I always remember how Angelica death fuck me up:
Like from the beginning of roland’s story, he told angela that he used to have a wife, who is also worked as a highly grade fixer as him, same industry and died due to ‘typical City disaster’ with their child who she’s still pregnant with. With how the world building goes in The City, ppl die brutally due to abnormal disaster are normal mundane thing here. But as the story progress, we started to see more or angelica: she and her brother Argalia were victims child experiment until she was saved by Iori, she’s witty and funny, she’s a happy gal with trauma, she’s somehow memorise orlando furioso, and she’s not just tough, like her brother she’s a color fixer. And we started to understand how and why Roland fall for her: She’s not just anyone, she’s the Black Silence, She’s a fixer of Charles Office, she was a victim to the City inhumanity, she’s the Blue Reverb’s sister, she’s the Purple Tear’s student, she’s Roland soulmate, she’s Angelica,
she had a story, her story was supposed to have a soft epilogue
she’s also one messed-up individual who struggle to live under cruel crushing gear of the City
Which is why Roland’s short summary at the beginning of Star of Urban Legend AND the fact that Argalia defile her goddamn corpse is taken more tragic in context.
It’s like the City crushing her as if she’s no less than a bug: She’s nothing more like those second-class passengers in w corp train. she’s nothing like those orphanage Tomerry destroyed, like those clerks who dies violently in lob corp like ants
Its like to the City, she’s just a background character who fall victim to the City’s brutality.
Perhaps, this is why i like limbus company, bc they let those ‘no-name’ to have the chance to gain confidence, gain the second chance to tell their story, to win against the nihilstic hell that is the City, to give them their voices back.
Perhaps this is a love letter to those who are like Angelica
