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Oh my god she really does.

ANGIE IS TREATED SO FUCKING WRONGLY.

The narrative and framing are just so fucking unfair to Angie and it really pisses me off because she legit feels misrepresented more often not. And that’s just fucking rude.

Angie is explicitly referred to as manipulative but like… Her actual “manipulations” aren’t really leading people into doing what they otherwise WOULD NEVER fucking do like both Gonta and Kiibo clearly want the killings to stop and it’s not fucking like anyone else has any better ideas on how to go about doing that. Or any ideas at all, lbr. And Tsumugi is like…clearly just going along with it because…y’know.

As for Himiko, their relationship is seriously fine. Like Angie is legit trying to help Himiko find a peace of mind and a sense of direction where Himiko has like, none. Yes, it enables Himiko to be more passive and whatever but that’s more of Himiko’s own issues rather than anything Angie’s doing. And added to that, people forget that Angie DOESN’T just let Himiko sit back and do fucking nothing when the situation calls for the opposite as she immediately speaks up on Himiko being suspicious as hell in the Chapter 2 trial and points out, rightfully, that this is something Himiko needs to clear up. Something Himiko refuses to do. Again, not Angie’s fault. She’s actually trying to help and be supportive, but gets demonized because… Racism, let’s be real. (Yes, even if Angie’s writing in places is the result of racist stereotyping, she clearly is still getting mistreated based on the fact that she’s ‘foreign and weird’. Let’s not kid ourselves here.)

One other thing about Angie is that she actually is like, really incredibly reasonable. Pretty much every call she makes in Chapter 3 is logically sound and intelligent. She doesn’t trust Saihara’s group because said group includes Maki, the remorseless killer for hire. She destroys the flashlight because they disrupt the group’s harmony (and they’re built to do exactly that seeing as the memories are revealed to be fake down the line). She’s stricter on the group because she wants any would-be murderers to be restrained in what they could do with nighttime surveillance and less opportunity for anything unsavory. A lot of people get onto her for being ~controlling~ but…seriously? Isn’t that incredibly unfair? The situation is already really extreme and it’s not like she’s endangering them, like…the opposite? If anything it’s just inconvenient for the time being considering this lasts all of like…three days.

People really are so unfair to Angie, urgh. My girl is just trying her best to show support and keep everyone safe and she doesn’t get ANYONE killed so why is everyone so harsh? It’s unfair, it’s just so unfair.

Angie is honestly really interesting in how she’s always cheerful in spite of the situation and how, even though she’s ‘controlling’ and ‘manipulative’ (when tbh she really isn’t that bad, the narrative just claims she is because we’re meant to distrust her and that’s just shitty) she’s usually on the right track. She’s very intelligent and understands that the situation is dangerous but rather than letting paranoia consume her, she instead tries to make a safe environment for the others, including those she doesn’t trust and is aware that they don’t trust her, either. While she is still a little self-centered, she’s clearly trying to point her interests in the direction of the group’s well-being during the killing game rather than just trying to benefit herself directly. It would have been easy, for instance, for her to turn the group on Tenko after Tenko is discovered to be snooping around, but… She doesn’t. Instead she wants Tenko to still feel like she could be included even though she’s likely aware that Tenko hates her.

She’s a weird mixture of selfish and selfless and this is probably due to the writing in general not being that great, but I still find her incredibly interesting and engaging when it’s like…not clearly just there to be offensive. This is why she ended up being my favorite in spite of like…literally everything else working against her. She really is the unspoken heroine, similar to Komaeda but like…better because she’s the only one actively trying to take an active approach against potential killings…and yet gets vilified for it.

It’s bullshit. It really is. ANGIE DESERVES SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER.