It's True

It's true

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Please welcome our writer @masodemic! Her well-researched essays are sure to open your eyes to a whole new aspect of Mononoke's universe.

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Commander Rester takes care of Near day to day, cooks his food, brews his coffee, drapes a blanket on him when he's cold

Halle Lidner is the discipliner, she got Near to give up his kiddie pool and forces him to go to the rooftop for fresh air and sun once in a while

Stephen Gevanni is the pampler, he brushes Near's hair, buys new toys, and shows up with a cake on his birthday

Who else is thinking about the SPK having to constantly, exasperatedly parent Near?

It's ✨dripression✨

mello is such a broken person. I don't even mean that in the average messed up character way, he was raised in a way that made his life miserable no matter what. the only thing he wants is to be praised and be the best and told he's good enough, but if someone ever told him that it would hurt worse than every single time he overheard people saying how near is better than him. the one thing that should make him happy brings him more pain than anything else. he's doomed to be this desolate blackhole of contradictions and the only thing that could change that would be to shatter him completely and start over.

but hey at least he's fashionable

Then again, who the hell is 100% independent anyway? We all have needs for each other. It's just one of the curses of being humans.

I enjoy writing Near so much because there are aspects where he is startlingly insightful, mature and sensitive; and then there are parts of him that society would deem childish and immature. And maybe I too feel like that, maybe we all do on some level.

Tbh I hate it when the fandom infantilizes Near. It happens with L too, but especially with Near. For some reason he gets treated like he is forever 13 because he looks "baby", when for most of the manga he is 17/18. Also, seeing as he has "childish" interests, he must be totally clueless about "adult issues" (especially when it's about sex) and must be protected by those at all cost. He is codependent on the Kira task force which for the fanbase translates as all of the members acting as his parents and babysitters, not as coworkers who provide him with what he wants because he cannot work at the best of his abilities without those needs being met. Yes, Near can act childish and the Wammy house made it so he'd never be fully independent as an individual, but that doesn't mean he is a clueless kid without any agency of his own.