As the eldest son of a noble family, he had all of class privilege but instead of accepting those benefits, he chose to start a revolution for equality. He could have a bright future, a luxurious life but he'd rather throw it all away than live in that twisted world. There is no doubt that he did terrible things but OMG thinking about Al just makes me love him more🍷🍷🍷
Moriarty the Patriot: The Remains Chapter 9 - English Translation
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We are a group of 10 extremely calm power rangers people who have joined arms to bring everyone a (hopefully) pleasant English translation of Moriarty the Patriot: The Remains. Trust us.
After a month of pain and suffering, we present to you, chapter 9. (Please ignore any typos you see at the end pages- we plan to fix them.)
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https://mangadex.org/chapter/97eb19c9-1654-479c-8598-8e6f84754926
And last but not least, remember to intentionally exude calmness.
The first time we saw YuuMori talking about atonement was in Grapefruit Pie—no one tried to repent for anything in the first chapter. But in Grapefruit Pie, Burton was suffering because his son died and he (and his wife) both feel he is at fault for letting it happen.
Maybe he was. He didn’t do anything. Was there a lot he could’ve done? Realistically, no. But he feels he could’ve done more, and so does his wife. And what helps him heal and move on and make amends with his wife is, well, doing something. And there’s a parallel to that and the Moriarty brothers in sharing their crime and sin and burden together (something that, interestingly, also sort of comes up with Sherlock and William), but it’s also a way for them to put “right” some of the wrongs.
Whether or not that’s atonement for Burton’s earlier sins is questionable. I mean. He murdered a guy; the series never argues that murder is a good thing. But it is still a way to deal with guilt, to do something with it.
In Dancers on the Bridge, we see a little bit of it, too. After a fashion, it can be laid at Lucien’s feet that Frida died. Was it really? No, but he helped bring her to ruin. And he bought her a headstone, finally, the way her coworkers wanted her to be remembered. He did something to make up for the small fault he committed in drawing her into something.
YuuMori talks a lot, in addition to atonement, about being corrupted by society and the devils on Earth. Neither Burton nor Lucien would’ve had anything to atone for were it not for the devils William wiped out, and they are sort of seen as cleansed afterward—not perfect, not quite whole, not over what they lost, but in some way having done something to repair what was broken and wrong and moved on.
But the first time the thing with atonement becomes really clear is Mycroft.
Mycroft hasn’t done anything wrong, but he works for the British government years decades after one of his ancestors committed acts of tyranny on behalf of the British government in France to make up for his family’s crimes. Sherrinford Holmes got himself killed out of his own guilt, and his own, and because he was dead he could do nothing to fix it. Nothing to help anyone. And that sin got passed onto his family and bound them to try to atone for the entire mess he created.
If we want to get all religiously Christian here as YuuMori likes to do, it’s a kind of Original Sin: something passed down because of the sins of your ancestors that taints you from birth. That’s why Christianity does baptism; to cleanse that away.
Sherlock was protected from that sin by Mycroft, who sacrificed himself in a way for his little brother, bearing the weight of their family’s atonement on his own shoulders. Someone did something for Sherlock to keep him from having to repent in a martyr/sacrificial way to save him. Sherrinford didn’t redeem himself by dying. He just passed the burden along to innocents to try to fix the damage he caused.
And when William was seen as dead, and Albert ran away from the job, Louis took his place working under Mycroft for the British government. Someone had to make up for the sins of the family, and Louis took up that burden, and Albert took up that burden, hoping to protect William from some of it the way Mycroft protected Sherlock.
Of course, that’s not how the story ended up going: trying to protect their brothers did nothing. William and Sherlock serve their time repenting for their crimes with the United States. Because no one can take on the burden of your atonement for you. The burden never leaves.
It’s always there until you take it into your own hands and do something about it.
Decided to make my own version of my favorite post on the internet, which lists a ton of platonic prompts (many of which are my favorites, but this list has no repeats of that one)!
mentor/mentee bonding
being forced into a position where they switch roles
one melting into a hug, the other holding them up
ear rubbing
gentle character giving really soft character a back rub
strong character giving really tense character a back rub