Post #2653098
2026-05-15 22:13 UTC
Am I reading this wrong or is the concept of being honest with yourself here literally represented as death?
I checked the author’s page and it seems to me the floating skull has nothing to do with death, it’s more like some inner voice of the other character, offering them a counterpoint:
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@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-15 22:27
Well, I mean… a floating skull seems to me to represent death. Pretty general human cultural phenomenon of a skull representing death. And… introspection… is portrayed as… talking to it. Though I guess if there are this many panels of this kind of a set up… the author is likely using this as an established trope… ‘Talking to your inner self isn’t really that scary, even if it might look like it will be, at first glance.’ ‘Challenging or confronting your own inner workings may seem to resemble death, but it actually isn’t.’