If sword-pulling has undertones of sexual assault, then this scene has undertones of murder. Kanaeās skin turns blue, Anthy stabs her heart, she screams, and her body goes limp.
We only ever see Kanae āmurderedā in this way (for the rest of the Black Roses, the scene is cut short), but we can assume that something similar happens for the rest of them, if for no other reason than that this show loves to reuse lines.
As the Black RosesĀ go deeperĀ underground, go deeper into their own psyches, they also seem to be going deeper into Hell ā or rather, Purgatory. Death, and suffering, but at the end of itā¦ well, at least a slim chance of positive change. Miki, Kozue, Nanami, and Tsuwabuki seem better off; Kanae, Jury, Shiori, and Wakaba do not.
When they get āmurderedā, their āhearts stopā ā they are maintain an unchanging emotional state. (This is kind of what I was hoping Homestuck would do with its dead characters, but that didnāt seem to happen.)
Yes! That kind of ties into what I was saying here.Ā Mikage coaxes people who wouldnāt normally be Duelists into an emotional state where they are, and then Anthy(?) freezes them in that sate through this symbolic act symbolic murder.
And Iām just now remembering a few more things that tie the Black Roses to death. Thereās the fact that they all have murder on the brain; they want to kill Anthy, even the ones who have no reason to resent her.Ā Then thereās something Kanae says:Ā āThis is the real me. The other me I buried within myselfāĀ ā and something she does:
(Since you mentioned Homestuckā¦)
:OOO
By the way, at the end of the Black Rose arc, I thought that we were supposed to conclude that the 100 boys were never really killed, Nemuro Memorial Hall was never rebuilt, etc., but after the finale I now think that it all did happen, but everyone forgot about it and their memories were rewritten after Mikage left. Is that your interpretation?
