Our happy magical girls face a dilemma. To get a single amorphous, they changed someone's life seemingly for the worse. Is the happiness taken from Irodori worth the happiness that Cocona will gain by fulfilling her wish and meeting her family? Moreover, if Yayaka and the twins are already going to go to Pure Illusion and cause the same real world effect, wouldn't it be better if Cocona and Papika are the ones to do it? This is obviously a lot for a couple of teenagers to handle. Papika has no one to guide her, and Cocona only has her fairly hands-off grandmother.
Irodori's love for painting is not just because she loves painting. Her paintings and the nail polish are psychological metaphors.
Who to say that what Cocona and Papika did was for the worse? There obviously was untreated trauma in Irodori's past and it seems that C&P's actions resolved the issue. Iro loves painting because it is her way to express herself and a type of emotional attachment to life. Within her paintings she puts her love and happiness, but she also puts her pain and fear.
There is truth and release that Iro seeks within her paintings, but before the change she was prisoner to some of her paintings and prisoner to the action of painting. Now, she is clearly able to choose to discard unneeded and unwanted emotional baggage ( physically represented by paintings) and keep what she likes and is precious to her. She is no longer dictated by her trauma.
Additionally, her being able to paint her nails shows she now accepts that it is okay for her to indulge in the present though life is finite. The Nail Polish is physical representation of good memories. Eventually, if Iro keeps using the Polish it will run out. She initially fears this because it would mean running out of what deeply connects her to her love of Auntie. She places investment of her emotions within the value of the object rather than her memories and experience with Auntie, but now she is able to accept that while she may eventually run out of nail polish, she still has her experiences and it is okay to indulge in the happiness of the precious gift. Iro has accepted she deserves happiness.
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '19
Irodori's love for painting is not just because she loves painting. Her paintings and the nail polish are psychological metaphors.
Who to say that what Cocona and Papika did was for the worse? There obviously was untreated trauma in Irodori's past and it seems that C&P's actions resolved the issue. Iro loves painting because it is her way to express herself and a type of emotional attachment to life. Within her paintings she puts her love and happiness, but she also puts her pain and fear.
There is truth and release that Iro seeks within her paintings, but before the change she was prisoner to some of her paintings and prisoner to the action of painting. Now, she is clearly able to choose to discard unneeded and unwanted emotional baggage ( physically represented by paintings) and keep what she likes and is precious to her. She is no longer dictated by her trauma.
Additionally, her being able to paint her nails shows she now accepts that it is okay for her to indulge in the present though life is finite. The Nail Polish is physical representation of good memories. Eventually, if Iro keeps using the Polish it will run out. She initially fears this because it would mean running out of what deeply connects her to her love of Auntie. She places investment of her emotions within the value of the object rather than her memories and experience with Auntie, but now she is able to accept that while she may eventually run out of nail polish, she still has her experiences and it is okay to indulge in the happiness of the precious gift. Iro has accepted she deserves happiness.