āAnother Storyā is not a romantic drama.
It is a story about self discovery, and the long road to recovering oneās own identity after years of abuse and self neglect. Vās story is one we can all learn from.
Iāve heard that thereās been a lot of V hatred, and uhā¦ Thatās not okay.
Listen, Iāll be the first to admit that at the beginning of MysMe, I really disliked V. Not hate him, per se, butā¦ Disliked him. And after the secret stories? I only pitied him. He was characterized originally as the ābrooding artistā (and thanks, but Iāve had enough of that mess) who romanticized mental illness, mental pain, until it came back to bite him in the ass.
We canāt, no, we shouldnāt deny that in some way V is to blame for Rikaās breakdown, though I donāt doubt she would have lost it eventually by losing herself to her own delusions and machinations. Where V faltered, is in his lack of understanding. He didnāt understand himself, he didnāt understand other people, but most importantly? He didnāt understand that true love is something one must feel for oneās own self before feeling it for another person. He appeased the shit out of Rika, and he obsessed- YES RIKA, OBSESSED- over her until she snapped, and in turn, she obsessed and wounded him until he couldnāt see himself as anything other than āRikaās Sun.ā Until he lost himself. Until he defined himself by the actions and suffering she inflicted upon him, by only his past pain and failed attempt at renewal.
In a metaphorical sense? The neglect and carelessness he inflicted upon Rika was really in the end the abuse he inflicted upon himself. Thatās not to say āhe deserved it.ā Far from that. He never deserved it, no one deserves that. No one deserves to be dammed with the incapability of loving themselves. Least of all those who were not taught selflove from the beginning.
V learns that you cannot define yourself by the love you give others, nor by the love you wish to receive from others. You must define yourself by the love you feel for your own, personal self.
After struggling through āAnother Story,ā fighting for this wonderful manās freedom, from his abuser, from his own self hatred from his own self-abuseā¦?
How can you not love him?
Noā¦ How can you not respect him?
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