The actual tragedy of Suguru Geto is that he ended up where he did precisely because he gave too much of a shit.
Suguru has always been the emotional intelligence between him and Satoru.
He was the one noticing things.
He checked in on people, like when Satoru was running on fumes after using his technique, Suguru was the one saying āhey, you must be tired.ā When they got back from the mission, he told him āyou did a great job.ā
And this didnāt apply just to Satoru, this is also the guy who looked at Riko and actually considered how she must have felt about the whole situation.
Remember that moment when Satoru asked if they should kill those cult members?
Satoru was ready to do it and it was Suguru who stopped him, saying there was no point to it.
The awful irony is that they processed the same trauma in completely opposite ways. Satoru, who initially wanted to kill the non-sorcerers, threw himself into training to become the strongest. He doubled down on being a weapon.
Suguru, who had been the empathetic one, spiraled.
Part of Satoruās sense of betrayal comes from the fact that heād always looked up to Suguru as the moral center between them. He was the one who understood people, who cared about how others felt and then that same person turned around and decided an entire category of humans didnāt deserve to exist.
Itās exactly his empathy, his ability to feel too much, to absorb too much of other peopleās paināthat destroyed him. He cared so much about sorcerers, about the suffering he witnessed, his friends, that it rotted into something unrecognizable.
Meanwhile Satoru, whoād always seen himself and others as tools, who had that emotional distance built in, didnāt go down that path. Maybe because he never had as far to fall.
So yeah, Iām tired of the fanon characterization that acts like Suguru is cold or detached.
The whole point is that he wasnt, the whole point is that this happened to someone kind.
