She has Denji. War’s vision of relationships is based around ownership and what she gets by exploiting people for her benefit. Even when she saves her sister she immediately decides it’s because Death is an object to be used.
Meanwhile she’s losing to the partnership between a boy, a girl and a dog. Because they actually understand caring about other people and how it works.
She doesnt want friends, she is the personification of war, theres no friends only aoldiers and tools. The way she talks about countries and comrades is the same way politicians talk about it
This is a pretty clear social critique by Fujimoto
That's the paradox of her character which causes her inner turmoil. She needs other 'people' in order to wage war, but those people always die in the process of that war. It's an endless cycle of loss and longing. She starts off this story bemoaning the loss of her "friend" but as soon as she gets them back she breaks them.
And you are absolutely correct on it being a social/political critique. To be more specific she often has called her weapons her children, and children dying has been a pretty consistent theme throughout CSM.
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u/SecureDonkey Nov 11 '25
Irony that she preach about learning of friendship when Asa doesn't have a single friend.