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by ProfAllister » Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:22 am
Let me respond to your question with a question:
Whenever Nomiya rapes Rin over his lust for her (and trust me, he will - outside of Rin's Good Ending anyway), do you think Hisao would kill himself in turn from the guilt?
No, don't answer that. It's used entirely for the purposes of illustration. You are making a pretty huge assumption, asserting it as indisputable fact, then asking what will come from there.
Were I to grant your (absurd) premise, my answer would be "no," because that sort of despair is antithetical to who and what Shizune is. There would be some serious soul searching, and the ever-present question during grieving of what went wrong, but Shizune isn't the type to let one failure - no matter how large - throw her into a depression from which she never recovers.
As for why your premise is absurd, I'd argue that you aren't giving Misha the credit she deserves. Although she's perhaps dealing with the issue in an unhealthy matter, Misha actually has a very mature understanding of her relationship with Shizune. She wants Shizune, but she knows that it's not to be. She can tell herself it's all for the better that things are as they are, but it doesn't make it hurt any less. The complication we see in the rooftop confession is that Shizune has Hisao. Misha feels that Hisao has taken her place entirely, and it hurts her to see that, but she knows it would be nothing but selfishness for her to try taking that away. Similarly, she'd see taking her own life as selfish, too. "I wish I would die" and "I want to kill myself" aren't necessarily the same thing. There are (sadly) very many people who would never consider even for a moment killing themselves, but do imagine that things would be better if some freak accident happened to write them out of the picture.
In the circumstances when Hisao isn't involved with Shizune and Misha, things would play out a little differently, but not by too much. Misha would get sad and depressed for a bit. She may act out in an overly emotional manner in some way or another (although nothing as extreme as suicide), but she'll decide to move on, just as she decided to move on from her previous life to Yamaku. She'll redouble her efforts in school, and move to America, to start life anew, and, hopefully, find happiness in that new start.
I bet Silentcook will lock this thread as soon as he sees it.
