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I am a firm believer that Bondrewd really, truly loved all of the kids he cartridged and they loved him in return.

The curse/blessing split doesn't happen without love, he learned that in Nanachi's experiment. He knew all the Hollow's names and personalities. He treated them kindly, even during the end (as much as that can be called kind).

He's just completely insane so he literally does not understand a discrepancy exists between loving someone and dismantling them into a flesh briefcase.

drag-on-dra-goon

when you stop to think whether or not you should continue delving further into the layers of the abyss be sure to keep in mind that 99% of cave raiders stop right before they uncover the secret that will resolve all of their deepest desires and provide catharsis for all of their most enduring traumas

manikun

I had a vision while napping

takosan

Had to look up Bondrewd’s Japanese VA because he honestly knocked those “oya oya oya” moments out of the park. The surprised “whoops” when he tells Nanachi that he *may* have already embarked on robot murder/experimentation had me crying.

In the absence of facial expressions, body language and voice are so important in how Bondrewd is presented in the anime. His voice absolutely lacks any malice or anger. Instead we get surprise, delight, and pride at the “accomplishments” of “his” children. There is no doubt that Bondrewd commits horrendous actions but his voice is so disarming. The armor is intimidating, the body language veers between gentle (the head pats) and violent (riffling through Reg’s intestines so casually) but the voice is consistently polite, encouraging, and, I hesitate to say this, kind. It is fatherly. And that makes him so much more scary.

Anyway, the VA is Toshiyuki Morikawa. He has also voiced Ubuyashiki in Demon Slayer, Isshin Kurosaki in Bleach, Naraku in Inuyasha, and a whole bunch of other characters.

azathothweirdo

I really love this scene. It's the first time we really ever see how genuinely gentle he can be, and how much he does care for the children. The way he hugs Prushka here, and name her always gets me. He believes in full she is special from this moment, and is going to nurture this potential.

It's aspects like this that really add to his character. He's a man who can show incredible cruelty with no mercy. But he is also capable of being kind and loving. The part that always gets me and makes me love him is that it's all real despite what the end result is.

When he speaks about the children to Reg, he is proud of them. Fondly remembering what they were meant to be. This is is especially important because all cartridges look the same. Bondrewd remembers which kid is which even in that form. That what is happening isn't wasteful sacrifices to him. He respects them, he remembers them, because they are the children he loved dearly.

Love is really a curse and a blessing when it comes to this man.

eroguron0nsense

I have my criticisms of Made in Abyss but I will also say that I haven't seen enough people comment on my favourite aspect of it (and I may be looking in the wrong places, I haven't term searched), which is that it's a breathtaking deconstruction of settler colonialism, and of the romanticism of the weird adventure stories of Europeans plumbing every as of yet unexplored corner of the earth and finding strange and wonderful things at great risk. It is a profoundly critical piece and one of the few that while capturing the allure of that genre and the call of the void and the human search for answers, also has the fucking balls to say, "Your choice to do this is to choose death and the loss of your humanity", "This place is built on atrocity in the name of gold and glory and colonial prestige, every attempt to get further into its depths requires horrendous sacrifice, and the act of settling was fundamentally amoral", and, as of where I've read up to (the end of Faputa's story), "this capital we've built, this land and its blessings that we have, are literally built on endless suffering, it is justified for the victims of that to retaliate, and to dust we shall return". Every aspect of its world-building is seductive but shows both implicitly and explicitly the horrifying truth of behind the siren song of colonial exploration, from the implications of what happened to the native people of the island to the sickness affecting the current inhabitants to the wrecked ships and remnants of failed predecessors, to the indoctrination of children into dreaming of seeking death, and the overwhelming sense that the Abyss will always, always get its dues Intentionally or not, it's one of my favourite explorations of the brutality and futility of the search for El Dorado

thatalienrabbit

heybaetae

and if i said that tumblr thought they could get away with that update bc they know the majority of this website ignores the reblog option entirely compared to years ago, so they figured they could just BREAK the very foundation of how this website was built to operate and people would just shrug and be fine with that. please let this be a wake up call. our strong reaction to that change should start to reflect significantly in that ACTUAL reblog count under those notes we just fought for to stay untouched. fandoms and communities cannot thrive on likes alone. as much as tumblr has tried to turn this place in tiktok and twitter, it's not. posts need to circulate. art needs to be seen and shared. tumblr is not tumblr if this is not happening consistently because reblogs are the heartbeat of this website. please don't ever take it for granted. never give tumblr a reason to take away the thing that links us together and amplifies creativity. make reblogging a priority, PLEASE.