DRM

In the flashback Nexus was trying to do origami, something that originated from Japan. He also liked sushi a Japanese food. It seems that Nexus took a liking to stuff from Japan.

I headcanon that Nexus loves Japan a lot and even knows how to speak Japanese.

I don't blame the family or Sun for treating Nexus/New Moon like he was just Moon back from the dead.

Look, if I basically died and came back, but with no memory of who I was, I wouldn't expect my family to treat me differently. I expect them to act like I'm still me. They just need to teach me to be me again. I don't blame Sun for acting like Nexus was Moon cause in a way he was.

Now, this is an oddly specific situation, so I don't expect everyone to have the same reaction as me or do the same thing as me, but that's just what I expect my family to do.

I do blame Sun for what he said and did. As a sibling, it's his job to help and adjust to his brother's condition. As a sibling myself, if my little sister "forgot" who she was, and was "reset" to the very start, I'd let her grow into the person she was meant to be—even if it isn't the same person I knew before. Because sometimes, letting go is the best act of love you can give someone.

An older sibling's job is to protect and preserve the younger's joy. You can literally see in the episode how Sun crushes NM's excitement over origami because "It just didn't feel right". That's selfish. That's wrong. You're supposed to blame him for that. Anything else is just not what the show is trying to tell you.

/silly

This was such a tough situation for Sun and I don’t think there’s any easy or right answer. Sun was doomed to fail from the start. His twin, his abuser, lost his memory and basically died, leaving someone else in his body. How is Sun supposed to move on and just act like this is a new person? How was Sun supposed to know what Moon would have wanted for this new person. Sun handled it poorly yes, but he was never given the tools to learn how to handle it better.

If there’s anyone we want to blame, blame the creator for creating an environment that hurt Sun. Blame Ruin for killing Solar. Blame Dark for leading Nexus down the wrong path.

Sun did the best he could while still trying to cope with everything, and now he needs to start working to make sure he has the tools to handle situations like these better.

(This is based in the au in the show where Solar joins Nexus. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I first watched the episode and have been writing about it constantly...)

Solar and Nexus are about to go to bed when Solar sees that Nexus sleeps with his old starry-moon hat. When he asks why, Nexus said that it still somehow smells like the shitty citrus-scented detergent that Sun used on everything, even his sheets, and that it reminded him of laying in his old room or even hugging Sun since Sun always wore a citrusy perfume. (I love that hc idk why)

Solar goes out the next day and finds said detergent hoping that it will help Nexus either feel better or try to deal with those feelings. This is a stupid idea. He knows it. But he does the laundry anyways, and washes everyone's blankets, sheets, etc with it. (This action will have consequences.)

That night, Nexus goes to lay in his bed, but pauses when he rolls onto his side. He puts his face into his pillow and it immediately hit him. That same citrusy scent. He hugs the pillow to his chest, shaking, imagining that he's hugging Sun again. He cries. Loud. Solar peeks through his door and he's honestly confused as to if he should feel relieved that Nexus is letting it out or guilty that he made him cry like that. Maybe he feels both.

I don't blame the family or Sun for treating Nexus/New Moon like he was just Moon back from the dead.

Look, if I basically died and came back, but with no memory of who I was, I wouldn't expect my family to treat me differently. I expect them to act like I'm still me. They just need to teach me to be me again. I don't blame Sun for acting like Nexus was Moon cause in a way he was.

Now, this is an oddly specific situation, so I don't expect everyone to have the same reaction as me or do the same thing as me, but that's just what I expect my family to do.

I do blame Sun for what he said and did. As a sibling, it's his job to help and adjust to his brother's condition. As a sibling myself, if my little sister "forgot" who she was, and was "reset" to the very start, I'd let her grow into the person she was meant to be—even if it isn't the same person I knew before. Because sometimes, letting go is the best act of love you can give someone.

An older sibling's job is to protect and preserve the younger's joy. You can literally see in the episode how Sun crushes NM's excitement over origami because "It just didn't feel right". That's selfish. That's wrong. You're supposed to blame him for that. Anything else is just not what the show is trying to tell you.

The circumstances behind Nexus birth were weird. This is just what I expect my family to do and what I would want them to do.

I expected people to have a different take from me. Everyone would handle this situation differently.

Sorry if it came off that way that I'm ignoring Nexus' whole character. I'm not.

Here's a list as to how you literally cannot say Sun isn't to blame:

Sun forced Nexus into that role from the start, simply because he wanted the old Moon.

Sun constantly compared Nexus to someone he wasn't, going as far as to judge his hobbies because "Moon wouldn't do that".

Sun didn't push help onto Nexus when another Moon from a different dimension LITERALLY TOLD HIM TO. If he had done that, Nexus may not have become Nexus.

Sun left Nexus to rot in a dingy dungeon because he didn't act the way he wanted.

Sun's inability to act is potentially why Nexus had that faceoff with Puppet, and got sent into space where Dark Sun picked him up.

Sun's (+ the rest of the family's) inability to act is also potentially what led to Dark Sun—as he confessed himself—leading Nexus down a worse path.

Sun, ultimately, was the one who killed Nexus. <- This one was almost entirely Ruin's fault, but still. The blood is on his hands nonetheless. You can't tell me Sun threw a fireball at the guy and expected nothing to happen.

I don't blame the family or Sun for treating Nexus/New Moon like he was just Moon back from the dead.

Look, if I basically died and came back, but with no memory of who I was, I wouldn't expect my family to treat me differently. I expect them to act like I'm still me. They just need to teach me to be me again. I don't blame Sun for acting like Nexus was Moon cause in a way he was.

Now, this is an oddly specific situation, so I don't expect everyone to have the same reaction as me or do the same thing as me, but that's just what I expect my family to do.

I do blame Sun for what he said and did. As a sibling, it's his job to help and adjust to his brother's condition. As a sibling myself, if my little sister "forgot" who she was, and was "reset" to the very start, I'd let her grow into the person she was meant to be—even if it isn't the same person I knew before. Because sometimes, letting go is the best act of love you can give someone.

An older sibling's job is to protect and preserve the younger's joy. You can literally see in the episode how Sun crushes NM's excitement over origami because "It just didn't feel right". That's selfish. That's wrong. You're supposed to blame him for that. Anything else is just not what the show is trying to tell you.