Something something parallels to Waka and Shion’s relationship to Orokapi and Takanagi’s relationship on how one essentially use the other’s abilities to fed into their addictions (Shion using Waka’s eyes to disassociate and Takanagi’s reliant on Orokapi’s drug to sleep)
It honestly makes me wonder what was the nature of Waka and Shion’s relationship in Cycle one. We only get a glimpse of them via Takanagi’s perspective, and it’s clear how much Cycle One Waka loved Shion immensely.
But it does make me think of Cycle One Shion’s was perhaps knows about Waka being a witch, and thus use Waka for her magic. Perhaps using said magic to escape her home life?
It’s possible since Cycle One Waka still have a brother just like Cycle 8 Waka does too. So it is possible that Shion’s home life was a mess in the OG timeline just like it is in Cycle 8.
If so, then the parallels between Orokapi and Waka being intentionally is highly plausible. Especially if you consider the theory that all the IPOs are an extension of Waka.
God. This Manga be just a bunch of reflections of PAINNNN
ooooooo what was the nature of cycle1 wakashions relationship?
from what we've seen of waka1, she's much more mature than ours—almost colder. she's more introspective but she shares our waka's drive when she has a goal (attempting to supercede tokinaga's asexuality vs desire to kill the gods) which says, to me at least, that she is probably just as in love with shion as our waka. would she be as indulgent with her? i wanna say yes because i agree with your parallels and i think that it would be so sick if we have the same sort of dynamic four times between the characters (wakashion1, our wakashion, vollof&orokapi, tokinaga&orokapi.)
i think it would make their relationship all the more tragic as despite all cycle1 waka does to put off shion's suicide, it still happens. AND that waka's a witch. she has infinitely more power than our waka does and she still can't save shion. that'd be cool.
super interesting parallels imo
