For context: I’m a victim of both severe bullying, and psychiatric abuse. This leads to me viewing characters who are bullies (outside of specific explicit narratives about parental abuse and/or internalized bigotry), or who are doctors that commit medical malpractice, especially harshly.

Part of what got me attached to Muu in the first place was the narrative of her as a bully victim who achieved revenge. And, in the time where I understood her as a bully victim, I viewed a lot of her behavior through a sympathetic lens. I saw a lot of myself in her personality, and especially my autistic traits in how her inability to “read the room” comes across badly to others.

I did feel betrayed when it was revealed that she was a bully, too. But that also came hand-in-hand with the reveal that she was befriending Haruka — the disabled prisoner. Which, given that I was bullied for being disabled, did a lot to raise her favor, on top of all my previous work towards viewing her personality through a sympathetic lens.

It’s only because of this, I think, that I was able to eventually recognize that the way that Muu was being treated by a lot of the fandom was rooted in misogyny. The idea of the prototypical “mean girl” is treated with a more particular harshness than other forms of bullying. I’m sure, for a lot of people, that comes from a place of past trauma and personal experience, but that doesn’t change that ultimately views women as more capable of harm than men, and punishes women more harshly for similar deeds. I was unable to stop seeing how her being a supposed “bitchy and shallow teenage girl” got her treated like and theorized to be the worst of the worst, even when evidence opposite to that narrative existed (people who claimed that Muu “didn’t actually care” about Haruka, etc).

there's something very sinister about this scene... i'm speaking as someone outside of japan so maybe it's different but all amane's mom would have to do is say her address and that she needs medical help and the emergency services would understand that something's wrong and come over. she obviously doesn't look well, but if she's well enough to be able to type in the numbers, surely she's well enough to press the dial button? even if she couldn't speak, she could still press dial and THEN give the phone to amane.

People saying Shidou is like....the most selfish character in Milgram--or even one of the most selfish characters--just always irked me. Cause like yeah, obviously no one plans to be in car accidents, and him killing that truck driver was horrible. But....my guy:

He just found out his family was fucking bulldozed

Wasn't allowed to even leave, instead operate on the guy that killed them

Just wanted to fucking get to his five year old preschooler son who could've been fucking dead right now (spoiler, he was)

His crime does not define him as a whole person. You literally just read what he did at his worst and decided "Most selfish person in the world". Throughout the entire course of Milgram, Shidou never saw himself as fully human and only found a spark to keep living when OTHERS needed him

⇄ ◁◁ I I ▷▷ ↻ ♥︎ FUUTA TRANSPARENTS | all tags ok, credit not needed.

Amane gets Fuuta to play tag with her somehow (probably by going "youre it" then ragebaiting him into going along with it), at first hes super reluctant but quickly gets super into it. Which turns into them dragging the entire prison into their game, including such silly scenarios: Amane pretending shes being attacked by Fuuta so one of them can tag Kazui who comes over to help her and then they run away giggling, Shidou helping them hide from Kazui... only to reveal hes now playing as he tags one of them, them finding Haruka and excitedly yelling at him about the game only for him to start yelling back in terrified confusion and now theyre all screaming in the kitchen.

Fuuta and Amane doing crafts together, Amane leaves for a sec and someone (probably Mikoto) comes past asking Fuuta if thats Amanes drawing hes holding, its not, its his. He cant draw for shit due to his messed up depth perception. He then starts crying cause of that accidental reminder and its really awkward 😭

Amane visiting Mahiru and Fuuta post Kotoko attack. The conversation somehow turns to them discussing what animal they think the others would be. Mahiru and Amane both agree Fuuta would be a cat, and start going on about him being like a sad little stray cat you'd find in a cardboard box in the rain then get carried away talking about how cute cats are. As he's right there. Listening to everything.

This ones like a slight au where Amane cant bring herself to kill Shidou T3 but still hates medicine and thus hates him. Fuuta gets sick (oh no) and Amane tries to take care of him the best she can without any medicine or medical care. Shidou finds out and they end up arguing back and forth while trying to help a sick Fuuta whos questioning his life choices rn and really would like them to shut up

Yayyy yippeeeee 0308 siblings my fucking beloved!!! Expanding on these under the cut because they’re so cute!! 😊

Honestly! I know he’s fandomized as the tech guy (myself included on occasion,) but everything he does is pretty standard social media use – there’s no crazy coding/hacking involved, just a keen eye for telling info and a love for gaming. I definitely think he’d get too overwhelmed for any kind of law/political/medical program that’s seen as a “hero” career to him. I don’t think his father would approve of him going in undeclared and aimless, so he’d have to pick something.

Which brings us to Food Career Fuuta my belovedddd ;---; It’s so perfect for him – it satisfies his hunger for being nosy about society, he gets the feeling of providing for others (giving him that hero’s high), while also showing off and gaining the simple praise he craves. He would probably pick something culinary from the list of majors just because it looked the most bearable, only to discover a genuine passion once he actually got into it.