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Rimlaine doodle for my 3 rimlaine enjoyers
Rimbaud Analysis Part 2: Verlaine, Chuuya, and Humanity
Welcome back to Jax-yaps-way-too-long-about-a-character-with-3-seconds-of-screentime! Hope you enjoyed the last 780 word post about a singular line. Anyway.
A lot of people view Rimbaud as the one person who could affirm Verlaine's humanity. Which is fair enough, Verlaine makes this claim himself at the end of Stormbringer. Rimbaud asserts that Verlaine is human regardless of his origin or his feelings on the matter
However, there is strong textual evidence that none of what he says is something he really believes, not fully. At the very least, he has severe cognitive dissonance between what he says to Verlaine vs his actions and words with Chuuya. In Rimbaud's last journal entry, he writes this:
Pay attention to the way he dehumanizes Chuuya. He is an "it". "It" has the appearance of a young boy. "It" is a model, a weapon. This is hours after celebrating Verlaine's birth and humanity. The juxtaposition of this line contrasting the rest of the entry is stark.
The very next day, when Verlaine turns on and betrays Rimbaud, that sentiment is repeated. "You're human, your origins don't matter. We've had this discussion many times." Verlaine does not believe him, he expresses how distressed he is over his origin. Rimbaud regards him with dismissal rather than empathy or understanding.
Interestingly enough, he does not refer to Chuuya the same way when he's face to face with Verlaine. Suddenly, he's a child to be raised and not a weapon to be used.
The flip is subtle and I don't even think Rimbaud himself realizes he's doing it, because in his journals he truly does seem to regard Verlaine highly as a human. It's all about subconscious bias. Verlaine and Chuuya have identical origins (that he is aware of) and yet he speaks of, treats, and thinks of them very differently.
When Rimbaud joins the mafia and searches for Chuuya, none of this has changed. There are two lines here I think are worth talking about in the fight with Chuuya.
These are two very different sentiments that he holds when it comes to killing Dazai vs Chuuya. One he mourns as the loss of human life, the other he regards as nothing more than an object to be used and a tool with no inherent value.
It took him regaining his memories and dying to see his own mistakes and the way he treated both Chuuya and Verlaine alike.
It's during this reckoning that he speaks to Chuuya, finally affirming his identity. He finally recognizes what he did to cause Verlaine to fall away and resent him. In this moment, he's not dismissing Chuuya as human regardless of his feelings as struggles, he's speaking to what he realized to late that Verlaine needed to hear.
Its why no part of me believes Rimbaud is malicious, even in his callous disregard towards Verlaine and his struggles and his hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance. He's unintentionally cruel to Verlaine, but in his final moments he's finally able to empathize with him through Chuuya, who he viewed as an object and a tool.
I think its a great, perhaps unintentional, allegory for bigotry and internalized biases. I'll get deeper into that when I eventually post my Stormbringer analysis through a queer lens
Part 1 | Part 3
Rimbaud Analysis Part 2: Verlaine, Chuuya, and Humanity
Welcome back to Jax-yaps-way-too-long-about-a-character-with-3-seconds-of-screentime! Hope you enjoyed the last 780 word post about a singular line. Anyway.
A lot of people view Rimbaud as the one person who could affirm Verlaine's humanity. Which is fair enough, Verlaine makes this claim himself at the end of Stormbringer. Rimbaud asserts that Verlaine is human regardless of his origin or his feelings on the matter
However, there is strong textual evidence that none of what he says is something he really believes, not fully. At the very least, he has severe cognitive dissonance between what he says to Verlaine vs his actions and words with Chuuya. In Rimbaud's last journal entry, he writes this:
Pay attention to the way he dehumanizes Chuuya. He is an "it". "It" has the appearance of a young boy. "It" is a model, a weapon. This is hours after celebrating Verlaine's birth and humanity. The juxtaposition of this line contrasting the rest of the entry is stark.
The very next day, when Verlaine turns on and betrays Rimbaud, that sentiment is repeated. "You're human, your origins don't matter. We've had this discussion many times." Verlaine does not believe him, he expresses how distressed he is over his origin. Rimbaud regards him with dismissal rather than empathy or understanding.
Interestingly enough, he does not refer to Chuuya the same way when he's face to face with Verlaine. Suddenly, he's a child to be raised and not a weapon to be used.
The flip is subtle and I don't even think Rimbaud himself realizes he's doing it, because in his journals he truly does seem to regard Verlaine highly as a human. It's all about subconscious bias. Verlaine and Chuuya have identical origins (that he is aware of) and yet he speaks of, treats, and thinks of them very differently.
When Rimbaud joins the mafia and searches for Chuuya, none of this has changed. There are two lines here I think are worth talking about in the fight with Chuuya.
These are two very different sentiments that he holds when it comes to killing Dazai vs Chuuya. One he mourns as the loss of human life, the other he regards as nothing more than an object to be used and a tool with no inherent value.
It took him regaining his memories and dying to see his own mistakes and the way he treated both Chuuya and Verlaine alike.
It's during this reckoning that he speaks to Chuuya, finally affirming his identity. He finally recognizes what he did to cause Verlaine to fall away and resent him. In this moment, he's not dismissing Chuuya as human regardless of his feelings as struggles, he's speaking to what he realized to late that Verlaine needed to hear.
Its why no part of me believes Rimbaud is malicious, even in his callous disregard towards Verlaine and his struggles and his hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance. He's unintentionally cruel to Verlaine, but in his final moments he's finally able to empathize with him through Chuuya, who he viewed as an object and a tool.
I think its a great, perhaps unintentional, allegory for bigotry and internalized biases. I'll get deeper into that when I eventually post my Stormbringer analysis through a queer lens
Part 1 | Part 3
I want to see verlaine going absolutely insane after rimbauds death like pacing around his room talking to himself getting visions of him like a dead wife movie flashback having breakdowns every other day maniacally trying to paint rimbaud but growing more and more frustrated because he's not able to fully capture his essence until eventually he just starts destroying all of his paintings and then just sinking down onto the floor and crying once he comes back to his senses and realizes what he's done
Verlaine is insane.
When I say this, I don't mean "Wow he's so wacky, he's insane for killing Chuuya's friends cuz who would do that". I mean it in the most clinical sense of the word. There has been a genuine, tangible decline in his mental state from the Verlaine nine years ago to the Verlaine we see in Stormbringer.
Verlaine's goal before being separated from Rimbaud was clear. He was going to raise Chuuya away from his past, not to end his loneliness, but because "I want to save the other me". He wanted to protect Chuuya from going through what he did. He states upfront that he will not give Chuuya to the government because "imagine how it feels to be told you weren't born with God's love, that you are nothing more than a character set someone suddenly came up with. Imagine the depths of a person's heart pierced by those words. It's a pitch-black abyss where the moon can't be seen. There is no hope. There is no salvation." He refuses to let someone else, the other him, grow up with that.
His stated intention when he returns, however, is completely antithetical to this original goal. It is no longer about protecting Chuuya, though he deludes himself that it is, it is about he loneliness and desperation and he is willing to become what he hated to hurt Chuuya into feeling the despair he feels so someone else can experience it with him. He never wanted Chuuya to know what he was, and yet he was the one who became so insistent about Chuuya's humanity that it almost causes Chuuya to fall down the same path. Why was this different? He'd had the trauma with Pan and his humanity, what he didn't have was the isolation.
I want to emphasize how much his goal has shifted to be about his loneliness. I do not think it can be understated how much nine years of total solitude can affect a person's mind. Humans, including artificially created ones, are a social species. Social species experience severe cognitive decline when isolated. Though he'd resented him, he once had Rimbaud. That isolation allowed his resentment and trauma to fester into delusion and obsession and caused his sanity to slip.
Throughout Stormbringer, we see that decline. Particularly in Code 3 and 4. Even the way he talks slowly shifts from cocky and arrogant to desperate and fearful. Fear of himself, of confronting Rimbaud, and even what he did to Chuuya. He is not well, that much is obvious, and I think it's hugely in part to those nine years.
I want to add that Verlaine did feel guilty for what he'd done, and realized that in his search for reprieve of his loneliness and suffering he ended up more alone than anything. Upon realizing this, he begged Chuuya to kill him, which he did not. But still he was dying, and he wanted that outcome. He didn't want to live with what he was or what he did. But Rimbaud forced him to stay alive and live with that guilt, taking away his option to take the easy way out. He had to live with everything he did.
Happy birthday Paul, I’m so glad you were born
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"The man narrowed his rustic brown eyes as he said that. They were the same colour as Chuuya’s."
-Stormbringer, page idk, CODE 01 (from the LN)
Verlaine has the most gorgeous big brown eyes EVER. don't @ me, I am not falling for the blue eyes propaganda ✊️✊️✊️‼️‼️‼️
— humans use the word "loneliness" far too lightly.
was feeling nostalgic and drew them..... I'm not interested in bsd anymore but I think about from time to time... My shaylas🥹
Look at Verlaine, desperately trying to deny being fr*nch. We know Verlaine❗️
hc sometimes I think about what it would’ve been like if Verlaine managed to get Chuuya from the lab and they escaped to some countryside village…just picturing the villagers looking from Verlaine to Chuuya, then back to Verlaine, and they’re like pause…Something Isn't Right. this kid gotta be kidnapped or something ಠ_ಠ
like. can you imagine the two of them (and maybe Rimbaud. maybe not) showing up at some random ass village in the middle of nowhere with absolutely nothing— no luggage, no money, no ID, nothing but the clothes on their back…Verlaine’s all “no one will know or question us this is foolproof” meanwhile the entire village finds him suspicious as fuck 😭
villager: what’s your name, kid? Chuuya: …i don't know Verlaine: he’s shy villager: how old are you? Chuuya: …i don't know villager, half joking: do you know this man [points to Verlaine] Chuuya, looking at Verlaine, serious: …I’m not sure villager: Verlaine: villager: villager, shouting to their spouse: GRAB THE PHONE TO CALL THE CITY I NEED TO REPORT A CRIME
Verlaine: don’t get the wrong idea. this is my little brother villager, looking intently between Verlaine and Chuuya: adopted? Verlaine: no we’re true brothers villager, at Chuuya: oh. so this is your brother? Chuuya, serious: what’s that? villager: Verlaine: villager: let me check the news rn Verlaine: WAIT
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i've also decided that Verlaine is 100% the reason the PM arrived so late. that man hasn't left the basement in 6 years there is no WAY he comes out looking that cunty without some work put in. the PM arrived so late to the fight because they were carpooling in 1 van and had to wait for Verlaine to apply his foundation so he can look like he has seen the sun recently.
Whenever a character gets introduced in this series we are always given their name and ability. We see that in this chapter with the reintroduction of Margaret Mitchell.
But Verlaine doesn’t get one.
And I find that really interesting considering his relationship with his name and his identity.
Verlaine did not originally have a name and was known only as Black No. 12. It was Arthur Rimbaud who gave him the name Paul Verlaine.
Verlaine has struggled a lot with his own humanity. He never believed he was human and he found Arthur’s attempts to humanise him infuriating and confusing.
And yet he desperately cling to Chuuya because of their similar pasts and abilities and believed that made them family.
That Chuuya was the only one who could ever understand him in a way that his partner never could.
Even wanting to convince Chuuya he wasn’t human because he didn’t see himself as one either.
And so it’s interesting for him to not be introduced by name but only by his ability and his connection to Chuuya.
That those are the parts of him he values as more important then all else.
Black No. 12 was an experiment.
Paul Verlaine was the King of Assassins.
But here and now he can simply be Chuuya’s older brother like he always wanted to be.
a doodle for the occasion