Unpopular opinion, but out of aizawa and present mic, aizawa is way more emotionally healthy. He actually feels his emotions, sometimes even deals with them in non destructive ways. Present Mic hasn’t allowed himself to feel any non-positive emotion in the last fifteen years. Processing grief? What’s that? Talking about issues? Don’t have any. Feeling feelings? Why feel them, when you can bury them deep inside you and ignore them forever.
I feel they are both unhealthy. Remember, Mic wanted to mourn Midnight and Aizawa refused to acknowledge it. Mic brings Oboro up, and Aizawa shuts it down.
Aizawa thinks he is a tool to save lives and has been pushing himself to his limit since a teen. He won’t let himself have anything he actually wants.
Mic, meanwhile, is obsessed with keeping what’s left together. Pretending it’s all okay. He’s furious and over protective and suspicious. He hides it behind a smile, but he has fewer positive emotions than Aizawa. It’s just instead of grief it is anger and desperation that fuels him.
Mic’s story has revolved around Aizawa’s since they were teens and I think it says something deeply unhealthy that he was so quick to jump to his death.
I think Mic saw himself as Aizawa’s protector. It’s weird, but as Aizawa loses more of himself, physically, he becomes more emotionally grounded. He did what he could and the people who matter, the kids, are alive due to his actions. Meanwhile, Mic spirals. He wasn’t there when the people who matter, Midnight and Aizawa, needed him.
