Mikky

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[the-mikky-verse]

Obligatory Intro Post

Who is Mikky?

My actual name is Lisa. Mikky's just my online persona who has a deep love for stories and loves analysing and dissecting them like I'm reading actual literature.

I'm 26. My pronouns are she/her. I'm Black and from Africa. Recent Honours graduate. Currently working as a graphic designer.

Hobbies

Love reading webtoons, manhwa, and fanfiction. I also love watching anime and k-dramas. And I'm into K-pop (my favourite groups are BTS, NCT, GOT7, ATEEZ, Stray Kidz, Aespa, XG, Le Sserafim, and Kiss of Life)

Manhwa I've Read (Completed)

Never-ending Darling

Muse on Fame

Juvenile Offender

Unholy Blood

Trash Belongs in the Trashcan

Killing Stalking

The Horizon

Marry My Husband

The First Night With The Duke

Winter Woods

Mystical

Sweet Home

Bastard

Shotgun Boy

Pigpen

Flawed Almighty

Twilight Poem

Her Mannequin

A Good Day To Be A Dog

Surviving Romance

Rotten

Night Fishing

Samadhi

The Savior's Time

The Aftermath

True Beauty

Save Me

She's Hopeless

Disconnected from Reality

Snake Cave

A Life Changing Turn

Webtoons I've read (Completed)

Lore Olympus

Cursed Princess Club

Siren's Lament

Where Tangents Meet

Eaternal Nocturnal

Edith

Freaking Romance

Age Matters

My Deepest Secret

Not Even Bones

My Dear Cold Blooded King

Gremoryland

Luff

Rise from the Ashes

Fluffy Boyfriend

Opposite of Always

Going Up

American Road Trip

Live Forever

Spells from Hell

Beetle Hands

When Jasy Whistles

Reunion

Eggnoid

Matchmaker Hero

The Wolfman of Wulvershire

Heartwired

LMLY

Replaced

Silent Screams

Manhwa I'm currently reading

Tears on a Withered Flower

Flowers Are Bait

Black Chain

Three Months of Summer

Killer Peter

A Savage Proposal

Duchess in Ruins

You Can't Kll Me: The Secret Bride the Black Wolf

My Girlfriend

Like Mother Like Daughter

High School Queen

Serena

Maybe Meant to Be (dropped)

Kowloon: Copóka

Childhood Friend Complex

In Between

Cry or Better Yet Beg (dropped)

Webtoons I'm currently reading:

Klimt's Kiss

Made of Stardust

Jackson's Diary

Subzero

Everything's Fine

21st Century Knights

Down to Earth

Homesick

Sable Curse

Honey Lemon

Re: Trailer Trash

Love Sickubus

Hello Baby

In the Bleak Midwinter

The Red King

unOrdinary (dropped)

Unlovable Replacement

Roots of the Heart

Third Shift Society

The Guy Upstairs

Anime

Tokyo Ghoul (Watched)

Gangsta (Watched)

Death Parade (Watched)

The Promise Neverland (Watched. Not watching Season 2)

Dandandan (waiting for the next season)

Kakeguri (waiting for the next season)

Trigun (Watched)

Trigun Stampede (waiting for the next season)

Cyberpunk Edgerunners (Watched)

Sirius The Jaeger (Watching)

Cowboy Bebop (Watched)

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Watched)

Mew Mew Power/Tokyo Mew Mew (Watched)

Sakamoto Days (Watching)

One Punch Man (Watching)

Kaiju no.8 (waiting for the next season)

Attack on Titan (Watching)

Demon Slayer (Watching)

Jujutsu Kaisen (Watching)

Claymore (Watched)

Berserk (Watched)

Monster (Watched)

Pluto (Watched)

Hell's Paradise (waiting for the next season)

Death Note (Watching)

Spy x Family (Watching)

Ultraman (Watched)

Seven Deadly Sins (Watched. Dropped midway into Season 3)

Spriggan (waiting for the next season)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventures (Watching)

Hero Mask (Watched)

Ouran High School Host Club (Watched)

The Grimm Variations (Watched)

Record of Ragnarok (waiting for the next season)

Parasyte The Maxim (Watched)

Devilman Crybaby (Watched)

Garoudrn: The Way of the Lone Wolf (Watched)

Nana (Watched)

Devil's Line (Watched)

Elfin Lied (Watched)

Black Lagoon (Watched)

Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Watched)

Saint Saiya: Knights of the Zodiac (waiting for the next season)

My Hero Acadamia (Watched. Dropped it cause the fandom ruined it for me)

Mob Psycho 100 (Watching)

To Be Hero X (Watched)

Lazarus (Watching)

Devil May Cry (waiting for the next season)

Bakugan (Watched)

Tekken Bloodline (waiting for the next season)

Ajin (watching)

Gundam: Requiem of Vengeance (watched)

Terminator Zero (watched)

Tokyo Override (watched)

Yasuke (watched)

Blame (watched)

Mononoke The Movie: Phantom In The Rain (watched)

Akuma Kun (waiting for the next season)

Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (watched)

Perfect Blue (watched)

Cartoons

Castlevania (Watched)

Castlevania Nocturne (waiting for the next season)

Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld (waiting for the next season)

Twilight of the Gods (waiting for the next season)

Avatar The Last Airbender (Watched)

Avatar Legend of Korra (Watched)

Invincible (waiting for the next season)

Justice League (Watching)

Teen Titans (Watched)

Young Justice (Watched)

Ultimate Spiderman (Watched)

Dota Dragon's Blood (Watched)

Inside Job (Watched)

Rick and Morty (waiting for the next season)

Samurai Jack (Watched)

Sym Bionic Titan (Re-watching)

Unicorn Warriors (waiting for the next season)

Miraculous Ladybug (Watched. Dropped it after Season 3 cause of poor writing, and Marinette was irritating the hell outta me)

Boondocks (Watched)

Blood of Zeus (waiting for the next season)

The Legend of Vox Machina (waiting for the next season)

Green Lantern: The Animated Series (planning to re-watch)

Winx Club (Watched)

Blue Eyed Samurai (waiting for the next season)

Love, Death + Robots (waiting for the next season)

Ben 10 (Watched)

Ben 10 Alien Force (Watched)

Ben 10 Ultimate Alien (Watched)

Ben Omniverse (Watched)

Megas XLR (Watched)

Thundercats (planning to re-watch)

Pantheon (watching)

Ultraman Rising (watched)

Into The Spiderverse (watched)

Across The Spiderverse (watched)

Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix (watched)

Skull Island (watched)

K-pop Demon Hunters (watched)

Asian Dramas

The Glory (Watched)

My Name (Watched)

Nevertheless (Watched)

Alice in Borderland (waiting for the next season)

The Fishbowl Wives (Watched)

Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love (Watched)

The Tale of the Nine Tailed (Watched)

Mr. Plankton (Watched)

Bloodhounds (Watched)

Ballerina (Watched)

Business Proposal (Watched)

High and Low the Worst (Watched)

High and Low the Worst X (Watched)

20th Century Girl (Watched)

Girl From Nowhere (waiting for the next season)

Homuculus (watched)

Hell Dogs (watched)

Yaksha (watched)

[ragathasbuttoneye]

I hate that people use 'media literacy' to go against any criticism of the media that they like.

You do understand that having media literacy requires you to be critical of the media you consume, right?

If you just use the fact that it made you feel good and you "liked it" as an argument, then I think your take on people who criticize your faves being "media illiterate" might be the opposite.

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Things That Characters Do That Pisses Me Off PT. 2: Lying About Wanting Space or Just Breaking With No Explanation At All

Welcome back to the messy and drama bitches. If you haven’t read the first part where I ranted about ML’s doing anying BUT moving on from their ex who dumps them because “they want space” and asks their Y/N’s to be their fake girlfriends to win back said ex, I encourage you to read it.

In this post we’re talking about the exs who say “they want space” when really it’s not about “wanting space.”

So grab a snack, tea, cool beverage, a blanket and enjoy me crashing out at the sheer audacity these bitches put me through for chapters on end.

From my reading experience, normally when a girl or anyone in general says "I want time away from the relationship to find myself and have space", that usually translates to either:

I cheated on you.

There's something bothering me about you and this relationship but I don't want to bring it up or communicate with you like a human.

Just an excuse for us to break up.

I did something I wasn't supposed to do or something so fucked up that could make you hate me. So I'm breaking up with you to avoid accountability.

I did it to protect you and not be a burden. So I'm intentionally hurting you to make you hate me.

I have a secret that I want to take to the grave.

Normally the translations are usually, 1, 4, 5, and 6.

Now let’s get into our offenders.

⚠️SPOILERS AHEAD⚠️

Nari from His Tutor Girl by ravsisrekt

Oh, you thought Jimin was the problem in His Tutor? Nari was the BLUEPRINT.

BUCKLE UP BITCHES. Because Nari was out here wearing a halo while causing 90% of this mess, and it confused me how the majority of the readers really thought Nari this innocent angel.

Was she outright a moustache curling villain? No, she was actually pretty chill and nice. But she was a well meaning person WHO MADE THE MOST STUPIDEST DECISION ALL BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT COMMUNICATE WITH HER MAN.

So as y’all know, Nari broke up with Jimin because he was “bad in bed” and couldn’t satisfy her (BITCH YOU THINK THOSE HIPS THRUSTS DURING THE BAEPSAE LIVE PERFORMANCE WERE A JOKE?! THOSE HIPS ARE ENOUGH TO GIVE YOU INFINITE ORGASMS SO HARD YOU’LL BE SQUIRT A WHOLE FOUNTAIN).

I immediately knew she was was bullshitting and suspected that she’s hiding something, she cheated or did something she was supposed to do and was just looking for excuses to break up with him.

She spends months without talking to him, watches him struggle from afar, up until the chapter she showed up at the dorm, like nothing happened and somehow Jimin forgot he has a bitch hiding under his bed with no panties on.

And the next time we see her, she in the back of the car getting her coochie at by this man, who somehow forgot that he made a promise to visit his situationship’s sick grandma at the hospital the moment she FINALLY admits that she lied about him being bad in bed (shocker).

And THEN we find out, through her conversation with Y/N that the REAL reason why she broke up with Jimin she was getting dragged and hate from the fans for dating and didn’t want to drag him with her. So instead of COMMUNICATING that with Jimin, she chose to LIE to make him HATE HER thinking that it was going to “protect him.”

Protect who, sweetie? Especially when you saw that this nigga still LOVED you and decided to slide back into his life.

Bitch you went all this trouble breaking up with him and lying about him his sex performance hoping that he'll hate you enough to move on because in your head that was somehow better than telling him that you couldn't bare people talking negatively about y'all and didn't want to be a burden. ONLY for you to worm your way back to him because you couldn’t stay away from him.

Like ma'am do you not see how inconsistent you're being? Which is it? Making him hate you or you taking him back. Pick a lane.

And WHY on Namjoon's titties and dimples are you talking to Y/n about why YOU broke up with him instead of the person YOU 🫵🏽 hurt. You didn't hurt Y/n, she's the innocent bystander caught in the mess YOU 🫵🏽 created because you didn't trust your man with the truth and honesty. You OWE Jimin the information you're sharing with Y/n. Not Y/n.

And when she was asked why didn’t tell Jimin all this, she said that Jimin was going to insist to stay and work things out if she told him.

Girl. Stand 👏🏽 on 👏🏽 business 👏🏽. Stand up. Stand your ground. You are allowed to put your foot down and be firm on your decision cos you had the grounds to leave him. It would suck but it's neither of y'alls fault.

Yn is better than me. I would have crashed the fuck out and read her to filth and it surprised why even a handful the readers were like: okay she's not a bad person.

No. No. I can understand why she did it coz dating an idol is not for the weak especially when the greater majority of the fandom is misogynistic and super parasocial.

But WHY do you need to hurt your partner and push them away to protect them or shield them from your problems. That to me just shows that you don't even trust your partner.

And she and Jimin ended up breaking up in the end so what was the point?

If traumatising the self insert who became the rebound disguised as a Sex Tutor and was dragged into this mess because you chose LIES over COMMUNICATION. The congrates. Here’s your medal.

Kiko from Mutual Help by personasintro

Whew besties, y’all need some hard liqour (and grape juice for the minors) for this coz Kiko in this other story was just…. wow.

So as you know, Kiko broke up with Jungkook because “she wanted space” (which was also bullshit.)

So Kiko and Jungkook finally had a conversation about why she broke up with him and Jungkook straight up asked: did you cheat on me.

She didn’t deny nor confirm. She just went with it. Saying that she didn’t want him to hate her. (This is important).

Jungkook asks if she cheated with Hoseok (since they’re close). She denies it and says that it was with someone else he didn’t know.

Obviously Jungkook takes her back despite her “admitting that she cheated on him.”

Fast forward, Jungkook walks in on a heated conversation between Hoseok and Kiko with Hoseok saying “If you won’t tell him, I will.”

And obviously, Jungkook’s sus radar starts tweaking and forces Kiko to spill the beans.

He asks again if she cheated on him with Hoseok and she denies it again until she caves and tells him the real reason why she broke up with him was because SHE WAS PREGNANT.

And she had an abortion after she dumped him. Hoseok was the first and only person she told about it and made him swear into secrecy. Mind you, Hobi and JK ARE FRIENDS.

Remember when I said Kiko didn’t deny or confirm that she cheated and just went with it?

This is why?

Meaning that she lied to Jungkook TWICE.

And obviously Jungkook was mad, blindsided and traumatised by this HUGE secret that she kept from him.

Now listen. I’m not mad at her for having the abortion. I understand why. It was a high risk pregnancy and she wasn’t ready to having a baby. Her body her choice.

What I don’t agree with is LYING to withold such information from your partner and making choices while keeping your partner in the dark.

Kiko should have told Jungkook that she was pregnant by him and that she was getting an abortion since it was a high risk pregnancy and she wasn't ready to be a parent instead of breaking up with him "to take time away from the relationship" then have the abortion AFTER they broke up and let this guy believe that she broke up with him because she cheated and felt guilty about it when he asked: did you cheat on me.

And for what? Because she didn't want him to hate her. What were you expecting? You wanted him to be fine and applaud you for lying and blindsiding him and keeping a secret THIS big and made a decision without talking to him?

Like yes he doesn't get to decide what she does with her body. But this is his child. He wasn't even a horrible partner to warrant keeping her pregnancy from him. He deserved to know the existence of the baby HE HELPED CONCEIVE WITH HER.

Like it's not about the abortion. It's far from it, coz Jungkook from how I read his character seemed like the typa guy who would support her regardless even if he doesn't agree with her decision. Like home boy took her back even though she "cheated" on him.

What I’ve noticed about Nari and Kiko and how they handled their mess all comes down them not trusting their partners with the truth and trying to control how they were going to react if they knew. They didn’t trust these dude enough that they would stay and love them regardless.

Like why complicate shit to the extent that it tanks and ruins good relationships with good people?

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Things That Characters Do That Pisses Me Off PT. 2: Doing Anything BUT Move On

So to all my people who've read a lot of Fake Dating/Friends With Benefits tropes, you know how the love interests who are usually the friends comes asking the MCs for help with their break ups. These breaks up are usually before their established ex say that "they want space/time away from the relationship" when 10/10 that's not the actual reason why they broke up (I'll talk more about this in a separate post coz I have thoughts). But instead of asking to help them move on, these mfers ask the MC to either be their fake partner in exchange for some sex favours or they want to know if they're really bad at sex so they can win back their exes.

And when you read this, you just KNOW there's going to be some messy drama coming their way. The MCs knows that this arrangement is and will complicate their friendship but they eventually give in and accept after the friend assures them that nothing will change between them.

SPOILER ALERT. THINGS DO CHANGE BETWEEN THEM AND I HAVE TO SPEND CHAPTERS UPON CHAPTERS UPON CHAPTERS OF THESE IDIOTS BE IN DENIAL AND BEHAVE LIKE JEALOUS PARTNER EVERTIME THEY SEE THE OTHER GETTING CLOSE TO OTHER PEOPLE ON TOP OF MISCOMMUNICATION AND EGO WARS BETWEEN THESE PEOPLE.

I have gathered and compiled data on two main offenders of this. Let's get into.

2. Jungkook from Mutual Help by personasintro

So Jungkook had been dating his girlfriend, Kiko, for some years, and they were in love. Then out of nowhere, Kiko breaks up with him, talking about "she wants space and time away from the relationship", "she wants to find herself", pretty vague reasons with no proper explanation.

Obviously Jungkook is hurt by this. Like he got dumped and his girl didnt give him a proper explanation. You'd think that Jungkook would do the mature thing, deal with his break up however way he sees fit and move on with his life right?

NOPE.

This mutha fucka thinks it's a good idea to ask Y/N, his best friend, to be his fake girlfriend TO GET HIS EX GIRLFRIEND JEALOUS AND WIN HER BACK.

…. Sir I think we need to fly back to South Korea coz you left yo common sense there. COZ WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!

Of course Y/N is like: no. That's fucking weird. Why would you want us to Fake date to win yo ex back. Try to win her back like a fucking normal human being with a functioning brain. Tf.

But Y/N is not exactly fully experienced when it comes to sex. Like she's had sex but she's never had the chance to explore coz her ex boyfriends were either too vanilla or they weren't open to experimenting and exploring with her. And she was thinking of having a fuck buddy but she doesn't want to do it someone she doesn't know and trust.

And guess who offers to be the fuck buddy on a silver platter:

Fucking. Jungkook.

Why?

Coz he got more bedroom experience and since they friends and she knows and trusts him. So it's a win win. A Mutual Help if you will.

Y/N does raise questions about how it's going to end up affect their friendship and stuff like that and Jungkook assures her that's not going to happen (yeah sure buddy. Whatever you say)

So they agree and kick start operation Mutual Help. They Fake date. They fuck and Y/N gets to explore and do all kinds of…. spicy activities with her best friend. Jungkook does eventually get back with Kiko only for them to break up again after he found out the real reason why Kiko broke up with him (you'll find out why in the next part).

Obvious the second break up wrecked him emotionally and dude is refusing to go to therapy. Now he's gone back to hooking up with Y/N. They were on a break, but knowing how emotionally attached they are to each other and how codependent they're becoming (yes, Y/N and Jungkook's relationship from my observation is bordering codependency and is slowly becoming toxic if these two mfers don't have a proper conversation and acknowledge that their relationship has changed especially when Jungkook is refusing therapy. And I will not be gaslit into believing otherwise), they're going to get in each other's pants eventually. Like they just proved that they can't focus on being just friends without having sex.

Now in the latest chapter, they had a pregnancy scare because these two idiots decided to go at it RAW (lucky for them, Y/N wasn't pregnant) and THAT'S when they finally realise: oh shit. There are real consequences if we keep doing this shit. We need to put an end to this Mutual Help arrangement, save our friendship, and restore things to how they were before.

Imma say this. personally? I don't see y/n and Jungkook's friendship going back to how it was before, let alone lasting. It would be a miracle if they made it through this distance, broke, and still sustained their friendship.

Secondly, I think it's naive to think they can just stop and sweep everything they've been doing, what they've been through, and how they've felt since this mutual help started under the rug, just like that. No, that's not how it works. You're in denial and dishonest with yourselves.

Third, I respect that these two FINALLY had an honest conversation about the state of their friendship, and y/n finally acknowledged that they can't keep having sex on and off. But WHY did it take them having a pregnancy scare for them to finally see that their mutual help arrangement has and will have consequences? especially when the one friend with a fully rational IQ (Jimin) has asked them: Hey! Won't y'all smashing again put your friendship in danger?

Again, y/n and Jungkook can back out and put a boundary whenever she wants to protect the sanctity of their friendship anytime. But what did you THINK was going to happen, especially when you KNEW it was going to change the dynamic of your friendship and had unprotected sex TWICE? Especially when both of em were always careful before. I do hope Jungkook FINALLY decides to go to therapy to address the Kiko situation coz obviously this pregnancy scare resurfaced some trauma.

At this point, I dunno if I want to keep rooting for these two or just wait for their friendship to die a natural death because of the denial, petty cold war and mental anguish these two put me through for 60 CHAPTERS!

And it would be a miracle if this friendship is going to be salvageable after this.

1. Jimin from His Tutor Girl by ravsisrekt

Jimin, Jimin, Jimin. Where do I even start with you.

So in this story, Jimin is a university student while also being a k-pop idol. He used to date a girl named Nari, who was a trainee set to debut in girl group.

So why did they break up.

Simple: Because Jimin was bad in bed. I'm not even joking. Sis broke up with him because he couldn't satisfy her in bed.

I remember reading this and was like: girl have you see Park Jimin's hip thrusts performing Baepsae live? There is no way that man is bad in bed. So you're obviously lying.

Spoiler alert: It was a lie. (You'll find out in the next post)

So Jimin meets Y/N, who's his Tutor Girl (eyyy name drop). They get close, Y/N starts catching feelings, and Jimin opens up about his break-up and why Nari broke up with him. You'd think this story is about helping Jimin move on from his ex, coz he deserves better? You'd think he'd go the mature route and move on with his life, coz his ex boo thang chose to throw away their relationship coz his bedroom performance is whack.

NOPE.

This guy straight up asks Y/N: Hey, can you be like a sex tutor and help me figure out what went wrong so I can try to win back his ex?

And obviously, Y/N being Y/N accepts to be his sex tutor despite knowing that she's catching feelings for this guy and knowing that he hasn't moved on from his ex and will get her heart broken coz this guy is still holding on to his ex.

What could possibly go wrong?

Dude left her under his bed coz he didn't want the members finding out, and PROMISED he'd help sneak her out, but the moment he saw Nari in their dorm, he COMPLETELY forgot that he had a bitch under his bed waiting for him and left the dorm. The members ended up finding her under his bed. And to put the cherry on top, she had no underwear on. Like, imagine how embarrassing and humiliating it was for her being driven back to her dorm by Namjoon, PANTILESS..

Dude promised to visit Y/N's grandma at the hospital with her. And dude folded like an lawn chair the moment Nari walked in the elevator with him and they both ended up in the back seat of his car raw dogging it.

Honestly, I was surprised that Jimin not showing up to the hospital and was busy going down on Nari in his car wasn't the final straw for Y/N.

It was bad enough that this nigga left y/n under his bed WITH NO UNDERWEAR and just forgot that he got a bitch hiding under his bed the moment his ex boo thang showed up. But missing a hospital visit that HE promised he'd come just coz he had a moment of weakness when he was in close proximity with his ex would have been it for me.

The way I was relieved when Jimin said he didn't love YN towards the end.

But first off, let's talk about that kiss in the chapter "I don't love you" coz dude what the fuck. Haven't you confused and put her through enough of yo bullshit cuh? Only for him to drop "I don't love you."

And I was like, GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE MY BABY GIRL HAS CLOSURE AND CAN MOVE ON.

Look I know he did it because he decided to do what Nari did to him to Yn and lie about not loving her but I honestly don't think he necessarily lied and how he handled it was waaaaaaaay better than how Nari handled it.

I read 27 chapters of this mochi mordecaing his way through this situationship with Yn and Yn kept giving him multiple chances. This bitch made a promise to Vinaye, her best friend, that she was going to be his date for the dance, but chose the dude who was still emotionally entangled with his ex while he was physically entangled with her and her bedsheets to be her date (girl I know the dick is good but it cannot be THAT good that you had to break your promise to your best friend 💀)

And like I said, I was relieved when he said he didn't love her despite it being a lie to push her away, because I would have been pissed if Yn ended up with him after the shit he put her through.

Plus, there was some truth to him saying that he doesn't love her coz no person in love would do what he did to Yn in this gadamn story. He chose Nari over her repeatedly and kept denying himself and not allowing himself to love YN simply because he didn't want to let Nari go. And now look what happened. He lost both women.

And this time, I hope he keeps his feelings to himself and takes that secret to the grave with him, coz she's already happy with someone else. She doesn't NEED to have a "what if" thing hanging over her head while she's with someone who loves her and chooses her.

And its funny how it's the Busan boys doing this shit looooool.

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Redemption Isn’t a Shortcut—It’s a Sentence You Serve: An Analysis of Nolan Grayson's Redemption Arc

So I've been seeing some discourse around Nolan AKA Omniman's redemption circulating online, and I just wanted to weigh in and give my two cents on this topic.

Also, I know I have been radio silent for a span on this blog. Life and work were CRAZY. But I'm here now. So let's get into it.

So I was seeing some comments going around saying:

"Cut Nolan some slack."

"He been indoctrinated."

"Twenty years is not enough to erase 1000 years of conditioning. So of course it's not going to be easy."

"He wasn't born evil."

Basically all the excuses you can think of to try to "understand" and give Nolan some grace.

I even saw a topic circulating asking why people are more forgiving towards Vegeta than Nolan since Vegeta did that same if not worse than Nolan. Which I'll get into later.

And look—I get it.

But understanding why someone did something is not the same as excusing what they did.

Twenty years.

This man has been playing in erbody and his family's faces for twenty years.

Debbie gave Nolan twenty years of her life. Married him. Had a son they both raised together. And this mutha fucka calls this woman who is the mother of his son, the same son he beat DAMN NEAR TO DEATH BY THE WAY, a pet. A PET.

And it took getting captured, imprisoned and beat up by his own people to realise: hmmm. I actually do love and miss my wife.

And when he does ultimately apologise to Debbie, he doubled down talking about: he still had a duty to the Viltrum empire and called his marriage to his second wife TWO MONTHS after Chicago and the mother of his second son Debbie stepped up to raise as her own a mistake.

And Nolan was like: coming here was selfish and I think I can see why.

No shit Sherlock. What did you think was going to happen when you decided to show up? Especially when you broke her heart and spat on TWENTY YEARS BRO. TWENTY. YEARS.

And people want Debbie to take him back after ALL THAT?

Genuine question: why would Debbie want to get back with the man who spat on 20 years by calling her a pet, beat their son to a bloody pulp, leave the planet and started a new family there and had to raise his second child while trying to pick herself up. This man lied and played in her face for 20 years. And you expect her to forgive him and take him back just like that? You expect people to give him some slack and grace just coz he changed sides even though a lot of people died as collateral just because he wanted to prove a point to his son that his humanity is a weakness?

Look, I understand that twenty years wasn't going to magically erase thousands of years of Viltrumite indoctrination, brainwashing and conditioning. BUT those twenty years with Debbie DID mean something to him. Those twenty years DID enough to make him question what he was taught and trained to do. That flashback when he and Debbie went to Mark's baseball game when he was a kid, the pride he had for his son when he won his game, even he himself didn't see the value in human stuff.

He could have killed Mark back in season 1 and called it wrap but he DIDN'T. Instead he yelled at him saying: why are you making me do this.

Which to me now that I think about it was kinda his way of saying: please don't make me want to hurt you more or worse kill you.

I feel like his whole speech to Debbie that he had a duty to Viltrum was bullshit and a clutch that he was clinging to because to him it was easier to accept or convince himself coz he couldn't face or sit with the fact that 20 years on earth with Debbie out of 1000 on Viltrum changed him and that he didn't have to follow the Viltrumites ideology and that living a normal life watching his son grow, graduate high school, go to college and graduate, get married have start his own family was more fulfilling than colonising planets for a fascist race that didn't give a fuck about him.

Debbie said so herself: they had everything. HE had everything. I could argue that those twenty years he had with Debbie and being a father to Mark were the best years he had out of the thousand he had serving Viltrum. And sure, I agree that Nolan is still learning how to love and have empathy.

We can empathise and understand WHY Nolan is the way he is, but he still HURT PEOPLE. He HURT his family, the people who ACTUALLY loved and showed him more love than his bum ass parents or his fascist people ever did, and he STILL chose an Empire that only valued him if he was useful and serving their cause. He still participated in enslaving planets and genocide. His actions still had an impact on the people affected by them. Powerplex is LIVING PROOF of that.

But what about Vegeta, Mikky? He did the same, if not worse than Nolan, and the majority consider him a goated character with the best redemption arc alongside Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender.

You're not wrong. On paper, Vegeta and Nolan's resumes are identical: both are high-ranking members of a conquering warrior race, both treated Earth like a backyard project, and both committed casual genocide before deciding that maybe "family" is better than "intergalactic dominance."

But the difference between Nolan and Vegeta is that

Vegeta had YEARS of character growth and development throughout the course of Dragon Ball Z, GT and Super. Nolan is STILL in the early stages of his redemption arc.

Vegeta was repeatedly humbled by Goku, Frieza, Cell and Buu. We watched the Prince of all Saiyans struggle with his ego, pride and insecurity for hundreds of episodes.

Vegeta was at least honest about who his saiyan heritage. Not once (at least in my opinion) did he pretend to be a good guy or some broody prince of a race that was wiped out of existence. He never hid the atrocities or the people he killed, both under Frieza's command and on his own choice. And people tend to respect honest assholes more than narcissistic punk ass bitches who try to justify the shit they do.

HE ACTUALLY LOVES HIS FAMILY. He still chose his family even when he became Majin Vegeta.

My 11-year-old ass at the time, finding out that future Trunks was their child, was gobsmacked at HOW coz I never thought Vegeta would look at Bulma and be like: she's the one. Imma hit that.

Though I would agree that in Z after trunks was born, he wasn't exactly the most involved parent and didn't really care for him and Bulma and eventually turned evil again as Majin Vegeta in the Buu saga. But that was the same arc that he hugged his son for the first time and thought about him and Bulma before he nuked himself to kill Buu.

We saw him becoming a little more invested and involved in GT when Bra came into the picture.

But where we saw his growth, redemption, and atonement flourish was in Super, where we saw his genuine love for Bulma when he crashed out and surpassed Goku just for a moment, the moment Beerus smacked Bulma across the face. And remember this man FEARED Beerus, and when he saw that purple cat put hands on his wife right in front of him and was like: Listen. I fear you. And I will bend over backwards even if it hurts my Saiyan pride. But YOU DO NOT put hands on MY WIFE and the mother of my child in my presence.

Bro even chose to skip training to be present for Bra's birth.

Unlike Nolan, he never viewed Bulma as a pet. If anything, she was more of his equal, and her short temper and brattiness are what he LOVES about her. He even admitted it to Goku, even though he said that it's a Saiyan thing for them to be attracted to hot-tempered and strong-willed women. But he really said: I love my women strong willed and independent.

I'll take that over calling his wife and the mother of his kids a pet.

What makes Vegeta's redemption arc work is that the characters AND the narrative HOLDS HIM ACCOUNTABLE AND MAKES HIM FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS ACTIONS event though he himself a victim of genocide.

Hell, I'll even throw Zuko into this discussion since his nation, his great-grandfather Sozin, was responsible for the genocide OF AN ENTIRE CULTURE just coz he wanted to eliminate the Avatar and his family and nation have been invading other nations because Sozin got greedy.

The narrative in Dragon Ball Z uses Vegeta's pride and ego as his weakness, leading him to getting owned, his ass beat and humbled by Goku, Frieza, the Androids and Cell to make him see that his pride and ego are what are holding him back.

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the narrative and the characters hold Zuko accountable for his part in hurting innocent people.

The GAANG didn't automatically take him in or accept him into the party just coz he said he's changed and wants to fight with them. No, no, no. They had every right to not trust. ESPECIALLY Katara after the shit he pulled at the end of season 2.

But Zuko earned their trust by helping and working with them. He earned Aang's trust by helping him overcome his fear of fire after hurting Katara, and in turn, he learned to channel his bending through something else that's not anger and see the beauty in fire.

He earned Sokka's trust by helping him free his dad and Suki from the boiling rock.

He earned Katara's trust by helping her find the man who killed her mum and helping her process her grief.

That's why their redemptions are the best. Because the characters AND the narrative hold them accountable and make them WORK, SWEAT, and BLEED for their redemption.

Why are we making it seem like Nolan doesn't have seasons for him to grow?

It took Zuko until season 3 to grow and redeem himself after losing everything.

It took Vegeta archs and years to earn his redemption and develop.

Why are we acting like holding characters accountable is not what makes redemption arcs work?

So far, Nolan is still doing the work; he joined the coalition of planets to fight back against his own people. He even went to apologise to Debbie, even though he was trying to minimise and double down on his involvement with Andressa, as a mistake did not land. And that's okay. Redemption isn't linear. It's a long process. He's going to make mistakes along the way.

Zuko made mistakes. His first mistake was betraying the GAANG and Iroh at Ba Sing Se. His second mistake was hiring the combustion man to kill Aang.

Even Vegeta made mistakes, letting Cell absorb 17 and 18 to get stronger because Cell played into his pride. Becoming Majin Vegeta in the Buu saga because he thought that things would be better if he were the person he was before.

And yes. These two found it hard to be good or do good because no one taught them how, and of course, their conditioning. Zuko had Iroh, but his desire to restore his honour got the best of him. Vegeta had a family and, by extension, friends, but his pride got the best of him. But they both learned from their mistakes.

So, in closing, redemption arcs are not a simple apology or a simple switch of sides. They are a long process where the characters have to sit with the consequences of their actions and how they affected the people around them, and DOING THE WORK to right their wrongs without any expectations of being forgiven simply because they stopped being the bad guy.

[the-mikky-verse]

My Thoughts on Falling for It Chapter 23

Seunghyeon: I want you to think about me a lot.

Also Seunghyeon in the last chapter: She's gonna come running back to me anyway.

me: what an audacious request to ask of her considering you have not apologised for your past behaviour.

[the-mikky-verse]

My Thoughts on Toying with Daddy Chapter 25

So let me get this straight. This r*pist has physically and sexually assaulted you, has made it clear that she doesn't like you and you're STILL asking WHY she doesn't like you? Sir, her coochie can't be THAT good 💀

Like what's the end goal here?

1. I don't know if we can say that Yeonwu is cheating on the mama with Rosa because the old bitch is a predator and drugged him in the last chapter. So I'm personally not inclined to feel bad for her.

2. This manhwa labels itself as a BDSM smut manhwa and I'm like "bitch where?" Where is this BDSM you speak of? Coz all I'm seeing is a guy getting predated on, physically and sexually assaulted by the women who think they're entitled to have access to him sexually just coz he used to work at a host club and the FMC he's supposedly going to be endgame with has r*ped him while he was under the influence TWICE and I'm expected to cheer for her and be like "Yas Queen. We love a dominant woman who gets what she wants".

The bar is in the gutters. I swear

[the-mikky-verse]

BREAKING NEWS

No, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[the-mikky-verse]

My Thoughts on Falling for It Chapter 22

Imagine ghosting someone and intentionally being a dickhead to push them away the moment things gets real for them and see them hanging with other mutha fuckas and feel a certain typa way about it and you say bullshit like: she'll come running back to me anyway.

Bro how audacious and arrogant do you gotta be?

[the-mikky-verse]

Surviving Romance is getting an Anime Adaptation

Oh I am SEATED for this.

Any thoughts 👀?

[the-mikky-verse]

My Thoughts on Toying with Daddy Chapter 24

I think after reading chapter 24, we can all collectively agree that Rosa is a r*pist and her mama is a predator.

[the-mikky-verse]

My Thoughts on Flowers are Bait Season 2

Oh we are SO back bitches and I am SEATED.

SIR?! WE JUST STARTED THE SECOND SEASON AND YOU'RE ALREADY SERVING US WITH RIZZ. How dare you 😭😭😭😭

I can't wait to what this season has in store 😁

[the-mikky-verse]

My Thoughts on In Between Season 2 So far

In between is back that means we're back to dealing with Kang Sihwa and his bullshit 🫡.

Now listen. If a brutha uses sex as a bandaid and an avoidance tactic and I say "I'm not ready. We're moving too fast" and you hit me with this bullshit 👇🏽

Yeah no. At this point you're not respecting boundaries, you're negotiating how you can walk around said boundaries so you can get what you want with no accountability.

But Mikky. His love language is physical touch. He communicates best with physical touch.

Oh so you're expecting Eunseo to be his personal prostitute where he has to make out with her and do other physically intimate stuff just coz this mutha fucka doesn't want to talk about his issues and feelings?

He could have just asked to cuddle. Anything that doesn't involve you manipulating and gaslighting your best friend/girlfriend into sleeping with you.

This audacious vampiric narcissist never ceases to amaze me.

[the-mikky-verse]

My thoughts on Greedy

It truly baffles me how men like Dohyun are out here believing that women like Yujoo are incapable of finding better men 💀

[the-mikky-verse]

My Thoughts on High School Queen

Siu: a friend. that's all I am to her?

me: mutha fucka you barely acted like you were anything to her while you were chasing and pinning for her abuser and murderer. fuck you mean 🤨🤨

[the-mikky-verse]

My thoughts on Falling For It

You have to be one audacious mutha fucka if you approach me, build a relationship with me only to ghost me and gaslight me to think I chased after you when I reciprocate the energy, come back like nothing happened and hit me with this bullshit line 👇🏽

[the-mikky-verse]

So.....

Lore Olympus is getting an animated series.

How are we feeling about this 👀?