#ikuko

That said I = Y is more interesting to me as another lens of magic. Following the characters and personas Beatrice makes is another layer up, where this is all an extension of Ikuko projecting her traumas and using the premise and cat box of Rokkenjima to explore and reconcile with her own upbringing — beyond just only helping Tohya to cope.

I suppose this is why Featherine is said to have the power she does. Witches can be read as stand-ins for the audience and as such is one layer below the literal Author. Featherine has the absolute power of discussing the text and altering it as she does because this is as much her story as it is Sayo. Sayo becomes almost a mouthpiece for her to vent. Confession makes it a literal confession, but I want to almost say that it's fate that the story that Ikuko has for Sayo aligns with what she *assumes* Sayo would've felt, in order to commit a tragedy like this.

It helps that she has Tohya's opinions and memories as guidance. It's almost illuminating in that way. She would've never made as compelling (and convincing) a narrative of Rokkenjima alone and Tohya would've never had closure on what could've happened without her helping him through it. Tohya being drafting implies that he understood the rough motives and outlines of how the tragedy could've occured, but the whole heart could've only been achieved through the lens of Ikuko's writing.

Vintage official(?) chibi artwork of my blorbos!

Here are all of the isfj characters