Date: 2019-11-21 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] waterscroll
Yeah I wouldn't have thought of the cherry blossoms having different implications in different routes until I read the above article and in particular the different political meanings it can have. But as usual I might be overreading here :).

There also might be something in that Saito manages to adapt to the changing world - he ends the game as part of a community, with a plan for his life. Hijikata, well, in his good end he survives but we don't really know anything beyond that, and the game never gave me a convincing picture of what his life might look like post-canon. So it makes sense that falling cherry blossoms would mean different things to them.

I agree there's also a piece about all the Shinsengumi being falling cherry blossoms, the last remnant of the Samurai warrior culture.

And the white and red colours match those of a Fury, which is an especially intense and short lived state of being.

I hadn't noticed that! So all the things that the cherry blossoms can represent connects to all the different things the furies can represent. Interesting.
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