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branchandroot) wrote2007-03-19 12:36 pm
branchandroot) wrote2007-03-19 12:36 pm
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ES21 Total Speculation
I think Hiruma might be a bastard.
And illegitimate, too. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) In fact, I think he's the child of someone high up in whatever his walk of life is, possibly even someone known colloquialy as God ("Devils don't ask favors of God.").
It would explain why, in a story that takes some trouble to include parents and homelives, we see /nothing/ of his; the way his father seems to be pleased with him but knows Hiruma won't want to hear it; Hiruma's choice to engage, not just in deliquency, but actual criminal activity; the way he's parallelled with Kid; the amount of ready cash and capital he always has; and possibly even his taste for blackmail--maybe he learned that tactic first with dear old dad.
If this is the case, I expect his mother is either dead or very embittered.
I have hopes we will find out one way or another, eventually.
And illegitimate, too. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) In fact, I think he's the child of someone high up in whatever his walk of life is, possibly even someone known colloquialy as God ("Devils don't ask favors of God.").
It would explain why, in a story that takes some trouble to include parents and homelives, we see /nothing/ of his; the way his father seems to be pleased with him but knows Hiruma won't want to hear it; Hiruma's choice to engage, not just in deliquency, but actual criminal activity; the way he's parallelled with Kid; the amount of ready cash and capital he always has; and possibly even his taste for blackmail--maybe he learned that tactic first with dear old dad.
If this is the case, I expect his mother is either dead or very embittered.
I have hopes we will find out one way or another, eventually.
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ES21 does tend to deliver on its foreshadowing, so I hold out great hopes of seeing Hiruma's family someday. It should be a lot of fun!
(where are you up to atm? I think I last stopped reading somewhere around 180 because I couldn't bear the suspense of seeing Shinryuuji lose.)
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I'm up to 225, the latest issue. Of course, I devoured all of that in a marathon, and now am fretting because I have to wait for it week by week. Argh! We're in the middle of the Oujou v Deimon match. In the Semifinals! Presumably, Seibu will be the finalist match. The suspense is pretty fierce. The mangaka is really good at that.