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aonik

#digimon

10domu08

#gudako

murasakiyakumo

A leader is a dealer in hope.

#napoleon

hiiragihuyuki-deactivated201809

#jeanne

dawntrailing

“Smile, everyone!”

#sakura #taiga #ayaka #issei #shirou #souichirou kuzuki

empty-dream

smols

einzberns

MY ENDLESS LIST OF FAVORITE CHARACTERS

→ Sakura Matou, Fate/Stay Night.

#sakura

velanoble-deactivated20190907

Im hyper-critical of any crap I draw on a daily basis but here’s some Fate trash I might as well dump here. I keep thinking about kotomine kirei + steamed hams, just my normal adult life. (also this is leafydragon, i changed my url)

#kayneth #kirei #gilles de rais #Iskandar #alexander #uryuu #gilgamesh

velanoble-deactivated20190907

chaotic evil tribal tattoo boi i will never summon

#angra mainyu

s1ndri

#sakura #Dark Sakura #nsfwish /

dawntrailing

CHARACTER GIF SET: SHIROU EMIYA (2/?)

#shirou

borntobekings

Here’s the thing about Sakura Matou: she is in every way a victim of abuse. She is the picture-perfect example of someone who has, for most of her life, been tormented, violated, and treated as an object by the very people who she should have been able to rely on to support, protect, and cherish her.

But not quite. See, “picture-perfect” is really exactly the wrong word to use there. Normally, characters like her, meant to be rescued by the hero from their darkness, are pure. They keep the masks on neatly at all times before revealing in the most dramatic and attractive way possible that really they have terribly low self-esteem due to all their torment and must be rescued by some confident man. Sakura doesn’t do that. She says passive-aggressive things and she gets jealous. She wishes bitterly to get better while being resigned to the reverse, because her life has left her mentally, emotionally, and morally exhausted, and even if she’s rescued, it won’t be pretty. It won’t be delicate and pure.

Because you don’t go through the things Sakura Matou has been through without being corrupted by it. You don’t collapse into the pit of misery without being stained by the time you get fished out of it. And given everything she’s been through, Sakura damn well does a good job of surviving as a decent person until it’s finally too much.

But the fact that she does a good job isn’t really the point. The point is that when it does become too much, there is someone there who doesn’t care how corrupted and stained she is, because she is still a human being worth loving, even if no one in her life before him told her so.

She doesn’t have to deal with trauma in the approved way. After everything she’s been through, she can give up. She can lash out. She can rage and seethe with passive-aggressive bitterness. And it doesn’t make her worthless and despicable. That’s the point. That’s why I’ll love her even when Heaven’s Feel gets dark and she gets terrible. Because I approve of that message. Sometimes, it’s something we need in our fiction.

thirdmagic

I’m reblogging this because wow yes??? Honestly I think you just about managed to sum up what is my favorite thing about Sakura and one of the many reasons I love her as much as I do. Because she really is flawed and imperfect in spite of how she has good traits too? I mean, some people say that she was portrayed as nothing as a martyr and victim and… honestly, I really don’t get it, because see, the thing is, when she does lash out more seriously specifically when she turns and starts going destructive, and I know you haven’t read that part yet since it’s a long way off but I felt that it’s an important point to bring up, the narrative doesn’t treat it as justified, and nobody says that she is justified because of her past, while she still remains sympathetic because of all the abuse she suffered.

So she’s far from being put on a pedestal and treated as a holy and pure messiah, but instead, yes, all the things you described, and above all allowed to be as terrible as she can be, but it doesn’t detract from her worth as a person. There is also no attempt to assign any morality to her, to make her seem like nothing but a bad person or nothing but a good person, but instead she’s just human and she can be both destructive and malicious and sweet and well-meaning. And Shirou still loves her while fully acknowledging the existence of that ugly part of her instead of forcing the image of a pure, innocent victim on her; he loves her fully for who she is, full stop, no matter how terrible she can be and what kind of monster she has the potential of becoming.

(Also, this is why you should continue to read Umineko someday; because it also sends a message much like this. A lot of the characters are really awful and terrible people who do some seriously horrible things but also very sympathetic and human.)

#sakura