……I somehow ended up associating Samatoki with the four horsemen of the apocalypse, of all things
Aohitsugi Samatoki. 碧棺左馬刻. To carve(刻) a horse(馬) on the left(左) side of the blue(碧) coffin(棺).
棺 is synonymous with 箱, which means ‘box’ and is read as ‘hako.’ Samatoki pronounces his MC name(Mr. HC) to sound more like ‘Mister Ha-ko’ rather than ‘Mister Hardcore.’ Turns out it was a pun(or word play, to be specific) with his last name, made possible by Japanese English pronunciation.
Then what would horse mean? Horse usually symbolized ‘power’ in many myths and artworks.
At some point, when I saw 碧(blue), 棺(coffin-the most common symbol of death), and 馬(horse), something sparked in my mind, and the pale horse of death galloped into my mind. The Japanese(青白い／蒼白い, あおじろい) and Korean(창백하다, 蒼白하다) vocabularies for ‘pale’ are both composed of the symbols that mean ‘blue青, 蒼’ and ‘white白,’ and this slight linguistic difference strengthened the color symbolism for me.
White Rider of Conquest: Samatoki’s childhood, when he was abused yet still had innocence and mom
Red Rider of War: Violence-what he was forced to witness with his two red eyes and now utilizing to survive, Pre-TDD Ichiro in red and black clothes, the color of 45 rabbit’s gloves
Black Rider of Famine: Despair induced from the disbandment of TDD, The color of Rio’s uniform that allows him to blend to the surrounding.
Pale Rider of Death: MTC. Samatoki himself.
The fact that there is not a single drop of yellow for ‘light’ only highlights his despairing life.
Last but not least, if you use goroawase to switch 左left to 三three(both are pronounced as ‘sa’), and replace 刻to carve with 時time(both are pronounced as ‘toki’). We now have ‘the time of three horses.’ Or should I say ‘the time of a white horse, a red rabbit, and a black bush warbler?’ Whatever time it is, the three members of MAD TRIGGER CREW can be together within the time of blue.
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