The thing is that Uika Misumi actually didn’t do anything wrong. Like despite how obsessive she is and how much she hates herself for having the feelings she does, the “sins” she’s committed are being born and being traumatized from a rough upbringing. She may have imagined throwing Mutsumi down the stairs, but she didn’t do it. She may have desires to lock Sakiko up in the loft in her apartment, but she didn’t actually do it, and in fact she channeled her unhealthy desires into very thematically fitting lyrics for her visual kei band. She’s convinced that she’s the reason Sakiko’s dad took the fall for the Togawa group, which ended up causing Crychic to disband, and therefore thinks she’s the one at fault for ruining Sakiko’s life, but even if Sakiko’s dad speaking up trying to get her recognized as part of the family was the reason for it all, it’s not Uika’s fault that making her existence known to her brother in law caused that chain of events. Sleeping with a pillow wearing Sakiko’s stage outfit was a little weird but not necessarily harmful. Okay I’ll admit that maybe stealing her sister’s name and pretending to be her is a bit questionable. But like, the way she acts and thinks of herself (and the way people online talk about her) would make you think she killed someone or something equally horrible, when in reality she didn’t really do anything that actually harmed anyone! And everything she did do pales in comparison to the harm that was done to her by the oppressive family structures she was unintentionally born into. To the people in her family around her she is a mistake and a reminder of past sins, but she herself is just a poor girl who has internalized the idea that she is a disgusting irredeemable sinful human being simply because she was born and because she fell in love with the first person who ever made her feel seen and wanted.
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