#columner

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Applause. All the fucking applause.

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This entire sequence is LIT. And all the information it sends you!

- The King Cybody stores the greatest magical power in the universe. Despite this, it was immobile for ages, all that power inaccessible.

- Ayin has been alive for 7000 years and likely not the only of her kind. She’d wanted to corrupt this ship’s magic power because evil.

- Columner overpowered Ayin’s magic power with his own, as he IS the ship, and he killed her. Something about the combination of magic and blood is what got the Cybody moving again after it got immobilized, leading to the ritual of having to offer red blood and/or libido to the Cybody in order to use its powers and fly it into space.

- That sudden visual of Ayingott getting crushed in Samekh’s grasp, which turns into what looks like a mere toy crushed in Sugata’s own.

- Killing Ayin not only seals Ayingott’s fate, but since doing so was the first time Columner actually synchronized with the King Cybody’s power, he reached the “final phase” and his fate too was sealed. Long after his flesh is gone, his soul will remain bound to the Cybody, still one with it. He forsook love and chose this power over it, so it’s all his to live with for eternity at least unitl he drinks blue squid blood.

- Ayin dies screaming her own name “AYIIIIIIIIN!” Just....why?

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Columner ends his role in this play as the immortal king of the fish planet who was in the Sam the Squid Piercer story. When Sarina says that “even now, Columner the ship exists” and the focus is put on Reiji, I wonder if Reiji knows that Sarina’s technically wrong about that, that Samekh is now that “ship” following Columner’s passing, and he’s the one who was helming it when it had to be sealed away. He was told that whole story by Fish Girl, he knows how this ends.

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“No!” cried Columner “This ship belongs to me! It’s my ship!”

The witch replied “No, Columner. You are the ship!”

And then Columner was a Cybody. 

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Nice touch that when Sarina’s narration mentions Kleis being invisible once again, even to Columner, Wako just...drops off stage in the background. Which is then followed by the first surreal line-blurring moment in this play where Mark, who is being told this story, interacts with Columner, who’s focal to the story he’s being told. Meaning that what happened with Columner is in the past, yet Mark, from the present, is somehow able to see, hear, and talk to him?

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While the subs say that Columner flew around “the world”, the more accurate term would be “the galaxy.” Which better sets up the sudden mention of the fish planet, another familiar element from Fish Girl’s story. And again, a nice joke from Sarina about the flying fish.

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Damn, Wako is really into this! Those tears seem so real!