OC introspections : Kuroge & Shirotan from Knives and Scars (fr/untranslated)
"I think I need time. To get myself wasted, to be in a really bad state so they can pick me up on a stretcher, an alarm alerting the neighbors that a guy from their building has committed suicide.
I have to get used to it, to losing what I loved. To loving only what kills me."
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Kuroge
Kuroge without Shirotan was just the shadow of a weak candle that could go out at any moment.
It was a rainy evening, a shitty night, a dead Saturday night. Kuroge staggering by the side of the road, a bottle in hand, having lost his wallet, his keys, his bag.
A damn broke man, a degenerate searching for anything, anyone.
That night, with confused thoughts, he sat on the steps behind that grey building, that immense structure that seemed to raise screams in the wind.
私を知っていると主張される私
私が知っていると主張する私
私がなりたいと主張する私...
新しい仮面、気に入りましたか?
私は過去を両手で引き裂き
涙の湿った地面に穴を掘る
花を埋めるための墓。
だからあなたは自分自身を恐れないのですか?
あなたの歯の笑顔
自信のなさを傷つけ、切り裂く
そして、私はそれを歪ませている自分を見る
私の舌の上を転がる言葉の動きで
話す私は誰?
私は何も知らない
誰も私に自分を愛する方法を教えてくれませんでした。
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- "This boy has a gleam in his eyes. A sinister gleam.
Like a dark sun, an eclipse behind clouds, a muffled scream.
He is alive, conscious, he feels things.
When someone is weak, physically and mentally, seems to collapse ; if your soul feels compassion, in other words, suffering, we find ourselves needing to help.
Because we want to protect his value, his essence. Because in his eyes, we see ourselves like in an empty mirror, that soul silently screaming to be delivered."
Every human being needs to feel understood to avoid derailing.
But not everyone has the chance to seize the opportunity in time to get out.
Some people are deeply buried in their thought patterns, their ways of functioning. Every process takes time. One must be patient and not give up when things get complicated. There are solutions to every problem, and none of this is easy or obvious.
Kuroge always wore bandages on his arms. It was like a comfort to him, a protection. He didn’t necessarily hide it, nor did he deny his wounds. He said that these scars tended to ward off predators and that they protected him. He could live with it, and he often said that he didn’t want to die without scars, and that the body tells stories that only morgue guys could decipher one last time. Because of this, he had tattooed his favorite movies on his right leg and his favorite music bands on his left. So he won't forget.
Projecting oneself after death is something only those who live at full speed truly do. Writing a will, choosing a coffin, choosing one’s own death. It takes a certain courage and decisive power to take that step.
The emotional instability of a living being passes through their entire lived history, a bad health, a bad accident, a bad blow can be fatal to a fragile body.
Death touches all living beings, and the survival rate of humans is zero.
We are certain to pass through it.
I never thought it would end like this.
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Drop by drop, at the bottom of the sewers.
His suffering had reached its peak, losing clarity of mind, the destruction of this unjust world had proven him right. The world is so filthy, so bad. There is no hope when your body is dying, defective.
He had often thought about ending it all once and for all.
"I destroyed myself like I destroyed everything around me."
The medication in his body, dissolved in his saliva, melted into his blood, red and whitish. Flowing through his veins, his blood vessels, the poison of death reached his heart. Inevitable fate.
"There is no turning back. Time is irreversible..."
His mind began to leave his body.
His life philosophy was that he could die at any moment.
The tragedy of his life was that he did not die.
His will to live astonished him.
He wanted to destroy something beautiful.
This insomniac distance, this absolute freedom. This divine power to fall asleep forever. Letting go, ceasing to struggle.
But we fight, again and again because we know we’re going to die.
Because it is only in death that we remember.
The rest is doomed to silence.
The wind carried away the pains.
Bathing in agony. Covered in shame. These walls cave in. Only myself to blame. Pill after pill, I prepare myself for the morning ahead. My body folds, writhing in pain. No one is here for me. Bathing in agony. Covered in shame. I listen to the running water. It fills the bathtub slowly. I am trampled by thoughts. Weighed down by memories. I lay my head still, welcoming an infinite sleep. My sacrifice for you. An endless cycle of ache. Still conscious, I am paralyzed. Eyes wide open, staring aimlessly. Water begins to fill the floor. Rising slowly, so poetically. I begin to choke, this is what I crave. I am a masochist, in my blood I bathe. Drowning in my own self-hatred, I can feel my lungs as they begin to fail. Bathing in agony. Covered in shame. This burden of living never seems to end. As I lay my body and take the devil's hand. In this holy water. In this chamber of sin. Born into filth. I die alone. (
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