#especially with how complex and rich enstars writing (used to be) is when it came to writing their characters

[ririnyann]

Tsumugi's Innocence...

I feel like people love to just give tsumugi no autonomy, looking at him as if he did nothing wrong while making natsume the whole big-bad and getting angry at him for hurting their poor little meow meow (mugi) while completely disregarding the fact that tsumugi basically helped "kill" natsume's beloved niisans and had a hand in all the suffering they went through during The War

like sure the hate tsumugi gets from some of the characters feels wildly conflated out of context, but like eichi is introduced to us as a villain really early on + nagisa and hiyori are in reimei/shuetsu, and also introduced ss villains to us in the main story so in a way the characters are rooted against these members of exfine — but tsumugi is a special exception because only a very select few still categorize him in that role he played back then (frankly the eccentrics and even the other exfine members)

but frankly it is deserved in a way, tsumugi was complacent with what exfine did in the war, hell he was even saying he'll shield eichi from any stones thrown at him (well before the last live with wataru happened but yknow)

though going back.. now see he's not introduced to us and even anzu as a villain in the main story now because he's changed !! you could see it in the way he lets his hair grow and even starts wearing his old lenses, and while it can be a quirk of sentimentality it is something that helps tsumugi hold onto the past, even in !-era he still speaks about events he partook as if he was a distant observer

sure natsume helped speed it up through their reconciliation but eventually tsumugi had to learn sooner or later that he couldn't keep running from the past or detaching himself from it. despite how kind and friendly he wants to be just so he feel needed by the people around him, he will inevitably hurt someone and will need to atone for that