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I am so sorry but I disagree all the way with every bit of this. Izaya is my favorite character, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been shitty. He is EXTREMELY shitty. Like you said he drugged two suicidal girls, that’s bad and I don’t know why that was brought up as if it’s nothing compared to Shizuo’s actions (or maybe you weren’t implying that, but that’s how it came across, sorry). He was trying to trick people into becoming suicidal statistics (well, not “trying” because he was actually succeeding as far as I understand), he’s 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 weren’t for Celty, he messed with Masaomi, (I can’t 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 doesn’t consider her a human even though that poor girl never did a thing to him  (as far as I understand) except “take his humans away”. 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 can’t 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 “health” if that were at all possible, but it’s 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 wasn’t good. But don’t pretend like he’s as bad as or worse than Izaya. That’s just a thing people who love Izaya come up with (at least based on this post) and it’s super, SUPER, annoying. I don’t remember if this was in a response or what you said in the post, but someone said that Shizuo better be glad he didn’t kill Izaya because then he’d be a murderer, completely omitting the fact that Izaya seriously tried to kill Shizuo on that building and so on. That’s the kind of stuff I’m talking about. We omit certain things just to justify Izaya. He’s my favorite. Like my cousin (who I mentioned below but I edited this sentence in later so it’s after I wrote that part lol) a lot of my favorite characters are bad guys. But just because I like them doesn’t mean the shitty stuff they do it suddenly okay. And, in response to one comment, don’t blame Tom for not being able to stop Shizuo, because you could easily say the same thing about Namie that wasn’t brought up just because they like Izaya. That’s 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 men’s actions. And I saw someone say Verona was worse than Shizuo and Izaya put together...no she is NOT. She’s 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 doesn’t go after innocent people and people who are mentally “weak” 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. I’m sorry. I just really needed to say something because that was making me super mad when I found this. It’s 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 doesn’t 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 don’t think that this is an attack. I simply disagree all the way with this; that is all.