Weapon Story Analysis #3: Cruel Oath
Cruel Oath (Small Sword)
9S’ default weapon
Once, long ago, there was a group of seven boys who were born in the same village. Though they were not brothers by blood, they treated each other as family.
One cold night, a fortune teller appeared and warned of a traitor among them. The boys laughed it off and went about their business, but the next morning, one of them lay dead.
With each passing night, another boy died. The survivors grew more and more suspicious of each other, each harboring terrible doubts about what happened to their brothers.
On the morning of the seventh day, a single survivor stood tall. Cleaning the blood from his hands, he chuckled to himself. “Better go find the traitor!”
This one is more abstract and removed, but serves as a fable for the 9S situation. There have been a lot of 9Ss that were killed before the main story, usually dying by 2B’s hand. However, though she is the one executing him, 9S is the one who creates his own sentence, so to speak. He is so curious and inquisitive that he can’t help himself from snooping around, even though he knows it will get him in trouble.
The seven brothers, of course, are representative of the 9Ss who have been picked off one by one. He ‘laughs off’ the rules against hacking into YoRHa’s secrets, but is then swiftly executed.
It would be interesting to know if 9S is curious about his past selves, I mean, knowing him, he probably is, though their causes of death are probably just listed as field casualties, logic virus, etc. But it would be suspicious to him that 2B is almost always present, maybe, or suspicious just how often his past selves died. Now, in the main game, we’re on the last 9S (I do think the prologue 9S is a different guy, just because his data wasn’t synced to the bunker when he died), and he eventually discovers the truth- that 2B is actually 2E, and her job is to kill him whenever he gets close to the truth. It drives him mad, and in his head, it really seems like he doesn’t want to believe it. When A2 brings it up, he just yells that she doesn’t know anything about the two of them- because as long as nobody says it out loud, it can’t be true, right?
The last verse kind of makes me think of the last 9S, the one who’s made it further than all the others, going mad and remaining in denial, even after he knows the truth. Of course, it could also indicate that he knows he is the cause of his own deaths, but just doesn’t care, because he can’t help himself.
So yeah, this one is very vague, but it made me think of the whole multiple 9Ss situation, and his descent into madness and violence as he goes on his downward spiral. Given his predisposition for insanity, it is quite plausible that 9Ss in the past had the same problem.
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