Random hyperfixation blog

Okay let's start with Hydron since I grew up with him cuz kid me was angry at the writing choices. Hydron is a 16 year old Prince of Vestal keep in mind his age throughout the series he has been shown to be spoiled and brat he's also quite childish now here's where the wiki and disagree the wiki cites him as being a very ruthless and heartless person. Which I disagree with especially the heartless comment because Hydron is not heartless as he's shown caring about Dryoid even Volt and Lync though that's after he kills them. But I'll talk more about that later. The wiki says that he was one of the few Vexos who didn't seem to care about the Alternative Weapon System which we don't know what was going on in his head to fully say he agreed or disagreed and more than likely if he was okay with it. It was to get in his father's good graces and If he wasn't okay with it, he went along with it because of the man. His father is a tyrant and an abuser at that. You want to know what his father did to him after failing. He legit tortured him with a robot.

There was that time that the king decided to pick up his son by his shirt yelling at him and keep in mind the first half of the season they didn't really have a great relationship, but we never saw how bad it was until the second half. Hydron was constantly belittled by those around him. Nobody and I mean nobody gave him support. He was surrounded by people who didn't like him and the writers made him. Do things that honestly don't really make sense in the grand scheme of things for his character or at least not what should have been the route they went with his character. Lync and Volt are my favorite characters from the season besides Hydron. With Chloe she was a 14-year-old girl who was verbally abused by her mother and neglected by her father. Yes, she was a bully to Marinette there's no denying that however that does not mean she's not a victim of abuse Andre clearly enabled her bad behavior but by the end of season 5, we're supposed to see him as the good guy. Because he never wanted to be mayor or bossed around by his daughter and wife. Which makes it okay for Chloe to be shipped off with her abusive mother and we're supposed to cheer for that. Bakugan despite its poor handling of Hydron does at least somewhat acknowledge he's a victim. However, the creator of Miracubug refuses to acknowledge that Chloe is a victim of abuse because she was a bully and a brat. But in the same breath will say Felix who committed genocide against Paris was a victim of abuse probably because Felix was physically abused.

Medusa was depicted by Ovid as a beautiful maiden who was raped by Poseidon/Neptune in Athena's temple. The goddess punished her by turning her into a monster with snakes for hairs. Symbolically, this tragic tale shows how trauma can destroy and possibly change people into monsters, as demonstrated by Medusa's transformation.

In Metal Fight Beyblade, there are two characters that have Medusa as their (second) bey-beast: Reiji Mizuchi and Julian Konzern.

The first starts as a mysterious and disturbing individual who is later revealed to be a sadist whose only goal is to break both the spirit and bey of his opponents. In a way, he is a monster. His appearance and mannerisms alone make the viewers feel uncomfortable.

In a way, Reiji is portrayed as a messed up and strange person that people should avoid. His hair has those eyes, which I suppose are hair clips, and hide his face and true eyes. During his fights against Kenta and later Gingka, his face became increasingly deformed and surreal, almost as if Reiji lost his humanity. His fighting style merely relies on destroying his opponents' bey, and even when cornered, he uses the same tricks. This is why Gingka is able to replicate his moves and beat Reiji. He is almost animalistic, and in the manga, he appears as Ryuga's "dog". Medusa herself became a monster deprived of her humanity. Though he appears as a monster, it is hinted that he himself suffered a great trauma in the past. Whether it is the doing of Doji or someone unrelated to the Dark Nebula or the Hades cult is not known.

The proof of this is during his fight against Kenta when the latter gained the upper hand, he said: "What did you do to my beautiful bey" and "It hurt." It is almost as if he is reliving a past experience. Some might think that he feared Doji would hurt him if he lost, and that's plausible; however, the sentence about his bey wouldn't make sense. Furthermore, Reiji wouldn't be the first blader Doji recruited recently: he found Yu because he heard of him. So Doji could have heard of a merciless blader that destroys other people's bey, recruited him, and made him obsessed about Gingka by locking Reiji in a room with videos of him. Fusion was a time when not every bad thing was due to the Hades cult (examples: Tetsuya's backstory, Busujima's gang...), adding some depth to the world of Beyblade in general if it was the case. Reiji is called by his last name in the Japanese dub, whilst this is common in Japan when talking to unfamiliar people, this is a way for Gingka and his team to put a distance with Reiji. After all, the latter is the embodiment of trauma and fear, and people preferred to ignore trauma to avoid looking into the eyes of Medusa...

Julian, on the other hand, is a confident and prideful person. He is educated, cultured, and intelligent; he can adapt and observe his opponent. He is not as sadistic nor as animalistic as Reiji, far from that. A nice detail is that Julian's hair waves when he uses the eyes of Medusa. However, he hasn't experienced his trauma yet.

In episode 80, Julian, after seeing his special move being broken and losing against Gingka:

Julian in episode 90 after Damian withstand black excalibur, subsequently having a mental break down.

He is in a similar position both times. The first time, he experienced his first defeat, his first failure; the second time, he lived a complete humiliation. In those panels, Julian seems completely frozen, almost as if he was changed to stone. In a way, this is ironic since Perseus killed and used the power of Medusa to transform his enemies into stone (both in mythology and in the show).

The most disturbing part comes at the end of episode 90, with his face completely deformed. Personally, I couldn't bear to see it when I was younger and first watched the episode. This expression is one of the most unsettling views the show has ever portrayed and perfectly reflects the broken mind of Julian. Interestingly, he could have followed a much darker path without the intervention of Sophie, Wales, and Dashan. Julian seemed to have adopted a new mindset similar to Damian's about the weak and the strong, and was ready to "trample on Dashan's pride." No one can really tell where this would have led Julian, but surely nowhere good.

"I see now. You're the same as that piece of trash, Doji." "Oh no, don't put me together with that Doji [...]"

Ryuga and Dr. Ziggurat in "The Plot Thickens."

Hello, MFB fandom. I wanted to talk about the most terrible adults in the Beyblade Metal Saga ever produced: Doji (Daidoji in the Japanese dub) and Ziggurat. The quotes I just cited are characteristic of how, in the show, characters like Ryuga and Ginga tend to see them as the same (people in real life tend to do that as well). However, despite some common points, they are much more different than they seem.

Same Way, Different Goals

The reason why they're often said to be the same is because of one major thing: the way they achieve their goals. To do that, they abuse the power of Beyblade and also children. Doji gives the Dark Nebula (DN) Bladers as a sacrifice to L-Drago despite their loyalty, as pointed out by Ryutarou. Ziggurat uses the students of HD Academy as test subjects, not only the members of team StarBreaker (SB). Of course, the amount of trauma and abuse they inflict is more complex than that, but it can give you an idea that they don't seem to care about the innocence and vulnerability of children. Ziggurat, in particular, seems to despise children for the former.

One thing that can be said is that they have very different end goals and visions. Doji wants to dominate the Beyblade world and the world in general through Ryuga. This fits particularly well with his character since he always used someone with more power than him to get what he wants: he is like a wolf that can survive without its pack. Doji's idea is not really original; with Ryuga's first appearance in episode 13 and his following fight with Ginga, we directly understood what he wants to do: use the dark and evil artifact to steal everyone's power and use this to rule the world. Ziggurat's worldview is more subtle; he says he wants to use Beyblade in order to take control of pre-existing institutions like governments. He is a CEO after all, who just wants to further increase his wealth and control over society. The spiral force he created (assuming everything went according to plan) could have changed the world forever, a world he could have controlled. Of course, those plans weren't safe at all. Doji had no way of containing Ryuga, and we all know what happened in the end. Faust was obedient as long as he was ordered to make Tempo spin. But imagine if they needed him to stop making the energy for maintenance (because buildings and nuclear reactors need that sometimes)...

The Scales and the Compass

To highlight better their capacity, we can see a little interaction they have. For Ziggurat, he has the most interaction with Zeo, who will defeat him in the end. For Doji, it would be Ryuga, but he was way too formal with him; in a way, he was closer to Yu Tendo. What is more interesting is that Yu and Zeo have parallels between them or rather they mirror each other. Yu is a prodigy, Zeo is not. Yu joined DN for fun and to be with his new friend Ryuga, Zeo joined HD Academy out of desperation for his oldest friend Toby. Yu seemingly had a nice relationship with Doji and in Masters, grew closer to Masamune. Zeo has a terrible working relationship with Ziggurat, and his friendship with Masamune was torpedoed during the SB arc. Kid Zeo looks similar to Yu, and Flame Libra and Byxis both represent objects. You could argue I'm off-topic, but Yu and Zeo are the best characters to understand the psychology of Doji and Ziggurat.

Doji gave various things to Yu, and he rarely gives something to people except false promises and punishment. Yu got an enviable position in DN, along with a room full of toys, the right to recruit and command other DN Bladers, and spend time with Doji. They even share an evil laugh together. And it appears Doji's behavior was beginning to influence Yu. Kenta even thought that they were friends. In reality, they were not. Doji is just a wolf in sheep's clothing. With every character, he acts nice and polite (it's especially true in the Japanese dub) but it is just a facade he made in order to deceive people. At the moment Yu stepped out of line, he changed his attitude. Look at his face right after Ginga and Yu's shake hands.

He threw the poor kid right into Reiji's fang, even though Yu opened his heart to him by telling him how he felt about Beyblade. He understood that his corruption of Yu was eventually going to wear off. He did not even "offer Yu" to Ryuga; no, he was just being petty.. For him, it was as if Ginga had stolen one of his best toys, and so Yu had to be disposed of in the cruelest way possible. To me, their relationship was the most sinister in the whole show because it reflects something real: people pretending to be what they aren't to trap teens/children.

Ziggurat took advantage of Zeo. The way he appeared on a rainy day close to a road is for me reminiscent of the Devil. In fact, he could be inspired by the biblical devil. His Bey represents Capricorn, a goat who was commonly associated with the devil. He leads Hades Inc., has a child named Damian at his service (like the antichrist of The Omen movie), and most importantly of all, he makes contracts and deals. He made a deal with Zeo: "Do my experiment and I will cure your friends." In a way, he did; he cured Toby. Zeo even got stronger, participated in the World Championship, and got a new shiny Bey. But like a contract with the devil, it's all fake: Toby became someone else, Zeo didn't really bond with Flame Byxis, he became crazy because of a painful process that worked half the time for him... Unlike Doji, Ziggurat seemingly gives a lot to those who work with him, but he takes more in return. Ziggurat doesn't hide this; he was even proud of what he did to Toby. He also doesn't shy away from putting down Zeo and even taunted Ryuga about his loss of control to the dark power. And that's because, unlike Doji, he has something for himself. Doji needs other people to get what he wants, Ziggurat has money and his intellect; he can choose who he is working with. That is why Doji recruits Tetsuya; even if he loses, he can still use him to make L-Drago stronger. The doctor recruited only powerful Bladers he could control (blackmail for Julian and money for the Garcias) and threat them and Zeo as pawn.