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#Post#: 6491--------------------------------------------------
Nezumi's feelings for Shion and his personality
By: Pricamolesi Date: June 1, 2016, 3:28 pm
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So, it's my second time reading the novel. I've watched the
anime twice, read the manga a couple times as well, and am
reading it again. Focusing a little in the novel, the first time
I read it I couldn't really grasp Nezumi's personality, and how
it affected how he saw/interacted with Shion. I thought things
to be really simple and due to the situation... Like, Nezumi
felt somehow worried and infatuated with Shion because he was
saved by him, and since they spent most of time together he
couldn't help it, that's why he left at the end, to find himself
again, and to be able to live alone again.
Now, reading the book for the second time, I see things are a
lot more complex than I originally thought so! I want to know
what other people think about this as well, so let me tell how I
see things now. The way Nezumi feels and acts towards Shion is
deeply connected to the Mao Massacre, and it's effects in
Nezumi's life.
Yes, I know it sounded SO obvious and cliché, so let me explain
a little further.
It's not really clear how Nezumi lived after the massacre, how
he got to Rou, and how he lived his first years after meeting
with Shion, but it's clear that he has a really strong survival
instinct, hence, he only gets involved in/with things he can
take control of, or at least can get a full view of, can
understand perfectly. That would explain why he would be so
reserved when it comes to relationships and feelings in general.
One can hardly control how he feels, and how other people think
and feel as well.
So when he first met Shion, I believe not only he was surprised
to see goodness and even salvation in another human being, but
he was curious about him as well, for he lived inside of the
wall, but could show kindness and tenderness..
Fasting forward a little, they are living together and Nezumi
gets frustrated at Shion for he seems to oblivious to the
reality around him, always being too idealistic and shallow
even, but there is something he cannot get... Shion sometimes is
totally unreadable. He may look innocent, full of morals and
kindness, but had more than once shown signs of wrath,
agressiveness... Nezumi can't quite get him.
There's a part of him that likes (loves, perhaps) Shion, for all
they have been through together, and for his company, his
bluntness, his goodness, and we see this CLEARLY for Nezumi does
not want to let him go by himself to the correctional facility,
(yes, he says that he does not want to be alone again, because
he finds himself enjoying Shion's company), how he cried after
Shion left, how he is always worried about Shion, teaching him.
But there's that part of him that is afraid... Not of Shion,
properly, but of the notion of the unknown, the impredictable...
Shion is not entirely mighty, but not also entirely evil. He's
like anyone else... The difference is that this is all new to
him, and he is learning how to deal with all. That's why we see
Nezumi constantly pushing Shion away, thinking how Shion is a
monster, hurting him sometimes, saying that he hates him.
At the end, he leaves so he can experience freedom for the first
time, not only from No. 6, but from his own demons as well...
Shion had to stay, because Nezumi wouldn't be able to deal with
him properly before dealing with himself first...
What do you guys think???
#Post#: 6495--------------------------------------------------
Re: Nezumi's feelings for Shion and his personality
By: Ghosty Date: June 14, 2016, 9:24 pm
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I definitely agree with you. Nezumi ran because he had been tied
down by No. 6 for so long, and it was the thing that blocked his
vision of Shion. He needed to look at the world as a whole and
not just as how No. 6 affected it, and that applied to Shion as
well. That doesn't mean that I think what he did was okay as to
how it applied to Shion, but I understand why.
As for Nezumi's feeling for Shion, I think he was still in
slight denial of them when he left. Maybe not on purpose,
probably just in confusion. He had never experienced any level
of love before, much less caring, so I doubt he fully
understands his feelings.
#Post#: 6499--------------------------------------------------
Re: Nezumi's feelings for Shion and his personality
By: kare_reiko Date: June 16, 2016, 3:46 am
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I'm too after denial opinion about Nezumi's behavior towards the
end of story. Well his denial for feeling started from the
moment when Shion randomly touch Nezumi's neck after the dance.
Shion said his love confession in normal way, gentle, with
warmth... But what Nezumi saw because he was afraid? That Shion
had cold eyes, his face was scary. Nezumi couldn't let himself
think that someone really cared for him and there wasn't
anything dangerous in Shion's touch and words.
Even if Shion never done to Nezumi anything that would harm him,
Nezumi still thinks about Shion as a possible enemy.
He left because he still couldn't see people different than
someone who will harm him. Shion asks when his coming to home
and Nezumi answers that he doesn't have a home. Everyplace for
him is a dangerous place and he didn't yet learned that there
could be different, that he didn't have to think in such way.
Alright I messed the end of post and I myself don't know what I
wanted to say XD
#Post#: 6500--------------------------------------------------
Nezumi's feelings for Shion and his personality
By: Ghosty Date: June 16, 2016, 5:19 pm
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I felt that when shion touched his cheek he knew exactly what
that was and what he was feeling, and that's what he was afraid
of. He had let Shion touch him and that was a sign of affection,
softness- weakness. So he went into denial after that.
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