Kuzunoha event story out for a while. I need to talk about my thoughts on how much Fateshaper and Seimei parallel each other so much. Lowkey, my memory may be foggy with certain events but yeah here we go
Fateshaper, this new information of what he used to be like back then oouugh. He used to be so much like Seimei. There ideals practically match up! Fateshaper heavily believed in coexistence between spirits and humans. He was seen as naive but that didnāt stop him, he continued to hold up his rules and morals and he was so close to his goal!
His wedding with a Kitsune was gonna seal the Pact of Tokoyo and his goal would be achieved. But the massacre happened caused by Masakado happened and that final step towards peace: gone. All of Fateshaperās efforts were all for nothing. Distrust and hatred festered intensely between humans and spirits. All that work is gone and presumably (since we donāt know how the events of the blood wedding happened exactly) this is where he looses to his anger and have a desire for revenge.
Then thereās Seimei. Like I mentioned before, his ideals align with Fateshaper. He also wants coexistence between spirits and humans. Like Fateshaper, Seimei stubbornly upholds those beliefs and those beliefs get challenged. For example, the Kidomaru incident when Kidomaru (half yokai like him) attacks their fellow classmates and Tadayuki banishes his own adopted son. This deeply shakes Seimei but nevertheless he still persists with his goal.
Here, Iām really just inferring and making a theory because they never explain why the OG Seimei model they use has black hair but child Seimei has white hair-my theory or how I view it is that the Kidomaru incident probably made Seimei want to change himself to look more human. If there is natural distrust towards how much he looks nonhuman, then people would hear him out more if he looked otherwise.
And Seimei becomes a great onmyoji. Everyone praises him, heās seen as the best of his age and thatās great right? If we ignore the guilt thatās wallowing in Seimei for ignoring the shrine maidens that Yorimitsu was sacrificing to Orochi, and presumable pressure of being the great onmyoji and having to be seen as this perfect untouchable figure when heās not.
No one would expect the great onmyoji to have his own problems. They idolize him as this fixer of all problems! But OG Seimei didnāt step in to stop Yorimitsu from sacrificing those shrine maidens until the very last minute since he was just gonna split his soul in half to cleanse his āsinā.
ATP, thatās where Seimei nearly destroys his own goals and ideals. Seimei splitting his soul in half goes against his own ideals of human and spirit coexistence, if he himself canāt even accept the two halves of himself how can he be anything but a hypocrite?
Seimei-now split into two: Kuro and Shiro Seimei, his goal he destroyed himself. He could have very well ended up on the same path as Fateshaper: Kuro Seimei devours Shiro Seimei and wants revenge to destroy the world. But that doesnāt happen. Shiro Seimei picks himself up despite no memories but he wants to make amends for all his wrongs. Thatās where Seimei succeeds but Fateshaper fails.
And another parallel to note is their relationship with Kagura and Ayako.
Seimei wants to help Kagura regain her memories and save her from Orochi while Fateshaper wants to free Ayako from Magatsuhi.
Seimei succeeded in this and did help save Kagura from being sacrificed to Orochi however, Fateshaper has not. There isnāt much to go into here but I just find it interesting how in these areas, Seimei always succeeds but Fateshaper doesnāt.
They are basically mirrors to each other and Seimei is what Fateshaper used to be and still could have been.
What I find interesting as well as if the wedding had been a success and not a massacre, Seimei wouldnāt have need to be the one to bring peace to everyone and not be objectified as everyoneās hope and that he had to be the one to always solve the problems usually. Of course, he has his friend and shikigami who are by his side and so he isnāt alone, but he could have been burden free and that just pains me so much.
Anyways, I greatly enjoy Kuzunohaās event story because it does delve a little into Seimeiās character and also gives the tiniest bit of information about Fateshaper (who NE hasnāt let out of the basement, please give me his event story and parallel it to Seimei and Iāll go wild)
Again, there isnāt much information on Fateshaper besides these tidbits of information regrettably so most of my yapping is about Seimei but once heās out of the basement, please let my crazy idea be right NE š
