Just Now Someone Left Some Tags Under One Of My Other Posts Saying They Don't Get The Ritsu Hate And

just now someone left some tags under one of my other posts saying they don't get the ritsu hate and okay i was already gonna say something and this may very well be a sign for me to do it now

people really really REALLY like to misconstrue ritsu, a 13-year-old boy dealing with as many issues as the rest of the cast, as some kind of jerk who hates everyone and is overprotective of mob which is really weird because that's like... not true to his character? at all?

i mean i know where this fanon comes from it's pretty obvious imo that people took 1. the big cleanup arc 2. his prickliness around reigen and made it so those two parts of his character became his entire personality - some grumpy brat who hates everyone who isn't mob. however i feel like a key point in his character is that he's actually... really passive? and constantly fretting over what other people, especially his brother, are thinking and feeling? in other words, instead of being overprotective, it's more so that he's afraid and takes precautions?

he behaved questionably during the big cleanup arc yes, but people seem to have taken his behavior then to be his Real Personality instead of him simply... lashing out because he was sick and tired of cowering away? he had spent years acting like the Perfect Golden Child and didn't feel like he could just be himself, and it caused him to break eventually. he even felt genuine remorse for his actions by the end, come on now. and don't even get me started on how ritsu haters will forever hold this arc over his head as if literally every other character hasn't had their own villain phase. i'm really baffled at how he's the one people like to single out as a mean bitch

and god all i'm saying about the reigen thing is that some certain people need to realize that woobifying a grown man for getting bullied (allegedly) by a kid less than half his age is like. weird. objectively speaking it's weird. reigen in canon literally does not care

idk ritsu's just a kid and people need to cut him some slack. him being a hater to one (1) loser doesn't mean you get to remove all his other dimensions please it's so dark in here