some shimokoda thoughts
smkd is so underdiscussed that when i have a Thought about them idk if i’m actually onto something or pulling stuff out of my ass. but i think i am onto the idea that “pure and brutal feelings” is an overarching idea along with “love will tear us apart” re: how tsc portrays love and that one of the ways it’s manifested outside of spectrum/hana is in smkd
smkd’s crimes/actions are both a culmination of respective traumatic events in their childhood. sumio and his friends were violated just for wanting a clean world meanwhile ayame was conditioned to be capable of violence. sumio’s name has a kanji character that reads as “pure” and ayame’s name can be interpreted to be derived from “to kill”. sumio is the “pure” to ayame’s “brutal”