@barktwain replied to your post “I think the whole senketsu being made with one eye was isshins way of...”
this is super super nit-picky but i feel like the sympathy for senketsu being born "half blind" is slightly misplaced - he would have some depth perception due to the monocular cues from his one eye. not as good as having both eyes functioning, but it's also likely that he'd be able to better adapt to it bc that's all he's ever known
Heh, the depth perception thing is mostly a joke. (Why in the world would you design a living weapon with one eye?)
But---and I go over it more here---the thing that gets me isn’t that Senketsu was born half-blind. It’s that he was purposely, intentionally made half-blind.
To quote:
It’s rather… cruel, when you think about it. Isshin/Soichiro deliberately made Senketsu come into the world like that. Despite being literally a baby (who are kinda the epitome of “purity”) and having absolutely no life experience, he goes around looking scarred and wounded like he’s had a long, harrowing life...
I’ve said it before, but it’s always one of the saddest things to me, when Senketsu is interpreted as a father figure or a mentor for Ryuko and thus his death is “for the best” or “right” because she’s all grown up and doesn’t need his help anymore, and death is a good narrative way to bring across these ideas. Because, regardless of how Senketsu’s character looks on a surface level, he wasn’t wise and experienced. Not in the slightest! He was literally under a year old, hardly got to live life, and grew with Ryuko as her equal.
Senketsu’s missing eye isn’t the result of him making a mistake and learning a lesson. It’s not a tragic scar from a tragic event twenty years ago. It’s not a battle wound. It’s not a sign of his experience and wisdom.
No, Senketsu’s missing eye is because Isshin/Soichiro decided that it would be cool to make him that way.
And that’s... just mean.