'...lt was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself...Such fissures and rents grow together again, heal and are forgotten, but in the most secret recesses they continue to live and bleed." This is another partial quote. Here Sinclair actually speaking about his father. I think this pretty seamlessly works into V 's story here. His father creates the fissure in his childhood. His innocence is shattered. He grows up and thinks he 's forgotten the pain. But it stays nestled in his subconscious, resurfacing at just the right moments o remind him that he 'll never really recover from that first shattering. In Rap Monster 's V broadcast (it might not have been Rap Monster 's because I don 't remember the exact …show more content…
V 's father is his mark of shame. In this video, we see his father abusing his mother. The deep impact this has left on his psyche is revealed when V stabs the guy who was abusing his girlfriend in I NEED U. V 's father stayed with him, and he projects his feelings about his father on others. It 's what caused him to act in that instant. I think that this stigma can even be put in a broader sense that he has a larger issue with male authority figures because of his father. Stigma as a mark of shame could also be a reference to the mark of Cain, which plays a significant role in Demian. In the Bible, after Cain killed his brother Abel, God placed a mark on him. This was largely, a mark of shame. It was meant as a curse. In Demian, however, this role is inverted and it 's viewed as something that only a select and special few possess. Eva recognized Sinclair without having met him before because he possessed