Mika deserves better: A mindless rant
(I accidentally deleted my last one lmao)
Clarification: : I do not hate Shinoa. I already know people are going to claim “You just hate her because you’re a desperate fujoshi that wants mikayuu for life!!1!”
I hate what Kagami is doing to our characters. POTENTIALLY, I chalk it up to bad writing. Their character development is so messy and poorly correlated that they’ve become foriegn. The reason I say potential is because, coming from a writer myself, he can be redeemed if all of this has some underlying reason. Maybe there’s intention behind it and if there is, that’s not bad writing, Just cruel.
But seemingly, there’s absolutely none.
Note: This also isn’t me disregarding anyone else’s trauma or claiming they’ve healed from their past.
I WAS only going to talk about the most recent turn of events and why Kagami potentially pairing Yuu and Shinoa together makes for a bad plot, and completely trashes probably the best loved character in the series: Mikaela
I will get to that of course, but lets go back a little further to help make sense of everything.
Mikaela has suffered and is STILL suffering from that rock of loneliness he’s experienced in the last 4 years.
I’m not angry that Yuu found a new “family” to place his will into. It’s much healthier to place your meaning into protecting your loved ones instead of avenging them. BUT, none of that matters if you become selfish and greedy with your desires. No desire is good once you fall back into your own ego and are blinded by all else to reach your end goal.
You end up making heartless mistakes and using/hurting the people around you for your OWN sake, like Yuu is now.
I’m getting off topic though.
Mika never got that opportunity to connect. I do believe there is meaning in his relationship with Krul but that doesn’t compare to what Yuu was able to find in his situation. Love, care, opportunity, and promise.
(while I believe Yuu DID find some type of worth, it was a toxic kind. It’s causing him to contradict everything he claimed he stood for)
Mika’s been stuck with this agonizing belief that he’s filthy. A monster, wallowing in self-hatred and caught in a toxic cycle with Ferid, the very man who put him in this situation.
He grew up in the same place he resented so dearly.
Furthermore, he’s well aware of these dangerous experiments they’re doing on the only man he’s living for. The hatred of human experimentation is common theme for Mikaela (as well as other characters.)
Then, after finally finding Yuu with the means to save him, the first thing he gets is toyed with.
Yuu is playing with his emotions here. Fear of loneliness and blatant guilt. And sure, Yuu DID beg him to stay alive and drink his blood, but his later actions don’t have an excuse.The rest of the time, Mika is staying right by Yuu’s side in an attempt to save him. Protect him from how he’s being used.
You can say he’s allowing Guren to use him because of his trauma but that still doesn’t excuse the fact that he’s neglecting Mika’s emotions (which yes! is! very! important!) among everything else.
It’s still a factor in his selfishness.
Every little word Mika says gets thrown out the window in favor of Yuu’s desire to “save anyone and everyone”, no matter the cause. No matter what danger he puts the people he claims to love in or how he disregards them emotionally AND physically. Totally contradicts himself. He’s blinded by his greed.
Mika’s concerns are neglected entirely and he is only met with hostility when he expresses them. Is he going to leave? Of course not! But right now, he’s damn near an unpaid babysitter, watching the man he loves more than anything- his reason for life- swallow up and immerse himself in everything that goes against his morals. While, in the process, that man is hurting everyone around him without care.
Now, back to my point in the beginning,
To pair Yuu and Shinoa together AKA make Shinoa’s love NOT one-sided is simply cruel to Mikaela.
You cannot deny the bond that Yuu and Mika have runs much deeper in any aspect under the sun than anyone else in the Shinoa squad.
These two have created connections and attachments that are not and will never be shared with anyone else. They’ve lived, fought, and resented with one another from the beginning. They have breathed each other. It is human to favor or at least feel DIFFERENT torwards another person based on your history together.
I am in no way trying to say they should abandon everyone else for each other. The Shinoa squad are amazing friends.
Anyone you fight with in such devastation will become like family to you. That’s a given.
I also don’t think It’d be right to rip happiness away from Shinoa. Not what I want either. I don’t wish to see her suffer at all. I truly don’t hate her character.
I’m saying it’s only cruel and unfair to knock Mika down to just another member of the Shinoa squad and not be favored in some way. Being humans, the only way that makes sense to me would be romantically. Right? I feel as though it is unrealistic for Yuu to catch feelings for anyone else, at least at this point in the story.
That’s what makes this writing bad (again, among other things.)
On another note, Mika never got the reconciliation and resolution with Yuu that he absolutely deserved, whether they end up romantically or not.
Everything I just ranted about probably doesn’t make sense and is put into words poorly lmao (probably many a grammar error as well) and I got lazy with providing panels but if you read the entire manga, you should know which scenes talking about. I have more to say but it’d just be way too much.
I do want to discuss this !!
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