crow releasing their pov sent me back into the mindset of thinking about how their weapons are SO PROMINENT in parallel life so ramble time! smack me if i get any info wrong i need to rewatch parallel life i forgot some details abt it
so a little while back i rambled in tibby's inbox with an analysis of crow's sword, ghost slayer, and the 'broken hearts club' that was formed in ep 4. but while watching crow's pov today, i had a realization that somehow i never really noticed pitchfork was crow's weapon?? meaning that both of crow's main weapons have symbolism???? so im gonna yap about these two weapons now (mainly the axe)
pitchfork is the diamond axe that crow used to kill e in ep 3, and the same weapon that was used by e in ep 5. ghost slayer is the diamond sword that crow named after teaming with the polycule, which after her death was passed on to e, and eventually tibby.
the contrast between how ghost slayer is used and how pitchfork is used within the plot is wild. ghost slayer is more of an emotional attack for people like tibby and e: where it never actually killed anyone, but harmed them mentally as it got passed around after crow + ghost's deaths already affected people. pitchfork, however, was MUCH more of a harm as it was used for actual kills against e and middy. with ghost slayer comes mourning, and with pitchfork comes betrayal.
you can see me talk more about ghost slayer in the ask i sent a while back (may rewrite that in the future) but pitchfork is shaped around betrayal. crow took ghost killing her the second as a betrayal. she was betrayed, and wanted revenge. she kills e with pitchfork out of her anger from the betrayal but then teams with e and the polycule. however in ep 5, under ghostfoam's influence, e kills crow. another betrayal for crow. two of the people she'd put so much trust into despite knowing they weren't truly trustworthy. despite ghostfoam promising to kill her and "make the crow curse real". despite e having just teamed with ghostfoam, pretty much already betraying the polycule (besides crimson!) in the process. after crow's death, e gets the axe. replaces their own with it. and the next episode, uses the axe to kill middy. yet again, betrayal. it's like a hex on this axe.
i cant quite find a good word to label the symbolism of pitchfork itself but i also find it interesting the influence ghost and crow still have after they die. whether its them directly being a devil on someone's shoulder or just kind of. always having a piece of them being there since their weapons were used for so long. if i remember correctly, e was influenced mainly by ghostfoam, but also partially by crow to kill pickle and emerald with the portal trap. you can also see crow in chat every now and then during ep 4 & ep 5. of course ghostfoam leaves a big influence after/through his death, but we don't see crow's death directly influence much other than the polycule's trust of e (which was already pretty low for some polycule members...). crow is more of how i mentioned influence through the weapons. influence through the mental toll ghost slayer hit tibby with. influence through the axe that was used by the betrayed then being used to betray.
someone remind me to do a full analysis on parallel life crow because OH MY GODDDD todays crow episode changed my brain chemistry & my view on crow's parallel life character in general i NEED to talk about it more in the future
also sorry if this sounds a bit out of order or doesnt make sense i yapped too much and then changed the paragraph order and i cant tell if it sounds good still
