User blog:FingerZofGod/Lies throughout Tower of God (Season 1)

Author is a Genius.

But maybe he's a genius because his character lie from time to time. The way his lies contribute, give us the feeling that we are a major character of this story.

As a professional liar, author uses different categories of lies.

The first one is the "Absolute and direct lie" (A). For example: Koon has brown eyes.

The second is "unkept promise" (B). For example: I will return your money back (but never doing so).

The third is a subtle group (C). It's gathering "false sentences when the characters who say it, truly believe what they're is saying" (for example: Baam is dead at the end of Part 1, when he is not) and "commonly accepted knowledge" (for example: when you are in love you are happy... which is often true but sometimes inexact).

The fourth is "politcal manoeuvre" (D). This group gathers all "social lies" that are said with a due form. The reasons may be various: Not to hurt someone you care about, not to hurt someone who could resent you and beat you to death, not to be hated by a group of people, not to compromise your situation with the administration and the rules dictated etc.

In this Study the word "lie" cannot refer to jokes (for example: you look like a toad) or boasful attitudes (for example: I'm the best).

Lies Throughout Part 1
Now we have described what lies are in our study, and categorized them, we need to pick up all the lies we find in part one.

Here is the result (though some may have been forgotten):

What can we learn from this?

First of all the biggest liar is Koon. (A) in terms of frequency of use, but we can see that he always lied in order to help his friends, using lies as a weapon for the greater good to trick his enemy. His way of using lies is pretty human I would say, almost sane.

In term of evilness, hard to know who is the bad guy of season 1. Yu Han Sung is the most perverted to my mind; a good tactician also, but Headon is not far from him. Let's call the latter the strategist and the former the tactician.

For Rachel, we confirm that when Baam says "she lies from time to time" it's true! She lied a little bit, even less frequently than Baam!! But what is astonishing, is her way of lying. A perfect expert, always saying something true, (e.g. Rak: "Where is the other turtle?" Rachel: "Baam is down there") avoiding direct lies and keeping for herself the true meaning of her words. She lies by staying silent and with her body, acting like a poor motorless girl.

Baam lied a little, but always to protect himself or for the greater good.

The variety of lies throughout ToG part 1 shows us different characteristics, different ways of thinking and above all, makes it difficult to us to know or to anticipate what is true and what is not.

We can see that there are a high number of lies, from the tiniest to the biggest, but we can assume that there is, mathematically speaking, about 1 lie every non-battle chapter.

Thus, we can deduce that battles are more than just struggles or test. They are also the Truth Killer or Truth Bringer.

From the battle will come Light or Night.

From the battle will win Rachel or Baam. Like Yin and Yang.