Symbolism of wings in ED2

[rebmastu.livejournal.com]

I'll bet my ass this has been posted about before (and if somebody points the post out to me I'll delete this one), but there's an interesting kind of symbolic motif going on in this most recent ending. LJ cut because, duh, it's spoilery.

Everyone who has died so far in this season has wings in the ending. Nunnally (Let's face it guys, that was a NUKE), Shirley (;_;), and.... granted, that's it. It's still interesting to note, though. I guess we'll see how it pans out in the end, right?

Other wings of note:
-Ougi, for instance, is holding feathers falling from the air. I take this to mean that either someone close to him will die or has already died, and it'll impact him later/or is impacting him currently. (Kallen's brother? HEY, WHATEVER HAPPENED WITH THAT GUY!?) Or he could die, but we'll see.
-Lelouche is either holding a wing or grasping his own, I can't tell. Either way, there are feathers.
-There's a feather in Ninja!Maid's shadow.
-Schniezel holds a feather with stone wings in the background. Are these his wings, or are they the wings of crumbled statues? Iiiinteresting.
-Le-douche and Suzaku share a wing at the end. Could by symbolic of Nunnally (Or even Shirley or Euphie, way back when) or a mutual death, but we'll see how that ends up.

It's interesting to note that not everyone has a feather. If they did, I wouldn't bother making this post. =P

Comments

[hayato.livejournal.com]

Um.

Really?
I wouldn't read much into it.

The ending pictures are done by CLAMP.

There are three things CLAMP loves; canon gay, long long limbs, and wings.

[lavaliere]

You forget ribbons, eyeball eating, and chains.

[hayato.livejournal.com]

oh yes. Especially chains.

[hyper-airis.livejournal.com]

Eyeballs! I forgot about that!

I should probably use the proper icon.

[rebmastu.livejournal.com]

OM NOM NOM.

But seriously, the only thing I find striking about the wings is the fact that they're used so selectively, not to mention specifically.

[scuba-dooba.livejournal.com]

*points to icon*

[scuba-dooba.livejournal.com]

CLAMP has a lot of fetishes.

[scuba-dooba.livejournal.com]

and Tokyo Babylon.

[hyper-airis.livejournal.com]

This is what I was about to say in my comment but hee~ You've pointed it out already.

I've seen too much of CLAMP art and yes, they have a strange fascination with pretty and delicate designs, swords, and wings. Oh and yes, canon gay. XD vampires too

(Long limbs aren't always CLAMP's thing but since one of their members decided to go solo, they've stuck to the pasta bodies. :|)

But yes, the insights ARE interesting.

[gdmcrjunkie.livejournal.com]

There was an entry like this for the first ending around the beginning of R2 and as far as I remember most of the guesses turned out to be true.

[klingon-jedi.livejournal.com]

I remember reading that they were given certain things that had to be done. Wings and chains on some characters were requested by the director. In fact, the Shirley image of her being winged and unchained was deemed too much a spoiler and moved to ending 2.

So there is significance.

Oh, and it wasn't a nuke. Nuke's don't convert matter or swap space, something FLEIIA does. look at how the office gets broken into neat particles.

So they might not be dead. Especially since Sunrise says they might not be.