On Ruggie slander...
As someone who relates a lot to Ruggie and his life it kind of...hurts me a little when ppl write him off him as a "slave", "has no self-respect" or someone who is just "greedy" and "obsessed with money." First off, being in service work is NOT SHAMEFUL. I have done service work for a while to make extra money. (especially for wealthy people) Do I have no self-respect?
Listen, when you are poor you HAVE to be constantly thinking of money. It's not greed by choice, it's greed by survival. If you've never been poor or homeless you have no idea how that feeling consumes you. To me, Ruggie's character echoes a lot of the classist themes in Lion King regarding the treatment of the hyenas.
Ruggie serves Leona by CHOICE, I believe Leona admits that Ruggie knows what he's doing by getting close to him. They have a mutual agreement. Not to mention it's very clear Ruggie looks up to Leona ALOT, almost like a weird dad figure. He cleans up after Leona and serves him, but Leona also helps Ruggie with school work, gives him extra money "by accident" all the time, and even buys him clothes and gives him his hand-me-downs.
I know they are fictional characters but they can mirror reality. It's okay if Ruggie is not your fav but...I just hate when people misunderstand who he is and it rhymes with the pretentious attitude poor ppl experience in real life all the time.
Ugigiugi needs to see this and have some fucking empathy, crazy how her self insert hates discrimination but proceeds to hate Ruggie for wrong reasons cause she didnβt understand his character at all
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