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Yuuji gets a found family and then bam, reverse uno card. His fucked up biological family randomly start appearing and try to kill him in roundabout ways as part of a big plot conceived before he was. That's it..thats the entire plot of jjk

The Luo Binghes, Shen Jiu, and Airplane!Shang Qinghua, are a good example about the same trauma can manifest in different ways

All have severe Abandonment Issues and self hatred but all three present them differently

the Binghe are greedy for love. Bing-ge hoards women and drowns the world in blood and is never satisfied. Bing-mei just wants one person to look at him forever. They are both obsessed with their Shen Qingqiu's but in different ways.

He's the cornerstone of their abandonment issues but for different reasons. Bing-ge because he was forever iced out and could never get his Shen Qingqiu to see him as anything more than a beast and Bing-mei because the person who loved him best threw him away

Bing-ge's hunger for love consumed a world

Bing-mei's hunger was met by someone willing to try and satisfy it with their own love. For however long it might take

Neither of them trust easily but they want to be able to

Shen Jiu lashed out to keep everyone away. He trusted no one and assumed everyone wished to hurt him and so hurt them first or failed to defend himself. His self hatred was projected onto others to avoid looking at his own pain straight on. By perpetuating the cycle of abuse he could point to his own abuse and say "it's not that bad. It's how things should be done"

To reach out with kindness would be to acknowledge what was done to him and actually attempt to deal with it. It feels easier to continue the pain. It's not but it can feel like it is.

He's self destructing because he thinks he deserves it and he pushes people away with nastiness because if no one loves him then he can't have that love taken away

Shang Qinghua puts on smiles and bows in servitude and pretends it doesn't bother him. He's people pleasing and he hates it. He trusts no one and resents the pain he gets but isn't surprised by it. He puts up walls via genial blandness. He's polite and he's smiling and he never actually says anything or connects because if he does the void meant for love and acceptance and praise that never comes will be exposed and he will drown in it's hunger

He never acknowledges his need for love even as he craves it deep down

He ices you out with a smile but at the same time craves being seen.

It's so interesting to see these characters with such similar issues handle them in such diverse ways

And as someone with abandonment and self hatred issues and a never ending void hungry for praise and love it's nice to see the nuance those emotions can cause in a work or fiction

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our little magi

The list of people who know that Robin 2 is now Red Hood is small but the Riddler is one of them and I’ll explain why

12 year old Jason as Robin: Hey Riddler! How do you confuse an idiot?

Riddler: How?

Jason: Bicycle

Riddler: That doesn’t make any sense

Jason: I guess we found the idiot then

Riddler: …

Riddler: When you die, I won’t send flowers to the funeral

Jason: You better check my grave yourself to make sure I’m really gone

~years later~

Red Hood: Hey Riddler

Red Hood: Looks like someone forgot to check my grave