More DTB (A refined look at the ending of S2)

Recently I’ve been asked some great questions by e-mail about some of the more basic aspects of DTB. Sometimes I tend to roll over them as I want to focus on the big philosophical dilemma’s.This perhaps causes me to miss out on some of the cool stuff going on in the world. His questions were great (and I’m sure he’s not the only one who has them) so I thought it would be fun to share them here along with my attempt at answers. Surprisingly this is not the usual way I talk about DTB as it’s mostly plot related but online cheap order discount pharm ampicillin also deals heavily with character motivations. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy guessing at the content of DTB. (pre script: Of course it’s also a great chance to post DTB pics :) ).

First Mysticode’s questions:

1: What is the relation between the Gates and the contracters, dolls,
and stars (bk201 etc)?

2: What exactly happened right at the end of season 2 with the end of
the world thing, Suou and her brother, and Yin/Izanami and Hei?

Thanks :)

Now for my sketchy answers

Hmm, great questions!

Unfortunately I’ll have to warn you in advance that some of this is going to be subjective. The thing about Darker than Black is it purposefully doesn’t fully answer some of the things you brought up because it adds to the mystery of the world. The writers of DTB want you to accept that there are contractors, dolls, and the gates and then it wants you to form your own conclusions about them. For instance in Season 1 we’re given a bunch of rules like: Contractors don’t dream, Contractors are all rational, Doll’s are medians that have no emotions. DTB than purposefully spits in the face of all the rules they set up to make us question all of our preconceptions about them. In other words anything I tell you about what these things are would be a falsehood since I don’t actually know; on the other hand I can tell you about what they do and what I’ve (subjectively) extrapolated from those interactions.

Question 1

At the beginning of the show we’re given that the gates randomly appeared some arbitrary number of years previous to our story taking place. At the same time the murderous contractors and dolls came into being. In other words we can either assume the forces that made the gates also made the contractors (and dolls), or we can assume that something about the gates also made the contractors and dolls. The interesting component of all three is they all defy reason. The gate is an unlivable place, while contractors are given powers that defy physics. Dolls seem to lose all aspects of their humanity and that’s the premise. I’ve heard before that every world is allowed one piece of magic that explains everything and I feel like they mystery of the gates is DTB’s. If I had to guess at the complex metaphysical situation I would probably say that the gates are an existence that subvert the natural laws of the universe. When it really comes down to it we don’t really understand how gravity works, we can only describe what it does. We know the results not the mechanism. The gate is an incarnation of a different mechanism that throws those laws of the world on their heals. They make the metaphysical possible, and they’re infecting the natural world through contractors and dolls. I actually find it a little ironic that contractors are known for being rational considering the gates ability to defy conventional logic. In other words it’s just DTB’s magic and we’re asked to suspend our disbelief. When you accept the premise of the story and understand what the characters should be you’re purchase cheap tabs given the opportunity to see what would happen if that was true (at least according to Bones).

Edit: Wow, completely missed the stars part. Each star apparently represents an individual contractor and when a star resonates (I guess grows brighter) it means the contractor is using their power. When a contractor dies the star falls. Essentially this turns the sky into a contractor tracking map. It’s kind of an interesting plot device and of course the longing some of the characters have for the “real” sky is in part a reflection of their want for the old world (the one without contractors). The sky replacing the old one is just another extension of that gate magic. It made the impossible possible: Like the entire world is now trapped inside a bubble created by the gates (or by the thing that created the gates).

Question 2

This is a tough question as well. There’s a reason I had to name my post on the ending of Season 2 Ambiguity for the Yin Obsessed Crazy Person; the key word being ambiguity. Let’s start with Suou and Shion. First off, to understand what happened (at least plot wise) with Suou at the end of the season you first have to understand Shion’s plan, and to understand why Shion constructed his plan you have to understand Suou (a completely complicated mess). So it’s clear that Shion created Suou and for all intents and purposes his copies should be perfect except for one flaw. We know this flaw is that she’s a girl, but surprisingly enough the dissimilarities don’t stop there. Stop and ask yourself “Why did Shion create Suou?” In all honesty if you understand that you understand him completely and don’t need any more extrapolation about Season 2, but unfortunately I don’t think anyone knows that (except the DTB writers) so we’re left out in the dark guessing. However, it’s not like we’re completely blind. Suou herself is interesting. He created her with a few beautiful memories (that he later calls gifts) and she’s fundamentally unable to take another’s life even though she’s a contractor. Why would Shion create a clone that couldn’t kill even though he himself was a contractor. In a way you have to wonder if Shion took the best parts of himself, or more accurately the ideal of what he would want himself to be, and imbued them in Suou. If we assume the previous statement his plan makes a weird kind of sense. He took everything he loved and put it in Suou, but because our current world is the way it is, he knew she could never be happy (and he’s proven correct as Suou is considerably unhappy for most of the season). In perhaps the greatest act of love possible he uses all of his power and makes a contract with Izanami to create a world where happiness is possible: A world free from the gates, a world where there parents could be together and Shion was never a contractor to mess up the relationship. It’s beautiful really, but he doesn’t only do it for Suou, he takes a lot of hurting souls, including all the other contractors, and transfers them to the new world as well. It’s an act of benevolence considering how unhappy all of the contractors we meet end up being in every single episode of DTB. Shion seems to die as buy cheap cipro it appears the contract was for his own soul, but Suou and July finally escape from the constant suffering of the DTB world.

What happens to Izanami is something I know little about. She’s an otherworldly existence who is almost a contradiction. She seems to love whatever Hei did to awaken her in the Gaiden episodes but she has a funny way of showing it (or she’s simply to childish to know she’s hurting him). Actually that’s a great way to describe Izanami. She has all the cruelty and nativity of a child as we watch her sing Yin no Piano walking through a field of dead contractors. She seems to have a fundamental lack of value for life which either makes her really cruel, or just different. Why she makes a contract with Shion is beyond my comprehension. She seems to exist in the world to fufill one desire. Actually I do know why she made a contract with Shion. If you watched the end of the 4th episode of Gaiden she promised Yin she would fulfill her wish and let her be with Hei when the time comes. She makes the contract with Shion to make her a copy of Yin’s body (hence the maleness) so Izanami can transfer into it leaving Yin to be with Hei as promised. In a way this doesn’t make her as cruel an existence and we now know why that male Yin had the same Izanami like power (gosh glad you asked, that makes sense now).

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The question right after the last episode on my mind was whether or not Yin was dead. I’m 100% certain now she’s not as all signs point to the above conclusion and Hei’s smile etc… etc… Most likely Hei helped transfer Izanami to the new body which I guess could be construed as giving birth in a weird way. The body was created by Shion and a soul was transferred into it by Hei from Yin making a new type of being. Inside of Yin that existence did look and sound like a young boy. Anyways, now that Yin’s part of the prophecy is done she is finally free to be with Hei. It’s possible they won’t even have to run that much anymore as the rest of the world is going to be busy with the new boy Izanami. Thus in many ways the ending wasn’t sad at all, except for Shion’s noble sacrifice (though maybe he’s in the new world too if the contract was only to make a new body for Izanami).

Anyways, thanks for the questions. I hope my answers were satisfactory and of course if anything remains unclear feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to answer.