HALF THE MATH, DOUBLE THE MYTH

16 June 2012, 8:06 pm

God sometimes you just don’t come throughGod sometimes you just don’t come throughdo you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don’t come through

Koenma is one of my favorite characters. I have a lot of feelings about him, especially concerning his relationship with Sensui. Sometimes I think that of the entire YYH cast, he’s the singularly most dynamic, drastically changed character by the end of the series.

Because while Yusuke, Hiei, and the others all develop significantly… at the end, they’re still themselves. They learn and change and mature, but at their cores they’re still the same basic people, and they sort of started out as blank slates anyway. Koenma on the other hand has this vast history, and he’s been himself for a very long time, and you really get a heavy sense of that. That he’s been here, and that he’s endured things. He starts out already experienced and with a strong sense of who he is and what he’s doing in the universe. The fact that even after all that, having had thousands of years to sort of solidify as a person, his experiences with Yusuke change him so intensely, is really amazing to me. Or at least, that they’re the last bit of straw to break the camel’s back, so to speak. You get a definite sense of him already sort of teetering at that precipice, even if it takes a while to come to light. It was a slow, slow build and Yusuke was not the beginning of it. Which lends so much weight to him as a character, makes him amazingly compelling. You feel that he existed long before this story began, and will be here long after it’s over. Maybe I just have a thing for characters who rebel against their shitty families. And for the morally ambiguous types. But then, as much as he might seem selfish and apathetic, he’s not so much ambiguous as operating on a much broader scale of morality. It’s clear that he does connect to and care about people on an individual level, and feels an enormous amount of responsibility for what happens to them. But he’s looking at the big picture, and he knows he doesn’t have the time (or the emotional endurance) to care about every sacrifice he has to make to keep the world spinning. He can’t afford to mourn people like Yusuke, because it’s up to him to carry everyone through in the event of his failure. And I think on some level Yusuke understands this, even if it’s subconsciously. And it’s one of the reasons why he has to make such noise about rejecting the sacrifices, say fuck the police, I’ll always care about the little people. I think it’s something he sort of has to do, because Koenma can’t. A way of forgiving him for it. Having an opposite reinforces who you are, what you stand for. Makes the things that define you stronger. It’s a way of communicating: I got this, and you do what you need to do. That emotional weight, that responsibility has to be split somehow. No one person could carry it—not even a god.
Aghh he’s so good! Well played, Mr. Togashi. Well played. :’)

God sometimes you just don’t come through
God sometimes you just don’t come through
do you need a woman to look after you

God sometimes you just don’t come through

Koenma is one of my favorite characters. I have a lot of feelings about him, especially concerning his relationship with Sensui. Sometimes I think that of the entire YYH cast, he’s the singularly most dynamic, drastically changed character by the end of the series.

shudderpup liveblogs Yu Yu Hakusho, cont some more

shudder: Koenma if you wanted him to have a shot maybe you should've GIVEN him a missile launcher
shudder: more fucking Storms of Torment. Suzie have you ACTUALLY not leveled up yet? you have not learned a new move yet. okay.
shudder: I mean I'd kick you off my team for this shit but whatever
shudder: --oh no
my tentacle
shudder: oh no... my tentacle
shudder: OH NO!!
MY TENTACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shudder: THERE ARE TEARS COMING OUT OF MY FACE DID HE REALLY JUST SAY THAT
shudder: brb casually forming two fucking tentacles out of my hair and just dangling them in front of my eyeballs like it ain't no thang
it's totally a thang though
shudder: YUSUKE WON'T DIE BECAUSE KUWABARA IS YELLING ABOUT IT
shudder: this i know
shudder: gosh they are just the most romantic thing these bros ;3; BOTH LIVE, OR BOTH SHALL DIEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee TAKE MY YEARS, CORPSE BRO THEY'LL BURY US IN MATCHING PLOTS
shudder: "Babysitting" Hiei always knew Kurama would wind up team mom but he never wanted to be team dad but here's what's happening anyway. the image of him giving drained!Kuwabara a piggyback ride is exciting because how
shudder: and everybody lived happily ever after for ten fewer years
shudder: they carried Yusuke home and put him in Kuwabara's bed for three days. then Ku and Ku just stood there GAZING UPON HIM till he woke up. Kuwabara what is your shirt-- hoodie-- what? do you have a large ditto figurine on your desk? and that abstract poster just says "Japan~~"
shudder: Kuwbara you are painfully white
shudder: let's examine Kuwbara's other wallhangings: some weird graffiti'd image of a gingerbread man? some dude breathing fire with the words "Bingo Bingo
IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL"
shudder: I'm glad Keikles is in the loop now ^^ decomplicates things for next time she gets kidnapped