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sharknark · 10 months ago

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during the scene itself i was thinking 'yeesh lil bro's really letting kite wail on him" but 😭 he has no experience healthily handling guilt like that; self-punishment is the naked, vulnerable response of a child who has no control or understanding of the world around him. his "it doesn't matter anymore" mindset when confronting pitou is an escalation of that---his welfare stops being a priority as a way of punishment for failing

#hxh #gon freecss #video #all the adults standing around like haha hehe let's just do nothing about the obviously mentally struggling child #granted- nothing they could've said would've helped but like. doesn't mean it's better to say /nothing/ at all lmao #also not to say self-punishment is something only children do #but that its a coping mechanism that's correlated with inexperience #its something you fall back on when you have no other means of making the situation feel better or at least feel more balanced #so generally the older you get- the more ways to live you encounter- and less vulnerable you are to bad coping mechanisms. tis all

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