Thread by @To_theMorrow

A Louis Thread

//arc 6 spoilers

You’ll have to read the text in the screenshots inserted to make full sense of what I’m saying. Otherwise, it’s just a bunch of incoherent ramblings. I mean… even with the screenshots the thread still doesn’t read well but whatever.

The desire to attain happiness is something that all humans possess, and it is the singular element that builds up Louis’ character arc.

From her birth, Louis was alone. Alone in the cradle of the world, the Od Laguna, without companions or sceneries or happiness or sadness.

What defines a person are their memories. And lacking any tools to create memories, Louis was void.
But regardless of her birthplace and circumstances, she was human. Even if a human doesn’t have a personality, they still have the instinctive desire to become happy. And with it,

the self preservation instincts that teach them to fear death.
Louis, even though she was not conscious of it when she was void, wanted to be happy.
It was thanks to her brothers’ efforts that Louis was able to gain something similar to a sense of self.

In that blank space devoid of almost everything, Louis had one thing: the memories plundered by her fellow Archbishops of Gluttony, available for her consumption. She could consume and feast on the many extravagant dishes that they sent her way-- sating her hunger.

Experience is knowledge, you could say. By committing a mistake, though in a literal sense it's something far from positive, people gain the experience of having done wrong, and are able to learn from it. The same goes from other people’s experiences, not only your own. From the

many experiences Louis attained and consumed, she was able to slowly but surely form her own personality. And with the knowledge she gained, she realized her circumstances differed from the norm, that she was considered “misfortunate.”

...Multiple lives played out in their entirety, stacked upon another to create an incomprehensibly tall mountain of platters. Just how would a person’s personality be affected if that was the only thing they had?

Being in a position of power, being in a position where Louis could freely sample entire lives without restraint, she developed… a superiority complex. As she continued sating her hunger, she began to feel unsatisfied with the meals she was being provided. Louis, somebody who

had never gone through hardship nor happiness, couldn’t possibly understand why the humans in the memories she consumed were so foolish. They committed errors all around. Their tiny and insignificant emotions, somehow influenced their decisions, even when the correct path to take

was so glaringly obvious. Louis, upon seeing this, scoffed. Why couldn’t they make the correct decisions in their life?

Her frustration with the people in those memories grew, until the meals that were handed to her were no longer objects that could sate her desire. They became a liability. It was frustrating seeing people’s lives play out, unable to do anything about all the grave errors and

mistakes they committed. What’s more, they were mistakes that seemed so EASY to avoid.
Being sent a never ending stream of such platters. Forced to watch such pathetic lives a thousand times over.

And so, even though she ate and continued eating innumerable platters of memories, Louis could not sate her hunger.

What is happiness, and how should people attain it? Is happiness something that people discover by themselves, or is it something that comes and flies

spontaneously, arbitrarily? How can Louis become happy? Is it even possible to become happy in her position?

Ley and Roy found happiness in eating the memories of people. Louis, however, only used it as a means to sate her hunger. After a while, the memories being sent her way become a bother, a nuisance. So, Louis searched for another way, another method.

The outside world, something Louis had never been capable of experiencing, only capable of viewing, was fascinating. Completely new experiences, emotions surged and flowed like they never did before.

Louis says to Ley, her elder brother, this.

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How did consuming so many lives affect her ideals? How did they affect her perception of right and wrong? Brothers should be loving, doting, and well wishing of their little sisters. That was what Louis had “learned.”

Being able to go outside was something Louis had anticipated for all of her life prior to her newfound ability. She built up a fantastical image inside her-- that the outside world was something breathtaking and never to be tired of. But of course, it failed her expectations.

She got bored of the world; it no longer had the same appeal as it did before. She needed to find something else to sate her hunger.

“She wished for a body, a soul, a destiny.”

Did she really? Were those wishes anything more than lofty words sprouting from her innate desire to become happy? Could she really satisfy her hunger if she was able to attain her own life?

Just what was happiness to Louis? She described humans as sorrowful, but wasn’t that sentiment exclusively her own? Whether or not a person’s life is happy can only be defined by themselves.

Louis continued searching for a “happy” life to fit her ideal, to satisfy her hunger, but did such a life really exist?

From the stockpile of memories she accumulated, Louis came to a conclusion: people's lives are determined to be misfortunate, or fortunate, from the moment of their birth. Being able to choose her own circumstances, being a being who has greater knowledge of what decisions to

make, possessing knowledge of how to avoid blatant and foolish errors, and being able to shape a “perfect” life for herself-- that was how Louis would be able to attain happiness.

But having the ability to choose from an endless supply of lives did not coincide with the fact that she would certainly become happy. She was continuously and painstakingly searching for the “greatest” life-- one that perhaps didn’t exist.

People build up expectations of certain things and subjects when they’re young, eagerly awaiting the opportunity to savor them in the future. But, it’s often the case that reality is disappointing. Happiness is fleeting, the times where people can laugh and smile are limited.

Children may hold in their heart a certain person, believing that they’ll be friends for the rest of their lives. But friendships are easily broken. They certainly don’t last forever, and as the number of years people spend on this planet increases, so too do the number of broken

and lost relationships.
Think about what you consider happiness for a moment. Is it anything like what Louis expects it is? Nobody has life going as they exactly wish it to be-- they can only make do with what little they have. Equal amounts of happiness can be gained from

seemingly nothing as what can be gained from having everything. Though happiness is a fickle thing, it can be found in everything. Small moments, such as the wind blowing against your skin on a hot summer day, or perhaps sharing a conversation with a friend from a decade past--

--these moments ARE happiness. Louis doesn’t know that-- she couldn’t possibly know that. She viewed so many different lives, but she is unable to experience them herself, and thereby is unable to understand what happiness truly is.

She has a desire, a craving to become happy. But, she’ll never be able to satisfy that desire; because it’s built upon unrealistic, naive principles. She’ll find a new, stimulating experience, relying on it to sate her hunger for a short period, before growing tired of it moving

onto something else. She’ll scour the entire world until there’s nothing left for her to consume.

--But then, a miracle occurs. The concept of being able to choose and control your own life as people please was nothing short of impossible. But Natsuki Subaru had the very power, Return by Death, to accomplish Louis’ deepest desire.

So, she formulates a plan to steal his “authority.” And also, in the process, will also be able to experience the new flavor of “death.”

A new flavor, a new experience, a new power that would completely and utterly satisfy her desires-- that was what Louis thought she wished for

Dear Louis, Though you continue to consume entire “lives” and criticize the players for being fools, you are the greatest fool of them all.
"Death" was far too harrowing an experience for Louis. She couldn't stand it. Nobody could. Indeed, only a madman would be able to utilize

Return by Death.

Similar to how the sensation of death could not be recreated in its entirety, the sensation of finding happiness in the little and insignificant moments of people’s lives could never be conveyed to Louis.

Somebody who had never truly experienced emotions to their full extent, somebody who continued chasing after an ideal of happiness created within their head. She knew so much from her uncontrolled plundering of people's memories, yet she knew nothing at all.

A sheltered girl, who had never encountered any sort of danger in her life, finally being hit with a nice truckload of reality.

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