So I said I wasn't going to but Ashikai's video actually made me "duh" myself into oblivion so I feel a need to talk about it. Don't worry I also left a comment for her to dig into.
I had originally said that I think the Dark Mud is a shout out to fossil fuels. Fossil fuels bad. Ashikai actually states that Dark Mud is nuclear waste. I went on to say that - because of the Lumenspar cleansing the Dark Mud and that we know Celestia is bad but we also definitely know that the Abyss is bad - the Light Realm and the Void Realm seem to be the major players here and us squishy humans in the Human Realm are just caught in the middle.
But I couldn't figure out if there was anything bad about the Lumenspar even though knowing they come from Celestia made me really uneasy about it. Well now I know why.
Notice the blue glow. I now think the Lumenspar are a shout out to radioactive material and Ashikai's reasons for it about the Dark Mud are exactly how I can explain it for the Lumenspar.
We use the Lumenspar in something called an adjuvant. I joked about it before because it's not called this in Chinese but we can actually take it at face value. An adjuvant is a cancer treatment used to suppress tumor growth. You know one cancer treatment that can do that? Radiotherapy.
And the thing about radiotherapy is that it's a case of maybe the cure is worse than the disease. To take out the tumors of the cancer that you might have gotten from breathing in the carcinogens from burning fossil fuels you're blasting your body with ionizing radiation that breaks DNA. Ouch.
Seeing the Lumenspar and Sky Nails of Celestia as using radiation therapy against the cancer causing Dark Mud of the Abyss makes them both two horrible sides of the same coin. They both suck for us humans.
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