i feel like bsd twt just recycles this discourse every week like. it’s time to accept 99% of the characters in bsd are messed up and are all on a scale ranging from perpetuating their trauma to actively trying to break free from its influence. so none of them are inherently + https://twitter.com/sunnysizhui/status/1322989477946519554

either good or bad, they’re all round and complex characters, and yes even a character like mori isn’t one dimensional. objectively he’s on the far negative end of the scale in terms of redeeming qualities but disliking him for whatever valid reason that’s your private business +

doesn’t erase any nuance in his character or why he’s interesting. i can’t believe i’m lowkey having to make a “defense” of mori of all characters to prove a point but there’s a reason he clashes so fiercely with fukuzawa and why natsume sought to use that contrast to create a +

balance for yokohama. mori’s pure rationale to the point of choosing the most optimal path at the expense of anything else, even ethics (i.e. why he wanted to use yosano to take over the pm, objectively it was very likely to work but it disregarded yosano being a human being +

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and the trauma that would induce, honestly when you pair that with what he presumably did to dazai i think bsd twt should be at least as bothered by mori’s persistent reducing of people to objectified tools as his pedo tendencies but that’s for another time) but what makes +

complex and not flat is the fact that despite his highly questionable approach what he does is strangely always for the benefit of order or peace (kinda wanna know his backstory tbh). so what i’m trying to say is that even if some characters are more toxic than others seeing as +

bsd is literally /about/ trauma and breaking free from cycles of abuse in a world that doesn’t pull its punches even when you decide to be a good person, where nothing is black or white and idk, what’s interesting about bsd is its characters and how human they are behind their +

quirks and if all you can do is reduce all that to a black & white scale so you can yell at people constantly about liking xyz character from some kinda moral pedestal then idk, maybe bsd isn’t for you and that’s fine, everyone’s limits and preferences are different. i’m not +

getting into other shit that happens on bsd twt otherwise this thread is gonna be even more obscenely long but let’s just say this isn’t the only way bsd twt goes overboard into extremes and maybe some of y’all should refect a little about that too and tone it down