Tsuyushuu - T S U Y U

this is just six of crows but here we go:

- nina and matthias never actually abandoned their duties for “love”. they accept each other, but at the same time are tormented by their loyalty to their country. nina and matthias are extremely homesick all the time; nina never discarded her faithfulness in ravka or grisha and matthias never renounced his religion. they changed because of one another, yes, but their story is not just “enemies to lovers”.

- inej’s sexual trauma can be set off when someone touches her - even when nina or jesper hugs her. she doesn’t react quite as badly as kaz, but physical contact still triggers her. she suppressed it so even kaz didn’t know about this until she told him.

- jesper can actually hold his own in a physical, non-gun related fight (i have proof). he is also smart enough to make his own guns with the help of a fabrikator, to argue with wylan about explosive materials and to pursue higher education. he is not just a comedic relief.

- kaz is ruthless, amoral and cold but he is not a distant boss to the other crows. he makes jokes with them, flips jesper off when they banter, jokingly calls inej “treasure of [his] heart” and nina “love”, loses bets to wylan and makes fun of matthias’s religiousness - most of the time he acts like their slappable friend with a dark sense of humor and a questionable haircut.

- wylan is not just jesper’s cute love interest that tags along on a job just for shits and giggles and the occasional booms and bangs. he is a deeply damaged child who still believes in goodness despite never believing in himself.

for people who haven’t read the shadow and bone/ six of crows books, but have seen the show:

- inej ghafa is a survivor of childhood sex trafficking. she has ptsd and reacts in a panic attack at even walking past the menagerie

- kaz’s trauma isn’t just pekka rollins being responsible for jordie’s death, and waking up on the barge. he had to swim to shore, age nine and barely alive, using jordie’s body as a float

- the darkling has done far worse things than are shown on screen. he is not a ‘lost man’ and alina is not his ‘balance’

- alina was seventeen upon the darkling being nsfw/ romantic with her

- matthias helvar did not lead drüskelle, that was jarl brum- matthias is only just barely an adult himself

- the crows are not their own separate gang, they are part of the dregs, who per haskell leads and kaz takes over from haskell after haskell sold out his lieutenant (kaz) to pekka rollins

- zoya, genya, and alina have personalities outside of either being traumatised or hating each other

- alina never wanted any of the power and fame and idolatry, and in the end of the books is stripped of it all. she is very happy about this

- jesper is a gambling addict and somebody who watched the death of his mother

op i will kiss you on the mouth (if you’ll let me ofc).

i literally ranted on my blog about the non-solution (sevika being on the council) to the piltover-zaun conflict yesterday and in that post i haven’t even gotten close to dissecting the intrinsically problematic politics behind the show yet, so it’s really cathartic to see this post popped up.

context: i was born and raised in a country where there are still traces of colonialist and imperialist invasions. my country was liberated when my mother was 6 years old, and less then 30 years before i was born - it’s recent enough that this kind of oppression and economic exploitation is not a foreign concept to me. i grew up hearing stories about how people like my great grandfather fought and died for the freedom i enjoy today, how significant that sacrifice was and more importantly, how violent the struggle was.

you see, in stories like these, the point is rarely ever the victory, it’s the fight. no matter what version of victory the oppressed masses envision it to be, they can never reach it without violence - either towards themselves or their oppressors. anticipating that, what i wanted from season 2 was not that zaunites will be promoted to positions of power or even that zaun will eventually be independent, i just wanted to see the class struggle play out in its full bloody grittiness. this is not me saying that it would be cool to see a bunch of people murdering enforcers or vice versa, i’m just asking for the fight to be treated with the weight it deserves, even if it means people will face brutalization and by extension, death. but after the first 3 episodes of the season, i doubted i would ever get the story i was looking for and sadly, i was right.

(and at this point i dont even know if i should vent all my grievances about the politics in this show in one single post as a magnum opus and be done with it because I HAVE MORE TO SAY)

i despise the way the fandom talks about jinx. i'm sorry, but a teenager with severe mental health issues who was raised by a dictatorial drug lord in a city where crime is rampant, children are often orphaned, and there is no clean air or water, was never going to turn out right. that is not to say that i condone all of her actions (e.g. killing the firelights, helping shimmer run rampant in zaun), but i do believe that she is the product of the circumstances she grew up in. will all that being said, i don't think she did anything wrong to piltover. most, if not all, the piltovans jinx attacked were enforcers and councilors, her oppressors and the primary people responsible for the subjugation of the undercity. and before y'all argue with me in the comments "but in the s1 finale, the council was going to make zaun independent", i beg for y'all to think beyond authorial intent since the show has deeply flawed politics (see: christian linke saying that the piltover-zaun conflict is an allegory to how the us two-party system fails to communicate with each other). while there are councilors that i like as individual characters (jayce and mel specifically), i don't believe that a consensus would've gave zaun true liberation because there has NEVER been a time where the liberation of oppressed people hinged upon their oppressors granting them their freedom. negotiating with your oppressors is akin to having a conversation between the sword and the neck, there can never be peace unless the oppressed takes away power from their oppressors. whether it's between the irish and the british, the algerians and the french, or the vietnamese and the americans, the oppressed ALWAYS had to fight for their liberation, even for examples that "prove" otherwise. nevertheless, i do believe that jinx's resistance is flawed since her violence is aimless and i wish that in s2, she would actually embrace being a symbol of zaun and use violence to achieve liberation for zaun, but i don't think the writers would be able to explore violent resistance effectively because they're cowards.

F*g is a slur and no amount of quirky posts is gonna make you cool for using it

You have rights because faggots and dykes fought for them. Respect that you cunt

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I never said there is absolutely nothing moral to be done about that situation. I also never said there shouldn't be anything immoral to be done about that either.

let's get the first thing out of the way, and i'm gonna hold you hand when i drill this into your brain, this is not something FOR piltover to do. sure they have the jurisdiction, but if you have been paying attention in season one, piltover is NOT FIT to handle the zaun situation. let's talk logistics for a second. assuming you can just safely assasinate every drug lord and chemsbaron, you'd have a humanitary crisis and a massive vaccumn of power on your hand, which - and i'm gonna repeat this again - piltover is not equiped to handle. you'd have a barrage of freshly unemployed impoverished citizens that you'll have to take care of, a shit ton of power-hungry opportunists eager to replace the old mobsters, oh and yeah, TONS OF SHIMMER that can be weaponized. it'll be an open season - which, again, piltover will be scared shit less of. do you think piltover ever cared to learn about how zaun functioned? do you think they made an effort? they didn't have to. they just need to get their factories up and running and collect their wealth. they didn't need to care. which is why, for any sort of punishment to matter, it cannot be piltover who enforced it.

BTW, THIS IS EXACTLY THE REASON WHY WE DON'T OUTRIGHT ASSASSINATE DICTATORS IN REAL LIFE.

so what do we fight authoritarianism with? democracy. duh.

so here's the moral thing piltover could do. first, they could upgrade citizenship of zaunites, give them more political power. second, give zaunites a chance at economic mobility - more zaunites working in piltover, more schools, more shops, more business, which in turn will give them a stabilized enough financial state to stay away from the factories. easier said then done and piltover will have to sacrifice a great chunk of it's economic priviledge - which is why this scenario will never be allowed to play out with the state of piltovian council bruh. third, when people are successfully lifted over the poverty line, that is when you go for the drug lords - or don't even bother, the people will find a way - if they are being oppressed by both the chemsbarons and piltover, but one help lift them out of the grip of the other, who do you think they would support? who do you think they would throw to the pyre?

now, is that an ideal ending in an ideal world? yes. is it hard? fuck yes. but the only immoral thing to do is NOT PUNISHING THE CHEMSBARONS. and before you unclutch your pearls and come at me, think about how your aggressive crack down on drug lords would play out in comparison to this. oh yeah you don't have to, i already told you, vaccumn of power, social unrest, class violence, all that good stuff. but now, because assasination is rarely ever that easy, piltover put their boots down harder on chemsbarons, chemsbarons will put their boots down harder on the already oppressed masses. and when you are on the ground looking up, every one above you is an enemy. you know what that would lead to? google the images of the french revolution, of the bolsheviks, and imagine how that would look on the streets of piltover.

so your choice really, crack down on drug lords and enact the "punishment" you so desire, or foster the growth of democratic sentiment in zaun. pick your poison.

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It is WILD that you say “selling drugs and engaging in gang turf war does not make you not a citizen” as if that changes the fact that they’re still CRIMES.

I mean, if your logic is that Zaun is technically part of Piltover and thus falls under Piltover’s jurisdiction… committing a CRIME under their jurisdiction means you can suffer consequences from your actions. No? It doesn’t MATTER if you’re a citizen or not. Being a citizen doesn’t give you free rein to do whatever you want! You have to obey laws!

If I’m a citizen of a city in America, and I do a crime, the police of that city are allowed to take away my rights as a citizen. That’s what being a citizen in a functional society MEANS!

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU WEIRD ASS MOTHER FUCKERS????

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