Comic "Pirate War" analysis and commentary: Torfin's revenge and mentality

"Comment on Pirate Wars" is an integration of my understanding and thoughts about the work of Pirate Wars. It is mainly used to let me write down my thoughts on the work and train myself to think about the story. , The content is all based on the original manga as an automated adaptation.

I saw on the Internet that many people reject the Pirate Wars, because the protagonist Torfin is incomprehensible and disgusted when he does something for Asherat for revenge.

First of all, I want to talk about some of my thoughts about "Manga Characters". I am a very, very difficult person to like the protagonist of the story, such as: "Naruto", "Reaper", "My Hero Academia", etc... My favorite characters are not the protagonists, because most of these protagonists are flooded With enthusiasm and no hesitation, their thinking is very single and determined. There is a proper term in the writing of the story called "character consistency". When the consistency is higher, the character's personality traits are more distinctive. This is why many mainstream teenager comics The protagonist has extraordinary charm because their role consistency is very high. However, the higher the "role consistency", the more uniform the thinking and style of the role. To say that it is ugly is monotonous.

By the way, Thorfin, the protagonist of "The Pirate War" is one of my favorite protagonists in the few comics. The reason why I will gradually release the "Pirate War Commentary" to explain that today I want to focus on "Torfin’s Revenge" And mentality."

The comic story of "Pirate War" took place in the tenth to eleventh centuries. At this moment, the countries along the North Sea include: England, Norway, and Sweden are all ruled by Viking warriors (Danes).

The most famous political culture of the Vikings is power to win. They have "any" dispute that can be resolved through battle. They challenge the object of the dispute with the testimony of the God of Odin. Revenge”, if you refuse to fight, you will be despised and disgusted by your fellow tribe, so as long as you are challenged, you must accept it (provided that the challenge has a legitimate reason, and a challenge without a reason will not be recognized by the tribe).

At this point, we can roughly understand why Tolfen was willing to work for Asherat for revenge, but I still have more mental understanding of Tolfen's behavior.

From the first and second episodes of the comics, we can learn that Tolfen was a child who was influenced by the universal values ​​of the time. He was victorious and eager to fight like every Beihai youth.

Therefore, when his father told himself "No one is your enemy, no one has an enemy" and "No one can hurt others", he could not agree with or understand (and at that time Tolz was called to fight. (Unconvincing)

learned that Torfin’s goal at this time was to become a "what everyone thinks of a real warrior", and when his father threw away his weapon and let the enemy kill him, he was only 6 years old. He couldn't accept the fact that his father died at all, and no one could stop him like a running wild horse. At this moment, Torfin wanted and had to take revenge.

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Torfin in this period is very sad from the perspective of "modern values". His purpose of life is to kill his enemies. The lives of others, the safety of his mother and sister, and his own future are not important, he only needs Just kill Asherat gloriously. All the remaining things are not important to him. Note that this refers to the "modern values". For the Viking fighters at that time, it was not a glorious fighter.

However, in the end, Asherat did not die in his own hands.

When Asherat asked him, "After you wait for my death, what are you going to do next, Thorfin?" He couldn't answer because he had never thought about this kind of thing, nor after Asherath died. What is your future.

Tolfen is in a cowardly era, he is strong and fragile at the same time.

Asherat’s "Pirate War" comic episode 8 P124 wrote: "You just keep going, don’t stay in such a boring place, you have to keep going... beyond Torz In the world where you are, as the son of Tolz, you have to move forward, and that's you... the real battle."