Perfect summary 100%. Just a question tho, I don't see Law saying anywhere to Jesse that he only wanted to control him but didn't love him. I know he only talks in riddles so one has to make their own interpretation of what he says but I never felt that he said so.
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Hmm it''s true that he never says it outright - I think I mean he wanted to convince Jesse that he had no more feelings for him. In the last chapter, he says that being in Moritat with Jesse for what felt like 20 years (but was actually only a day) made him sick of Jesse/he no longer feels anything towards him whether it's love, anxiety or possessiveness. Which I'm sure broke Jesse's heart :(( literally the summary of this entire manga is LAW LIES TOO DAMN MUCH.
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thanks for the summary! i finally get it !
i get confuesed because the comments is it not good or had a bad end so i will not read it or what ??
But wait in the Real world didn't Law make Jesse become a nobody to bring him down to his level? Remember how Jesse threw Law away because he didn't want him to become his mom's possession, and as revenge Law made that Maid say that the Brown family experimented on her. So the President aka Jesse's mom made Jesse the scrape goat hence why he appears in that video saying how he the sole owner of Moritat and takes full responsibility for it. Then 3 years later even when Jesse is a nobody he still feels that he's above Law, that's why I think Law did that to Jesse. He wanted Jesse to realize that they are now the same. Oh and Jesse's parents are still alive because when he got homeboy in the last chapter the Butler said that he hadn't informed the president (Jesse's mom) about how he didn't come home that night
OH WOW, i totally missed that Law was the one behind the maid coming out with being experimented on. That makes a lot of sense. But I don't believe what you think Law's intentions were. I think on the surface level, and what he shows Jesse, is that he was sick of being lower than Jesse and wanted to take everything away from him.
But he also says, "I thought if I took everything away from you, maybe...you would finally choose me." So it's not really about control (I think?) but more "I need you to need me because you are my life and I can never risk you throwing me away again." I think you're right that his revenge was to make Jesse a nobody but his intentions were not to bring him down to his level, but to instead force Jesse to go though the same pain that he went through when Jesse so easily abandoned him [which Jesse didn't, he just wanted Law to be free from his shitty mom and go to school/do what he wants to do but Law doesn't know that.]
But your theory def makes sense too and I think your theory is like the "bad" ending where they never cared/loved each other but the theory I believe/want to believe (lol) is one where they do love each other but showed it in very negative, harmful ways.
i agree that Law made the maid come with the story to bring jessy down, he knew his mother would make jesse take the blame but I don't think it was because he was sick of being lower or some sort of revenge. Jesse wasn't controlling him through rank, his own infatuation with jesse and his anxiety was controlling his life to an unbearable limit. I think he simply needed jesse to sink to be able to reach him again. He was banned from the mansion and had no way to reach the high heir of the brown company, but now Jesse needed to go to a normal public school. After meeting him after 5 years Law says: 'I had hoped a chance would open up for me as a result, but i never imagined i'd be able to meet you in an exposed area like this in broad daylight. He then goes on to put Jesse in moritat and completely controls him, but even when jesse chooses him in the end, chooses death with him over living on, thereby giving the greatest confirmation of love and need for another person a human can give. Law is still too scared to really be in a relationship with Jesse. He has just experienced too much anxiety as a child to be able to truly as he says 'simply love'. He knows this and hates himself for it. But then hallelujah Jesse realises this and takes the step forward. but the relationship is still like hell, like jesse says in the end, because law still is unable and probably will forever not trust Jesse, therefore he keeps rejecting Jesse, no matter what he says of does. Law is left with crippling anxiety forever and Jesse is left with a lover who will never truly accept him
*this is my interpretation of the manga after rereading it from beginning to end - feel free to add or argue or whatever if you think my summary's lacking*
Basically the beginning of the manga is all "fake" aka Law put Jesse under Moritat so he could fake a scenario where Jesse is the rich heir to Brown Company but was tortured and then traumatized by his parents' deaths and loved only Law blah blah blah.
So what was the point of Law doing so?
The flashbacks (which is the TRUE reality of Jesse and Law's pasts) basically tells us.
Since childhood, Law has suffered tremendous anxiety and pressure from his "friendship" with Jesse. Not only were there romantic feelings involved, but Law also felt low-key hatred towards Jesse for being so controlling, oppressive and perfect.
Law puts Jesse on a pedestal for his entire life and their relationship in the TRUE reality reaches the breaking point when Jesse tells Law that he wants Law to go to school and leave him. [This is where people get confused in the flashbacks; basically Law pretends that he wants to leave to go study so he can see Jesse panic over losing him - but Jesse wants to finally be selfless & have a healthier relationship with Law so he tells him to go ahead and do so.]
Law freaks the fuck out and thinks this means Jesse never loved/needed him. So he then puts Jesse under Moritat, and then reenacts that entire scenario that is like the first 20 chapters of the manga.
Their experience in Moritat ends because this time (Law apparently has done this scenario multiple times with Jesse but each time, Jesse refuses to "choose" him aka Jesse doesn't trust Law even in this new fake world Law created Moritat), Jesse FINALLy ends up trusting in Law and "chooses him" when he says that he wants to die with Law rather than live without him.
This is all Law ever wanted - but he gets scared of commitment and ends Moritat. In the present, he tells Jesse it was all about control, not love, for him. In reality, he does (obsessively & unhealthily) love Jesse but is too afraid to finally be in a relationship with this person he's revered as a God for so long.
That's what the last chapter of Moritat is all about. Jesse believed Law when Law said he only put Jesse in Moritat to mess with him/control him/finally beat him. So he leaves and goes back to school. But then he runs into that maid and realizes that Law is still head over heels obsessed/in love with him and still watching that simulation of child Jesse. So he runs back and tells Law to man the fuck up and be with him in the REAL world, even if it's hard and unhealthy and complicated.
In case you couldn't tell, I fuckin loved this manga. Brilliant and deep as shit and I don't even mind that they don't kiss at the end lmao.