Not Realizing And Not Really Fully Processing Until He Stopped Tasting Anything But /blood/ That He Was Losing Grip On His Sanity. - Blog Posts

✘𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆: your story is carved in the scars of your skin; you; the legend of bygone eras. the sad thing he was always /good/ but his actions weren't. they were misguided and a lot of it was groomed by katsura 'because he is so pure he has no choice but to do this foolish thing ' hiko and also i feel his trauma and tragic childhood or really lack of shaped this mentality of being /sick/ of being protected and it's now it's like...enough. no more. i have to do something /now/. and so he rushed into the bakumatsu not realizing and not really fully processing until he stopped tasting anything but /blood/ that he was losing grip on his sanity. and he started at 14.. but ultimately this was brought on by kenshin himself but the circumstantial situations of his birth / life experience at such a young age and never knowing peace until otsu really hits home that he was probably almost /desperate/ to be able to give people what he never had. at any cost. ✘𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃: to protect the lives before him one by one; bearing his scar like a cross; his life an offering for peace. yes he ushered in the meiji in this story and in this story without him it wouldn't have happened but boy that didn't fix everything !!!!! and kenshin learns that. i have so many thoughts as usual. ✘𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐑𝐈: unparalleled: you are a weapon; the very whisper of you strikes terror into all the hearts of men.