User blog comment:Promestein/Heavencross - Assorted Mastema/@comment-28644276-20190306025253

Mastema seems to have led the most grand and at the same time the most... Sad kind of existence. In the empty sense, that is. Being born in a way that you are made so above the rest but at the same time know from your very beginning that this is all going deeper and deeper down the drain is most certainly a way to grow disheartened and uncaring for the world when it comes to beings of this much power.

However, considering on the other side of the spectrum there are moments like Harahel in face of her considering her insignificance on a cosmic scale... Perhaps in one way or another, you can't help but feel like there's no point whatsoever to existence in these dark times of a story.

Which I guess is good for this, given what Mastema should be all about. I actually like the contrast here - from both sides of the spectrum, it all seems pointless. From Mastema's side, seemingly because she was that above everything else and knew the way things were going... Then there's also those oceans of nothing but hatred within. And from Harahel's side, well, she certainly would feel like less than a speck of dust by comparison, and just another to be blown away alongside everything. That quote "everything dies" is super quick to the point here.

So just like I would expect of Mastema, there's really no sense of hope to be searched or found here. Most of the narrative gives a sense of "pointless", "in vain" and "emptiness" - kind of like questioning all of existence, but from entirely different perspectives. Until the end comes along... And maybe there's an answer to be had further beyond, but that would be a story spoilers for another day, it seems.