#once again disclaimer that i dont actually care how anyone writes shigaraki i just have opinions abt the trends in fandom

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People will really say with such fucking conviction a completely incorrect interpretation of Shigaraki as a character. It’s so funny to me… ig because that’s part of the point of his character? He’s constantly overlooked and talked down to and never listened to despite openly stating his desires and his motives from the very start—even by characters like AFO who certainly think they know him.

Anyway. There’s this rlly common thought that Shigaraki’s biggest toxic trait as a boyfriend would be possessiveness or being controlling and tbh… that’s just not an aspect of his personality? One of his biggest traits as the League’s leader is that he’s not controlling at all… in fact he holds himself to a much higher standard in terms of loyalty than he does the others. For the most part he lets them all do whatever the fuck they want and trusts that they’re loyal, so interpreting him as controlling/possessive is a fundamental misunderstanding of his character imo. He’s patient and he remembers things about what his allies want; it got cut from the anime but in the manga he lets Spinner full-on attack him and yell at him and genuinely listens to what the guy is saying while he does it, and then takes the League on a field trip to take out a cult of anti-mutant extremists to actively show Spinner that he was listening. Those aren’t the actions of someone who’s controlling or childish...

Idk. I think there r childish & toxic aspects to the way he’d view romance (obviously, he was raised by AFO ffs of course there’d be fucked up elements to his affection) but ultimately of all the villains save for maybe like. Mr Compress. I think Shigaraki (certainly later on in the story) would be one of the most healthy partners lmfao. And in terms of possessiveness... I feel like he’d be too secure in his relationship to even bother. like ur dating him, it’s a given that you’re his and he’s yours, so he’s not about to give a shit about you hanging out with anyone or even disappearing for days at a time

And again its more amusing than anything to me, because it feels more like a “well he’s the main villain so he must have these toxic traits commonly associated with villainy” kind of reasoning than a genuine look at his character, which is funny because again in-universe people do that to him all the time! How many times has he outlined his views on society and heroes and his motivations behind what he’s doing, only for the hero he’s going up against to declare that he’s only destroying for the sake of destruction and has no intention behind it? It’s been happening since his introduction!