So I was working on my Ebisu angst post and I came across two things that I wanna talk about - both sad.
When Yato and Ebisu go into the Underworld, Yato almost stabs Ebisu in the eye that one time cause Ebisu asks him for what reasons he exists in a rather demeaning manner and Yato goes ‘let me stab you in the retina’ and yells:
When I first read this, I naturally assumed the one he wanted to make happy had been his father once upon a time and Ebisu assumed he meant humans in general, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized it probably has a deeper meaning. If we accept that yes, Father is a human, then for Yato he was more than just a father figure to him. He was a human who was praying to him and Yato was fulfilling those prayers as a God. Inherently, Yato was performing his duties and his follower was happy and that made him happy. Yato saw Father as a human with wishes for him, and now he denies those wishes. Yikes, that must hurt his god side a tad bit.
And then Ebisu carries on to say:
This boy is going into the underworld to save the world his own way, for the people relying on him, for the world that he loves so deeply and he doesn’t value his life in the slightest bit. WE KNOW THAT EBISU HAS SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (is that why he constantly pushes himself beyond the limit?). It makes my heart hurt to see him say this. Which leads us to the last point.
Ebisu’s reasoning: Yato values his life = Yato can become a fine god that can make people happy. Which also means - in his reasoning - he doesn’t value his life = he is not a fine god and he can’t make people happy. Ebisu, no. You’re making people so happy, you have no idea. You’re going into the underworld to save humans. You’re a great God!!! It’s so painful that this Ebisu believes he can’t make people happy (which is probably connected to his underlying fear of not being good enough for his own mother to keep around - which I so happen to be basing my angst post on).
Yeah so these are just random thoughts that hit me.
In this page, you get to see Kazuma helping Yato out in a flashback, when Yato still used to kill.
Yato is lying on the ground, on something that resembles a grave, but now let’s look closer:
He’s covered in blight.
I highly doubt that’s a shadow, plus we get to see Kazuma throwing at him a bucket of purificative water shortly after:
As you can see by the “fwsssh” line, the shiny thing and Yato’s face, the blight is gone. So my question is: why was he blighted in the first place? Maybe a phantom attacked him?
Well, probably. But I don’t think it was an accident. In flashbacks, grown Yato is always shown to be with Hiro in more or less safe places. You get what I’m saying, right?
Yup. I’m pretty sure this man was the cause of this. Some other hint of abuse? Well, probably. He’s shown multiple times to throw phantoms at Yato and Nora, so I wouldn’t doubt he just left Yato injured on the ground until someone saved him (Pure precious Kazuma). Best father 2k17, y'all.
(Mostly about Father because y’all know how I roll.)
Been sitting on some thoughts about Father, Yato, and their relationship and respective childhoods for a long while now.
I didn’t draft this beforehand because I’m not really in the headspace for super structured meta at the moment but I wanted to share some Thoughts™ so please excuse the messiness. First thoughts post of the year!
I can see ‘Yato-kun’ circled above, below 'Yukine’, to the right something connected to something imperial (宮) (possibly and probably Amaterasu, as she is called 宮様 by the imperial treasures)
どうやって means 'how’, 'by what means’
and i just can’t get the read on the kanji i will mark as ’??’ below douyatte (どうやって)
Currently thinking about how Father said that cull the herd was “the only wish he’s been able to wish in his entire life” and yet we see him as a child first and foremost wondering WHY the gods just watch human suffering, when they bear a human face and hands and eyes.
(grabs you by the shoulders)
Yato is the antithesis of Heaven’s callousness and carelessness with human lives.
His internal drive has always to been to make people happy, he MOURNED the unnecessary deaths of people, he is not an embodiment of Father’s superficial desire for destruction but a god who truly cares for humanity and their sorrows, exactly the kind of god that a young Father would have wanted to see!!!!!!
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