"Our family was a living hell but you're the only one that chose to burn people, Touya"
listen, Shoto, I love you kid, but like
you cannot seriously be fr rn.
Rei legit burned you because of endeavor. dont forget that. Natsuo or Fuyumi went thru shit, yes, but that aint really a reason to go out and do evil things "oh yeah I watched my siblings be abused and now i'm the one that's depressed and traumatised and shit and unaliving people." you see how stupid that is? they have every right to hate but not to act severely on that hate.
Then there's Shoto and Touya
okay, shoto, you were abused, harrased, and isolated.
Touya was abused, harrased and sorta isolated.
But guess what? one of you, was told again and again how great you were as a child and that made you super ambitious. you did everything you could and even more to make one person happy. but that person gave up on you. think about the mental toll that would take on A FUCKING TODDLER then they scream at you to stop making them proud and to stop being ambitious, the only things you even knew how to do. but ofc, you didn't give up hope, which ended in you going mad and also unintentionally uncontrollably burning yourself. then you were taken to some shitty kids centre where ppl tried to sweet talk you so that they could control you. then, with the little hope you had, you resisted and went back to that same hellish home.
if that home had been any different, you wouldn't have resorted to madness and sorrow and an endless burning hatred.
but ofc, nothing had changed and you were completely forgotten.
the hopeful, bright, happy, proud, heroic kid was gone. after hoping and trying and hoping and trying and still being failed by others again and again and again.
the other, was abused and harassed and isolated, but this time, that was the only thing he knew.
this time, he didn't have his dreams crushed again and again and again.
this time, he was a perfect prodigy, his body could at least handle that power,
this time, the mother tried to help stop the abuse.
this time, the kid had a chance to be hopeful.
this time, he had a chance to survive.
one was an expirement to be tested and thrown, the other was a perfect puppet to be polished and sown back everytime he faltered.
one had nothing but cracks and scars, the other found people who lifted him up.
one was far too gone and forgotten, unrecognized.
the other was taught, helped, and someone to remember. now tell me, who had it worse? you both had it bad but who had it worse?