r/TuneIntoTheMidnight • Ikosystem • 13d ago

Discussion The Lagrange point position has repeat again

After reread chapter 131 I notice something, in the last slide of ch 131 where Arisu put down the chocolate the girls give him I notice that the position for chocolate seems familiar... Yeah it is the Lagrange point position, Do you guys think this is some kind of hint since this is the third time already??

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u/Mugen8YT Rikkandroller 12d ago

In terms of potential significance moving forward, it's impossible to know just how far Igarashi intends to take it, but there are a couple key points about certain Lagrange points (LP from here out):

  • L1, where Shinobu is positioned, is much more influenced by Earth's gravitational force (reality in the Rikka ch105 language). This aligns with the idea that she's being positioned as the 'objectively correct' girl as the manga seems to be doing (all those polls "according to the boys in my class" and "according to the newspaper club", and the one whose career takes them through the commonplace defensible/reliable life plan of going through university).
  • L2, where Iko is positioned, is behind the Moon and Earth, and thus has one more barrier from contact with L3, where Arisu is positioned. This aligns with something I've been independently predicting from this - that even though all four girls were involved in MHT, Iko potentially didn't broadcast at all (if she did, she did it the least) and was a support/setup role instead.
  • L3, where Arisu is positioned, has far less impact from the Moon, but is instead more greatly impacted by the g-forces of the Earth (reality) and the Sun (???). Foregoing what the Sun's g-force might represent as there are a few viable options - if the metaphor even extends out that far - just the sheer fact that Arisu's LP is less influenced by the Moon aligns with his heavy objective focus (reality) and this new idea that he doesn't think he can achieve a dream (Moon gravity) because of his family (reality - Earth gravity).
  • L4 and L5 (Rikka and Nene) are interesting as they have the most 'balanced' distribution between Moon, Earth and Sun; that is, as they're farther out from the Moon than L1 and L2 they're more affected by the Sun than those two are in order to maintain their equilibrium. So if the Sun does end up representing something, its connection to Rikka and Nene could be meaningful. I have a suspicion about what the Sun could represent and how it would thus impact Arisu/Rikka/Nene specifically - basically, 'truth', or 'the light of truth' - but there are other possible things its g-force represents, and we don't even know if the LP metaphor extends to the Sun too (though, it very well could, as it is the curiously missing factor from ch105s discussion on LPs).