Random rumblings with your favorite crackhead blogger weeeee-
Okay so recently I'd been thinking about relationships. Mainly the 2012 relationship between April and Donnie.
And while thinking about this messy relationship I began to think about all of the things that made the relationship toxic and how when I was younger it had irritated me the way April had often times treated Donnie and how Donnie often times didn't take the hint. But looking back on it now, their relationship actually makes a lot of sense and their actions as well. And the reason why?
They're teenagers.
April in the show is sixteen years old, she's a teenage girl who literally had her father be kidnapped before her very eyes and had her life turned upside down by mutants who would later become a second family to her. This situation in itself is stressful enough for a teenage girl but add a messy romance and you get the April O'Neil that gets a lot of hate.
As an adult I can now see that April's reactions to Donnie's affections make a lot of sense. She's a teenage girl who's probably never had a guy look at her in a romantic light and she's probably never had a guy try to woo her so relentlessly so it makes sense that she'd get overwhelmed and somewhat snappy towards Donnie. It also doesn't help that she has to deal with a kidnapped dad, a rivalry that could possibly kill them all and hundreds of mutants running rampant through New York while also balancing school. Also to add on to this, when you're a teenager you're often times going to be confused by things like romance and other new feelings that you never experienced as as a child.
So yeah April doing the things she did honestly makes sense given that she's a teenager whose never had to do romance and she's already struggling with things like her personal life and growing up and all that fun stuff. It was literally just a ticking time bomb waiting for her to snap.
It also doesn't help that Donnie is persistent as all hell. As much as I adore Donnie in the 2012 series, his crush with April was extremely unhealthy. The way he approached April with his affections wasn't exactly ideal, given that there were times when Donnie could be downright overwhelming with his love for her. And the fact that she was one of the first people he'd ever connected with, the first teenage girl he'd ever connected with, it was no surprise that he grew attached to her. However Donnie's affections for April are downright unhealthy and sometimes can be scarily obsessive like what with him making several charts in his lab in just the action of confessing to her. He could also be overbearing with her trying to protect from everything which obviously made her mad because he wasn't taking her seriously in a way. Not to mention it would make her feel like she had no personal space and that's not good.
Basically Donnie's love for April is way too much. He's like ready to give his life for her and in a way give himself to her only and as a sixteen year old girl who hasn't had much experience in the area of romance it's just way too much way too soon. Poor girl doesn't even know if she likes him like that much less if she wants to be all ride or die with him.
All in all these two are teenagers and like all teenagers they're idiotic in the realm of romance and relationships and what with everything that goes on around them it's no surprise that their possible romance became toxic as hell.
Anyways that's what I noticed about them so yeah sgdgdgdggh.
