This was a long and super enjoyable chapter for me. So much bad Mephisto…! I’ll take Mephisto good or bad. Last month he was almost redeemable, this month he’s got big bad vibes again.
Chapter 119 So. Many. Questions.
Question #1. Is Yuri really human?
Do human souls wind up in Gehenna? Or is it just a place for demons? Is Yuri actually a half-demon. Here she is listening to the demon kings babble on about making bodies. Otherwise, Gehenna seems pretty desolate.
Regardless, Yuri’s spirit is stuck next to Satan in hell. Satan has forgotten everything he learned from Yuri about love. He’s just desperate to have a body to feel all warm and hot and stuff. He doesn’t care about emotional connections he just wants a body so he can smash. This guy is so basic. In this chapter, I’ve finally decided… I hate him.
Meanwhile, we see the aftermath of the blue knight, Myoda mourns Shima’s dad…(I mean his brother!) We see the black flame pass on to baby Shima. We catch a glimpse of Neuhaus picking up the remains of his wife and wander dejectedly down into the remains of section 13.
Todo tells his daughter that she’s inherited the same powers has her father. We see nothing but death and destruction around her. Her mother is dead. So that means that both Todos are now demon eaters, perhaps Homare does have an important use to Lucifer? A back-up body perhaps? It’s obvious that she loves the King of Light, is she going to sacrifice herself to save him? Or sacrifice herself for the cause? (women need to stop sacrificing themselves! Full Stop.)
Shemihaza has regrets over not stepping in sooner to stop all the carnage of the blue night. Meph is like…oh…but we had to wait. Wait for what? The birth of the twins and his side plan to ripen. The Grigori agencyshows up to gather up Lucifer’s body and Meph is like…”Ewww might get my hands dirty! Gotta go!” Shemihaza’s internal narrative probably: ”thanks, but no thanks, you arse.”
Mephisto and Shiro meet up to have an argument about who is going to be the daddy.Shiro informs Mephisto that he knew he was using him this entire time. Because he is the King of Time and that’s what he does. Shiro wants to leave the mess and tells Mephy he can come and visit. Because Shiro knows Mephy can’t stay away from his Shiro toy. Mephisto pipes up and informs him that he’s not going anywhere. He has lost a deal to the devil. Shiro is the new Paladin. (Mephisto’s dog…not the Vatican, not really.)
So basically. Shiro becomes the daddy of the twins. Mephisto is “Daddy” to Shiro. Mephisto for the win!!! Here’s your pacifier!
MEPHY WAGERS
You can’t outsmart Mephisto, he’s working more than one angle. If you make a deal with Mephisto, he owns your ass. Yuri made a deal with Mephisto too obviously, either to save Shiro or Satan or maybe both of them. She had an inkling that she knew this was going to happen. Meph set her up as a pawn. He used Yuri’s emotions against her to get what he wanted. He used Shiro’s wager for power to entrap him into a wager. Yuri failed….and so will Shiro.
Meph made a few other wagers. He made one with his evil, whiny father. He shows up in Gehenna and uses Satan’s children as pawns for another wager. He meanwhile, tells Shiro Rin and Yukio are weapons. I think he’s being honest with Shiro. Not because I think that Mephisto feels morally obligated to protect the babies, I think he wants to screw his dad over. Satan and Lucifer are his biggest threats to him losing his playground. He’s going to double-cross Satan. I think it’s still all about revenge. Satan keeps preferring Lucifer of Mephisto and I don’t think it’s going to work out for him. Meph doesn’t have brute power, but he has superior intelligence.
What happens next?
Shura is Mephisto’s next pawn. She knows she’s getting played too. Mephisto is trying to do everything in his power to manipulate her. He loves playing games with his toys. He needs Shura to agree to a wager but nothing is really enticing her.
Mephisto’s deals.
Shiro: Sexual desire, material desire. Meph grants his wishes.
Yuri: Love/desire
Lightning: Dude wanted knowledge….
He’s still trying to figure out how to manipulate Shura. She’s just as intelligent and feisty as Shiro, but she’s got some noticeable differences. She doesn’t give a shit about power.
She cares about RIn and Yukio with the same devotion that Yuri had for Satan and Shiro. But she won’t agree to one of his crappy wagers. It’s gotta be super difficult for him. He’s going to need to try something else to win.
Remember last week when I was exploring Shura’s emblem. How her world somehow becomes entangled with Mephisto’s. We see the mix of Meph’s colours two shades of purple mixed with Shura demonic yellow and pink colours. That weird arrow that shoots through Shura’s emblem is the same weird arrow thing that is part of Mephisto’s Gehenna form. Seriously, what the hell doesthat mean? The more I look at it..i felt so stupid. It’s not an arrow…it’s the hand of a clock. What does it all signifiy? Your guess is as good as mine. They get entangled...somehow.
I was saying this on twitter the other day, but I did not have high expectations for Obi-Wan Kenobi, but I like Ewan McGregor. At first, I was pleasantly surprised at a focus on young Leia and I was intrigued, but the last two eppys revealed its cards and it just seem like a Dearth Vader revenge wank-fest. TBH, it never occurred to me that those two would have crossed paths again based on how things seemed during the original SW.
On the flip side, I’ve been totally pulled into The Boys season 3, even though I find it very dark and disturbing. I watched S1, wasn’t my cup of tea, skipped S2, but watched this season becasue of Jensen.
It’s so darn entertaining, if you’re okay with twisted shit. Def not for the faint of heart.
