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btw I made an ugly little strawpage in case anyone wants to ask me smth or send me stuff. I’ll probably add more to it later hoikkoro.straw.page

interesting how the guard chart in chapter 360 jumps straight from momoze to woble, and skips over marayam. they share the same mother (sevanti), and I think omitting marayam hides how sevanti assigned all her actual guards to protect marayam while neglecting momoze

it’s pretty ironic that the zodiacs think they’re the ones playing kakin for a fool, when kakin has neutralized them without even lifting a finger lol. 3 are stuck guarding beyond, while the rest are occupied with managing the municipal collapses on the lower tiers

the montage of the royals humouring grotesque old aristocrats exposes the lie of their “divine”superiority. tserri for example sees himself as a god, yet even in a sacred ritual, he still has to pander to people financially backing his family lol

benjamin’s monologue is interesting bc as the firstborn and military head, the succession war is an insult to his institutional birthright. plus the irony of “death by my hands” lol. he postures as a solo conqueror, yet his ability requires his men to die for him first

in chapter 358 kurapika realized kakin bypassed his dowsing chain by keeping guards ignorant (you can't catch a lie if they don't know the truth). look at how he fixes that at the end of 359. he destroys their ignorance first by telling everything he knows so the chain works

interesting how every top prince has an inner monologue affirming their ambition, except camilla. to have ambition means admitting you don't have the crown yet, but her narcissism is so absolute that she already sees herself as the centre of reality

I think kurapika giving oito a reason to fight for her life was the first clue togashi gave us that this succession war was going to fail. the system relies on the lower queens quietly accepting death as fuel for the top princes, and having hope is incompatible with that