreshadow some situations with her drawings. Mori knows how everything is going to end?
I was thinking about Fyodor while reading crime & punishment and i realized he may be seeking for god’s salvation.
In the book Raskolnikov (the protagonist) is living in a state of sorrow, distress and torment after committing m*rder which made me think. What if Fyodor or someone that was close to him committed a terrible crime using his ability and now it’s looking for redemption eliminating every ability user?
Maybe he thinks without the ability’s existence we are going to be able to find equality and balance.
