AHHHHHHHH I NEED TO DHARE MY THOUGHTS OF RIDDLE AND MUZAN BEING FOILS TO EATCH OTHER!!!!!
I need someone to understand that my brain has latched on to the idea of Muzan being what Riddle could have become if he stayed as a tyrant from book one, everyone losing against him and not rebelling anymore about it and he became a demon while still holding on to that toxic mindset.
Muzan rules his demons using fear, threats, and killing off those he finds useless. That may have worked for him in the millennia he ruled as a demon but it was never really working. No demon could find the blue supper Lilly he so desperately searched for to be “Prefect”, none of the demons could ever kill off the entire demon corp. He could never find the demon to conquer the sun in all those centuries because those demons lost/threw away thier humanity for thier own desires of power.
Demons are creatures that never change or evolve beyond from what they are. Why would they need to? They can live forever, never die from age or disease. They have powers so strong that can kill many humans easily that it’s almost god like in a way.
The question is, how in the world do they get that? The answer is? Muzan?
Muzan never changed anything about himself. He saw himself as a god, one that is immortal, powerful, above petty human squabbles, someone who is eternal.
He couldn’t survive the sun and he hated that. He couldent be the prefect god if he couldn’t even survive living under sunlight. If he could just find the blue spider lily or find the demon that could conquer the sun, then he would be a perfect god. Unchanging,powerful,eternal.
But because of his refusal to ever change, to understand humans and care for things other then himself, he never could.
He is nothing more than a narcissistic, weak and petty man that pretends to be a king, but one that will always be hated and eventually forgotten.
That is where Riddle is different.
In the beginning, Riddle was nothing more than a tyrant that also ruled by fear and rules, believing to be the most correct because of his mother. Unchanging as well.
But that all changed when Ace, Dice, Grim and the MC stood up against him and beat him out of his overblot that he started to change.
He saw the hurt and wrongs he caused, listened to his student’s pain, and for the first time in a very long time, listened and changed.
And that is what saved him from his path of becoming Muzan.
Riddle opened his mind and learned beyond from his mother’s world. He learned from different perspectives, listened to others, talked with them, tried out different things then what his mother always told him, and he evolved because of that.
He changed from a young tyrant that held on to his rules, scared that if he ever strayed from them, strayed from his mothers teachings and plans, from that top spot, he would have nothing and be all alone, to someone always learning and changing, learning to understand other and connecting with them and always learning something new.
He is becoming a young Queen that while strict, is willing to listen and evolve with others.
It is through that desire to be better is what (possibly) helped him keep his humanity, keep his memories, and help him conquer the sun (Possibly. Don’t know if that’s going to be the care).
A tyrant king that never had connections and only desires control vs a young queen that’s still learning and fires to have connections. I think that’s a pretty fun thing to see.
sorry if I didn’t make any sense or it’s hard to read. I’m on my phone and grammar is not my strongest suit. Just really wanted to share this with someone before I went crazy from not sharing it.
no, it all made sense! i just wanna know how you picked up something before i even got the chance to put it down sksjhdd bro snatched it from my hands
but no, i agree with all of this. you’re absolutely right, and i’d planned to explore this in the coming chapters, preferably after meeting rui bc his experience would really highlight the difference between riddle and muzan.
i had a lot of fun mapping out their parallels in my outline, trust that it will be mentioned and they both will hate it amjsbd