OH NOW I REMEMBER. NOW I REMEMBER. IT WAS ARC 4 THAT PISSED ME OFF REALLY BAD. The infantilization and vilification of Sun in arc 4 was CRAZY. Rant incoming because I'm actually gonna lose it. TW abuse mention
"You don't kill people you can't kill!" Lunar you're best friends with a self-proclaimed biological terrorist. Monty kills people. Moon kills people. You literally told Bloodmoon to go kill people to satiate their bloodlust, and you helped them get a body so they can kill Eclipse for you. What the fuck are you yapping about? Why is it suddenly "killing bad" when Sun wants to kill his abuser? Because yeah, obviously Eclipse abused Lunar, but he was arguably an abuser towards Sun and Moon just as much, albeit in different ways.
"Moon killed people and that gave him trauma" Okay...? Sun had to clean up the corpses, at least if I'm reading into a lot of Moon's past comments correctly. Does trauma not matter as much when it's Sun's? Is Sun knowing that the body he lived in was being used for murder by Moon not traumatic enough to be taken seriously?
Also the freaking. God the way the show tries to force parallels between Sun and Eclipse is sooooo. So aggravating. No girlypop I don't think Sun killing Bloodmoon, the twins who murder and eat people by the dozens, INCLUDING CHILDREN, makes him just like arc 1-4 Eclipse the serial abuser. No, I don't think Sun wanting to kill the guy who abused him and both of his brothers is in the wrong, actually.
I will die on the hill of Sun being completely innocent of the bullshit characters in arcs 1-4 try to keep accusing him of. Obviously he's not perfect, and yes it was bad at him to yell at Lunar, but I don't think he's a bad person. Like at all. If anything, seeing characters constantly and consistently shame a person recovering from non-stop trauma and stress, who is clearly going through some kind of a mental crisis, is just. Ohhhhhh my god. Oh my god.
They did such a good job showing Lunar's trauma and how it affects him, at least as far as I remember. God I hope the curse of "We're going to write Sun being severely traumatized and mentally unwell, and then never address it without shaming him" gets fixed in later arcs. God I hope.
I think the best way to describe my frustration is to draw a comparison. When Sun gets hit on screen for the first time, we see him become extremely distressed, run to Golden Freddy while sniffling (probably crying on the way there), then GF basically tells him "Hah, boys will be boys!" When Moon talks to Monty about it, all Monty says is "Yeah I'm not touching that, though maybe go comfort your brother." Also all the "whacking stick" jokes. When we see Lunar get hit for the first time, there's a lot more dramatic weight put into it just based on framing. Characters act disturbed or distressed when he brings it up. AS THEY SHOULD BTW. It's just so frustrating to see them handle the stuff with Lunar pretty competently then somehow repeatedly drop the ball with Sun.
Idk. We as a DID system have C-PTSD, and Sun just. I mean that guy definitely has C-PTSD. Like c'mon. There's no way he doesn't. So I guess the reason it's so aggravating is because we're watching an abuse and general trauma survivor get repeatedly demeaned by other characters (with those characters rarely facing repercussions or being called out), infantilized by others ("It's so weird that you're getting so angry Sun, that's not like you!" "You can't kill, you're not the guy who kills!" "You can't do anything to help anyways so stop trying"), vilified by others ("Killing the serial killers who eat people, and wanting to kill the guy who wants to reset the world and literally kill everything and everyone, makes you just like your abuser!").
Sorry I needed to get that out of my system (pun mildly intended). This show's a fun watch for the most part but hooooooly fuck does the writing get on my nerves sometimes.
Also shout out the show having Sun say "Sometimes I wish I was dead" to himself on screen for the audience to see and then never bringing it up ever again afaik. Chekhov's gun more like Chekhov's blue balls. I'm losing my mind
