Anon · 8mo
forest anon here HEHEHEHE this might be long but!!! i cant stop thinking about it... but really the dots are connecting 🥺 I MIGHT BE REACHING BUT a lush green forest being a metaphor for rst makes so much sense given their individual catchphrases representing an element that a tree has/needs to flourish (chiaki being the "life giving sun", kanata being "water", tetora being the "soil of the earth", shinobu being "hope" which is a bit abstract but i see it as the rays falling on the leaves, and midori being "growing nature" aka a tree like u pointed out!!) to have chiaki Protect and help a little tree (mido) to flourish and midori ultimately growing into this great forest !! and midori also needed the other three's existence in order to do so !!! mori in morisawa represents a forest but the forest helped the other tree to become an even greater part of the forest . a big tree 🫶 theyve sort of become this internal tree network so they understand each other in a very deeper way than they initially used to in early ! era 🥹🥹
i think theres like a bunch of nature blooming metaphors/figurative language used in enstars very often (recent example that comes to mind is madara blooming a flower field for kanata and has flower imagery 🫶) but in chiakis case its the flourishing of a forest !! tetora being the soil representing him willing to be the "ground" for the tree to flourish on and get its roots inside and how "water" is the only element that can get absorbed in it (representing kanata and tetora potentially being on the more "darker" side of rst but a tree still needs them both for it to grow healthy) chiaki meanwhile doesnt only play the role of the "sun" but also is the protector too 🥹 but a forest (mori) can continue existing thanks to the trees and nature (midori) that defines a forest in the first place. in a way its the trees that continue to define the forest the way it is ...and that can refer to how chiaki after his role as a protector is now being protected in return :,) because of the very nature (the other members) that he once shone his sun on. I HOPE THIS SOUNDS COHERENT ENOUGH 🥹🥹 THANK U FOR LISTENING TO MY RAMBLINGS!!
oh my gosh anon I LOVE THIS SO MUCH 😭😭😭 oh my gosh OH MY GOSH IT WORKS TOO WELL... what i also love is, chiaki starts off as the forest and assigns each of them an element and makes sure that they flourish in it (except for kanata, who chose a role for himself based on chiaki's teachings, one that ryuseitai absolutely needed!)
eventually, they embrace and take on this role more independantly, so for example chiaki no longer Needs to be a provider of both soil, sun, water etc... tetora can be the soil (mud), shinobu can be the sun in wintery (harsher, tenser, colder) days (I LOVE THE IDEA OF RAYS ON THE LEAVES), kanata can remain as the water for the sea is limitless with its supply... and of course, midori can grow and take on the high-expectations of being an infinitely growing great nature (spread more green everywhere, become an endlessly tall tree, etc)!! which i feel lets chiaki go back to being the "protect" part of "mori"... the protector of the forest and its ecosystem, the thing that he always WAS from day 1 but now he doesn't have to burden himself with other tasks if he can't do them (like be the sunlight for them 24/7, which shinobu could instead be because he's the light of hope in the darkness!)
I LOVE THE IDEA THAT THEY ARE A TREE NETWORK THAT SLOWLY GREW TO UNDERSTAND HOW EACH OF THEM WORK AND HOW TO FUNCTION TOGETHER 😭😭 it fits so well with their transition from ! era to !! era... like, crying so much i love this metaphor... i always loved the idea that midori is this bud that needed every single ryuseitai member to sprout, and it fits a lot with his attachment to ryuseitai and chiaki, but it never occurred to me to extend that to chiaki being the "originator" (in this case, the forest) of that... UUUU I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT!!! THE TREES, SOIL, WATER AND RAYS OF LIGHT THAT WILL PROTECT THE FOREST AND ITS ECOSYSTEM AFTER EVERYTHING ITS DONE FOR THEM 😭😭❤️❤️❤️
