The mask that hides the secrets

Decided it was too long since I’d posted anything DGM related. For a blog post about my life, look one post down.

Anyway, notice that in the manga, Allen’s mask when he invocates Crown Clown has three colours – silver, gold, and black. The gold and black both colour one side of the mask each, I mean, the left side is black, the right side is gold. And the mask is silver beneath all that colour.

We know that silver is representative of innocence, black of akuma, and gold of Noahs. So I wonder why I didn’t realise that earlier when we see Allen’s mask in colour. I think the mask sort of shows what is inside Allen’s body… I think soul is a better word. Possessed by the 14th’s memories, cursed by an akuma, and at the same time is a conformer for innocence. How ironic. The forces at war externally now exist in his body, somewhat living in peace together. It just shows how good and bad can fit together, can tolerate each other, if they make an effort to. I believe that ultimately, Allen won’t be consumed by the 14th’s memories. Somehow, I have no idea how, but the 14th will reach a compromise with the innocence in Allen’s body.

There’s still hope for this war that the exorcists are forced to fight! Maybe Allen will be the one to end the fight once and for all. I get the feeling that he might not be alive at the end of it, though. Him being alive would just tempt the mangaka to continue the manga even when the fight has ended, and that would be inappropriate, cause the conflict in the manga would have been resolved already. Continuing the manga with a new conflict would be superfluous, in my opinion.

There can be another way out. Seeing that innocence is the underlying force, one can always hope that Allen’s innocence will win the fight against the Noah, who might get help from the akuma’s curse (not highly likely, but just my speculation)…

In any case, that was just what I thought about the Noah, the akuma’s curse, and the innocence residing in Allen’s body. Forgive me for my ramblings(:

つないだ手にキスを Tsunaida Te ni Kiss wo

Here’s the lyrics to Allen’s song in DGM episode 93. I found out the real title from a forum. Lyrics from animelyrics.com and gendou.com(:

Romanji:

Soshite bouya wa nemuri ni tsuite
Ikizuku hai no naka no honoo
Hitotsu, futatsu to

Ukabu fukurami itoshii yokogao
Daichi ni taruru ikusen no
Yume, yume

Gin no hitomi no yuragu yoru ni
Umare o chita kagayaku omae
Ikuoku no toshitsuki ga
Ikutsu inori o tsuchi e kaeshite mo

Watashi wa inori tsuzukeru
Dou ka kono ko ni ai o
Tsunai da te ni KISU o

Kanji:

そして 坊やは 眠りについた
息衝（づ）く 灰の中の炎 ひとつ ふたつと

浮かぶ ふくらみ 愛しい横顔
大地に 垂（た）るる 幾千の夢

銀の瞳のゆらぐ夜に 生まれおちた輝くお前
幾億の年月が いくつ 祈りを 土へ 還しても

ワタシは 祈り続ける
どうか この子に 愛を
つないだ 手に キスを

English:

And then the boy fell into a deep sleep.
Among the grey ashes in the flames shining… First one,then two…

What rise and grow large are my beloved profiles.
What trickle down to earth are the thousands of dreams…dreams…

On the night when the silver eyes were trembling what came to born was you, as you shined.
No matter how many times the ever-passing time return the prayers back down to earth…
I will never cease to pray.

Oh please, show this child what love is.
Please give a kiss to his hands you hold.

***

Another English translation (which I like better)

And then, the boy…
Drifted off to sleep
Breathing heavily…
The flames within the ash,
One by one welling up, that beloved face.
Thousands of dreams upon this earth.
As your eyes tremble on that night,
A shining “you” is born.
Hundreds of millions of months and years…
No matter how many prayers are returned to the earth,
I shall continue to pray.
Please, give this child love,
And a kiss on the joined hands.

—

Erm, I think the translated lyrics are a little weird, cause the paragraphing is all at different places, but that’s the best I can make of them.
The second one is really difficult to separate into paragraphs, so I’ve left it like that. I like it better just cause it sounds more poetic.

Quotes II

Here’s Quotes, part II, DGM version(:

Allen Walker

– “I am a small man. I am more affected by the small things that happen around me, rather than the bigger things in the world.”

– “I want to be a destroyer who saves.”

– “My left for the akuma, my right for the humans, together, we are one.”

Komui Lee

– “Blame the coffee, not Komurin!”

Lenalee Lee

– “If any of my friends were to die, a piece of my world would vanish.”

– “I just wanted to see Brother, and tell him, ‘I’m home,’ after returning from my missions.”

Lavi

– “Humans are stupid. They only cause war after war.”

Bookman

– “Bookmen have no need for a heart.”

And that’s the end of it for today. If I remember more today, I’ll edit this post. If not, then it’ll be a new post(: