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soubiapologist · 3 months

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does anyone think it's kind of fucked up that seimei is absolutely doing to nisei what he did (and is still doing) to soubi and we're all just like yeah that's fine fuck that guy

#IT IS NOT FINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#you don't have to like him but it most certainly is not fine!!!!!!!!!!!!#idk i think we've sort of turned soubi into a bit of a perfect victim archetype. i mean not all the way but i feel like he does something-#fucked up and we sigh and roll our eyes and are like hopefully he becomes normal soon cuz i want to root for him #and understand the tragedy of him doing those things #but nisei is a lot more resistant to this interpretation partly i think because the manga is more up front about presenting him as--#an asshole and partly because nisei believes himself to be an asshole #nisei is an abuser and a monster he is not a perfect victim #i think we see soubi's past and can kind of understand where he's coming from and why he thinks the way he does #we've seen a lot less of nisei's past but from what i gather he's been very isolated all his life #like as soubi's foil it's like #soubi was ''loved'' too much and nisei it seems was never loved at all #more beloved theme naming irony but anyway.#nisei is a victim too.#i'm less interested in who is a bigger victim and how much of an allowance of forgiveness that entails than i am with like #the systems that have allowed nisei to become this isolated in the first place. all he wants is to be. well. beloved #but that's the thing that's going to destroy him.#because every safety net and avenue out has been systematically cut off by seimei.#like what sort of support system is there for people who have done the things he's done to well. stop doing those things.#if nisei escapes seimei he will no longer be. beloved*. he will have no one. he will have to face the fate of being. erm. loveless.#if you will.#and i think that's a fate that a lot of the named paired will have to grapple with in some way or another.#finding identity outside of a self destructive power structure.#anyway nisei is soooooooo much more interesting once you acknowledge him as soubi's foil. to me they are basically the same guy. tbqh.#just. going in different directions.............#you know. how foils work. you understand.#*wrt both the identity sense the way all the pairs are wrapped up in their unhealthy soulmate spiral #but also in the sense that he will have to reckon with the fact that he was once again never truly loved because seimei does! not! love him

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