Response to someone saying Shizuo is a bad person and is no better than Izaya: I SO disagree!
I already addressed this as a response to the post, but I will post it on itâs own here as well. I am not gonna argue with anyone so if you come and respond expecting an argument out of me you will be very disappointed. I just had to say something so I did. Here is my response:
I am so sorry but I disagree all the way with every bit of this. Izaya is my favorite character, but that doesnât mean he hasnât been shitty. He is EXTREMELY shitty. Like you said he drugged two suicidal girls, thatâs bad and I donât know why that was brought up as if itâs nothing compared to Shizuoâs actions (or maybe you werenât implying that, but thatâs how it came across, sorry). He was trying to trick people into becoming suicidal statistics (well, not âtryingâ because he was actually succeeding as far as I understand), heâs the reason Saki was put in the hospital because he manipulated her into doing everything she said, he messed with Mikado so bad that he tried to commit suicide and would have succeeded if it werenât for Celty, he messed with Masaomi, (I canât fully prove this, but) he messed with Namie and was able to get her for himself because of the drama that ensued; I feel like it was heavily implied, he hates Anri just because he doesnât consider her a human even though that poor girl never did a thing to him  (as far as I understand) except âtake his humans awayâ. I can go on and on. But I love him no matter what. Izaya acts on purpose to purposely harm people, and even though he is my favorite character and I am practically in love with him it pisses me off when people justify his actions or try to say that someone else is worse than him. Shizuo does not act on purpose. He acts on impulse and canât control his anger. And yes, people provoke him; I saw that being brought up as well. They piss him off. Most people he beats up provoked him, attacked him, or was doing something wrong. At one point he had no choice because Izaya was putting the word out about him and droves of people were coming to try and beat him up. Him going after Izaya - and eventually harming him severely - was exactly what Izaya deserved if you want me to be honest. I feel bad for Izaya, I would love to nurse him back to âhealthâ if that were at all possible, but itâs what he deserved. Shizuo constantly beats up bad guys. He has attacked a few innocent people, like the reporter who was simply asking a question. That wasnât good. But donât pretend like heâs as bad as or worse than Izaya. Thatâs just a thing people who love Izaya come up with (at least based on this post) and itâs super, SUPER, annoying. I donât remember if this was in a response or what you said in the post, but someone said that Shizuo better be glad he didnât kill Izaya because then heâd be a murderer, completely omitting the fact that Izaya seriously tried to kill Shizuo on that building and so on. Thatâs the kind of stuff Iâm talking about. We omit certain things just to justify Izaya. Heâs my favorite. Like my cousin (who I mentioned below but I edited this sentence in later so itâs after I wrote that part lol) a lot of my favorite characters are bad guys. But just because I like them doesnât mean the shitty stuff they do it suddenly okay. And, in response to one comment, donât blame Tom for not being able to stop Shizuo, because you could easily say the same thing about Namie that wasnât brought up just because they like Izaya. Thatâs like saying Kirishima is at fault for not being able to control Bakugou (My Hero Academia). Neither of them have any control over two grown ass menâs actions. And I saw someone say Verona was worse than Shizuo and Izaya put together...no she is NOT. Sheâs an assassin. She beats up bad guys. She beat up a group of men who told Shizuo and Tom that they wanted blowjobs from her and it was implied they were gonna fight to make her do it whether she wanted to or not. She doesnât go after innocent people and people who are mentally âweakâ like Izaya does constantly just to see people suffer and burn. There was someone who said that no one in Durarara is a good person. I kinda agree with that, but not all the way. Okay. Iâm sorry. I just really needed to say something because that was making me super mad when I found this. Itâs three years old but I really needed to say something. I started crying after discovering this post. I have mental illness. Like one of my very cousins (who actually doesnât have Tumblr), these kinds of things get trapped in my head as a voice and continue to torment me until I address them, so I had to address this. Please donât think that this is an attack. I simply disagree all the way with this; that is all.

















