my brain kind of bluescreens at the knowledge that people got pissed off when vriska came back with the retcon as if saving vriska's life wasn't the most important, the most relevant, the most culturally significant, the most inspiring moment in media.... she, along with virtually everyone else, believed that she was beyond the point of no return, that she wasn't worth saving, and yet the fabric of reality itself was altered to give her a different ending. so she could finally have the chance to be happy. because she did deserve it
She is not winning the poll but i drew her anyways...
I liked this part of THH because she is like This Is No Laughing Matter, Makoto and stares at him like this. Girl he's staring at your noodle decora look
I'm not a good person (remembers morality isn't binary and neither am I) I'm barely a person at all (remembers I shouldn't be self negative) but someday I'll be perfect (remembers that I'm human and I make mistakes) and I'll make up for it all
I'm so curious about your interpretation of the verbally abused line actually /gen
this is something I am gonna have a difficult time phrasing so just bear with me if the explanation sucks lmao
for this I am going to completely focus on island mode since he acts and feels quite a bit different when he's in a "safe" environment... plus I feel like a LOT of his lines in island mode are misunderstood to be about his crush on Hajime when it is more that he just has social anxiety 😭😭 I won't touch on those here but it does make me sad to see his anxiety being interpreted as him being flustered about being alone with his little crush
when I see people talk about this line, I pretty much always see it being used as for evidence of like. Komaeda being a little masochist with a crush on Hajime. as if he's turned on by the idea of Hajime degrading him. and while I wont deny that Komaeda is a masochistic freakazoid, I just. don't think that is what that line means. at all. I think it's fine as a joke, but I see people taking that interpretation seriously all the time and it makes me sad
he does think to himself that it wouldn't be so bad if Hajime were to verbally abuse him, but it's pretty clear that he is lying to himself there 😭😭 in shot through the heart, where we get that line, saying something mean to him is the worst option you can pick., it makes him feel so sad, and he immediately shuts down. but the best option you can pick is saying something kind to him
throughout the entirety of island mode, a lot of his negative options have to do with the fact that he wants to keep Hajime entertained... he gets hurt at any expression of Hajime being bored or unwilling to be around him
and again in shot through the heart, he expresses that trying to entertain Hajime is exactly what he has been trying to do the whole time lol
and so I thought the line had more to do with the fact that he would accept the mistreatment if it kept Hajime entertained, kept Hajime willing to talk to him. not that he actually desires being verbally abused by him... just that he'd be willing to take whatever Hajime wanted to give him, even if it's not something he'd really want. he just doesn't want to be ignored
I do fully believe he would go home being sad and hating himself for messing up this friendship. he would not jack off about it
I also feel like the placement of the line itself is very important... it is right in the middle of his thoughts, and while the entire thing shows him feeling anxious and worried, it is the switch between "entertain him" and "hate me"... basically, when he starts feeling more worried about how he'd be perceived
I actually think it's a really sad line... he's never really had someone show interest in him as a friend or otherwise in the way Hajime has before, and he's willing to accept mistreatment to keep him happy. his view of his own self worth is so awfully messed up and he thinks that if Hajime were to be mean to him, he must deserve it
again I don't think I got my points across very well but I hope you can understand what I mean lolol
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