"There are things that you can see better from far away..."
Sometimes we let affection, go unspoken,
Sometimes we let our love go unexpressed,
Sometimes we can't find words to tell our feelings,
Especially towards those we love the best....
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”Wherever you want to go, I’ll go with you. Wherever you stop, I’ll stop too. Like the raicho birds on the island.”
“When I was little, my father told me something that a great man once said. ’In this fleeting life, there are two moments of joy above all others. When we are born into this world and take our first breath, and when we learn what we were put on this earth to do.’ I don’t know what they will be, but I do think that the answers you seek can be found only there. The answer to who you are, and the answer to why you and I met.”
“I’ll keep protecting you. I’ll protect you with all that I have. To make sure the others won’t be put in danger again, I’ll strive to become even stronger. Fena. Let’s go together.”
“Fena. No matter what happens, I swear I will always keep you safe. My hand… will never again…let go of yours.”
Some thoughts on Eagle, and his relationship to Hikaru and Lantis
Contains spoilers.
Eagle. I fucking adore this guy. He is so insanely tragic, a cauldron of paradoxical feelings. He’s playful but tormented; strong, but at the same time gentle, breakable. All this is clashing so beautifully together. It’s his sadness and melancholy, mixed with charisma and audacity, that’s perhaps the most captivating. He’s on a suicidal mission, yet that doesn’t quench his love of life because it was all out of love to begin with. But there’s also a silent resignation to him, a very peculiar case of selflessness, and I’d like to look into this a bit.
Eagle loves Lantis profoundly, he’s head over heels in love with him - I think we can all agree on that. But he’s silent about it. All things he does for Lantis, all sacrifices he makes are selfless, they don’t include him. In fact, they exclude him. When Lantis is in mortal danger, exhausted Eagle says to him: “if you die, Hikaru will be saddened.” Pay close attention to this because this sentence is such a brilliant mind-fuck.
He doesn’t say “I”… he says “Hikaru.” He displaces his sense of self, his subjectivity, and puts it onto her because he is going to disappear anyway. It’s kind of him to think of others at this moment, but there’s more to this: when he says “Hikaru will be saddened”, along these lines lies hidden “I will be sad”.
His last words are similar: “Lantis… please make Hikaru happy.”
He’s being erased from the world, he’s losing a place in it, so he passes his will - and his will is love - onto Hikaru, so that she can give to Lantis what he couldn’t. In a way, he is extending himself through Hikaru, transferring a part of himself onto her. But at the same time, he’s selflessly exempting himself from their relationship, leaving the two alone.
Ahh, Eagle, you jerk!! You’re breaking our hearts!!
In manga, this issue is beautifully addressed:
Eagle’s fate is about to be the same like Emeraude’s. He takes on all the pain upon himself, but it’s Hikaru who ultimately sees that Eagle is putting aside his own happiness, just like Emeraude did. And she won’t have it (good job there, Hikaru).
The key word here is: for yourself. Just moments ago, Eagle was about to discard himself from existence so that Lantis could live. He was about to freeze the entire Cephiro along with himself by becoming a Pillar, while sending its inhabitants to live in Autozam, and this is the ultimate act of self-annihilation, a self he has been denying all along. Hikaru stops him from doing it, seeing Emeraude’s fate repeating in his - just like she gave a place to Nova to exist in her heart in anime, in manga she gave a place to Eagle in a world he was preparing to leave. This shocks him, because for the first time, someone is returning to him that self that’s been forgotten, denied to exist. Their relationship is beautiful because Hikaru reached his most recessed psychic abyss, and saved him from where he buried himself. He also helped her: to her, Eagle is a second Emeraude, and this time around, he’s a Pillar she managed to save. In a way, he redeemed her as well.
That said, I don’t see these two as romantically attracted to each other, be it anime or manga. I don’t think Hikaru likes him in that way, nor does he like her romantically. Instead, they are more like one person, each reflecting the other, redeeming each other. Their mutual interaction is based on self-growth they both provoke in one another. In anime, Eagle encourages Hikaru all the time, he feeds her confidence and her love for Lantis, at his own exclusion, and he does it not only for Lantis but also for her. In manga, Hikaru has admiration for him, she says to Lantis that she would like to be like Eagle. Lantis says they are alike.
They are not in love with each other, anime or manga-wise, however, manga!Lantis seems to be into both of them… Ehhh, it’s getting complicated.