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Difference is bondrewd isn't trying to kill you. He is trying to just make a connection with you in some form.... A bond obsessed shrewd person is how I read his name. I honestly think his goal the whole time was to A) Put Riko through hell for her own development. B) get Riko a white whistle.
I read his White Whistle story like this: He is willing to give everything up, to sacrifice everything for his science. Including himself. He sacrificed all this children, who loved him. If he sacrificed himself to get a White Whistle it would show for me that he has no boundaries, not even for himself.
I also interpreted his story in this way as well. It’s like he is in a constant never-ending cycle of sacrifice to fuel scientific progression. With this, his contradicting actions towards his loved ones is kind of comprehensible in a twisted way. It kinda felt that he wanted his loved ones to experience the scientific progression and advancements, but the only way he though that would be possible was to literally include them in the progression. He fulfilled his daughters wish of being a white whistle by literally making her into one. He really feels like a being of the abyss in that way. I feel like this kind of also connects into his title of being “The Lord of the Dawn”. The “Dawn” symbolizing “Progression” and his supposed goal of sharing the Dawn with everyone. However, he is the Lord that fulfills everyone’s dreams by literally weaving them into the Dawn. No matter what everyone says, does or feels, he always brings progression to everyone. Like how the Dawn comes everyday to bring forward the first light continuing on to the sunrise.
Uh, that's what his white whistle is. Through the usage of various relic including the zoaholic, he sacrificed himself. The reason he's working on acquiring the Blessing is because he's technically just a copy of the original Bondrewd, and so while he's immortal if he has enough bodies to swap with, he doesn't get all of the benefits a 'real' person would get.
It's also important to note that any experiment he has done on someone else he's done on himself first, and his mindset is generally if he can handle it for his pursuit then surely they can too
Another level of complexity that's added to all of this is just how "kind" he is, like you said he has love on his side, and genuinely wants the best for Prushka, Nanachi, and even Riko by the end. He never stopped caring about the hollows left behind, and he still loves them but his worldview is so warped and twisted that he can continue on with his experiments anyway all for the sake of knowledge and to further the exploration of the abyss. Spoilers below - - - - - - - And his turning Prushka into a cartridge was such an interesting betrayal, while simultaneously being the best he can do to help. He got his goal, of getting blessed, but he also seemed to know, that she would become a white whistle for Riko, sacrificing his daughter for her so Riko wouldn't need to sacrifice someone herself to get a whistle and continue on their journey. And now Prushka can join them on their journey in the form of a white whistle getting what she wanted too in a twisted sense.
And apparently ( more spoilers ahead, this one's a bit of the manga ) Prushka can legit feel what goes on around Riko, she can taste the good food, hear them, and even talk to Riko during sleep, it's not a "taking my body with you" thing, she legit is there helping them and feeling everything
wasnt the original "use" of Prushka to become one of his body doubles? but there was issues during the surgery so rather then waste her, he turned her into a capsule?
@@nicynodle2 No, she was a daughter of one of his umbra hands and would probably be used for experimentations. Gueira suggested to end her suffering since she would not be useful in that state. Bondrewd in the other hand saw something in her.
I do think you overlooked one very important detail with Bondrewed that makes him so effective. It is not that he doesn't care about Nanashi and the rest. In fact, what makes him so threatening is quite the opposite. He really does care and love them as a father. We can even see him express concerns for Nanashi's safety at one point. However, he doesn't see fatherly bonds as any hinderance to what he does, and that is the real scary part about his character.
I don't think Lowart overlooked that. They actually went out of their way to emphasize how much Bondrewd continues to show love and kindness to all of the child characters, right up until he hurts them, etc. Your and Lowart's comments both appear to be communicating the same idea as far as I can tell.
This is my take as well. It is not that he is unable to truly love or care. He can and he do love every children deeply, in normal people love trumps anything, even self preservation but for Bondrewd progress trumps anything even love.
Another layer of complexity is that bondrewd is what happens if Riko's scientific curiosity goes unchecked. She has that in abundance and sometimes it goes to the extent that she can disregard the safety of herself and her friends. She would be dead many times over if it wasn't for reg and nanachi.
Bondrewd thought she was interesting for a reason. He probably saw himself in her. He might have behaved similar to her in the past when he was young. That being said, she might end up similar to him aswell.
@@stormflavored8829 not a single white whistle is normal, the desire to see the very end with no return implies that their humanity is significantly different from us, being children of the abyss.
@@twotwo108 I think this is kinda what makes the concept of the abyss itself so interesting. It is, metaphorically, Nietzsches Abyss and the most basic requirement to become a white whistle is to stare at it forever, past the point where it starts to look back.
I have a level of piety towards Bonedrewd. His personality and actions seems to show that prior to entering the Abyss he was a genuinely compassionate person. However, as with everyone, the Abyss twists you, both body and soul. Current day Bonedrewd is the result. He still has his kindness, but its horrific. Its honestly worse than if The Abyss had just made him cold and distant.
Bondrewd was messed up even before he entered the Abyss, the entire reason he became a Delver was because another country was sending bounty hunters after him for a currently unknown crime he committed, and from the start of his exploration he was funding his Abyss research off of inhumane experiments and other criminal acts.
@@arieljourdan2375 The fact that Ozen was just like "oh yeah watch out for that guy lol he crazy" like?? 💀surely she knew something of what he was capable of. Not that _any_ of the adults in this show are responsible guardians but...
Bondrewd is the definition of "For the greater good" and it is a very logical conclusion which allows him to have no malice and even love. Everything he is doing is for the ultimate goal of saving the whole. In his mind he loves and respects those who have been sacrifices in the name of the greater good.
i dont think so. at least its not the whole story. He kinda goes out of his way to not let the children in fear. You dont need to do that. You could just say: its for the greater good and they dont matter to anyone anyway. But i think they matter to him. He might be able to love whole heartedly. But he places his research over everything else for whatever reason. The difference between: "I love you but in order to save the world i will hurt you" and "I love you and will conduct research with you" (cant put it better) is small in action but significant in mindset. I think "not hurting someone you love" is just not something he thinks of. At least if it doesnt benefit him. For him love and research are so far apart, they dont touch each other ever. the moment nanachi joins him if he doesnt hurt the others is the best example here. the fact that he already cuts at reg while making nanachi the offer is proof that he doesnt understand ppl caring for each other dont want each other hurt. otherwise he would have waited until she ether aproves or hid his doing and regs fate from her. it was a supprise to him that she could want something like this and he was honest about the mistake he made. He is kind of like a farmer raising live stock. He will care for the cow, he loves the cow. Giving her scratches, feeding her, talking to her, petting her, playing with her. And at one point he will slaughter the cow and eat the cow. And he will say: "That was tasty", and go about his day. It doesnt come to his mind that what he does is wrong, because "love" and "not hurting each other" are two separat things. its not that he cant comprehent love or pain of others, otherwise he would not be able to make prushka trust and love him. he would not know how to behave infront of the childen. but there is no connection to him in this. i mean do they need to be concios all the time? someone who wants to minimize the suffer would probably drug them up or something. and we aknowledge that he loves and cares. at least he thinks he does. i guess he probably cant hate anyone ether. if you do something for your own good and succeed he may even applaude you and be happy for you. just like with nanachi and mity. so he knows how others feel and can project that. he is empathic here, but will try to kill you anyway if you are in the way at the same time. you cant be mad at a rock or a tree for beeing there. and i think it suggests that he doesnt view anyone as equal. maybe in power, but he can deal with that. he just doesnt respect you in any way, shape or form, or your wishes and how you go about your life. you are so far beneath him in his world view, that he doesnt care if he hurts you. he doesnt think about it at all. he knows it, but he doesnt think about it. and that challenges one thing: love, empathy and the respect for each other, the willingness to put others befor your own ambitions, is not the same. he is the perfect narcissist in that way. though he is not really one, otherwise he could not know how others feel. its this logic brake that makes him so interesting and hard to understand at all. because we cant comprehent the logic behind his actions. in a way its like sauron doesnt think anyone would want to destroy the one ring. he can just think of ways they want to use it against him. it is a flaw, otherwise he could have nanachi as a partner like he wanted.
This is why “greater good” is a bullshit philosophy. There is always something greater that any sacrifice can be justified. In a wide enough scale, long enough time anything is justified and logical. For example, in 20 billion years the universe will die to entropy erasing all information. So what’s the big deal in commuting some genocide when it going to erased anyway?
I actually thought that fact that Bondrewd was nice to the children he used, and seemed to sincerely appreciate their unwilling sacrifice for him, even remembering their name gave a interesting depth to his character.
Bondrewd most scary thing for me is his lack of malice. He causes pain and suffering but not at any moment I felt like he took any pleasure in that, he sincerely felt that was a necessary action. This doesn't mean he didn't rationalize in a pretty "malicious" fashion when necessary, like taking orphan children from far countries that no one would miss and he himself admitted to having chosen because of that, but he didn't hate them didn't see them as useless... for him, he saw that even as a giving them meaning in life, which is a very dark manner... he did, Nanashi would have died in her country, but in the Abyss she became something unique and even found someone she loved. Bondrewd's moral compass isn't nonexistent, it is warped beyond recognition but it is still there.
I like the way that Bondrewd is a foil to Riko. Him cutting off Reg's arm is basically the same as her shoving a ruler up his ass, just on a different magnitude.
I really like how chilling Bondrewd is. I know some people tend to argue he didn't love the kids he turned into cartridges but he wouldn't have gotten blessed if he didn't. I like to think either the ones taking the curse would have to love the other person who's being blessed, unconditionally or that Bondrewd loved his children, but in a more toxic way (I guess). And I like how MiA makes it feel so unfair that throughout all of this Bondrewd got what he wanted through the power of love, which is something to be pure and wholesome. Not turning them into experiments and cartridges. Just showing how much more messed up the Abyss can be, and we're attracted to it just to solve the mysteries of it.
Yeah it’s just like the drowning mouse experiment. Where scientists test to see how long mouse could swim before drowning. The first instance the mouses swam for 5 mins and was saved. The same mouses were then tested again and swam for over an hour. The whole point of the experiment was *hope* . If you give them hope they can and will keep going because they believe they will be saved again like the last time
That first time the kids appear to get one over on Bondrewd and just... nope... I very literally jumped out of my chair and hollered "NO!" He's one of the most perfectly, deeply Evil villains I can think of. Not mindless, not delusional, not sadistic... none of the typical one-word adjectives we use for characters who do evil acts really applies properly. He's not ignorant of the harm he's doing, or regretful about the cost of his progress, or gleeful about inflicting suffering. He's simply operating on a moral and ethical framework that is completely unrecognizable.
Bondrewd is such a unique character for me. I've never seen a villain who has so much polar opposites. He makes children suffer unimaginable pain but also somehow holds no malice or hurtful fillings towards. If anything it almost seems he loves and cares, which just makes everything even more twisted.
Bondrewd makes the protagonists feel so small he's actually genuinely happy for them that they managed to thwart his plans, and wishes them well on their journey. Him and his lackeys are literally praying for Riko's success at the end. All of these character-defining moments, the suffering, fighting, death and misery, that's just another Tuesday to him. Tomorrow he's going to be back at the drawing board and thinking about what another project he could take up.
If you're more familiar to fantasy, his character inspiration must mostly be from a Lich. Ageless deathless lord with nothing but the drive to explore forever more. He's so focus on the objective he would do anything to achieve it. I don't think he see the kids as enemies, but promising students/children he's trying to teach. It's Tough love to the extreme. Down there is insane, so beat him (or rather, his test, bet he has at least another ace up his sleeve, that's how Liches works btw) and move forward, or get tf back, they'll just die without achieving anything. Edit: Also don't forget Riko is also extremely curious, and her mom is the Lord of Destruction no less. I'm willing to bet when she, if she returns from the Abyss, her destruction and twisted nature will make dear Bondrewd blush. As he always says: Brilliant!
Bondrewd is a fucking Monster. He loves his children, he truly loves them. And it's horrifying. What he does to them and for his goals, while still loving them.
Bondrewd sacrifices anything for science to get deeper into the abyss and ascend back. He truly loved the children, and in his mind, he's not being cruel. The children also don't hate him because they know he loves them like his own children (like Nanachi). He doesn't kill or hurt people for fun, every action serves a purpose towards a goal. And once he was done Reg, his new interest was to see how deep they can descend.
Thing about bondrewd is, IF possible He will sacrifice himself first, but since bondrewd isnt classified as being "alive" anymore He choses the next best thing. orphans who will likely die young.
It's genuinely amazing that they were able to make him loving and interested in the children he experimented on, and the writing didn't come across as perverse in anyway with how so many other elements of this show went. It's strange that I developed some respect for him and how bloody dirty that made me feel!
Omg same! He's such a departure from similar villains that just turn out to be creepy weirdos who are like "uh oh, you did something naughty, now daddy's gotta punish you >:)" He is so gentle when chiding nanachi about not doing her job or straight up trying to kill him. I can't bring myself to hate him when love is all he gives
I think that his return to human after the fight where he showed his true nature is a simbol that maybe that fight released a droplet of humanity in him and left his opponents be.
To think as amazing bondrewd of a characters as he is he still isn't the best character in the show is showing how great the show is cause the best characters are riko and faputa sosu
To me, he's a man with a good goal, but a immoral way of achieving it He's a man of his science without any morality to ground him, he still cares about the kids he kills to achieve it and even thanks them for their sacrifices individually and attributes all of his sucess to them and not himself but at the same time also has zero remorse for what he is doing and that alone...is terrifying
I don't think that Bondrewd is a villain , maybe a hero that losts his way *"compared to our ethics"* , but certainly not a villain , the beauty of his character resides in how much disordered his character is and impossible to understand nor relate to from a human perspective.
Bondrewd is... a weird one for me. In his arc, yes, it's such a flawless execution of a villain, I don't think it's been topped too many times (Makima comes to mind). But I do wonder how that flawless execution will hold up by the end of the story. Slight spoilers, Recently in the manga the group meets a new white whistle who mentions the 2000 year cycle and that time is almost up. This is something that can be inferred from the first episode. Bondrewd clearly knew his time was limited, and I wonder if he would've taken a different approach given more time before the prophesized disaster brings a swift end to his experiments. But this does beg the question, why exactly isn't he working together with other white whistles? Are their goals that different? We don't know anything about this white whistle so there may be a good explanation, but for someone that is so calculating, so efficient, I don't believe he would've ignored valuable resources like this, and we know he was able to venture to the lower layers and return to his base. I'm curious to see how Bondrewd continues to play a part in the story, like he did in the season 2 arc.
we don't know for sure that he isn't. keep in mind, in the same chapter (or the one before it, been awhile) we learn that ALL the white whistles were called down to the 5th layer to do SOMETHING for an extended period (several months at least based on her crew's gossip and the rough timeline the death of the Twins leads to), which Ozen just recently got back from, which is also how she had Lyza's stuff, she stopped by the Field of Flowers on the way back up and found the grave (and also why she assumed that the other two were still hanging around at Idofront, though that was also because Bondrewd didn't send the letter that they had made their Last Dives due to being annoyed at them both breaking protocol and not giving a proper final report).
I feel like what's so effective and shocking about Bondrewd is that this duality of feeling very sincere warmth towards people to whom he does unspeakably cruel things is so true to how many deeply abusive people conceptualise their relationships with others. It's an old saw to say that no-one sees themself as the villain of their own story (or else so rarely as to be a different conversation entirely), but it gains further dimension with Bondrewd in that he to some extent recognises his own monstrosity but justifies and excuses it as necessary even as he performs many of these acts with a morbid relish. Just a wonderfully sophisticated and disturbing character.
Totally agree. I see many people saying that he is incomprehensible, but to me that's not the case at all. It's not that his character and attitudes are that special and uncommon in principle, it's just that they were taken to the extremes in this case.
What's really beautiful is that how the immediate next arc in the series is connected to this one. When you realize that Bondrewd sacrificed even himself in order to learn more about the Abyss, it makes you question why would someone even want to come down here if it take this much craziness to survive down here. But the next arc explores that question from the very beginning. How the cruelties of the real world drive people like Vueko, Belaf and Wazukyan to the Abyss, how your eyes can long even for such a terrifying place, and the miracles you can achieve by doing so.
Started the anime because of Bondrewd. Honestly, as someone else said "He doesn't even need yo be a monster, and you notices it on the first time he appears" He's simply badass af.
the best thing about this villain is that he is just a person who is just purely based on science. nothing else. sure he can display some sort of emotions and affections but he only does it to fulfill all his goals in the name of scientific discoveries. he cares about every child he hurts but he doesn't do it just to be a sadistic maniac. he doesn't laugh maniacally or enjoy torturing. he enjoys discovering new things. its just that the torturing part is just a step on fulfilling his goals. but he also finds amusement on other peoples goals hence he let nanachi and her friends go at the end. they proved that their desires to defeat him and go further down the abyss is stronger than his will to discover. it doesnt really matter to him if they win or not or if he dies or not. he accended beyond any human emotion. he is truly disconnected from the world around him. and it made me admire this character so much. he is not evil. he just acts like a higher being who thinks of everything as dirth without being prideful about it. hes just like rick sanches that things everyone is just a lump of organic material that can be replaced infinitly. nothing else.
Binged watched the entire 2 seasons and movie in the last few days.. Man now it sucks that there won't be a season 3 anytime soon. My take is that Bondrewd is the pure crystallization of scientific advancement, where it is pushed to the utmost without any morals to limit it. Everything and everyone is an experiment to him, including himself.
"People fear what they do not understand" -some guy with a nunchaku screaming villains that act like oversized 12 year-olds would make one feel anger villains like these are the ones that do a good job at making a normal person feel fear because people usually can't understand what they're thinking and they can't predict what they'll do next
My first contact with Bondrewd’s character was with the meme “Legally it’s questionable,morally it’s disgusting,personally I like it” then there I was binging Made in Abyss for the first time and suddenly he appears. Never thought that a character I got to know from a meme would become one of my favorite villains,what I love about him is how hard it is to understand him,how can someone be so cruel but do it from undeniable love? He honestly fascinates me so much.
I like to think the reason why Bandrewd made a whistle out of his own body because the people who loves Bondrewd the most is... Bondrewd. But it might be the opposite. He cares about advancing his science so much, he sucrificed his body and his individuality (by becoming "a Legion")
it should be noted the umbra hand have free will until told to do something by bondrewd. all of the umbra hand gave up their bodies willingly for bondrewd. some where mercenaries sent to kill him but found him to noble and charasmatic. he really is the embodiment of love.
He’s compelling through a screen, but he exhibits the most dangerous sort of personality. He’s basically like a charming serial killer. The comments reflect this sort of misplaced sympathy - he’s “kind”, he “cares”. He cares about people (which he treats as things) in relation to his own goals and interests, he finds their personality interesting in the same way we find the backstory interesting on the objects in Antiques Roadshow. He does not love or care in any meaningful sense. When Nanachi says at the end, “I should have smashed the mask”, well, that’s true. He’s what Hannah Arendt described in Eichmann in Jerusalem - an evil so self-centered and matter of fact that the malice and viciousness we expect is lacking and we end up almost unable to see what it clearly is. He’s evil. Charmingly so, but absolutely evil. His existence is a danger to everyone else. This is not to me a sympathetic character.
I agree that there sre different ways to look at Bondrewd. The way I saw him was not as a man but a desire. Whatever man Bondrewd was before is now a whistle that he wears. Bondrewd is the unchained desire to find the truth of the Abyss a desire that burns everything and everyone in search of that truth. No one can escape his flames be they those he loves or those he abhors. Another thing that makes Bondrewd a great antagonist is his foil to Riko. Both of them are delvers who are trying to uncover the secrets of the Abyss the only difference is their methodology.
The most disturbing part in my opinion, is that he is doing good things. The cartridges are LITERALLY LIFESAVING inventions, bondrewd is responsible for soo many advancements that objectively makes the world of MiA safer that if you just look at it from the standpoint of a machine/something non human: hes a damn hero.
Great video! With the white whistle point, I'd even take it a step further and put it in section one where you talk about villains that poke holes in the protagonists' beliefs/morality. The very idea of a human life being the price to pay to obtain a white whistle was shocking to hear as a viewer since, up until the movie, I was under the impression that every color of whistle was artificially manufactured. (But it also made sense in retrospect as to why there were so few white whistle holders and why the white whistles can only be used by their owner.) But instead of Riko being appalled by the idea and stopping her adventure short because she refused to let anyone sacrifice themselves for her, she's not as taken aback as I assumed she would be, and by the end, she had no problem using Prushka to activate the vessel that took them down to the 6th layer. It goes to show you that Riko's morals (while not totally bankrupt) still share some similarity with Bondrewd's in the sense that she is willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to uncover the mysteries of the abyss. And looking back on her adventures with Reg, you can see snippets of this attitude in the way she handles obstacles. Like when she had no problem eating the Corpseweeper that they had just witnessed eating another cave raider (and almost eating her), or in the 4th layer when she was poisoned and had Reg try to amputate her arm in a way that would still let her cave raid in the event that she survived. So it makes sense as to why something as shocking as sacrificing a human to obtain a white whistle isn't something that would totally put her off. And from this discovery, it also makes you think about other white whistles like Ozen and Riko's own mother, and who THEY must have sacrificed to obtain the whistles they have now. It shows that any cave raider who decided to challenge the 5th layer and below has some form of blood on their hands. Nobody is exempt. And that's what makes this journey even more unsettling.
Bondrew did nothing wrong. Love how the crew made the plan to nuke hiss ass with the curse of abyss and when they pulled that trough, bondrew was like: Wait, you guys tough i was just experiementing on other people? I eperiemented with my body before anything else, i'm already cursed.
* sees thumbnail * For a split-sec I read the background as "Love Live." Which reminds me. LL Sunshine is having an isekai spinoff next year. Let's have LL Superstar do an isekai spinoff too, but their scientist member also conducts research on advancing knowledge in the fifth layer of the abyss when the group arrives and batt--er... scout her.
I love how, in a sense, the first scene in which we see Bondrewd gives us a very clear picture of what he is like. And it also tells us a bit about what Prushka is like too. The time we first see him, he is monotonously walking in a line with his group, when Prushka sees him, her first reaction to this unnerving and inhuman sight is to immediately run towards him with her arms outstretched, showing that this armored man with an emotionless gait is normal to her. And when she hugs him, he returns it, but while not rejecting her embrace, he shows a minimal amount of enthusiasm towards it. As though he doesn't understand the desire for physical affection and is only entertaining her for the sake of it. He doesn't look like he's pouring any emotion or energy into the hug whatsoever.
Another thing I think about with Bondrewd is that even though his action make me want to vomit in disgust, everything he does is believable, it is possible that a real world person might do these things.
I feel that Bondrewd, like every character in the show, is supposed to represent a specific desire. We know the Abyss draws people in (specifically children) by wonder and desire, and each character in a way is a warped reflection of that desire.
i wish that the show showed a lot of the medical advancements that bondrewd achieved, making it easier for the audience to see what ends the horrific means help make.
I think it’s more likely that no one wanted to die n become someones whistle by choice so I don’t blame bondrewd for not having one that wasn’t himself 😂
I think Otto from Honkai Impact 3rd is also a nice example of a villain without redemption, and he knows it too. His sins can never be absolved, he knows and accepts that, and cannot face Kallen nor wants to after so thoroughly breaking the morals she wished to give him. In the end, [SPOILERS] he completes his goal at the cost of his grand death, after all the tragedies he created. The protagonists, Kiana and Bianka, can only defeat and slay Otto's new form because he guides them to, in order to further his goal. In this sense, he is alike to Bondrewd once again, as he sacrificed strangers, family, children, morals, and most of all himself to revive Kallen. He is a villain all captains love to hate, and hate to love. Someone to respect, but also to despise even if you love his character. Someone who knows redemption is not a privilege to him.
Bondrewd is a fisher, ripping up his game by the tongue with a hook stabbed into it into an unbreathable atmosphere only to be chucked back irrervisbly damaged in their tongues, risking infection and gods knows what else. We do this all the time. So why should Bondrewd feel bad for raising a child so that he can squish her into a suitcase? We live in a cruel world with cruel people who don't even do what they do out of hatred. That's just the way it is. The cat doesn't hunt mice out of malice, but because they are born hunters who have been hardwired to take pleasure in killing because they'd starve otherwise.
I do like it when villains have the human side to them, while I do like me an irredeemable bad guy, if a villain has to sacrifice one of his loved/trusted people and they don't take pleasure in the act of betrayal that just adds so many layers to the person in question. Like, King Andrias snaking Marcy to the Core, you can see it in the flash to his face when the helmet comes down, but he looks like he *genuinely* doesn't want to do what he's about to do to this kid. He can't even watch it happen, he's that ashamed of himself.
Bondrewd is one of the most compelling evil villains ever damn, he's such a horrible asshole that you just love to hate. He cares about all the kids he experimented on but he's still willing to torture them. Almost like he's deluded himself into thinking what's he doing is necessary, that being said it was necessary to make a white whistle out of a dead human but doing it for his own daughter is just so messed up. Watching him die was the most satisfying villain deaths I've ever seen, but it's bittersweet because due to his clones he didn't truly die he was just significantly weakened.
Oh this video is BEAUTIFUL! I didn't think about the alternate interpretations of why Bondrewd became his own whistle. I mostly saw it as him seeing it as the easiest way to get it. Why go through the troubles of bonding with someone else only for them to die, when he can just jump to another person? Though, his body-jumping to the Umbra Hands would also kill them, as they seem to cease to be after either submitting to the Zoaholic or when Bondrewd takes them over.
I Edit: OMG I just wrote this whole comments without finishing the video! I am in idiot, nevermind! 😂 I am new to this fandom and don’t understand all of it yet, but uh regards to 7:55 , here’s a fun theory: It’s not that Bondrewd didn’t want to sacrifice his loved ones, (I think that would be out of character), it’s that he didn’t have anybody in the first place. He didn’t have someone that cared enough about him to sacrifice themselves. So he sacrificed his own body. The fact that he’s obsessed with this twisted idea of love and trying to understand it only supports my point. He is obviously a sociopath and feels disconnected from normal people’s ideas of love, which can be very isolating, In his view, everything he does, his vile methods and sacrifices, are for the greater good of humanity/science. His effed up love for science is the only feeling of warmth and love he knows. As a passionate scientist it must fascinating to know of this obscure thing that he can never feel, but only observe and test in other people. In the last chapter of this arc, Nanachi gets himself in danger by trying to stop Reg from mindless destruction of Bondrewd’s base. Stopping Reg would clearly be in Bondrewd’s interest. Bondrewd is then seen VERY concerned for Nanachi and tries to stop them. His speech when saying farewell to Nanachi also makes me think part of him cares about Nanachi. But maybe I’m just naive and Bondrewd manipulated me into thinking he still has human sentiments 😂 His monologues got inside my head, lol. Also I think Prushka’s biological parent is one of his aspiring “hands” that was hurt in the process of using the forbidden Soul Slave relic. In the Manga he says that she came from a “broken carriage” or something like that. As he sees the hands of mere extensions of himself, to him, she really is PARTLY his daughter because she came from a biological tool that carries parts of his soul fragments. Bear with me though, I read the Manga in English which is not my first language, so maybe i misunderstood. Anyways, this show is incredibly fun to analyse and I absolutely love the darkness and body horror 💕 Your video is great!
I just read a description of ruthless, that’s what Bondrew is, he is gonna do anything he needs to achieve his goal, and he doesn’t really feel like he is hurting others. It is all in pursue of knowledge.
This subversion of the "power of love" trope works very well 'cause in many fictions when it is used it always feels like there's a god somewhere judging the love of the protagonist pure enough and allowing him to gain power or the odds to play in his favor which is jarring like who decides it's true love? The portrayal of this trope here goes a really long way there's no god judging on morals in this world nudging the odds to favor our pure heroes.
