Othinus Character Analysis | A Certain Magical Index New Testament (SPOILERS)

[Music] tanoshi what's up guys it's aeon of horus here back with another video today we're going to talk about offness from a certain magical index new testament from the light novel i know i haven't made a recent video geared towards fans of the light novel so i decided i would do that today and what better way to do it than talking about the magic god of war herself often this now as you already can expect from this video i'm going to talk about huge spoilers from the index light novels specifically new testament so if you've only watched the anime this video ain't going to be for you unless you love spoilers then you're welcome to stay i guess anyway let us proceed offenus is the main antagonist for the first nine volumes of new testament as the shadowy leader of the norse magic cabal known as gremlin but after being saved by toma in new testament 10 she takes a supporting role as toma's understander and aids terma with her vast knowledge of magic yes turmer doesn't need index anymore right guys oh yeah and she also shrunk to 15 centimeters tall and gets overpowered by a domestic cat how the mighty have fallen let's start at the very beginning what defines offenus as a character she wants to restore her life and world to the best that she can remember but unfortunately she cannot achieve this goal despite the massive power she has from being a magic god but deep down in the core of oftenness as a character what she wants is quite simple to be understood to have that one genuine human relationship so that she is not alone and that person will understand her desperation to restore her world to the way it was countless years ago offenus was once human but via mastering magic and performing a ritual sacrificing her right eye she became a magic god she was blessed with extraordinary amounts of power she could manipulate and create phases layers of reality that cover the entire universe in essence she could control anything she desired in the universe offenus created countless phases why because she could imagine if you were given the power of a god just like in the film bruce almighty you can solve any problem you have so why not use and even abuse that power well because even that has its consequences often has caused so much change in her universe that a nostalgia to return to that old world had taken over her but since she couldn't remember every single little detail of her original world and how to replicate it using her ability to walk reality she could not restore her old world in exactly the way it was a magic god can create more layers of reality in the universe but they can't remove them they can't press the undo button they can only add more layers of paint to the canvas they can't take those layers away so despite offenus's seemingly incredible power she suffered as a result as she could not restore her old world and each world she created in desperation only gave her more pain and self-loathing it just shows you that having absolute power doesn't necessarily make you happy as it can change your life in such an incomprehensible way oftenis did not realize how fortunate she was to live in an original world until it was too late the power of a magic god corrupted the world around her as everything in the universe was influenced by her will and power it truly makes you think what is the meaning of life if you can do anything you desire i kind of touched upon these concepts in my offense arc video but i'll reiterate some of them here as a magic god there is nothing to work towards or strive for you've already achieved your goal of mastering magic but then what once you have created your idealized world there is nothing to do in life it becomes stagnant which was why the true gremlin gods simply just hanged around in a different dimension fighting amongst each other just to relieve boredom if you can do absolutely anything you want in life then what is there actually to do of course offense still hadn't done everything she wanted as she still had that goal of wanting to restore her world but if anything it was a desire to return to normality rather than the artificial corruption she had caused upon the world but since she had the power to warp reality why didn't she just make a world identical to the original one she lived in because she knew that it would just be a fake version of it no matter how similar it may be there would be no free agents as they would all just be manipulated by orphanness to act in a specific way rather than using their own free will to make decisions it would be nothing more than a toy world for offenus with her as the puppet master orphanists realized there was no value in the phases she created as a magic god and relinquished her title as a true magic god and gave the world autonomy without her influence orphanas desperation however did not go away she needed a lifeline one bit of hope to restore what she knew was the real world her world an opportunity presented itself in the form of imagine breaker a spiritual item in the form of a right hand that acts as a reference point to the original world perhaps the pure world that existed before the phases which would make sense why alistair needed it for his plans orphana sees it as her best chance and her last resort to restoring her own world as imagine breaker also represents the hopes and dreams of magicians so offenus forms gremlin restores her power as a magic god via the completion of gungnir and changes the phase once again with kamijo toma in the palm of her hand orphanas decides that killing turmer then taking imagine breaker would be a problem as if he died then it would simply go to someone else at an unknown point in time she decides to break him mentally by creating countless phases manufactured for the purpose of crushing turmeric's will to live this will trap imagine breaker in the helpless boy for her taking that's the excuse she gives but honestly i don't believe offenus is telling the truth here as what's stopping her from simply cutting it off and crushing what's inside like she did at baggage city deep down offneus wanted someone to understand her by tormenting termite through the countless phases tomo was experiencing somewhat what otherness once experienced when she was creating the phases countless years ago unable to return to his original world and having to live with artificially created realities where life has little meaning turmoil was the most convenient person at the time to be chosen by offenus to be subjugated to the phases as he had imagined breaker as often as believed no one could understand what she went through and being unable to return to her reality she decided to inflict that pain on another to simply see how they would handle it i know it's a very selfish and messed up thing to do but put yourself in office's shoes being unable to return to the world you love and hating yourself for it it's unsurprising that oftnus would do this with little remorse initially and she is so far removed from what we and tomah perceive as reality reality being the world of toaru that we have experienced thus far in the story the interesting thing is the omega phase we see in new testament nine is comparable to the world before new testament nine in the eyes of offness everything around her is fake and as a magic god she can influence anything around her so she has little remorse for the suffering she inflicts on others and the world because it's not genuine in her eyes and reality has somewhat become part of her toolkit she doesn't care about this reality so she's willing to control and manipulate it like everything in it is her tool that's why she doesn't care what she does determine as it's just all an experiment to her will turmer crack mentally in the same way that she did is he simply a fake puppet in the palm of her hand or does he have the capacity to freely decide and fight for what he wants even if it is hopeless in the end orphanas pushes turmer over the edge as he attempts to take his own life but after being convinced by the will of the musical network that his life and world are worth fighting for he challenges a god despite having no chance of victory he now has a selfish desire to trample upon world peace and the happiness of six billion people this is where otherness starts to realize inside that tomer is more than just a human who oftenists always seem to look down upon before always referring to people as humans acting all arrogant etc but if anything offenus is still a human trapped in a god's body she still has human flaws personality and qualities and turmeric is truly just a person too someone with a mind with ambitions dreams and flaws toma has become just like oftenness in this moment but from a different angle he has become selfish and wants to return to his original world like offenus and cares little about how others perceive him oftenis is motivated by desperation but turmer is motivated by the change in himself from only thinking about others to wanting to achieve his own dream tomorrow accepted that returning to his original world may be impossible but regardless he will try to destroy the world offenus has created to rebuild the relationships around him so offenus and toma are very similar in this moment both wanting to return to their own worlds and fighting for themselves as individuals turmer accepting there is no hope for restoring his world but fighting anyway an offness clinging desperately onto her last chance in the form of imagine breaker offenus kills and revives turmer countless times until she seemingly has had enough of fighting and destroys most of his body and she takes imagine breaker for herself while toma admits to arvanis that he knew he had no chance of winning and accepted his fate of not being able to return to his world he wanted to reach awfulness with his words as that was his only chance of changing fate turma tells offness to restore her world as he understands what she has been through and believes she has the right to want to go back to her original world even if no one in the world will be able to sympathize with what she went through then offense realizes that toma is speaking some big facts no one understood orphanage prior to this even the members of gremlin didn't as they were concerned about their own dreams and not anyone else's if offenus returned to her original world turmoil wouldn't exist she would lose that one person who didn't blame her for what happened and knew what it was like to be trapped in an artificial world but termer's original world was genuine to him just like how often as his original world was to her and in termer's world she would at least have one person who understood her and turmer would have that one person who understood him everyone would see toma as someone who destroyed world peace by not accepting the omega face as tomah could not keep quiet about what happened to him oftenis had to be there for him and after the pain and suffering she had caused herma after the pure selfishness of her heart ovenus clicked and did the most unselfish thing she could do in that moment she restored turmeric's world and then turmere decided he would protect and save offenus who was now dying from the fairy spell even if it meant betraying and fighting against the entire world as she had given him back his world and she had lost hers for good and oftnus was willing to sacrifice herself for it during the events of new testament 10 offenus is consumed with guilt by turmeric actions the extent he is willing to go to in order to protect her from others which is why in the final fight to new testament 10 offense fights turmer one last time as she does not want him to save her from death she doesn't deserve it after the torment she inflicted upon turmer and others how could she deserve a happy ending tomah however defeats offenus this time and oftenus is saved from death and turns into a fairy offenus continues to be termed as ally in his form and refers to herself as his understander orphanas is one of the best characters in the series due to her complex morals her character dynamic of turmer and of course her character development her character explores fascinating themes such as the consequences of having a significant amount of power and how desperation and selfishness can turn you into a bad person while offenus was a god she was ultimately a completely flawed person underneath that godlike persona she still had human vulnerabilities underneath in a similar way that turmeric had flaws underneath his hero complex and this had vulnerabilities and burdens as exposed in the phases that office created that's why the bond between offenus and turmer is so powerful and remains one of the most interesting character dynamics in the entire franchise i hope you enjoyed this video and please be sure to subscribe if you haven't already for more toe arrow content thanks for watching and i'll see you all next time bye bye

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Length: 15min 13sec (913 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 12 2021