#tfw He Literally Turns You On 😏

Kaizoku Oujo // Episode 10

not to post even more Villains Discourse on main but it really bugs me how people read giving villains tragic backstories as inherently excusing their actions and/or demonizing trauma survivors.

the actual message of Tragic Villains is (almost) always “people who are never taught or given any healthy, constructive outlets for their emotions will often find unhealthy, destructive outlets.” it’s that people who are traumatized and never learn how to cope with that trauma can become a danger to themselves and others. the message isn’t “trauma makes you evil!!!!” or “genocide is okay if you’ve been sad before!!!!” it’s “people need compassion and help to recover from trauma instead of becoming increasingly angry and harming themselves and others in the process.”

this site takes an alarmingly behaviorist and punitive approach to everything and it’s literally the most annoying thing. y’all have this concept that “if we just punish people hard enough, if we just scare them enough, if we just make them feel guilty enough.” that people just Do Bad Things Because They Do Bad Things, I Guess, and Because We Didn’t Threaten Them And Shame Them Enough. but humans are an innately social species. at our very core, we need compassion and kindness. we need healthy relationships with other humans.

you can keep looking at traumatized villains and being like “haha this dumb pathetic sadboi thinks murder is okay because his parents died” but as a survivor myself, unaddressed/untreated trauma absolutely can make you ragey and destructive. i was lucky enough to have support and eventually get the treatment i needed. but it’s not hard at all for me to imagine how, if that hadn’t been the case, that could’ve been me. obviously not on a movie-villain scale like murder or war crimes, but it’s so irritating as someone whose trauma has always manifested as anger to watch people on this site be like “this is just bad writing!!! real survivors/good survivors don’t end up like that the writers just hate survivors and want the audience to condone murder!”

saw a post about redemption arcs and i realized that a lot of our discussions would be improved if we discussed villains for what they are (pieces of a narrative whole) instead of what they definitely are not (real people on trial)

I think I realized what bothers me the most about the shows end... That it could have been the exact same ending if the whole transending thing didn't happen. For example, if you showed someone that two parties where ready to fight but someome jumped in and put some sense in them and they stop fighting and then you jump at the very last scene at the beach you can easily say that "Well now that there is no more war, they can live their life in peace" AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITHOUT THE TRANSENDING!! GOD, REALIZING THAT MADE ME ANGY AGAIN!

We started watching the show for a group of people. The delinquents. And personaly I only cared about them (but their story included other parties too so I didn't mind them). I didn't care about the human race. I didn't give a shit if they were good or bad or idk! I just wanted my people to survive. So the whole transending thing was bulshit in my eyes. Plus if I hate anything in stories, it's aliens. These creatures/light could only be aliens so I was so dissappointed. Man, it's been less than a week and I feel like the ending never really happened. It didn't touch me at all.

Ben and Jessie BTS 📷

Unreasonable Ideas

Kill the mentality that a female character is “weak” if she is in love with a man. Love is not weakness.

Also kill the mentality that a female character is “weak” if she is kind and sweet. Kindness is not weakness either.

Kaizoku Oujo // Episode 3