Can you analyze the relationship between lily and cult from dear my living dead?
Poetically tragic love, linked to imminent death. A great merciless, disastrous institution. The obligation to choose, between loving and serving.
Karuto, or Cult, boy who carries the weight of an old sin on his chest. He remembers with some constancy the murder of his mother, caused by his father.
Comparison and denial, he compared himself to the father who killed his mother, he strongly denied that he couldn't be like him, even though his chest said otherwise.
What would he be able to do to be with the love of his life? A dangerous desire, an equally reckless choice. Either they would die together, or she would die so that she could be tied to him forever, or until the last breath of life remained within him.
The lie loaded with the weight of guilt, he lied to her, because he knows it is wrong, and perhaps imagines that she would not forgive him… Or, to be more fair, so that her conscience would not weigh, "he killed me so I could be by his side, because I insisted."
Sick love, possessive love, it's easier to make her just his than to imagine her far away. Gratitude for the church that welcomed him, so grateful to her that he wouldn't think about the possibility of breaking away from her rules, even if she is mainly responsible for their separation.
Lily could go back home, meet her parents, even if she wanted so much to stay by his side, she would save herself. But he… gave himself up to death, to avoid the excruciatingly intense pain he would feel when she left.
Unable to do so, he thought of another alternative. He killed her and brought her back, tied her to him in an eternal bond. Is there anything more selfish? Possessive, suffocating love, with no exits or windows, where death is the easier choice compared to dealing with pain.
Lily, the innocently naive girl, who just wanted to be free and live with her lover
Karuto, the boy with a tragic, suicidal, intensely powerful and inexplicably selfish love.
Repeating his father's story, he became just like him.
