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[corancoranthemagicalman]

Okay, so I recently got back into Yuri!!! On Ice (I’ve delayed in rewatching the episodes since I want to do draw alongs and haven’t had the time or energy for that yet.) But I have an opinion that I’ve always wanted to express.

I really like JJ’s character.

When I first started interacting with the show while it was airing, I didn’t have a Tumblr or anything. A lot of the opinions and discussions of JJ I saw were totally negative (and still are.) And to me that’s very disheartening, especially since we see JJ have change (even if slightly). (Now, as I haven’t watched the show in three years it’s not quite fresh in my mind, but this is what I’m feeling as of current.) JJ is an asshole, but I like that.

JJ is cocky. He’s a bastard. There’s no, “oh well he was pressured into this” because all of the skaters experienced pressure in their youth. We see it in the show’s run with Yurio and we can pick it up in the dialogue of the other character’s (maybe especially even Viktor). But what we see toward the end, when JJ flops his last skate, is he is King JJ. I think it was a super powerful moment in Yuri!!! On Ice where we see JJ have his break down and instead of falling to that break down, once he knows he’s plummeted, he loses JJ Style. Do you know how awesome that is to see a character own their loses like that? JJ - whose entire character has been “I’mma win the gold, bitch” - flourishes into this character of “well, I’m still a boss ass bitch.” In fact, if we forgo the personality of the two characters entirely, this attitude is what Yuuri should have had in the previous Grand Prix. Yuuri had that same break down and same plummet, but instead of being sure of himself, he crumbled.

I’m not saying that JJ isn’t an asshole. He is an asshole. His personality can be toxic. But I like that. I think he’s such a cool character. Would I be friends with him? Probably not, but then again, seeing that end of his, I think the lose sort of humbled him slightly. Maybe he didn’t have the large character changing arc that others did (Georgi and Mickey [who we’ll get back to], or any of Yuuri, Yurio, and Viktor) but he had his own change. His own change that he could still lose and still do it in JJ Style. He’s not a loveable character because of his flaws. He’s a well-written and human character that I admire very much because he’s an asshole. It’s actually hilarious because he’s actual such an this is how other people see Americans trope and he’s Canadian.

Now, for people who hate the character. They hate the charcter and not the person and I think that’s unfair. They act like he’s the only toxic character written on the show. Hell, all of the characters have their own version of toxic. Georgi and his dependency on a romantic relationship and Mickey and his dependency on his relationship with Sara are two prominent ones. Honestly, I think Mickey is sort of way more toxic than JJ (at least, in my opinion. Hence the I think. None of this is like, research or anything. It’s just my opinion and how I consumed the show and the characters.)

See, JJ’s family (his parents, his fianceé), they promote his behaviour. His fiance clings to his arm and says, “hell yeah, I’ll marry him when he wins gold because he will,” but then she’s also super supportive when JJ loses (which is honestly so beautiful. I thought she was gonna be a gold digger, but she has such a genuine reaction to JJ’s fall and his rise again that it’s super endearing. In fact, that reaction shot of her and JJ’s parents helps to endear the entire moment of JJ losing in JJ Style.)

But Mickey, well, no one wants that. Emil, Sara, and other characters all acknowledge that his near obsession with his sister is not healthy or helpful. And while I’m not saying that I hate the character (I actually love him supremely, I love the growth of him ;~;). I just think it’s a bit odd that we hyper-fixate on JJ as “the Jackass™️” and don’t acknowledge that there are other characters who have those moments. Maybe they don’t play out as the story’s “antagonist”, but really, every character had their own antagonist and half of the time it was themself.

Hell, even Yurio falls into this category of antagonistic and jackass-ish. The first time we even see Yurio he’s introduced as a psuedo-antagonist. (We learn, however, that Yurio is not Yuuri’s antagonist. Yuuri’s own self-confidence is his antagonist. His battle with his doubt and anxiety, etc... [but that’s it’s own novel, isn’t it?]) Yurio verbally berates Yuuri (after his dog has died, even if Yurio didn’t know it) and he battles Yuuri for Viktor. Granted, Yurio goes from jackass to insecure 15 years old real quick, but why does Yurio’s acts get forgiven “because he’s young”? He’s recognized as an adult to some degree since at age 15 he’s moved to the Senior League, right? Or even still, JJ is only nineteen himself. Who the hell is an adult at 19? We’re still flabbergasting our way through life by either pretending to be confident in what we’re doing or screaming into the void. My point is, all of the characters are actually fairly young and they’re still learning.

I’m not saying that JJ is hanging out with the group and is part of the “and they all lived together happily ever after” ending. I’m just saying I don’t get why his character is constantly either thrown away or treated like the series villain. Yeah, sure, he was certainly Yurio’s villain for a while. And Yuuri’s too. JJ is an asshole, but I think acting like he’s the only asshole is really detrimental. Or really, I think avidly hating a character when there are people who like him, admire his ability to lose in JJ style, is one of the huge downfalls of fandom. Any  fandom that I am in, there’s always that one asshole who everyone shits on (and I have been guilty of it from time to time but I’m trying to not do that) because tryying to look for JJ content and getting only putrid hate for the character sucks ass.

Anyways, TL;DR: I love JJ’s character and I think the loathing that he gets as if his name alone brings vile to someone’s throat sucks ass for people (like me) who actually super love the character.