#this is your regularly scheduled 'screw cheritz for doing this to Jumin' post

[unwiltingblossom]

Because everything is about me let me just say that even now, looking at Mysme, everyone's treatment of Jumin still enrages me and only does so more now.

This month someone suddenly died, someone who I am extremely close to, possibly the person I'm closest to in the world. If I wanted to explain how I feel about that, I can't, except to say that continuing to be alive takes almost all of my power, and that's something that will probably never change. And to the chat groups and places that I have social interaction with, I say extremely little about it to them. Mostly I just continue on exactly the same as I always am, with some occasional mention of it here and there. I only have spoken in depth about it extremely briefly and in private to people I feel comfortable doing so with.

The routes in Mystic Messenger would address this in the same way they do Jumin dealing with his own tragedies and stresses: calling a fundamentally broken person for behaving calmly, a robot for controlling my behavior, and then making fun about using a trusted source as 'a diary' if I were to go into how I felt.

I'm not trying to go for sympathy points or say "I'm just like Jumin guys look!" my point is that I've always been irritated with the fact that they act like him being introverted, calm and collected is somehow wrong, that when he goes through a crisis and maintains a cool head it's proof that he's just a broken human who doesn't function right, and when he finally reaches so much distress that cracks show, they make fun of him for it being so uncharacteristic.

The characters constantly do this to Jumin on every route, and where other times they generally only do this on that person's route and are proven to be wrong, with Mysme it's always just played off as a joke and like the people he's supposed to be friends with are completely in the right to treat him like that.

You are not a broken person because you can handle yourself and appear to be well put together even when the world is falling apart around you.

You're not wrong or some kind of freak because you keep your emotions and your internal struggles to yourself as much as humanly possible.

It's not harmless fun to make fun of a person who's hurting so much that they have to let it out to someone they feel comfortable with or trust, even if they're the type to usually be stoic and reserved. Jumin was wrong to trust the RFA with his emotional pain just because he trusted them most, but he was wrong because the RFA don't return those feelings, not because he trusted someone and needed to vent.

The RFA is full of asshole friends who barely count as friends to Jumin. It's irritating that Mysme pretends it's not.

Don't be like the RFA to Jumin, and if you're Jumin in that situation, probably don't put up with the RFA invalidating the way you operate just because it's different from how they do.