dying-suffering-french-stalkers:bananapajama87: @dying-suffering-french-stalkers is right as always.
dying-suffering-french-stalkers:bananapajama87: @dying-suffering-french-stalkers is right as always. (via @the-golden-ghost) *sobs gently into my hands*uniquely among this cast I think his genuine deepest down character motivation is *belonging* like obviously all the other characters need connection on some level too (even if poor zenigata isn’t getting a lot of it :’) ) but I don’t think any of them has it as this fundamental desperate right-in-the-core drive like jigen does it’s so sad that he spent so much of his life in a world where you can’t trust anyone when one of his most defining character traits is a just… IMMENSE capacity for loyalty and devotion and not in the fear-based ‘you know what happens if you aren’t…’ way OR mechanical thoughtless way of that violent world but the real deal babey with his whole chest; quietly and undramatically and steadfastly as much in the silly little background moments of day to day life as in the great crescendo of a heist and like when you think about it he really needed so little! he literally just needed someone to treat him decently! for just one (1) person to not repay that capacity for loyalty and devotion with stabbing him in the back when he isn’t 'needed’ anymore! he fascinates me so endlessly as a character who at one point very nearly died psychologically if not physically (though when you’re that dead inside I feel it’s only a question of time before even professional pride ain’t enough to keep you from that) doing things he didn’t much care for for people he didn’t much care for for reasons he didn’t much care for (he doesn’t seem to like… care that much about money really? even when lupin loses them a score to fujiko it’s more anger that he’s devaluing what he and jigen did together just like that. no one in the lupin gang really cares that much about the money in and of itself except possibly fujiko which is probably why she usually wins lol) and then lupin shows up with all his joyful nonsense and it wakes him up and he saunters back into life again. I mean. hmng ;___; I know I joke that lupin iii is fundamentally the 'we must imagine Sisyphus happy’ central of fiction but I think jigen is the Most in finding contentment in pushing that metaphorical boulder b/c he’s doing it with the people he loves (which is why it’s both so funny and sweet to me that 'where you go I go’. like 'yeah I’ll go wherever as long as it’s with you’ *shrug*) and it’s a hell of a lot better than being dead while still having to walk around and breathe like he doesn’t care as much about where he’s going as the fact that he’s not going alone. that finally something loved him back. …all my jigen feels spilling out of my chest on a tuesday morning lol (via @vaguely-concerned )hi, OP here! just came off hiatus! thank you SO much for this Jigen Essay Series, truly, genuinely, every one of you -- source link
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