#fight class 3

[plpe01]

He protect, He attack, but most importantly He came back

[kingslayerstew]

fc3 is genuinely so frustrating cos one of the drawing points of its first part to me was the treatment of its female characters, and i dont just mean it in a "no fanservice of high school girls" way. women were extended the same empathy, complexity and presence as men, they were presented as multifaceted and didnt center men, there were gnc women, female friendships and romantic feelings between women, fully platonic male-female friendships. their designs were as distinct and as visually interesting as the male designs. not that it was feminist by any means (the story literally starts w mc's sister getting kidnapped at his moms funeral), and writing women as ppl is obv the bare minimum, but it felt like a breath of fresh air within the genre.

ofc all of that gets thrown out the window once mc enters the slums, and all of a sudden the female deuteragonist is in a coma for a majority of the arc and every 5 chapters one of the new male characters starts yapping abt transhumanist philosophy for an eternity while all the new female characters do is react to the shit around them. they're cool but we get barely any internality for them when the male characters don't seem to run out of internality. why does ojin get to have a fully illustrated introspective chapter before his death when redhead gets beheaded without saying a single word, when nothing about her indicated that she would ever surrender like that. this was a character that always carried herself in a dignified way, completely stripped of that dignity. but instead of focusing on her thoughts on that or her in general, the focus is entirely on some authors pet male character's manpain instead. i don't fucking care that steelworks is entirely comprised of male psychopaths why do we get their entire psychological profile but we don't even get to see how redhead became the leader of her gang. we don't see how she got her scar we don't get to see how she feels abt her previous leader dying or what their relationship was even. all this despite her being one of the arc's main antags. her death left an awful taste in my mouth, and i'm not the only one.

[tiramisuman-p]

woman i loved

[oneoftruth]

Now then would you believe it if I told this guy is 17 no will give it a read manwah of the month for me I love it and if you like fighting and starting weak and going strong you will love it great story great jokes give it a read

[sxbxb8]

if i had a nickel for every time I was reading a manhwa about school life shenanigans with interesting premise and fighting that developed into gang wars, i’d have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[unhealthydoctors]

If you’re not reading Fight Class 3 yet... well why Not!  Anyways, them <3 

[egoroamer]

They are done

[cj-marj]

I’m supposed to go out and buy groceries today but I don’t want to leave my bed. I’d rather lie here and read fanfics and manhwas all day.

[daisukoth]

LMAO

[bacchuschucklefuck]

sometimes I think abt how the months coming up to and the prom night in freshman year must feel to class swap sklonda. your perfect kid who has literally never gotten a single reprimand for anything does what can only be described as a quad crit crime combo and becomes a nerd punisher by the end of the night

[plpe01]

Fight Class 3 Fanart

[kingslayerstew]

[frankensteinposm0]

Lil bro got stuck in my head and doesn't want to get out of there

[queenie-official-2]

i could take them

[skrunksthatwunk]

actually i'm still thinking about the moral orel finale.

he has a cross on his wall. do you know how much i think about that bc it's a lot.

a lot of stories ((auto)biographical or fictional) centering escape from abusive/fundamentalist christianity result in the lead characters leaving behind christianity entirely. and that makes complete sense! people often grow disillusioned with the associated systems and beliefs, and when it was something used to hurt them or something so inseparable from their abuse that they can't engage with it without hurting, it makes total sense that they would disengage entirely. and sometimes they just figure out that they don't really believe in god/a christian god/etc. a healthy deconstruction process can sometimes look like becoming an atheist or converting to another religion. it's all case by case. (note: i'm sure this happens with other religions as well, i'm just most familiar with christian versions of this phenomenon).

but in orel's case, his faith was one of the few things that actually brought him comfort and joy. he loved god, y'know? genuinely. and he felt loved by god and supported by him when he had no one else. and the abuses he faced were in how the people in his life twisted religion to control others, to run away from themselves, to shield them from others, etc. and often, orel's conflicts with how they acted out christianity come as a direct result of his purer understanding of god/jesus/whatever ("aren't we supposed to be like this/do that?" met with an adult's excuse for their own behavior or the fastest way they could think of to get orel to leave them alone (i.e. orel saying i thought we weren't supposed to lie? and clay saying uhhh it doesn't count if you're lying to yourself)). the little guy played catch with god instead of his dad, like.. his faith was real, and his love was real. and i think it's a good choice to have orel maintain something that was so important to him and such a grounding, comforting force in the midst of. All That Stuff Moralton Was Up To/Put Him Through. being all about jesus was not the problem, in orel's case.

and i know i'm mostly assuming that orel ended up in a healthier, less rigid version of christianity, but i feel like that's something that was hinted at a lot through the series, that that's the direction he'd go. when he meditates during the prayer bee and accepts stephanie's different way to communicate, incorporating elements of buddhism into his faith; when he has his I AM A CHURCH breakdown (removing himself from the institution and realizing he can be like,, the center of his own faith? taking a more individualistic approach? but Truly Going Through It at the same time), his acceptance (...sometimes) of those who are different from him and condemned by the adults of moralton (stephanie (lesbian icon stephanie my beloved), christina (who's like. just a slightly different form of fundie protestant from him), dr chosenberg (the jewish doctor from otherton in holy visage)). his track record on this isn't perfect, but it gets better as orel starts maturing and picking up on what an absolute shitfest moralton is. it's all ways of questioning the things he's been taught, and it makes sense that it would lead to a bigger questioning as he puts those pieces together more. anyway i think part of his growth is weeding out all the lost commandments of his upbringing and focusing on what faith means to him, and what he thinks it should mean. how he wants to see the world and how he wants to treat people and what he thinks is okay and right, and looking to religion for guidance in that, not as like. a way to justify hurting those he's afraid or resentful of, as his role models did.

he's coming to his own conclusions rather than obediently, unquestioningly taking in what others say. but he's still listening to pick out the parts that make sense to him. (edit/note: and it's his compassion and his faith that are the primary motivations for this questioning and revisal process, both of individual cases and, eventually, the final boss that is christianity.) it makes perfect sense as the conclusion to his character arc and it fits the overall approach of the show far better. it's good is what i'm saying.

and i think it's important to show that kind of ending, because that's a pretty common and equally valid result of deconstruction. and i think it cements the show's treatment of christianity as something that's often (and maybe even easily) exploited, but not something inherently bad. something that can be very positive, even. guys he even has a dog he's not afraid of loving anymore. he's not afraid of loving anyone more than jesus and i don't think it's because he loves this dog less than bartholomew (though he was probably far more desperate for healthy affection and companionship when he was younger). i think it's because he figures god would want him to love that dog. he's choosing to believe that god would want him to love and to be happy and to be kind. he's not afraid of loving in the wrong way do you know how cool that is he's taking back control he's taking back something he loves from his abusers im so normal