Midday, Midnight, the Lotus Flower between them
Alright everyone! Time to talk about the meaning of Mahiru's, Shinya's and Guren's names a bit!
I did promised it before to talk about this and as I could successfully pass my today exam with full mark! Then~ I wanna write it down as some kind of gift to myself lol
Before starting as you may know I dislike writing long theories so I just go straight to the main points!
Why Shinya and Mahiru's names are opposite of each others?!
Is it just some random names or Kagami has plans for them??
Absolutely the second option because we saw how much the meaning of names played important roles all this time.
What I want to say and think Kagami wants to use is this
This is the Yin and Yang cycle in Chinese culture with lots of deep meanings and one of them is that when something creats in this world, its oposite will also creat along with it too.
Just like right when the light created the darkness also created along with it too and actually one gives birth to another and these two always replace with each others.
Directly to the main point:
We all know Mahiru was a good and kind girl when she was a kid although she sounds to be a bit manipulating even as a kid too (in light there's darkness) but then she turned to nothing but a monster who destroyed Guren's life fully and finally forced him to fall into the same darkness she fell too.
Against this case that's Shinya Hiiragi.
A boy who had a hard past and even if he didn't have much choices his life he was the one who had a very dark past and his hands became bloody and dirty on a young age but even those times he was trying to makes friends and be kind
Just like as if he was trying to find light even on those dark moments
(in darkness there's light) but then he turned to someone's who was and is literary Guren's savior.
Mahiru showed the dark path to Guren before her death although Shinya showed the light path to Guren before his death and here is the point of:
Mahiru sounded too angelic and pure but she was nothing but a monster Guren finally found it out and accepted it too (Wrat19 volume 2 chapter 3) and Shinya was the one who sounded devil and stone heart but he was actually that savior who Guren always waited for.
As much as Mahiru ruined Guren's life, Shinya saved his life, gave him a reason to live and a reason to continue (Wrat19 volume 1 chapter 3)
Guren was like a sun to both Shinya and Mahiru (Kagami sensei's A & Q) but Mahiru ignored it although Shinya melted on its light and so the yin and yang cycle changed and one borned its oposite side again:
Mahiru and Shinya's places changed.
Shinya turned to the light one Mahiru turned to the dark one.
Maybe even that's why Guren's feelings chenged a lot too.
Crimson Lotus is a flower blossom in light of sun and day (not to mention that Lotus flower is the one who gave birth to Sun God Aten in Egyptian culture in the first place too) and we saw how much in Catastrophe at 16 novels Guren's all wish was to save Mahiru but now?! His desires completely turned to Shinya and all he wants now is to save Shinya instead which means how much Mahiru and Shinya's places changed just like the Yin and Yang cycle can change.
Also Kureto means twilight a balance between light and dark which we can clearly saw in his character that his nor a devil man like his father not a completely good human too but is a complete balance between both parts.
I also said this before too that in this story the symbols are not the usual one we always saw in real life.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B4G-maagZciCsvpQFuKZvKAEYmiD5C97KI6iTo0/?utm_medium=copy_link
Someone who wears white doesn't exactly means that guy is the good guy and the one who wears black means to be the bad one! In this story the symbols are completely different just like how we saw it before in Fanbook of ONS that how Mika who wear white is the one who is in darkness and Yuu who wears the black one is actually the light one (just like how finally Mika turned to a demon and so yeah that was such spoil Yamato sensei gave us that time long ago)
And yeah so that was the post
Please share your ideas I'll be glad to hear them ^^
(@owari-no-edit here this one for you ;))