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

[lulu-quality.livejournal.com]

The first series' illustrations were by Takahiro Kimura, the character designer and head animation director. He does know the plot. He's in charge of animating it. And for the record, CLAMP didn't even know that Clovis was going to die and he died in the third episode! Mokona of CLAMP was completely heartbroken at the development ~_~;; Personally, I want to analyze the drawings, too, but the most we can draw from them is what's taken at face value. The most Taniguchi gave them was probably "I would like to see an angelic Shirley" or "I would like to a dark Schneizel," but nothing deeper than that.

[gatekeepers-21.livejournal.com]

Weeeellll said!

[klingon-jedi.livejournal.com]

Well, that just nullified my post. Thanks though!