any thoughts on barzum and baizli? i always say them as a representation of the clown gods given that their whole thing is the same as gamzee when he declares himself to be the mirthful messiahs - the alternate lower and upper case sentences that blend to gamzees quirk, the happy and sad masks, etc. any thoughts on this? i would say they align with whatever anxieties gamzee represents probably
I can add add one item to the Complementary Pair pile: Yin-Yang. Soleil, derived of the Cirque, means "sun". The wiki notes that Barzum is (in addition to a tilted Barnum, the circus man) a word for "darkness" in the language of Mordor: "ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul" becomes "One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them". And as best I can tell, Baizli refers to (in addition to Barnum's partner Bailey) the paisley, a curved teardrop shape popular in textiles. Combining a light (soleil) and dark (burzum) paisley yields the Yin-Yang.
In the context of Alternia racializing and gendering white and black, you might expect the twins to relate to that through their own representation of totality...? But I didn't really notice anything to that effect on this readthrough
