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prodigal-explorer · 10 months ago

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it’s so cute (/s) when basil fans whine about how “basil feels so guilty all the time and he has abandonment issues cuz his parents were jerks and he’s just a kid who makes mistakes wah wah don’t ever criticize him ever” and then turn around call aubrey a bully when SHE feels so guilty all the time and has abandonment issues cuz her parents are jerks and she’s just a kid who makes mistakes.

hmm.

you’re in a stalemate now basil fans. you can’t admit that basil is your smol innocent baby without admitting that aubrey also is one, which she’s not, right?

so that means basil can’t be either! wow! what a concept, a boy doing something wrong and not having a million excuses made for him?? how wild.

#contrary to popular belief #aubrey is actually just basil but better and cooler and awesomer and more badass #like their situations are so similar but they handled it so differently #and i get that mental illness makes things hard for some people that are easy for others #but nothing aubrey did was a cakewalk #when she realized she fucked up #SHE APOLOGIZED AS SOON AS SHE COULD.#and she ADMITTED WHAT SHE DID #and tried as hard as she could to atone.#what did basil do?#oh yeah.#he pretended to be an innocent baby and it WORKED.#whether or not he meant to #he DID manipulate his friends to believe that he was just a victim #and that aubrey didn’t have a reason for what she was doing #even though she DID have a reason #she just knew nobody would believe her or care if she spoke up about it #okay i know basil fans are gonna send me death threats again #so let me say for the record that I DONT THINK BASIL IS EVIL.#i actually love his role in the narrative and he’s amazing mental illness representation #but he is so good BECAUSE of how hard it is for him to be redeemable.#no matter how sorry he is #BASIL FUCKING DESTROYED PEOPLE. it doesn’t matter that he’s mentally ill.#those scars on the people he hurt won’t fade just because they’re shown a psychiatric diagnosis.#and i think that’s an important lesson #that it’s possible to be mentally ill and a horrible person and that’s not demonizing mental illness that’s just being a person #forgiveness isn’t mandatory. it’s optional and you’re not bad if you decide not to forgive someone for ruining your life!#omori #aubrey omori #basil omori

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