hysyartmaskstudio:

I do! Nice catch!

(also, I love the floral pattern in the corner of this panel. Shojo Matsuri!)

I’ve made a post about The Chariot before, in regard to the 7 that shows up on gas mask 86 [x] and it probably means much the same thing here.

It’s a pretty generic tarot to show up at the start of a battle on a commanding figure of that battle, really. 

The Chariot is a very Washuu Matsuri card to begin with. It depicts a “princely figure” riding into battle with two sphinxes that are black and white themed – a very Washuu/V color scheme. 

It symbolizes determination, strength, control, will power, and decision making. All very Washuu Matsuri things.

It’s also a good omen going into battle, as it can symbolize victory. But it can also just symbolize putting ones all into something or going ahead with all of ones effort and making a firm decision. Tarot is vague like that.

So this could symbolize a win for the CCG, for Matsuri, or for the Quinx squad he is commanding in the picture, or it could simply be a character marker. It’s hard to say.

It doesn’t seem to be marking a possible struggle for Matsuri, but again, Tarot being as vague as it is, and Ishida’s use of tarot numbers being as vague as it is, some other readings of it might be that we are looking at a battle of wills in the near future. I looked for a 7 on Urie, but couldn’t find one, and Yoshitoki doesn’t appear in the chapter, but I imagine that is a possibility as to where we might be headed, as The Chariot is about sticking to your guns as well, and we know that Matsuri can sure be stubborn. So if it’s predicting conflict, that might be it.

We do appear to possibly have two 7′s in play – one marking either Eto or Ayato and Banjou and the other on Matsuri – which would be one 7 on each front of this battle. So one possible reading of these would be a predictor of the victors of the two fronts. But I’d be very, very hesitant to read something like that into these tarot numbers.

The other possibility is by placing two 7s in play, one on each front, we are meant to read them both even more generally. That these upcoming battles should both be viewed with The Chariot in mind – that these are battles that will determine something. They are defining battles and will control major outcomes.

I don’t know. I’m not really in the business of interpreting the tarot numbers. Remember, Takizawa was marked with The Devil for all of TG and all it was was very vague foreshadowing for his transformation in TG:Re. 

Personally, I’m more interested in Suzuya’s XX and what that means for the CCG as a whole and his character in particular…