because the thing is Viktorβs whole back-and-forth is all about trying to make the world a better place using whatβs best about humanity to further technology, right? Like that seems to be his schtickβthe Dr. Frankensteinβs βdiscovery-must-be-good-because-itβs-spurred-on-by-humanityβs-desire-to-improve-thingsβ tropey characterization, right?
I mean I didnβt get very far into Season 1 but that seemed to be the thing they were doing with him. But it was obviously taking a tragic turn when I left it; like, heβs realizing that to βmake the world a better placeβ through βdiscovery-and-progress,β you gotta break some eggs to make the omelette. Something something about how he didnβt want to let the giant salamander suffer when he was a kid, but then heβs going to let it suffer when he grows up and sees that itβs suffering could further the greater good (starting with saving his own life) or whatever
you know, the unholy matrimony between human empathyβs motivation to βdo goodβ and steadily-marching progress. Eventually βdoing goodβ becomes the end that justifies any means. And then youβre no longer doing good.
So in that way, βinventionβ can be a medicine which, if drunk too often, becomes a poison.
Just like human emotions. After all, human emotions initially cause the inventor to want to use his skills to prevent harm and improve lives. Emotions can be fuel. But then those same emotions can rupture and rot over time into obsession, pride, self-centeredness, hate, mercilessness. Emotions can be fire.
So what Iβm saying is (assuming they kept plodding along that dichotomy-ofβresponsibility-for-gifting-&-manβs-not-meant-to-meddle-even-if-itβs-for-the-greater-good trope with Viktor in Season 2,βagain, I havenβt seen the whole show) the only character that couldβve made sense for Tyler Joseph to write a song about is Viktor.
because heβs always wrestling with the use-versus-the-dangers of human emotion.
On the one hand, his songs show that if you ignore your emotions and try to cover them up with a functional savior (your car radio during long drives, lyrics that mean nothing, a fictional city of emotionless citizens, etc.) you might as well be a zombie. If you cut off or ignore your emotions, youβre not being real, and youβre not seeing the reality that your emotions are trying to warn you about.
But on the dangerous side, if you use emotions too much, give them too much attention, theyβll overpower you and become dangerous. Negative emotions can become all you feel, and then your emotions replace reality. Anxiety, depression, pride-born-of-lack-of-controlβgive those emotions too much free rein, and youβre a new kind of zombie.
Emotions can be fuel, emotions can be fire, and Tyler Josephβs always trying to figure out which to use and which to not.
Kind of like how it seemed like Viktor was the kind of Dr. Victor Frankensteinβs βI owe it to the world to get this exactly rightβ obsessive characterβ¦who would go too far with a medicine and turn it into poison. But he has moments of self-awareness where he tragically realizes thatβs what heβs doing. That sort of thing lends itself well to twenty one pilots.
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