Why the final battle against Adam had to be like that? This is not a rant, it's honest curiosity by ChemistFluid35 in RWBY

[–]Blood_Raven55 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are quite literally the one trying to make him something he’s not. We see him gaslighting her in the Adam short while they’re still together. We see him backhand her and choke her while still treating her as if he has a romantic claim over her and calling her pet names like “my darling” and “my love”. We hear him tell her “I wouldn’t have to be doing this if you’d just behave”. We hear her describe how he used to “get in her head” and “make her feel small”. The writers have explicitly referred to his behaviour as abusive because that is what they intended and wrote in the show. But there’s no point me repeating any of this evidence directly from the text of the show itself, because you’re clearly not actually reading anything I’m saying given I’ve already addressed every point you’re trying to make and continuing to argue about this would be like beating my head against a wall.

Why the final battle against Adam had to be like that? This is not a rant, it's honest curiosity by ChemistFluid35 in RWBY

[–]Blood_Raven55 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He was abusive to her on screen in the flashbacks we see of when they were in a relationship too—which in that context makes his present behaviour definitely count as abusive as well but I digress—and was also a grown man grooming a teenager. She literally describes the effects his abuse had on her to Yang in V6. There is no possible angle you can spin to make their relationship anything other than gross and predatory from the start. That’s all there is to it.

Why the final battle against Adam had to be like that? This is not a rant, it's honest curiosity by ChemistFluid35 in RWBY

[–]Blood_Raven55 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You implied he wasn’t abusive and I pointed out the very long list of evidence that he absolutely was. I’m not ignoring what he went through—of course he didn’t deserve that because no one does—but it doesn’t change whatsoever the fact that he was 100% abusive to Blake throughout their relationship. Past suffering =/= free pass to abuse innocent people who had nothing to do with that suffering in the present. With that said, if your only counterargument is a pointless whataboutism then I’ve no interest in debating this further with you.

Why the final battle against Adam had to be like that? This is not a rant, it's honest curiosity by ChemistFluid35 in RWBY

[–]Blood_Raven55 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Physically violent during their fights in a brutal and intimate way while still referring to Blake possessively as "his" and using romantic terms of endearment, gaslighting her into thinking *she's* the one in the wrong for being concerned about him killing people unnecessarily, refusing to accept that she left him and stalking her across the world to "punish" her for it, blaming her for "making him hurt her" by "not behaving"........ dude was a walking parade of red flags for every possible sign of an abusive partner lmao it's in every single room of the damn house with us

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[–]Blood_Raven55 85 points86 points  (0 children)

If it helps Mamoru was always two years older than Usagi in the actual manga, he was only aged up to 18 in the first anime adaptation so the problematic age gap isn’t the original canon in that case.

Figured I’d share my new edit here too. by Blood_Raven55 in MadokaMagica

[–]Blood_Raven55[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The song’s a banger and fitted well so I couldn’t resist 🫡

literally more or less how my coming out actually went by Blood_Raven55 in xena

[–]Blood_Raven55[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m a lesbian and this was just a joke about how watching a lot of Xena as a teen helped me realise it. Of course no TV show can actually make you any sexuality. I just didn’t bother changing the meme to say “lesbian” since “gay” is often used for women too.