WHEEL SMASHING LORD 6-208

Prim’s comb is meant to represent gentleness. Specifically how the gentleness required not to break the comb, is at odds with the unthinking violence of angels seeking to impose order. Juggernaut Star is fighting for a sort of order — “an empty heaven”, in White Chain’s eyes, is considered “clean” by the Thorns. And to that end, she rejects gentleness. But it’s not Juggernaut Star carrying it in the first place. Maybe it shattering means that gentleness isn’t an option for White Chain here, that she has no other option but to fight back. Or at least that she’s going to? Then again, is violence itself against Prim’s idea of gentleness? She was a martial artist, after all. And survived, and then thrived, in a world where “violence is inescapable”. It could be that a certain thoughtfulness allows for violence and gentleness to coexist, as paradoxical as that is. Meti wrote that, if you have complete awareness of every living being in your environment (and their love, hope, and aspirations), “Only then are you qualified to be their annihilator”, so there’s precedent for the idea that awareness can justify violence. (Or maybe not. Prim did say “The most powerful man has the capability t...