History Headscratchers / DarkerThanBLACK

* What's the deal with Wei's PointyEars?

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*** [[hottip:spoiler:Shion copied either the entire planet to shape it to his will, copied the moon to slip it underneath the Gate's veil, or copied the entire universe and shaped ''that'' to his will. The backlash of this remuneration killed him.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:To be honest, I'm not really sure why he had to meet up with Yin in order to do this. There was an obvious metaphor where Izanami (Shion) was the god of life and Izanagi (Yin) the goddess of death, but there was never any mention of Yin killing or destroying anything in order for Shion to put his own copy there.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:As Shion's copies must always have something different about them, in this world/universe/whatever he never existed, and his father and Suou live a happy generic schoolgirl family life, reunited with Suou's mother, and July could live a normal life as well.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:This was the "end of the world" foretold in the prophecies concerning Izanami and Izanagi, and in a sense it was the end of the world. Oreille's organization, for whatever reason, had been working to make this happen because they too wanted the world remade.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:I guess Japan is a strategically valuable island or something, because this allowed the United States to take it over.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:August 7 was alive, I guess. Either that or July had his own personal CONGRATULATIONS vision and he really is dead.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:Another gate showed up somewhere, I guess. I'm not sure if Japan's gate is still there or not.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:Contractors still exist, though, as evidenced by the bit with Yin at the end.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:Suou's memories and "soul" had been stored in the meteor shard. That's why the anti-contractor machine caused Hei's powers to go to it rather than Suou herself-- because that's where "she" was.]]

*** [[hottip:spoiler:If you watch carefully, Shion copied the planet/universe/whatever before he started deteriorating, and ''well'' before he met Yin. I think it was Yin's influence that killed him in the end.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:Shion's copy of the world had neither himself nor the Gates; hence July's display of considerably more emotion than before.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:"Izanami" is some sort of EldritchAbomination-type consciousness that will presumably be a little better explained when the OVA comes out, but at any rate it causes Yin to force Contractors to commit suicide and, apparently, takes their souls; Yin managed to overcome/suppress it at the end when she asked Hei to kill her.]]
*** [[hottip:spoiler:Hei stopped whatever would have happened because of Izanagi and Izanami by killing Yin.]]

** Well let's meet in the middle here then. They are TheUnfettered with their primary purpose being self preservation. They are coldly rational about everything ''except'' for self preservation.

*** This is very heavily implied. Heck, the original poster touched on it when he said that "Contractors are becoming less sociopathic."

*** Personally, it's the never-taken-seriously aspect that I found most creepy. Norio is a nutjob, but none of the characters even tries to stop him from sexually harassing a young girl, except on the grounds that he'll get hurt.

** But what about the astronauts already up in orbit, in the ISS, [[BuffySpeak when the thing happened?]] [[FridgeHorror Did they just vanish too?]]

** Another explanation can point that Hei can control the electricity flow (he can HACK electronic locks with his powers) efficiently enough to stop human heart without whatsoever collateral damage.

** Because if they don't, the government will kill them. Take for example Tayna in season 2. Right after she became a Contractor the military found her and recruited her. It is nigh impossible for a new contractor to fit in with society(and thus get a job) due to the extreme sociopathy (which seems to take years to begin to fade), and if they try to use their powers to survive they get found by the military, and while they are indisputably badass they are not immortal or omniscient. They could turn to crime or prostitution (neither of which is overly safe) but they may very well get caught and sent to jail or something without copious use of their powers(which while taking care of the food and shelter issue is still a fairly dangerous place, and would likely result in them using their powers for protection after pissing someone off accidentally anyway)which has us run into the government again. Sure many of the Contractors we run into could go rogue and have a decent run of it(Amber and Hei both go rogue ''twice'' for example), but a new contractor won't have the experience or training they do. A new Contractor doesn't really have any experience using their power and while admittedly they seem to instinctively understand what it is and how it works, but they won't be well versed in ingenious combat applications (outside the obvious) and unless they had pre-contract training no combat experience either. Thus while they can and will use lethal force defending themselves, they won't be very good at it or at least not as good as the ones chasing them.

** Because if they don't, the government will kill them. Take for example Tayna in season 2. Right after she became a Contractor the military found her and recruited her. It is nigh impossible for a new contractor to fit in with society(and thus get a job) due to the extreme sociopathy(which seems to take years to begin to fade), and if they try to use their powers to survive they get found by the military, and while they are indisputably badass they are not immortal or omniscient(Although Amber gets close to both.) They could turn to crime or prostitution (neither of which is overly safe) but they would probably get caught and sent to jail or something(which while taking care of the food and shelter issue is still a fairly dangerous place), or wind up using their powers which has us run into the government again. Sure many of the Contractors we run into could go rogue and have a decent run of it(Amber and Hei both go rogue ''twice''), but a new contractor won't have the experience or training they do. A new Contractor doesn't really have any experience using their power, and unless they had pre-contract training no combat experience either thus while they can and will use lethal force, they won't be very good at it, whereas the people hunting them have both training and experience.

** I am also offput by all of the lolicon- they better not hook up Hei and Suou. On the other hand, I did get the vibe that with the crossdresser father, they might have been going for the gay = mutant idea of the XMen. On the other hand, it's kind of surprising, but besides TheSyndicate, average people so far don't really seem to hate Contractors, which is weird given how mutants are treated in most series, and Contractors are a lot more dangerous. Like that mother in the latest episode telling her child not to look at Hei fighting Genma, because if Contractors see you, they will "take your bellybutton". Sure, that's making them bogeymen, but she seemed pretty calm.