#personal response

This is some righteous writing here, with points saying things people are doing right and discussing the utility of feeling and performing anger in opposing oppression.

I write triggers as accurately as it seems I do, not because I have any, but because one of my best friends does.

My friend grew up in a terrible household. Born from a teen pregnancy in a loveless couple, her parents split up a month after her birth and went their separate ways. She got saddled with one parent, who turned out to be physically, emotionally, verbally, psychologically abusive. My friend suffered through that for all of her childhood and early teen years before finally managing to move in with her other parent instead.

Her other parent took her across the country to move for a job. She wanted to come back to our home state, but couldn’t. She was too young, and her parent wouldn’t take her back. My friend’s parent emotionally abused her (though, thankfully, nothing more) for another few years. Then, finally, she managed to file for emancipation and, miraculously, she won. She had money saved up from a job she had gotten and moved back home, got a little apartment, and was able to make it through everything. She has a great boyfriend, good friends, and she’s right where she wants to be.

However, just because things are better for her now doesn’t mean that everything that happened to her is just gone. 

She still can’t hold hands with anyone except for me. She won’t even hold hands with her boyfriend most of the time. She can’t stand people calling her certain nicknames, because they remind her of her parents. She won’t wear bottoms that go up above her thighs. She has her hair dyed a completely different color and refuses to look at pictures from when she was a kid. She has a therapist, and she has nightmares, and she has to work through her past pain every single day.

I’ve watched her struggle through so many things. I’ve watched the triggers affect her whether we’re in private or public. Sometimes I know what caused it, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I can calm her down, help her out, sometimes I can’t. 

Zuko’s triggers and the aftermath of the abuse that he went through, as well as the way that the ZPS helps him (or can’t help him) is all affected by my experiences and my friend’s experiences.

Funnily enough, we’re actually working through her life together right now. She wants to finally get all of her thoughts out but doesn’t know how, so I’m helping her by formatting her memories into a story. 

I don’t know. I just go off of the most real life example I know. One of my best friends.

I guess it seems so personal because it is.

Oh definitely that feeling with all of the characters

I’ve expressed this elsewhere how no matter how much I love assclass- they’ve done a lot of the characters dirty when they could’ve used them/created arcs and scenarios for them like how bnha does

Sugino managed to get a baseball arc in well done am proud but after that he is pretty much out of the picture only really being Nagisas best friend- but I agree with you there is a lot to him That is mentioned but never seen or taken up on- a lot of others have that too

And I think it’s sad since the only continually developed characters I would say to be Nagisa Karma Terasaka Korosensei Kayano Okuda Ritsu And Itona (if were talking outside then both asanos too towards the later part)

That may seem a lot and some may argue hey chiba and Hayami are noticed or Maehara and Isogai Kataoka rio etc

But are they..?

Like now I look back on the show I literally can’t remember any arcs for anyone and it was dirty to scrap out like just 8 students during the island arc and

I am not hating on assclass it holds a very very very special place to me

But whenever a plot point happened it was 90% karma or Nagisa

Everyone else was mainly... not there or for comedy

I’m starting to think of fic ideas to up the status on them but I just hope there’s still people around to read them

I’m promising hunger games soon too but it may be more end of month/February I have a couple of one shots I want to do to get me back into writing

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