ok is this a safe place to admit i do NOT fw mahiru??
to take away my bias cus i’m a peko stan, im gonna start out with her behavior prior to tsmc. she makes some misogynistic remarks which like idrc much but its a bit iffy and annoying at times. then her friendship with hiyoko isn’t all people cut it out to be if im being honest. i don’t really have an opinion on hiyoko because like she didn’t get a very good character arc, but when we do see her, unfortunately SHES AN ASSHOLE. mahiru constantly enables this behavior and doesn’t care that hiyoko is literally bullying mikan to the point of tears (tbf when isn’t mikan on the verge of tears.) i get mahiru was her first friend, but maybe there’s a reason people don’t wanna hang with her when she’s being rude. and like ok i understand it’s her defense mechanism but maybe mahiru should be a good friend and help her find a way to deal with that insecurity instead of enabling it👀👀👀 (because clearly enabling her behavior isn’t gonna help hiyoko in long run)
so now i’m gonna get into tsmc, the whole thing with natsumi, im not gonna justify her actions cus yeah her bullying mahiru into quitting so she could be in the main course IS SHITTY, threatening to kill everybody IS SHITYY, but then again half the time she was saying bs like omg. but being murdered by mahirus crazy ass gf is like really really far?! if anything sato should’ve just been normal and taken the situation to the headmaster instead of resulting to murder like a psycho. it only makes sense that fuyuhiko is gonna be mad when he finds out and like he’s about that thug life so it’s no wonder he sees eye for an eye as suitable revenge. my problem with mahiru in this situation is that she preaches murder is bad but didn’t make such a massive deal when sato did it like she did with fuyu. she is hypocritical which takes away from the appeal of her character for me (though fuyu was hypocritical as well in mahirus trial when he covered up her death) and i don’t know maybe she’ll more likable in 2x2 and i won’t have such a big distaste for her, from what we do get of her character i just can’t with her. i can tolerate hiyoko more than her (she acc used to be in my top five) which is surprising but it’s my truth🙂↔️
honestly this makes me sound like mahiru(cus it’s a bit hypocritical haha get it) since my fave character is peko🤷♀️