the nucleus of mikasa's character is her iteration of "duty vs. love". her choosing humanity may clash w her heart—as it's her lover doing the harm—but this conflict makes her choice all the more significant. it's not polarised for her; her duty IS her love manifested into action
nah peak romance is when you go to spineless “queen” and get her to passively facilitate ur plan for a global extinction event and to no one’s surprise she obeys you & gets pregnant by the guy who used to stone her bc yall enemies of humanity. or something.
eg. tertiary characters like kreuger being “better” than mikasa. little info on him, but fans itch to concoct a story for him (maybe their concoction is at least sensible but :/) these same ppl laugh at any attempt of engaging w mikasa beyond the same parroted, inaccurate, takes
when male characters aren’t fleshed out, fans become surrogate authors to help. if a female character isn’t fleshed out, then that’s it. no reason to engage w her beyond parameters set by her author & fandom. sad that this thought killing tool is considered “literary criticism”
@mikasaist well said. they’re correct that patriarchy is so pervasive it seeps into one’s own literary creations, but apparently this means all female characters are shite bc of it & we shouldn’t bother having meaningful discussions about them, & somehow the males ones are entirely immune
@pearlinasbeau saw a post “when i criticise a female character & misogynists think im on their side” (alr man lol) & the comments was naming every single female character in animanga u can think of 😭 yeah mhm sure all female characters are poor & flat but the males are much better. but wokely.
@ethelogist rhaepgar not gaffing about his toddler daughter & infant son being caught up in a war but i’m supposed to gag at elia being “politically astute” & the whole rhaelya ship “but it’s grrm’s favourite ship he loves it it11!” he got ass taste what do u want me to say
at the end of the day both rhaelya & rhaelia are ass. lya & elia fans are ripping out each other’s hair over a spineless yassified whiny weasel whore who resembles a bastardised timouxi cha le mei and by the way this whole time they’re both cucks
@lunarieiri jjk and aot fans are gifted in very little but one outstanding gift they have is producing the most uncharitable, hypocritical, androcentric, inaccurate, and superficial interpretations of female characters ever seen.
what i mean when duds swear up & down their “criticism” of mikasa or anything about her is rooted in literary analysis/concern for writing quality who tf do you think you’re fooling 😭 why have a misogynistic abuser as ur pfp then 😔 why ship such a man w ur faves 😔
that chop acc foments hate undoubtedly saturated in misogyny & hypocrisy against mikasa; it's not all literary concern lol funnier still is that their definition of "good writing" is hisu. it's fine! u can say u dislike mikasa & shit on her as such; no need to moralise it lmao
losers on here will drag mikasa, use “memes” from #That nazi ass subreddit, refer to her as a slave or a dog, and still have the audacity to ask why they’re called misogynistic. you’re not criticizing her writing. you don’t even like her drop the act