And you know, the thing about them is if you want to completely miss the point, you can see Yaguruma as dragging Kageyama down to his level, and see him as selfish or amoral for that and make him the bad guy, but it wasn't like that, not just because Kageyama was pretty good at digging his own hole.
Yaguruma DID tell him not to reach for the light and that they should live in the dark and all that, and one can see that as crushing his hope, except it really wasn't like that. Because ultimately, you see that Kageyama kept reaching for hope that wasn't real, and that THAT was what killed him, and I thought it was very telling that when he was feverish and said he got a necklace for Yaguruma, Yaguruma refused to take it (at that point it was pretty obvious that the necklaces did bad things to people and I wondered if Yaguruma sensed that like Tendou did), but at the same time, he doesn't insist that Kageyama take them off, because by then I think he knows Kageyama wasn't ever going to stop reaching for that little bit of (false) hope. And so, he'd tried to find hope for him, a hope that was real for them, the light in the dark and all that, and it's just so sad that it was too late.
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Date: 2009-02-15 03:55 am (UTC)Yaguruma DID tell him not to reach for the light and that they should live in the dark and all that, and one can see that as crushing his hope, except it really wasn't like that. Because ultimately, you see that Kageyama kept reaching for hope that wasn't real, and that THAT was what killed him, and I thought it was very telling that when he was feverish and said he got a necklace for Yaguruma, Yaguruma refused to take it (at that point it was pretty obvious that the necklaces did bad things to people and I wondered if Yaguruma sensed that like Tendou did), but at the same time, he doesn't insist that Kageyama take them off, because by then I think he knows Kageyama wasn't ever going to stop reaching for that little bit of (false) hope. And so, he'd tried to find hope for him, a hope that was real for them, the light in the dark and all that, and it's just so sad that it was too late.