#can't fully articulate the way this effects Tsuna's psychology

[phantomchick]

The problem with Tsuna and his guardians, is that with the sometimes exception of Yamamoto, no one fucking gets it. What I mean is, everyone (with the exception of Hibari and Ryohei who are both fine and also singlemindedly uninterested in understanding him outside of their connection) unloads their tragic backstory onto him and he very emphatically empathises with each of them, Gokudera's willingness to sacrifice for a boss that cares about him, Yamamoto's isolation from being expected to be perfect, Mukuro and Chrome's traumatic past of abuse and neglect, Lambo's family sending him to kill Reborn of all people. And yet they're all uninterested or oblivious to his own struggles as someone who used to be bullied and who everyone including himself saw as incompetent and useless. For me that really damages the connection between them, because though we see it from Tsuna's perspective learning about each of them, the very real fact that he doesn't really open up to any of them in return, apart from Yamamoto that one day he saves him and explains he was lying about the trying your best advice because he's never succeeded at anything by trying his best and he doesn't have the motivation to do so anyway - an attempt to open up after seeing Yamamoto's obvious despair that quickly gets shelved never to be brought up again after Yamamoto enters into a rivalry with Gokudera. I mean the first person he really opens up to about his past and his feelings of dissonance between it and his current position as the vongola heir is to Enma Kozato (the simon family heir) who's taken his place as the bullied kid in school, and even then even then his attempt gets rejected by Enma on the basis of Tsuna now being too much of a mafioso for it to matter.