Nah sui didn't freak out and kill her mom, that was her grandma possessing her to do itSui's mother basically created a self-fulfilling prophecy, huh? Sui freaked out when her mom smiled at her, because she'd been so distant and callous for her entire life up to that point. And that trauma created the opening for all of this to happen.
This author has always been highly suspicious of religious organizations as vessels for high-control societies (see for example the Shrine Maiden story). I think that the separation of the "they believe something dangerous" aspect and the "they exploit the vulnerable in an act of venal ambition" into explicitly different characters really helps to make the author's point here.You know I really appreciate that this section on cults hasn't lost sight of the things that make cults scary. In fiction sometimes "Cults" are just kind of 'inherently scary robed guys fuuuck'. But here we have the isolation of parents from children, of the vulnerable from the rest of society, end-time prophecies, the horrible effects of the cult leaders behavior and self-centered nature on their own family.... all the hits.
Hell, we even get the 'whoevers second in command is always kind of a piece of work'.
it's almost too secular and mundane. you would expect that a cult that in some sense administers the grey in their area and knows that their irrational power is real would have more respect for grey things like the founder's prophecy. but oh well bad guys with hubris are always funYou know I really appreciate that this section on cults hasn't lost sight of the things that make cults scary. In fiction sometimes "Cults" are just kind of 'inherently scary robed guys fuuuck'. But here we have the isolation of parents from children, of the vulnerable from the rest of society, end-time prophecies, the horrible effects of the cult leaders behavior and self-centered nature on their own family.... all the hits.
Hell, we even get the 'whoevers second in command is always kind of a piece of work'.
IMO he's more of an older Sasukeoshit it's madara uchiha
tbh most uchiha kinda look the same, those inbred mfIMO he's more of an older Sasuke