im gonna respond to this post by @iceloidic bc i was gonna just reblog but then got inspired. i wrote this as a response so u kinda have to read the og for context and more depth but itâs generally understandable too. i hope. thank u ice sorry i hijacked ur post.
i really like this interpretation! my reply:
i definitely agree with the last statement about gyroâs personal convictions taking precedence over taught ideology. gyroâs family are a line of conformists, carrying out fate on behalf of not God, but an establishment, an organized religion, an earthly king. and thatâs the hypocrisy gyroâs trying to understand and break free from. even the ball that hit the net doesnt comply with the first stone story. gregorioâs cool neutrality towards both surgically saving lives and taking them with the sword makes gregorio, the spin, and the zeppeli family line itself agents not to any fate or god but, again, to a human establishment. and its kind of twisting the purity and beauty of the spin out of order, a little bit. yes, they use nature to achieve it, but they actively use it to rearrange a natural cycle of life. no matter what, they ARE playing in Godâs domain, especially with executions. and that hypocrisy must have been incredible torment to gyro with his sense of consent and justice. gyro needs that âconsent,â to be âwithout sin,â so he can cast the stone at marco. in that sense, hes following actual biblical teachings, and not ones made up by the state. and apparently, that was a very controversial decision. that kind of repeated what ice said but yea, great point.Â
to the first point - i like to think that gyro understands catholicism at the same frequency as many classical italian artists and polymaths did. he is probably vastly educated in many different areas of religion but due to location, heâs also been marinated in the remains of the renaissance, baroque, and several other christian-centric art movements.Â
and we were actually just talking about this with the incredulity of st thomas post, and iâve mentioned this a while ago too i think, but many of those artists and thinkers were not heterosexual and used their work as a veiled, acceptable catharsis and expression of desires they couldnât act on. and while art history was probably not a focus of his education, he definitely learned about da vinci and his dissections and medical-grade studies of the human body to supplement his artistic anatomical techniques. basically, gyroâs not escaping art history of his homeland. Those artists held fascination with the male form in particular, so to your point of learning both about ancient roman history and seeing its architecture, and then seeing the more âmodernâ art of the renaissance, it could be a comforting, secretive place to confront sexuality and religion in one go.Â
so i do like to sort of indulgently headcanon that gyro, in congruence with his heritage, is a highly skilled, polymathic person who relates to his taught and beloved yet contradictorily interpreted religion through adoration of the art born of its human followers. I also think that he was raised to be highly ritual, obviously, what with gregorio having his fish and wine thing before execution day and pretty much everything else. so keeping a rosary or pocket shrine or something, i definitely like those hcâs as well - if not for the upkeeping of an unshakable faith, they would be for habitual comfort and spiritual stabilization.Â
to address the tags on the reference post, johnny probably struggles with a different sort of hypocrisy, the veiled acceptance of protestants. probably had to go to sunday church but nothing he was taught he ever saw modeled by his father, and so God, who is also âFather,â never seemed to be what everyone said He was. and then as he got older, and neither âfatherâ came to visit in the hospital, or show up to races, and because it was johnny himself who built up his own accolades and then tore them down, he probably began to believe He wasnât real at all. and then he was shown physical evidence and shown real love and care and someone who didnât leave his side and protected him. and then he did begin to believe in a higher power but still found it impossible to believe in himself, because what good had that ever done him. and then christ was real and his legs were back but the only person who ever stuck around for him was gone. but achieving that perfect rotation in direct collaboration with the natural power of godâs perfect earth probably cemented his belief. and at the end of it all, johnny didnt give his âone and only son,â but himself, as an unconditional sacrifice - rather than redirect misfortune onto a stranger, just like gyro, jesus, etc.Â
anyway if that made any sense thats cool but yeah in short ice i agree with you everyone go read her post ok and her fics while ur at it shes a great writer (im gonna glaze u bro and theres nothing u can do abt it sorry)
