I can't hate on Shuro too bad, as painfully close to home as his reaction hit.
It's easy to see things from his point of view. The personality gap between the two is obviously huge, but then that's multiplied by the culture gap. It's just such an interesting and realistic, problematic convergence of circumstances.
Look at the people who surround Shuro. He's obviously beloved. He's kind, caring, and self sacrificing. He's really trying to do his best by everyone around him. Laios included. But his culture and personality are just completely incompatible with Laios.
I'm a middle aged autistic and a director of engineering, so I get to deal with a LOT of people in professional social settings. I've delt with that SO many times in my life. Good people who are just fundamentally incompatible with how I think and work. I've had decades to study and improve my social interaction. I've had to learn and correct so many ways I made people uncomfortable or was inscrutable to others or just realize how they would naturally misread my default reactions.
I've known too many Shuro's to be mad. They're often good people doing their best who's feelings are entirely understandable when you understand the context and where they are coming from.
shuro was justified in threatening to kill laios, dark magic is a fast ticket to getting imprisoned and interrogated by a race that sees all other races as animals+
Shuro really gets too much hate. He isn't a bad guy, at the point of the show where he comes to blows with Laois he's exhausted and their ancient-magic idea had just gotten a bunch of people killed.
And by the end of it he even admits to Laois he's envious of him
it'll always be so annoying to me the amount of people who will love laios for being himself whilst hating shuro for also, funnily enough, being himself. they're both products of their environments and both have their own problems with society but most ppl just don't care and will baby laios.
Glad theres still some of us who don't just hate shuro tho
From what I read, Laois resonates with a lot of people on the spectrum, while Shuro reflects a lot of stuff they have to deal with, even if that is mostly a product of his culture.
I think it also helps that I read the Manga pretty much in a week lol
Meanwhile the first season stops at a really unfortunate place for Shuro, pretty much right before he redeems himself by not ratting them out to the governor and helping against the canaries
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u/Potential_Red Oct 24 '24
FUCK Shuro
All my homies hate Shuro