Hahaha I do know. I didn't want to assume... but I did kind of assume I wouldn't need to ask twice. XD
Oh YES N was absolutely pushed past his breaking point by his own compassion. "just wants things to stop happening so much" is an EXCELLENT way of putting it. Looking back, in that one flashback where child Noah reveals he could actually summon his blade, he says he's scared of what this war will do them and ohhhhh, ohhhhh, this is what it does. It's such good foreshadowing because at first it's just something reasonable he might say, but in hindsight it makes you go OOOOOOOOOOO that's what that meant!! hahaha.
My personal take on his personality shift is that he puts on a persona the moment Z asks him to kill the city people—pretending to be someone who can do that without shattering. It also explains why he talks normally before becoming Moebius and then starts being pompous after (it's also why any modern AU ideas I have with him in it inevitably end with him as an actor lol).
Hmm, personally I didn't have the feeling that he got elevated to Special Boy? I thought the ending sequence made pretty clear that he only got this far because of all the support he had.
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Date: 2023-07-16 08:12 pm (UTC)From:Oh YES N was absolutely pushed past his breaking point by his own compassion. "just wants things to stop happening so much" is an EXCELLENT way of putting it. Looking back, in that one flashback where child Noah reveals he could actually summon his blade, he says he's scared of what this war will do them and ohhhhh, ohhhhh, this is what it does. It's such good foreshadowing because at first it's just something reasonable he might say, but in hindsight it makes you go OOOOOOOOOOO that's what that meant!! hahaha.
My personal take on his personality shift is that he puts on a persona the moment Z asks him to kill the city people—pretending to be someone who can do that without shattering. It also explains why he talks normally before becoming Moebius and then starts being pompous after (it's also why any modern AU ideas I have with him in it inevitably end with him as an actor lol).
Hmm, personally I didn't have the feeling that he got elevated to Special Boy? I thought the ending sequence made pretty clear that he only got this far because of all the support he had.