Yes! I thought Pitch meeting the Light Demon was a good way of showing that he hates losing control, that despite him being a different Pitch back then, some of his more present day traits have always been with him.
I really like the idea of him being shaped by humanity's stories, though he has come to looking down on humans. How he copied humans and coming to regret it. Him still liking storytellers, despite how he's been changed by them.
The story of him forgetting other monsters name during the Great Depression was sobering, and so... human of him. Like, he's been brought done to the level of these humans, who are in poverty. They are miserable, and he is as well. There's fear, but little belief.
The phenomena of humans developing themselves and having control of their destiny is something Pitch seems largely in denial over, and blames solely onto the Guardians' influence. His decisions and understanding of things lead him wrong.
Pitch and the boy was a dynamic I really loved, it really showed an ambiguous side of him. Not evil, not good. Thinking about that boy's existence makes me really sad, and how Pitch was in his only baby tooth's happy childhood memory.
Tooth pondering about Pitch and that boy was so well done with the boy's tooth, it added so much depth to her role as the Guardian of Memories for me. How she can't be judgmental of the memory even though Pitch is there and he is an enemy.
Her thinking about the possibilities of him coming to know about the tooth also makes sense. Even if he said that boy was meaningless then, he has so few believers now. Pitch is so prideful he might destroy the tooth, but it is possible that he could change his mind.
It's sad because he is capable of complexity, of liking things like stories, of even having regrets when it comes to certain things. Pitch, however, at the end of the day, prefers fear and control and will prioritize what he wants, and blame everyone except himself.
Wow it’s like ur in my head lmao. Sorry for the late response, I finished my finals and had to take three days to mentally recover lmao.
But yeah, I agree completely!!
He’s in such denial about how humanity shapes itself. After all he thinks it should be him shaping humanity, but instead, humanity shapes him.
I actually think the gargoyle was supposed to be the demon at the beginning. Depression echoes fear, with Pitch going through the moments he had while in his prime, but this time, he’s at his lowest. It says a lot that Pitch forgot the monster, and how he survived but the demon didn’t. Fear sticks around, even if Pitch is at his lowest. There is little belief and Pitch has some.
The boy’s baby tooth is the only one Tooth has, which means he didn’t survive for much longer after Pitch left him. (He probably starved, as in every comic in the four movements, he mentions that he’s hungry.) The happiest memory was Pitch, who was probably the only person who even bothered to talk to him. Tooth’s pondering if Pitch would change makes both of them more complex. Tooth would be willing to help him, but she doesn’t know if Pitch would waste the opportunity or not. She doesn’t know if he would choose good. He has the capacity to do so, but he stays stubbornly at the same spot.
And when it comes to it, Pitch cannot accept that it is his fault when he falls. He’d rather blame everyone else, because he is no longer at the top.
