dialoverwritesssx

DaYUM; I’ve accidentally let these pile up in my ask box, so I will answer all of these in one post… Prepare for a huuuuge rant under the cut! Also thank you so much @hotline-to-hell​, you’re so lovely and supportive as usual, and thanks sm for contributing, same goes for you, anons!! Let’s break this up into parts tho… and start with the biggest one yet: Laito and Ayato’s relationship. 

I swear this is like an anthology,,,,, biggo rant under the cut!

i literally hate the dark/proshipper commentary in this fandom. i get it to an extent; the ships in diabolik lovers are obviously dark and i don’t disagree with that! but some of you just do not know nuance 😭 you don’t have to suddenly be part of a community or label yourself as a proshipper that accepts all kinds of depraved things just because you like one kind of dark, horror-adjacent content?? don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.

and there’s nuance to “fiction does not affect reality” too, because that’s just a blatantly untrue statement. it’s so important to consume media critically lest you fall for propaganda or conditioning. i don’t think an otome game about supernatural beings is going to tip any scales, but you can’t just apply a blanket statement of “all fiction doesn’t impact reality” because not all fiction is made with the same intentions or with the same audiences in mind. although the book wasn’t written with perverted reasons, Lolita has been used so many times to groom young girls into relationships with much older men. there’s a reason why many governments want to ban books with themes that don’t suit their agendas. there’s a reason why an author got arrested a year or two ago in my country for writing a “dark romance” book that was literally just CSAM. fiction has power. fiction shapes the mind and the world around us.

bromance done right, if you ask me

they’re my ultimate DL comedy-trauma tag team—like a Shakespearean tragedy if the actors were also doing improv drunk. when they're not launching cold war-level emotional warfare just to watch reiji's blood pressure spike, they're out here… accidentally being tender. emotionally co-dependent, yes. slightly homicidal, also yes. but tender

laito was ayato’s human shield in the gladiator pit of cordelia’s hell-nursery, and ayato lowkey returns the favor later on—standing between laito and the soul-crushing realization that all their trauma was handpicked and custom-ordered by ketchup daddy himself for his adam-eve multiverse breeding program. father of the year, truly in the flaming chaos of ayato’s DF route, where even the rats were probably side-eyeing his wedding plans, most of the brothers peaced out. but laito?  the only one who was somewhat curious to accept the wedding invite to ayato and yui’s wedding. especially since laito, at that point, is running on emotional fumes. his capacity to give a damn has been surgically removed by years of unresolved cordelia damage and a personal brand of amoralism that functions more as trauma armor than actual conviction

and sure, maybe he's not out here throwing glitter and confetti at ayato’s emotional glow-up—but that’s kind of the point. by DF, laito isn’t just tired—he’s emotionally bankrupt. and when ayato, newly introspective and finally growing, reaches back out, laito doesn’t see healing—he sees a ghost of what he never got. it’s not simple bitterness; it’s that quiet, corrosive guilt you carry when part of you still blames someone for not saving you, even though you know they were just a child too, just as powerless and trapped

his LE route makes this brutally clear—laito both resents and forgives ayato for looking away during cordelia’s abuse. he understands it wasn’t malice; it was ignorance, fear, survival. but understanding doesn’t erase the damage. it just makes it harder to hate him. and that, somehow, is worse

and then there's that the glorious meta moment in DF where laito breaks character just long enough to dump critical exposition in Yui’s lap: “hey girl, btw, ayato’s the only one of us who really hated Cordelia—maybe look after him for me, kthx.” like okay, king of emotional repression, slipping in a heartfelt confession wrapped in exposition. that’s his version of love. he’s not handing off the role of ayato’s keeper because he stopped caring; he’s doing it because he still does, and he knows he’s too burnt out to keep carrying that responsibility without breaking himself further in the process

and in MB (maybe HDB too? memory’s murky), laito’s constant needling feels less like trolling and more like emotional exposure therapy. he sees ayato for what he is: someone too soft to survive this vampire hellworld unless he gets pushed into owning his feelings—especially the ones about yui. sadistic therapy, basically. annoying? yes. effective? also yes

also, let’s not forget: ayato got most of the heat from karlheinz in MB (if I recollect well) for their little oopsie murder of cordelia—even though laito and kanato were just as hands-on with the matricide. daddy just loves to pick favourites and blame the one with the most guilt capacity. and laito likely feels a certain level of obligation to ayato in the DF continuation due to this (this is admittedly more speculative on my part)

also, shoutout to kanato, the absolute feral gremlin third wheel of the group, screaming in the background and eating wax like it’s his job

honestly, it's not a total nightmare compared to pigeon-san’s route, but the eccentricity of oreo’s route just leaves me drowning in questions, and honestly, who has the time or energy to go digging through the Menreih Trench of poorly written plot points for this? not me, sis

let’s just pretend most of the route doesn’t involve yui and oreo getting horny on main while also—surprise!—being kidnapped by the tsuck bros not once, but TWICE (bc they went ahead and trusted the obvious red flag that was vamp Mertz—if you know, you know—because apparently they share EXACTLY one brain cell and are also colour-blind 🥴)

AND OF COURSE, we have the eternal side quest of the tsuck bros, who are just here to vibe and fuck around. this time, their genius idea is to revive Cordelia (yes, that Cordelia, the one who set the bar for shit DL moms), just to somehow convince vegan cookie to murder ketchup daddy. and i’m over here like:

why? didn’t oreo already want to murder ketchup daddy enough to get the job done? i’m sure yui’s life could’ve been conveniently thrown into the mix here, no need for all this extra resurrection drama. also, where’s the logic behind not reviving Beatrix in, like, reiji’s or shu’s route? for that matter, why not revive mommy dearest in Laito’s route (probably because they don’t got the brain power to even attempt the base level of nuance that would require, let’s be real)??? Rejet must’ve been having a field day in the writers' room on whatever meth-induced brainstorming session they had before turning this into "plot"

WHY should i feel sorry for Cordelia? because she loved ketchup daddy soooooo much, it was such a deep, speciallove, so special it was like a clearance-sale-level kind of love or something, like pls—this woman literally abused her children to get ketchup daddy to hate her more??? what kinda tragic romance garbage is this

laito’s meta moment: in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment of self-awareness, laito drops the bomb that oreo is the only one who truly hated his mom. and then, in a miraculous 10-second 180, oreo is suddenly over all his hatred and is like, “yeah, i guess Cordelia wasn’t that bad” like??? did i miss something??? he’s mad at ketchup daddy for being evil (which... fine), but now Cordelia is off the hook????

also, ayato needing a whole arc to not want to kill his mom but still want to kill his dad? like both of them suck, dude. i don’t even know what’s happening anymore

AND THE CHERRY ON TOP? oh, you thought we were done? lul

get this: ayato and his bros don’t have a single drop of founder DNA. zip. nada. despite being the biological children of Cordelia, who absolutely, 100%, canonically does have founder DNA (in this ketchup-daddy-generated universe, I guess)

WHAT IN THE MENDELIAN NIGHTMARE IS THIS. dominant genes? recessive traits? never heard of her

cordelia’s bloodline? absolutely evaporated on sight like it owed someone money. i’m so Confucius right now, i could start a philosophy class. atp i wouldn’t be surprised if the twist in the next game is that the triplets were all grown in a test tube and cordelia just showed up for the vibes

now, let’s talk about the adam-eve dumpster fire that is the plot. why is this insane ketchup-daddy-genocidal-fire a thing that only shows up in this route??? where was this hot mess in any other route? and if all the endings are post-Adam power-ups, why can oreo only deal with it in the vampire ending? pls explain before my brain is permanently fried

AND LET’S TALK ABOUT how, in the vampire ending, the suckamaki bros literally yeet out of their family ties when they hear about ketchup daddy’s death. meanwhile, the mukamis show up, say a word, and peace out. what is even happening??? in all the other routes, there’s at least a tiny bit of reluctant bonding, but here? nah. i guess they really don’t care

also, i’m cackling at the manservant ending where ayato and yui get killed by some low-tier vamps because he let one burn and it was a whole moral comeuppance. and now the vampire mob claims the genocidal fire is their fault? alrighty then, batman

AND, in brute, oh my god. yui just refuses to believe ayato is dead, convinced he’s on a super-special-emo-mission-or-whatever. like, yes, yui, let's just pretend the guy who is definitely DEAD is still alive because you like the idea of having babies with him. and carla is just like ‘lemme take advantage of this, lickety-split’ 🥴 ew

last point: shout out to yui literally telling ayato that it’s okay to take his anger out on her??? i mean, girl, why are you advocating for abuse while ayato’s out here actually apologizing like a grown-up??? he’s emotionally matured in like, what, 10 minutes? whatever, i’m done

seriously, who wrote this absolute dumpster fire? someone pls get them a hobby that doesn’t involve terrorizing me with plot holes and questionable character choices

It’s ok though ! We all stay for the nostalgia and let’s be honest …some of them are so fine .

@dialoverswritesssx You're a clown. I leave the original text in Japanese in every one of my posts in @weirdvn, and I suggested that if you see any flaws, you should point them out. But you obviously don't know Japanese; and you clearly have no idea how our translation from Japanese works, yet you dare to make claims here and spread rumors. How very cute. And dim-witted.

Honestly, you're all clowns. I never said that Laito, or anyone else from the triplets, is not a victim. I have always pointed out that Cordelia is intentionally demonized, portrayed as a pedophile-rapist. But I guess I was wasting my breath on closed-minded people like you. It's always easier to just blame the woman and ignore the complete lore of this fucking universe, and only read the routes of your favorite characters and feel sorry for them, because their vile mother hurt them and now they suffer from mommy issues, from her bullying, abuse, grooming, violence, ultra-violence, exhibitionism (after all, Richter fucked her in front of all her people, according to your English wiki), and Laito suffered the most, because he sacrificed himself so his insatiable pedo-whore mother wouldn't get her hands on his other brothers....... xD

This story is full of twisted deviations, as it's about demons, yes. But for you, apparently, the children's obsession with their mother is much worse than when she rapes them. Ok. I understand. No, I don't understand at all and I don't want to. I don't understand when people don't even want to look deeper into these characters, and even if you don't want to read all the routes, at least try to understand an opinion that didn't come out of thin air, but is actually supported by multiple proofs and sources from the games (hello, @dl-drama-cd blog, which burns all your asses and which mentally traumatized everyone in april (funny, by the way)).

The only ones engaging in victim-blaming are you. I never said the triplets are not victims. I am saying that Cordelia was also a victim. And a victim NOT of Karlheinz, who you think groomed her from a young age to use her in his experiment (what nonsense??????? who would have allowed him?? are you aware that Cordelia's father was Burai, the Demon King, and why the hell would he allow some vampire to hang around his daughter, his only child with such special blood? Because Karlheinz sent him Mené? But Mené died, sorry, what other use would he have for Karlheinz?).

You claim to salivate over the dark, truly grim aspects of this story, but when you encounter something truly dark, you puff and fart, suffering from your puritanism. You may consider yourselves progressive people who love and respect women, but when you meet a truly complex, well-written woman with a difficult fate, you don't even try to understand her properly; you, like a herd, latch onto the accepted opinion and obey it like sheep obeying their sheepdog. Every one of your dismissive messages about Cordelia reeks of misogyny; indeed, you hate women and your ideal are women like Beatrix: lying airheads, mediocrities who strive to take what belongs to others, whose death didn't even upset anyone (unlike Cordelia's death, which shocked all her sons in DF and Yui included, whose death caused shock and grief in Karlheinz when Ayato killed her the first time). You would rather foam at the mouth justifying your "poor traumatized diaboys" (quote), who could rape Yui; but Cordelia, for whom there is no solid proof that she raped anyone, whose dying wish to Ayato was for him to definitely make Yui the happiest girl on earth; who, before her death, only wanted not to ruin someone's life or abuse someone (let's remember Christa, who without any shame tried to poison Yui, in whom she saw Cordelia), but simply to see and say goodbye to her husband. Who spent her last days with her son and enjoyed only tea, not demanding lavish events in her honor. Who, unlike Christa, did not justify herself with her sorrowful fate and mental problems; who, unlike Christa, did not dump on Yui HER own responsibility to take care of Subaru, as she herself failed to do so; Cordelia told Ayato that HE should take care of Yui. Because she knows how wonderful it is when a beloved man loves you and takes care of you; and there was no stupid grooming between her and Karlheinz, which people are so desperately trying to push.

I'm just amazed at how you can hate and despise a non-real pixel woman about whom you yourselves have invented so much nonsense. Hatred for her prevents you from thinking for yourselves so much that you don't even want to listen to another point of view with gathered evidence and at least try to have adequate discussions, without negativity, outrage, and dismissive attitudes. Hatred for her makes you hate people who simply enjoy analyzing her character; and I'm afraid to think what your attitude is towards real women if you can't even empathize with a fictional one. Well, of course, she's a woman, not a boy you can cuddle and comfort, right; that boy might later, in some route, even rape Yui, but that's okay, he just had a hard childhood.

Yes, people have secondary accounts because someone has a habit of blocking people they openly talk about in their posts.

Where did you point out my translation mistakes?? I honestly looked through all your comments and didn't notice a single instance of you pointing any out. Show me the Japanese excerpt and my translation where I made a mistake.

And I never once blamed children for the actions of adults. You're gaslighting right now. I never once said that the triplets were at fault for Cordelia's actions.

Oh, I like you very much. I have a soft spot for people who completely twist my words. I don't want to move to private messages with you for one reason — I want this to remain public.

And I'll say it again: I did NOT blame the children. I only stated that they were obsessed with Cordelia, and that is no darker or more depraved an assumption than claiming she supposedly rape them.

wtfff pedo + rapist + incest хDDDDDD

You don’t think that screenshotting random peoples comments is childish and for some you’ve not even tagged? What about having a separate account where you only reblog your own content? What about actually addressing things that people say ? The screen shot you took I said it was either your translations or your morality but the third option is that you just don’t like what you see and choose to ignore it

The logic is just so brittle , your “analysis “ is long and twisted, ignoring all metaphors or allegories ( it’s like you’ve only read dl , no other vampire literature- do you really think that dl doesn’t take characteristics of other literature)

You're all talking bullshit and I want to capture your shame, why wouldn't I be able to do that? Because dialoverswritesssx thinks it's childish? And why on earth do you think the translation is done through Google? You have a lot of stupid assumptions you're pulling out of thin air, what's that about? You can tell me, I like you a lot.

Right now you're engaging in sophistry. A lot of empty words. Break down the analysis and point out what's illogical about it. I'm also familiar with other vampire works, good morning. I don't understand this take. Does every vampire work absolutely have to have a female character who rapes her own child? Or in every vampire work, does bloodsucking = sex? No, on the contrary, I've seen in every vampire work that blood is necessary food, without which they can die. It's often sexualized, yes. But, as I said before, you can sexualize pretty much anything. Elaborate on this take and what you mean by it.

@dialoverswritesssx You're a clown. I leave the original text in Japanese in every one of my posts in @weirdvn, and I suggested that if you see any flaws, you should point them out. But you obviously don't know Japanese; and you clearly have no idea how our translation from Japanese works, yet you dare to make claims here and spread rumors. How very cute. And dim-witted.

Honestly, you're all clowns. I never said that Laito, or anyone else from the triplets, is not a victim. I have always pointed out that Cordelia is intentionally demonized, portrayed as a pedophile-rapist. But I guess I was wasting my breath on closed-minded people like you. It's always easier to just blame the woman and ignore the complete lore of this fucking universe, and only read the routes of your favorite characters and feel sorry for them, because their vile mother hurt them and now they suffer from mommy issues, from her bullying, abuse, grooming, violence, ultra-violence, exhibitionism (after all, Richter fucked her in front of all her people, according to your English wiki), and Laito suffered the most, because he sacrificed himself so his insatiable pedo-whore mother wouldn't get her hands on his other brothers....... xD

This story is full of twisted deviations, as it's about demons, yes. But for you, apparently, the children's obsession with their mother is much worse than when she rapes them. Ok. I understand. No, I don't understand at all and I don't want to. I don't understand when people don't even want to look deeper into these characters, and even if you don't want to read all the routes, at least try to understand an opinion that didn't come out of thin air, but is actually supported by multiple proofs and sources from the games (hello, @dl-drama-cd blog, which burns all your asses and which mentally traumatized everyone in april (funny, by the way)).

The only ones engaging in victim-blaming are you. I never said the triplets are not victims. I am saying that Cordelia was also a victim. And a victim NOT of Karlheinz, who you think groomed her from a young age to use her in his experiment (what nonsense??????? who would have allowed him?? are you aware that Cordelia's father was Burai, the Demon King, and why the hell would he allow some vampire to hang around his daughter, his only child with such special blood? Because Karlheinz sent him Mené? But Mené died, sorry, what other use would he have for Karlheinz?).

You claim to salivate over the dark, truly grim aspects of this story, but when you encounter something truly dark, you puff and fart, suffering from your puritanism. You may consider yourselves progressive people who love and respect women, but when you meet a truly complex, well-written woman with a difficult fate, you don't even try to understand her properly; you, like a herd, latch onto the accepted opinion and obey it like sheep obeying their sheepdog. Every one of your dismissive messages about Cordelia reeks of misogyny; indeed, you hate women and your ideal are women like Beatrix: lying airheads, mediocrities who strive to take what belongs to others, whose death didn't even upset anyone (unlike Cordelia's death, which shocked all her sons in DF and Yui included, whose death caused shock and grief in Karlheinz when Ayato killed her the first time). You would rather foam at the mouth justifying your "poor traumatized diaboys" (quote), who could rape Yui; but Cordelia, for whom there is no solid proof that she raped anyone, whose dying wish to Ayato was for him to definitely make Yui the happiest girl on earth; who, before her death, only wanted not to ruin someone's life or abuse someone (let's remember Christa, who without any shame tried to poison Yui, in whom she saw Cordelia), but simply to see and say goodbye to her husband. Who spent her last days with her son and enjoyed only tea, not demanding lavish events in her honor. Who, unlike Christa, did not justify herself with her sorrowful fate and mental problems; who, unlike Christa, did not dump on Yui HER own responsibility to take care of Subaru, as she herself failed to do so; Cordelia told Ayato that HE should take care of Yui. Because she knows how wonderful it is when a beloved man loves you and takes care of you; and there was no stupid grooming between her and Karlheinz, which people are so desperately trying to push.

I'm just amazed at how you can hate and despise a non-real pixel woman about whom you yourselves have invented so much nonsense. Hatred for her prevents you from thinking for yourselves so much that you don't even want to listen to another point of view with gathered evidence and at least try to have adequate discussions, without negativity, outrage, and dismissive attitudes. Hatred for her makes you hate people who simply enjoy analyzing her character; and I'm afraid to think what your attitude is towards real women if you can't even empathize with a fictional one. Well, of course, she's a woman, not a boy you can cuddle and comfort, right; that boy might later, in some route, even rape Yui, but that's okay, he just had a hard childhood.

Yes, people have secondary accounts because someone has a habit of blocking people they openly talk about in their posts.

Where did you point out my translation mistakes?? I honestly looked through all your comments and didn't notice a single instance of you pointing any out. Show me the Japanese excerpt and my translation where I made a mistake.

And I never once blamed children for the actions of adults. You're gaslighting right now. I never once said that the triplets were at fault for Cordelia's actions.

Oh, I like you very much. I have a soft spot for people who completely twist my words. I don't want to move to private messages with you for one reason — I want this to remain public.

And I'll say it again: I did NOT blame the children. I only stated that they were obsessed with Cordelia, and that is no darker or more depraved an assumption than claiming she supposedly rape them.

wtfff pedo + rapist + incest хDDDDDD

You don’t think that screenshotting random peoples comments is childish and for some you’ve not even tagged? What about having a separate account where you only reblog your own content? What about actually addressing things that people say ? The screen shot you took I said it was either your translations or your morality but the third option is that you just don’t like what you see and choose to ignore it

The logic is just so brittle , your “analysis “ is long and twisted, ignoring all metaphors or allegories ( it’s like you’ve only read dl , no other vampire literature- do you really think that dl doesn’t take characteristics of other literature)

@dialoverswritesssx You're a clown. I leave the original text in Japanese in every one of my posts in @weirdvn, and I suggested that if you see any flaws, you should point them out. But you obviously don't know Japanese; and you clearly have no idea how our translation from Japanese works, yet you dare to make claims here and spread rumors. How very cute. And dim-witted.

Honestly, you're all clowns. I never said that Laito, or anyone else from the triplets, is not a victim. I have always pointed out that Cordelia is intentionally demonized, portrayed as a pedophile-rapist. But I guess I was wasting my breath on closed-minded people like you. It's always easier to just blame the woman and ignore the complete lore of this fucking universe, and only read the routes of your favorite characters and feel sorry for them, because their vile mother hurt them and now they suffer from mommy issues, from her bullying, abuse, grooming, violence, ultra-violence, exhibitionism (after all, Richter fucked her in front of all her people, according to your English wiki), and Laito suffered the most, because he sacrificed himself so his insatiable pedo-whore mother wouldn't get her hands on his other brothers....... xD

This story is full of twisted deviations, as it's about demons, yes. But for you, apparently, the children's obsession with their mother is much worse than when she rapes them. Ok. I understand. No, I don't understand at all and I don't want to. I don't understand when people don't even want to look deeper into these characters, and even if you don't want to read all the routes, at least try to understand an opinion that didn't come out of thin air, but is actually supported by multiple proofs and sources from the games (hello, @dl-drama-cd blog, which burns all your asses and which mentally traumatized everyone in april (funny, by the way)).

The only ones engaging in victim-blaming are you. I never said the triplets are not victims. I am saying that Cordelia was also a victim. And a victim NOT of Karlheinz, who you think groomed her from a young age to use her in his experiment (what nonsense??????? who would have allowed him?? are you aware that Cordelia's father was Burai, the Demon King, and why the hell would he allow some vampire to hang around his daughter, his only child with such special blood? Because Karlheinz sent him Mené? But Mené died, sorry, what other use would he have for Karlheinz?).

You claim to salivate over the dark, truly grim aspects of this story, but when you encounter something truly dark, you puff and fart, suffering from your puritanism. You may consider yourselves progressive people who love and respect women, but when you meet a truly complex, well-written woman with a difficult fate, you don't even try to understand her properly; you, like a herd, latch onto the accepted opinion and obey it like sheep obeying their sheepdog. Every one of your dismissive messages about Cordelia reeks of misogyny; indeed, you hate women and your ideal are women like Beatrix: lying airheads, mediocrities who strive to take what belongs to others, whose death didn't even upset anyone (unlike Cordelia's death, which shocked all her sons in DF and Yui included, whose death caused shock and grief in Karlheinz when Ayato killed her the first time). You would rather foam at the mouth justifying your "poor traumatized diaboys" (quote), who could rape Yui; but Cordelia, for whom there is no solid proof that she raped anyone, whose dying wish to Ayato was for him to definitely make Yui the happiest girl on earth; who, before her death, only wanted not to ruin someone's life or abuse someone (let's remember Christa, who without any shame tried to poison Yui, in whom she saw Cordelia), but simply to see and say goodbye to her husband. Who spent her last days with her son and enjoyed only tea, not demanding lavish events in her honor. Who, unlike Christa, did not justify herself with her sorrowful fate and mental problems; who, unlike Christa, did not dump on Yui HER own responsibility to take care of Subaru, as she herself failed to do so; Cordelia told Ayato that HE should take care of Yui. Because she knows how wonderful it is when a beloved man loves you and takes care of you; and there was no stupid grooming between her and Karlheinz, which people are so desperately trying to push.

I'm just amazed at how you can hate and despise a non-real pixel woman about whom you yourselves have invented so much nonsense. Hatred for her prevents you from thinking for yourselves so much that you don't even want to listen to another point of view with gathered evidence and at least try to have adequate discussions, without negativity, outrage, and dismissive attitudes. Hatred for her makes you hate people who simply enjoy analyzing her character; and I'm afraid to think what your attitude is towards real women if you can't even empathize with a fictional one. Well, of course, she's a woman, not a boy you can cuddle and comfort, right; that boy might later, in some route, even rape Yui, but that's okay, he just had a hard childhood.

Alright then… let’s look at the actual canon material!

“Cordelia harbored feelings of hatred toward Beatrix, the mother of Shu and Reiji, because she had borne children before her. Believing that if she too gave birth to a child worthy of becoming the next head of the Sakamaki family, she would be loved by the current head, Karlheinz, she grew increasingly strict in her demands toward Ayato for the sake of HER OWN SELF (自分の野望のために)” Ayato has always been used as a tool, and never seen as an actual person with feelings.

“Ayato had a lively personality since childhood, but on the other hand, he was not the type to enjoy studying. However, Cordelia would never tolerate this. Each time he received poor grades, she imposed EXCESSIVELY HARSH PUNISHMENTS (過剰なほどのきびしい罰), such as pushing him into the cold pond in the garden.” The lake scene is just ONE of the many exaggerated punishments she made him go through. Those punishments were always portrayed as too much, and not mere “discipline”.

By saying “if you can’t do that, then you’re not my child. If you’re not the best, then I have no need of you. I’m done using you”, she crosses a line that goes far beyond ordinary cruelty. She dismisses Ayato’s worth entirely, tying his value solely to his usefulness TO HER. This is pure emotional abuse. To make matters even worse, she says these words while making out with Richter in front of her child, who is crying and struggling.

Slapping a child just because he wanted to play with his brothers is clearly a sign of abuse. At around eight years old, Ayato should have been free to enjoy the simple joys of childhood without fear. On top of that, she actively tries to distance him from his siblings by saying “You’re different from the other children”. That made him feel isolated, like someone who would never truly be understood. It’s easy to see how experiences like this shaped Ayato into the type of person who refuses to open up to others, pretends everything is fine and keeps everything to himself until he breaks, due to fear of being mocked or rejected.

Also, WHIPPING a child is something absolutely no parent should do. He was clearly in pain.

credit to: dialovers-translations

If Cordelia weren’t abusive, Ayato would have had no reason to prefer the ghoul’s dungeon over home. He knew that both places would strip him of freedom and subject him to pain.

All Ayato ever wanted was to be acknowledged and loved by his mother, yet he realized that this could never happen. Cordelia’s only concept of love was EROS, a romantic love directed solely toward Karlheinz. She never loved her children, as her obsession with Karlheinz left her incapable of allowing other forms of love, such as the familial one, into her heart.