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VRaptorX · Hanyou Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 1309

OK....let's use logic here. While I was checking wikipedia, to see some Hokusai just to see if it would make a good subject (cuz if wiki doesn't have anything on it no chance in hell will you find anything online that fills up a whole 3 page essay). While doing that I decided, "hey let's look up the videogame and anime sections cuz they are always innacurate."

Well I eventually found my way to Inuyasha stuff. I noticed they have an after death section for Kikyou. Hmm...interesting, my little subsection I added is now it's own section. Since teh Kaou arc that thing was taken down in like 3 seconds after I put it up like every time. I guess enugh people now agree with me.

So I go and read it. Well there is a thing about how Kikyou's light was the trap to kill Naraku. OK....so I keep going cuz yeah I know Kanna said that already. then it says that Kikyou decided to instead use the light to save Kohaku instead of killing Naraku. OK...once again I'm not dissagreeing with this. Obviously there are a bunch of people out there who think like me (no comments from the peanut gallery).

But now this part is what made me think. It specifically said that Kikyou decided Kohaku's life was more valuable than destroying Naraku.

interesting. Now granted this is wiki so it's likly someone with a slight bias making it seem liek Kohaku was the most important thing ever. Now...I doubt that's the case since it seems we are heading to a Kagome momment.....but what if Kohaku was the most important thing ever? What does this mean?

Think about it. If you save Kohaku...naraku could just kill him again and then kill the whole world and you wasted your spell you died putting into teh jewel for. But if you kill Naraku...you save the whole world and only Kohaku dies. It is a reasonable choice to let Kohaku die. It's completly unreasonable to not guarentee naraku destruction...unless there was some super importance we don't know of.

Now I doubt it. I think RT just realized she wrote herself into a dead end with Kikyou having a trap in the jewel and she wanted Kohaku alive for a happier ending. This is teh person who wanted Sesshy to be the main villian, forgot about Kikyou/kagome shared soul and never even mention Kikyou or Naraku outside of backstory....she likly did end up having some sort of plan for Kikyou's trap then decide against it and desperatly needed a way out once she changed her mind. And she tried to cover it up with "oh Kikyou fully became a nice person."

But's let's speculate. If there was some uber secret only Kikyou knew about Kohaku that makes his life much mre important what would it be? Let's just have fun with this and make up theories.
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Lyssandra · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject:

Personally... I don't think Kohaku IS the most important thing ever, despite being my favorite character. If he were... I think he would have to have some massively awesome powers.... like those of a god or something.... to be all-important here. Of course, there's always a possibility, considering this is Takahashi's writing and everything, so I won't shoot it out of the sky.

My whole understanding of Kikyou saving Kohaku's life rather than killing Naraku is a "value" theme. Kikyou might have been compelled to save Kohaku because his life was worth it just because he was. Kikyou probably grew attached to him anyhow and wanted him to keep living for the sake of living instead of only aspiring to death. That would probably explain why the light responded to his wound only AFTER he had finally regained the will to live again... that is IF Kikyou wasn't controlling the light herself.

On the other hand, Sango's love for her brother would have made it so that she would have been utterly incapacitated after her brother died, leaving her completely useless. So... perhaps saving Kohaku was more of a trump card to raise SANGO's morale, thus making HER the bigger picture here.

Or something.
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jadehorse77 · Demon Slayer Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 296

I agree with Lys. If Kohaku had really been all-important like you're suggesting, I would think RT would have given him more 'screen time'.
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Lyssandra · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject:

Yeah, he was in and out for the past... I don't know how long. At least he's the only character who didn't tend to recycle the same tired old ideas for so long you just want to hit them upside the head with a brick.

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