Season 2 Cyan and Luo plot
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Season 2 Cyan and Luo plot

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Cyan's ahoge reminded me of a shark fin.
Coloring in an old shitpost, and reminding you that Luo is still locked in Cyan's basement.
She turned his guitar poster collection into the real thing and added his own guitar to it.
Cyan and Luo channeling their inner Dragon Boy.
Joke "borrowed" from the Dorahedoro community.

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She's hungry.
I'm sure Cyan has a basement she'll let Luo in rent-free.... forever.
Haven't drawn in a while. Here's Luo with a gun (and the reference).
Some things I don't see talked about much are that the end of Cyan's arc frames their reunion as Luo saving her (again), and how Cyan learns and later applies the emotional support he gives her at the ending of Queen's arc in cyclic fashion.
The Chinese and Japanese dialogue changes in ep 10 a bunch, with one key change being the attempt to break him out of fear. In the dub, she says she'll save him like he saved her before. In the original, she she says he can save her again by overcoming fear- downplaying herself, which localizers may not have wanted.
Cyan is a fully fledged hero who had just taken down the Dean and effortlessly dodged / incapacitated the district's infected. She refuses to raise a finger in self-defense / in any way to harm Luo- including where he is about to beat her to death.
Both are (understandably) crying when Luo regains his sanity and memories. Luo recovers first and reaches out to her. Her reaction is not that of a hero, a rock star, or an adult. It is that of a scared, crying little girl. Despite the change in dynamic, it is a return to form of their entire lives- Luo helping and supporting her so he can be stand her feat. Her fear and tears give way to her looking at him like he hung the sun and sky (which, to her, he kind of did) before he pulls her up and they resume their dynamic as if they hadn't been separated or he wasn't on the cusp of bludgeoning her to death. It isn't just the only (intended) happy ending, but it is the first ending where the protagonist is framed as being saved by someone else.
The second (and only other intended time this happens since the Ahu arc was supposed to end in tragedy) was when Cyan hugs Queen at the end of the latter's arc. Cyan takes the role that Luo plays for her, and serves as the only person Queen can confide in- saving her from collapsing into a second bout of depression.
It is an interesting cycle that hammers at the show's point of genuine connections. Luo introduces us to Queen in ep 8, and Queen's speech inspires Luo to become a hero. Luo saves Cyan from her loneliness and later from the cult. It is Luo who inspires Cyan to become a hero- with her only joining DOS to save him and later crediting him as her determination. Cyan saves Queen from her first bout of depression through singing My Color in tribute to Luo during her concert. Queen gives Cyan the info that lets her find Luo and the pair save each other again. And finally Cyan saves Queen emotionally for a second time.
I'll also point out that Cyan seems to pair herself up into a junior partner role with both Luo and Queen. She isn't assertive and was raised to be co-dependent on the Dean (unlucky for him that some 8 year old no-diffed 5 years of his influence with a marble). Luo and Queen obviously do not see her as an inferior, but both assume protective roles over her- Luo emotionally and physically, and Queen professionally.
I do wish we got to see Luo interact with Queen in season 1 beyond Cyan indirectly connecting them, but they may be saving a meeting for season 2 due to how fast paced s1 was. I also think that Queen may actually dislike Luo at first, similar to her initial disdain of Cyan. Luo is calamity. He embodies the chaos of the trust system she seeks to bring order to / is a natural freedom seeker like Cyan. Queen doesn't really have strong empathy or people skills, so seeing some kid with bad luck powers joking around may not warrant the best reaction... of course Cyan playing the "this is literally the most important person in my life" card would win her over, or at least, have her act cordially with him pretty fast.
I have come to shitpost about the orphans again.

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Happy orphan noises intensify.
I haven't shitposted in a while.
POV: Calamity is about to befall you.
Society really looked at an 8 year old orphan and decided "yeah, that kid looks like the harbinger of calamity and misfortune."
Cyan bombarding Luo with 3 years of new slang all at once.
The first two episodes of Cyan's arc are phenomenal at show-don't-tell storytelling. But, they also don't give a lot of context for certain things:
In China, kids in orphanages are forced out / are no longer eligible for adoption at age 14. Some stay in the system to work / for education, but many are also thrown onto the streets with little to no prospects / choose to leave.
Why is this important?
Cyan and Luo try to escape when they are 14- meaning the Dean was already committing a crime by not letting her go when she wanted to, but also serves as further reasoning for why she didn't know where Luo was post escape. Since he had already been tossed from orphanage to orphanage, and had to be "bribed" to be good (or, if you interpret it that way, get a birthday present), it makes 100% sense he may have been thrown onto the streets and she'd need help finding him by the time DOS came knocking. This also somewhat implies that, assuming the orphans in district 70 were available for adoption, no one would adopt Luo / Luo acted up intentionally to not get adopted to stay with Cyan.
*While Yang Cheng gets government assistance into his 20s, he was at a government funded orphanage. The Dean says he opened the orphanage himself, making it a private entity that wouldn't give Luo or anyone else additional support.
We see Cyan's blue headphones in their original packaging in Luo's room behind him while he sings My Color- indicating he gave them to her or got them at some point for her since the Dean wouldn't let her wear them if she ordered / asked for them- especially since Cyan before had mentioned he controlled what she wore.
Luo has different nicknames depending on the language. He is "Calamity" in English, "Disaster Star / Comet" in Chinese, and "Plague God" in Japanese. Disaster Star / Comet is mythologically significant for China, as it indicates great social upheaval, change, and restructuring - all of which Luo does within the show. The mythological significance is somewhat lost on the English dubbing, but keeps some in the Japanese- as it still fits him; a spirit forced from community to community, associated with but not always the cause of plagues and misfortune.

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I know, and care for the other characters, plots, etc. and they're all interesting. But not touching on the Cyan and Luo plot (or the other plots regarding supporting cast) would be such a disappointment considering how fundamental they are for the main cast. Completely replacing them with interactions between top 11 heroes would feel like jangling 11 pairs of keys at me while reaching into my pocket and swiping my wallet.
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