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Feb. 25th, 2009 10:33 pmBecause everything, in the end, comes back to Utena.
I was reading "Charles Augustus Milverton" yesterday, like you do, and this quote of Holmes's struck me:
"I have said that he is the worst man in London [referring to Milverton], and I would ask you how could one compare the ruffian who in hot blood bludgeons his mate with this man, who methodically and at his leisure tortures the soul and wrings the nerves in order to add to his already swollen money-bags?"
Replace "already swollen money-bags" with "personal power trip" and you have my argument as to why, in the great scheme of things, Touga* is a much worse person than Saionji. While of course I would never say that hitting someone outside of a self-defense situation is okay, I think it's considerably less horrible to lose it and lash out than to purposefully, methodically go about breaking someone's psyche.
I love when I can find points of congruency like this :3 ILU, my fandoms.
*And Akio, of course, but he's on a different level than Touga... who is, admittedly, on a different level than Saionji, but they're closer in scale to one another than Touga and Akio are.
I was reading "Charles Augustus Milverton" yesterday, like you do, and this quote of Holmes's struck me:
"I have said that he is the worst man in London [referring to Milverton], and I would ask you how could one compare the ruffian who in hot blood bludgeons his mate with this man, who methodically and at his leisure tortures the soul and wrings the nerves in order to add to his already swollen money-bags?"
Replace "already swollen money-bags" with "personal power trip" and you have my argument as to why, in the great scheme of things, Touga* is a much worse person than Saionji. While of course I would never say that hitting someone outside of a self-defense situation is okay, I think it's considerably less horrible to lose it and lash out than to purposefully, methodically go about breaking someone's psyche.
I love when I can find points of congruency like this :3 ILU, my fandoms.
*And Akio, of course, but he's on a different level than Touga... who is, admittedly, on a different level than Saionji, but they're closer in scale to one another than Touga and Akio are.
