in an act of astounding lack of self awareness i decided to read fic where they dealt with the actual traumatic ramifications of izuku’s bullying by bakugo, written by people who clearly have a grasp on abuse survival
and now, along with my own body weirdness and anxiety i am dealing with im feeling ghost anger and sorrow about the bullying i went through at a younger age then that character
but how severely it is fucked me up for the rest of my life
idk man, its kind of how i feel about boys over flowers on a much smaller scale, because boys over flowers is my eternal fucking nemesis
but its like. when you portray a character willing to violently assault another defenceles person, and then you look into their psyche and their excuse is ‘they built their self esteem around degrading other people’
i just can’t find anything in me to like the character or to be ok with portraying it as a rivalry.
if you want an antagonistic relationship, you don’t set up one character as an abuser.
and i dont know but it feels like the manga has, for the moment, settled where they want izuku and bakugo’s relationship to be. and it leaves me so unhappy.
it’s going to continue to be the thorn in my side as i engage with the series.
when creators design realistic abusive friendships into their world and then don’t know what to do with them so its time for shounen style punch out your feelings!
and thats....that’s not satisfactory. in fact vioence in this matter is the last thing i want to see.
bnha omake: therapy for everyone.
