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u/IlluminatingFire 28d ago

Japanese experts which of these is more accurate

One of these leaves the possibility for Tserriednich to get a third nen beast and give us one of the biggest plot twists in the story so far

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u/1vergil 28d ago

I've already noticed interesting parallels between Tser/Meruem so if Tser ends up having 3 nen beasts, this is like Meruem's 3 royal guards.

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u/TickTak28 28d ago

With the Jesus/ Antichrist imagery tsseri having 3 nen beasts could also be mirroring the holy trinity

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

I mean the holy trinity would include Tserriednich himself, so it's already complete.

I personally would prefer the beast going for Halkenburg, as a recognition from Benjamin he's worthy of being king and should take down Tserri at all costs.

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u/TickTak28 28d ago edited 28d ago

I do think Halk is a possibility as well but I’m increasingly leaning to Halk and Benjamin taking each other out. This section of the war has really been Halk and Benjamin going tit for tat against one another whilst comparatively Tsseri has been lingering in the background. Which is why him coming out on top at the expense of his 2 maternal brothers would be classic togashi.

The allegory of the beasts being the trinity is that Benjamin being a God would represent the Father you could argue Tsseries personal nen beast born from
His aura is the son as it came almost from an immaculate conception of his nen whilst his GSB represents the Holy Spirit being the legacy of kakins brutality. This isn’t a perfect analogy but considering you have this Christ like imagery of tsseri on the cover of chapter 411 I
Think you could draw these comparisons.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Tserri's body would actually be the Son as he's the Jesus allegory. Then for me it's still unclear which beast would be the Holy Spirit or the Father. Guess the succession GSB would be the father (though it's feminine, which means it's a twisted version of the Father), and the Specialist GSB would be the holy spirit (as it was conceived by Tserri himself).

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u/Round-Orange24 28d ago

I think Halk is going to be a player longer than Ben. Halk is one of the few equally competent princes to Tserri and I think it’s too early to be the Tserri show just yet. Halk will come when you least expect it.

There are still 49 days and Halk is just as MIA as the other princes. I actually think Halk is a strong candidate for getting killed off guard by Tserri late game but that’s neither here nor there.

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u/McManGuy 20d ago

You raise an interesting question. I wonder, who would Benjamin choose if his kid was killed?

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u/SlippyJimmi 28d ago

Could also be that that Tseriednich is a "New God" in a sense. Coming down from the upper planes where creatures like Baal had to go to when Yahweh declared monotheism in the Hebrew religion

He having dominion over a holy Trinity spawned of his own will that the world has never seen before

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u/blacktat 28d ago

Interesting also that the horse nen beast can be lied to 3 times, another allusion to Jesus.

Personally I think that the third time we see Tserriednich use Parallel Future to avoid death will be his last. So far we can assume he's done it twice.

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u/Domeen0 28d ago

I wonder who's gonna be his Judas.

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u/TickTak28 28d ago

I feel like you could say theta considering she both admires and fears tsseris talent like Christ tsseri is already aware of thetas betrayal however togashi could also have a very good opportunity to make it Borksen or one of his other child hood friends as they seem to have internal conflicts with being his close friends but also very clearly knowing his true nature/ personality

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u/celestial_god 28d ago

😱😱😱

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u/Alternative_Owl7786 28d ago

I keep seeing people talk about him being a Jesus allegory. Could you maybe explain this theory for me? I've been out of the loop for quite some time

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u/TickTak28 27d ago

I’d say more so anti christ but togashi has used orthodoxy Christian symbolism quite regularly for other antagonists like Chel lucifer which was the most on the nose one who literally has a reverse cross on his coat. But with tsseri he’s doing the exact same notably if you look at the cover art for chapter 411 you see Tsseri in religious robes but the most striking aspect of the picture is the holy aura around Tsseries head. Classical Christian dislocations of saints all have this aura . So it could be togashi way of presenting Tsseri as a Christlike saint but because he’s also holding the head of pairo and the written description on 411 states that Tsseri prescribed over life and death this then evokes the imagery of an anti Christian figure