#smth smth the subtle self-blame and VERY deeply buried guilt/act of sinning for the sake of atonement

[dnangelic]

im the only one who thinks about these panels as much as i do. guy whose eyes shine like this as he says he's going to steal literally everything. all of the art ever. i say that daisuke feels half bad about the stealing bc stealing is normally morally wrong and it's still true while dark is so clearly unrepentant if not outright feeling his most alive in this kind of moment!!! but it's kind of crazy how you can also still read the instant as dark covering up the fact he's going after something that's considered a 'worthless/trash' art in front of hiwatari because it might link him to manisumea. the only thing dark gives is a pause at satoshi's appearance before he says all of this. no vulnerability, no pleading, no explanation or even rage in front of the descendant of the creator and metaphorical god(s) that he betrayed out of a furious, first-betrayed sense of injustice and tyranny. just dark and his own lucifer pride!!! he's going to take everything because he CAN. he's going to take eeeeverything and he's going to enjoy it, even if an enormous part of why he even steals is meant to be both a reluctant gathering of strength and 'soldiers' for 'war' against 'the creator,' and/or atonement for his own birth causing an art-pocalypse; the destruction of so many other arts because he/the kokuyoku was decided 'too dangerous.' it's literally just two panels but it's like the epitome of everything To Me

#VIS. #reference. #*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌. ⊱ ✦ › DARK. #お前の美術品も全部盗ってやろから 🫡 #when i say dark will never talk about his real thoughts i mean stuff like this #smth smth the subtle self-blame and VERY deeply buried guilt/act of sinning for the sake of atonement #considered unjust in the face of an already tyrannical/apathetic creator/god #stealing the art in an attempt to protect it. even knowing he can't 'fix' it and that everything'll just break again in the very end #the only immortal constant has only ever been dark himself!!! for yrs and yrs and yrs and centuries and centuries!! #living as a legend. living as dead. drifting throughout time #from one niwa to the next #dark doesn't talk about Any of this. ask him for any of his reasons and he'll immediately jump to the pride and coveting #he does this all but takes responsibility for it too. it's his choice. he's doing it bc he can #bc nobody else can. bc hes the only one that can!!! <- daisuke's thought process all the time too