An annoying part of this game was how the three factions are all caricatures of actual beliefs. Iirc, all three are retarded and bizarre enough to be impossible to actually support.
I still don't get why angels have supported Yosuga which is pretty much chaos ideology.
I still don't get why angels have supported Yosuga which is pretty much chaos ideology.
That was pretty weird, nothing makes sense with the factions.
The angels support Yosuga because they think of themselves as the strongest, most fit to rule. It's not a concept that should be chaos exclusive.
Reasons are concepts representing the characters way of thinking not chaos/law ideals.
After replaying the game this is what I got from the story/characters.
Hikawa and Yuko are the two adults that set everything into motion. Hikawa clearly has a plan in mind beforehand and is the mastermind behind the Conception, who is only using Yuko for personal gain.
Yuko as a character is a dissilusioned woman. She doesn't like the world and where it's going, but even more than that she is bored and doesn't know what to do with her own life. She goes along with Hikawa in hopes of some vague changes and improvements happening but has no idea what kinds of changes. Even when she summons Aradia she expects Aradia to give her a reason, when a reason cannot be created by a demon but only by humans. Her arc is basically realizing that the problem wasn't the world but herself. If you side with her you revert everything and the end lesson is we all have to try harder to make the world a better place and find purpose.
Hikawa on the other hand is world-weary and experienced. He thinks humans are inherently corrupt, the world will always be shit because of that, and wants to reshape the world in his reason of Shijima. With some buddhist theming around the character and the philosophy I can only think his reason is basically for every human to reach Nirvana. The end goal is to remove all kinds of negative traits and emotions that could lead to suffering. Want, lust, greed, ambition etc. Things like passion would just be collateral damage. These are bad and the end result will always be pain and suffering, the only solution to save humanity and world itself is for people to reach a zen like Nirvana state.
Then you have the two Highschoolers. First the game introduces us to the group dynamics. Chiaki is used to bossing Isamu around, who fumbles a lot but tries to do good. The player character is silent and is on good terms with both. They get caught in the whole Conception and try to survive as best as they can.
Isamu is at first trying to find and help Yuko. But after failing again and again he eventually becomes resentful. He only gets beaten and pushed around. Probably tortured in the prison aswell. He snaps, takes it out on the MC accuses you of never helping him etc. and dissapears into the Amala network, resulting in the eventual summon of Noah and the reason of Musubi. What is happening here I think is a tale of a bullied kid (in the hospital he was already the butt of the jokes at the start) starting to hate the world more and more and finally retreating into the Amala Network (internet) and his reason being one where everyone lives on their own. I've seen people say this is a world where everyone would live in their own pocket dimensions or something like that, which makes no sense as to how would that even work as an actual "world". I don't think the reasons are meant to be taken that literally. I think what Isamus story and his reasoning hint at is the growing rise of isolation and loss of interaction/local communities and the rise of otakus and neets. He wants a world where that would be supported and encouraged. Where you could thrive without talking to or relying on anyone but yourself. Also Isamu being hidden inside Noah is a neat detail.
Chiaki is a pretty girl that is shown to be used to tell people what to do and is pretty confident. She is determined to make something out of her in the vortex world and to stay on top, just as she was (probably) a popular student coming from a well off family. Her true character and personality are revealed as she gets progressively more and more obsessed with getting power. Her reason of Yosuga is the most straightforward reason out of all. The "strong" (herself) should determine what is the best for everyone and should be at the top of the food chain. Enforcing rules they create and being obeyed as the only authority. Obviously there will be violence and suppression but its ok because might makes right. Chiaki is probably the most meatheaded character in the game with very strong beliefs and willpower. But not any kind of nuance. She also likenes beauty with strength multiple times, as if they are correlated. Ironically in obtaining strength, she becomes demonic and loses her beauty. She is essentially the most popular girl in highschool that wants to run the show.
There's more I wanted to say but I can't remember it all atm.
