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Btw, in the manga, they explained that kotori didnt tell him she was his sister because she didnt want to give him the satisfaction, and when he found out that his sister was dead for good he pretty much gave up on everything(instead of becoming more evil) and that’s why he sacrificed himself for mako.
Every culture has different fantasies and different values, and self-sacrifice is not suffering if it is considered noble. If you don’t think this is catering to men’s fantasies, then I don’t know what to say. If you say this doesn’t empower men to face death head on while girls must cower at the same thing, I don’t know what to say. It has always been a thing in these stories that men can opt to die and die nobly while girls are stuffed into fridges to drive up the tragedy factor. Hell, just look at Black Bullet. Some idiot gets to die like a hero while every single time a girl dies, it’s the saddest thing ever. Death is thus not the same for both sexes. Death is heroic for men, and tragic for women. Male power fantasy for one, emotionally manipulative bullshit for the other. You say these characters aren’t masculine in your eyes, but they are obviously appealing to a masculine crowd. The answer is simple. Their definition of masculinity is just different from how you typically see it.
In a world where summons and humans make contracts with one another, not many humans had the gift. The gift was the ability to make pacts with summons and travel through to their plane. Currently, in the year 20XX only around 100,000 people had the gift which was less than one-twentieth of the world’s population. With…
Tsunayoshi Sawada, right… that was his name. Tsuna was abused, because he was useless.. he really was. He knew he deserve this things he got. He hated everything, including the world. Even his smart, perfect, brother hated him. He was content with it. Not really serving a thing. Except, as a sacrifice. Yes, he was…
Be that as it may, there is a scene in one episode ofVikingswhere Lagertha presides over a ritual sacrifice of animals for fertility of the crops. In spite of my masters degree in Scandinavian languages, I am not an expert on Norse myth, legend, society, or spiritual practice, but it is very probable that such rituals indeed did take place, as they did and still do in other Indo-European cultures. Whether human sacrifice took place as late as the Viking period is contentious. Certainly 2,500 years ago it was very likely, but this is almost certainly the idea the writer of 1×11 Scarecrow was building on.
I did not enjoy American Gods, and only managed roughly 200 pages before I took it to a second-hand book shop. It did not work for me for me, and felt too banal, dumbed-down, and light, just like Neverwhere and Good Omens, but I know the overall plot. In Neil Gaiman’s world, the gods are created by humans, and exist only as long as humans believe in them. Sacrifices strengthen them because it means people believe in them, and some of the gods consume people in various ways.
While eating humans is not the same as consumption through the vagina, it is easy to see the links, especially knowing Kripke (the creator of the show) is a huge fan of Neil Gaiman and seeing what he did with deities and divine creatures later in the show. However, this is something which only heathen gods do in the show: Veritas, the Vanir, the Yule gods, and all the gods in 5×20. The Abrahamic gods and angels do not need to feed on humans for their power, nor do they require any kind of sacrifice. The result of this is that pagan gods in the Superverse (I told you I would be calling it that now) need to be believed in to exist, or at least to have any potency, whereas the Abrahamic divinities do not require human belief.
The moment he puts his shirt on and takes the phone from Sam, he is instantly in soldier mode. An attentive viewer needs no explanation from me to know why: Dean is not John’s son, he is his tool, weapon, and disposable asset. He is John’s to command, but John refuses to repay Dean’s obedience and duty. He cannot even summon the willpower to respond to Dean’s calls, even when Dean is on the verge of tears. Remember that in 1×12 Faith.
On the other hand, Dean is a perfect example of the kind of young, intelligent young man whose mental health problems and suicidal ideations go unnoticed or untreated until it is too late. He has no self-esteem and no sense of his own worth: he believes his only purpose in life is to follow orders and sacrifice himself for Sam, but he hopes that if he does this long enough and well enough John will show him love and tell him he is valued. I have to admit I am likely projecting more than a little bit, but for reasons discussed a bit more later on in this analysis, young men and suicide have had serious effects on my life, and I cannot help seeing the same in Dean.
