Unpopular Opinion: Any Relationship With Heed Will Automatically Be Toxic
Let's be honest with ourselves as much as Paperheart is cute in concept it also is toxic in canon. Seriously, whether it's platonic or romantic Miss Heed just is too much of a toxic person for a relationship. Seriously, despite happily kissing Flug while under the influence she feels entitled to his love and devotion in order to validate herself. And used their friendship as teens to get his thesis then ditch him to become a hero. Girl did him dirty it's no wonder he's cynical about love. He's not the only one who she used to advance herself. It's a common pattern of hers.
Seriously, Omega was supposed to be her BFF and here we saw her brainwash him to test her perfume and also prop herself up so she could make it appear he patched things up with his archenemy.
Doesn't stop there because Eflora, Konan, and Incinemiau were all also considered to be her dear friends until she drugged and brainwashed them so that she could win the "New Dawn" contest. Seriously, that I will say it once and I will say it again that is so many levels of shittiness. Imagine someone who you considered a friend brainwashed you to win a competition and become another mindless follower of hers.
It's no wonder her now former friends are glaring daggers at her when the are unbrainwashed and don't think for a minute teaming up with villains to get back at her. And gosh seeing Omega cry after seeing her try to brainwash him again becomes less funny and more heartwenching after what he put him through to get popular and validate herself. Again any sane person who was her friend and was brainwashed would want to stay away the heck from her even with the over up.
I would say an underrated toxic relationship overlooked is practically her non-relationship with Goldheart which is implied to be futile because of her obsessive nature with him. We don't know how he feels about her but given his reactions to the news of her kissing Flug he really only cared that the doctor was meddling in his plans. Despite doing everything to get his attention and being a teammate with him for years he still doesn't really care for her. Heck, they aren't even friends on social media which implies he tries to keep a distance from her. And again this shows she loves the idea of Goldheart but not actually be interested in him as a person but a trophy to have. Again being with the most popular hero will probably in her mind get her the most attention and praise. She also probably thinks she also will get it personally from him with no evidence he's even interested. And again I can't imagine Goldheart would be interested because again she comes off as too much much of a tryhard to get his love and lets be frank in private she can be very bratty and entitled to work with. So, yeah, I can't imagine even the possibility of even a friendship working with them.
It's no wonder that Flug did himself and her a favor. He didn't give into her need to seek validation and trap himself into another toxic relationship with her. I say good for him. However, for Miss Heed she still needs to eventually to take Flug's words to heart so she can maintain any type of relationship without trashing it in favor of seeking shallow validation for herself. She just really needs to learn to love herself before she can learn to love others.








