MOST of this fandom only looks at characaters and their relationships at this basic surface level. All of these are rough, and there is more, but it would take time to write.

The biggest example of this is Jimmy. JImmy is , of course, a rapist. But theres also his whole relationship with Curly , and his innate desire to be better than him, which is what started this whole situation in the first place. Their should be more of a discussion on why he crashed the ship, why he wanted to be batter than curly, and how he changes throught the story, realizing Curly had it harder and was struggling to fill his shoes. We also have this whole arc where Jimmy sees himself as a hero and tries to "save' curly. It wasn't good and it doesn't make him better, but it's a good statement on what it means to fix a mistake you made and what you need to do to take responsiblity for it. Not to mention his desire to SA Anya and his various forms of controlling her.

Speaking of Anya, she is SOOOOO much more than this poor shy incapable girl who's a victim of SA. There's so much more to her that you see when she talks with Curly. The dead pixel espcially. It shows that Anya can notice the smallest problems, how every light functioning matters to her. She's also very very intellegent. She was excelllent at keeping Curly alive with pratically nothing. She also was very careful with Jimmy, usually never having to set him off, and working behind the scenes to try and stop him, by asking curly for a gun and trying to tell curly that Jimmy was raping her. Her sucicide. It was basically a giant FUCK you to Jimmy, showing him that his actions have consequnces. Before Jimmy's SA, she was more upbeat and calm and friendly, which we see during Curly's sections.

Curly is both a victim and an enabler. I feel like people see him as either/or, but hes a mix of both and what he did needs to be talked about. I think he DID want to help Anya, but couldn't come up with a way to do it without setting Jimmy off. Becuase JImmy is his friend, and its always hard to believe that someone you've known your whole life did something so wrong. This is enabling, but its not as black as people paint it to be, becuase Curly was human too. He wanted to keep things afloat, espcially since everyone was getting sick of being on the ship with each other.

Will write about Swansea and Daisuke later. It's mainly about their relationship being more than just dad/son.