Schrödinger's Blog

Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass.

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

Round Two

You know, for someone the fandom likes to joke about as "the betrayal guy", Ango is incredibly consistent in his loyalties. He was simply never loyal to Mimic or the Port Mafia in the first place; he only joined them as a spy, and he stuck to his original loyalties even when he made friends and started feeling bad about it. He didn't even really betray the government for Dazai in the DOA arc; they'd been subverted by the Page and Dazai had a plan for fixing that. Even when going against orders, he was acting in the Special Division's real best interests and never mind if other people didn't see it that way.

I would gently go further and suggest that Ango isn't loyal to organizations or institutions, but Yokohama, specific people, and his values. He participates in organizations as a means to serving that which and those who he holds dearer than submission to any authority for submission's sake. Ango seemingly doesn't hold the Special Division as an institution dearly — instead, he holds dearly certain people within the Special Division and the Special Division's constituency.