do you ever just sit here looking at your dashboard and noticing these two quality individuals doing their quality thing and your heart just bursts bc they’re too op for your eyes and you love them
l-let it be known that i’m!!! being!!! personally attacked!!! by all these people at once!!! and my health bar is low rn but with the last remnants of my power i shall do a final massive promo post. so that it will at least backfire their attacks and get them even more followers to appreciate them in their greatness.
my trusty dash, i command you to follow these people enlisted here so you can avenge me: @ckctta @kctsuryoku @talesofours @hopelived @dungeonsandmemes
「A thousand apologies for not being active here at all.
I’ve been getting the grasp of my writing back, but with
life as hectic as it is, I’ve only been able to manage one
muse at a time. I miss my god boy, so I might come back
here eventually. Meanwhile, feel free to follow me here
on Ez, where I’m most active at the moment.
No need to know about LoL at all, my muse is adaptable.」
In all due respect, and as someone who enjoys the Tsuki-theory and wouldn’t mind too much whether it becomes true or not, I’ll be a little self-indulgent here and make a post to point out some of my own viewpoints on it, also clear out some “misconceptions” a lot of people who dislike it seem to have about the paths it could lead to.
Again, not to invalidate disliking it, but as a request to stop shaming those who do support it overall. Please.
Pointing out some “misconceptions”, I’ll try my best to clear them out not really speaking as someone who’s studied the theory a lot, but rather as a roleplayer who’s invested a lot of time giving thought of the way Yato’s character works. Here we go.
1. It’ll undermine Yato’s development as a character.
No, it wouldn’t. For starters, this miiiight only happen if we assume that Yato’s development didn’t really affect him in many aspects of his life at all, dreams included. And even then, his former selfish dream to be big didn’t include to change his name and the people he met all the way before finding out this, if it turned to be true.
We have to remember that Yato has always been in a process of seeking his own renown, regardless of his nature or the kind of deity he is. He refused to accept being Yaboku, the god of calamity, and if he were presented with the possibility of being big in exchange of dropping everything he’d worked so hard and so far to get, it’s likely he’d refuse.
He’s ambitious yes, but he’s also got a pride of his own. He wouldn’t exchange Yukine for the shit ton of money Ebisu offered him to make his own shrine, why would he do it for the sake of “becoming” one of the biggest kami in japanese mythology?
He’d be faced with a challenge bigger than just fighting what he thought was his nature. He’d have to fight to keep his name, his efforts and the people he met all the way, and I think an ending where he achieves his autonomy regardless of his royal roots brings more gratification and meaning than him simply accepting the fate of being Tsukuyomi, or even more than him being still stuck for much longer as a minor spirit born from an evil wish.
2. Yato would stop being Yato.
No? He wouldn’t?
For instance, he’s “Yato” because he himself and all the experiences he’d lived through made him “Yato”. We all know that it isn’t his real name, and we all know that he shouldn’t be who he is currently, but he is and again, I like to believe it’s something he wouldn’t simply drop in the blink of an eye just to be big.
I want also to remind y’all that a recurring theme going on the series is about the sense of oneself. Something Yato constantly and exhaustively criticizes is how everyone seem to take reincarnation for granted, as if it wouldn’t be much of a change for the god to come back anew. He believes that they should value the person they are now--and this is exactly the reason Ebisu didn’t want to die. This is the exact reason he didn’t want Bishamon to die either.
Then why, if he preaches the whole “You are /you/ from the experiences and the life you’ve gone through”, what makes y’all believe he’d stop being him just because of one reveal? Perhaps he wasn’t “Yato” before, indeed. But he’s “Yato” now and if his character were that fickle and unstable I don’t think he’d have achieved all the development he’s gotten to now.
He won’t stop being him. He’ll just be presented with a new view of himself, and only he decides if he wants to follow it or not. (He wouldn’t, I believe.)
Now, y’know what would truly make Yato stop being him? Him reincarnating and going through a different, happier life. It’d not only mean he had to be restarted for a good outcome, but it’d also be a rather bitter resolution to all the ugly things he’d gone through before. It’d undermine the real message for abuse victims, that they can get out of their ugly situations and overcome them by themselves. They don’t have the possibility of restarting their life.
3. It’d be an easy (and over-exploited) out for the series.
On the contrary, it’d give more fodder for drama to happen. Like I said, it’s unlikely Yato would just sit and accept a change that drastic nor leave behind all he’d achieved on his own. He wouldn’t accept being Tsukuyomi, and the Heavens wouldn’t take this kindly (since, well, it’s NOT quite an offer.). He wants to be Yato, and I believe his fight for that autonomy would be the one to lead the series much further, that not including the possible struggle he’d have with the deeds he could have done as “Tsukuyomi” before reincarnation.
It’d give much more insight in the recurrent theme of “experiences are what make the person”.
Plus, him? Standing by Heaven’s rules? Like hell, specially knowing now how fucked up everything in the higher tiers is.
And on that topic, it wouldn’t be a “stereotypical happy ending where the protag gets all he wants easily enough” either. Having to go through way too many identity struggles does not place for a happy final arc at all.
These are the major ones I believe? So since I can’t think of any other at the moment, I’ll leave it here and probably add more later. This theory is cool and has potential still so please stop making people feel bad for supporting it just because you don’t.
