#Folks seein Totty cry and yelling he wants to leave his abusive household and get better: if he were really traumatized he'd wanna stay

[tottymatsuno]

Hi hello your Todomatsu takes are so so good and every time I read your posts/tags analyzing him I just go: "YES. Exactly."

I remember being active in the fandom a few years ago, and it was pretty common for people to just exclude him or make fun of him, because "satan".

(I don't know if I'm making this up or not, but I remember seeing posts laughing at those times he talked to himself, telling himself he loved himself, etc and I just ??????????)

Anyways I love how you deconstruct all of his "evil" moments and bring his underappreciated characteristics to light without reducing him to a pure angel. He is complicated and wonderful and thank you for everything you do for the Todomatsu agenda.

- Anonymous Thottymatsu enjoyer

RIGHT?!?? PEOPLE HATED HIM!!!! like everything people hated totty for were literally just either shit his brothers did first and worst OR him being egged on by his brothers! Todomatsu's bad behavior that isn't instigated by others is SO rare!!

He's just unsympathetic lol. He's callous he's a bit more calculating than his brothers (not by much) and he's trying to set boundaries between the six. He's not nice!!! That's IT! HES NOT NICE!! And that's because he's TRAUMATIZED! he's not nice to his brothers in a way that screams nice to them because he's different!

The show doesn't point out Todomatsu's kindness because to drive the point home that the brothers are fucked up its to demonize quite normal behaviors. Todomatsu trying to have a life without his umbilical cord attached to the other five is demonized. Oh you got a phone? Evil. You can talk to people? Evil. A job? Who do you think you are, we're all neets.

And he is SO beaten down that he talks to himself because who tf is going to love him otherwise. Todomatsu constantly switches alliances and gangs up on others most of the time bc Osomatsu is doing it first but also because he needs to avoid being the one beaten. He can't rely on any of his brothers for comfort or support so he relies on himself. Which is also seen as inhuman.

Totty literally can't win for losing. If he's honest he's a piece of shit, if he lies he's a piece of shit. He isn't allowed space for himself, he isn't allowed to exist comfortably and he's not able to leave either.

But he is kinda a piece of shit still?? He's like a dog from a hoarder house and def needs a lot of specialized care and love before he should be rehomed but... I mean. He's so sweet. Not an angel but he wants to be. He's got this pure ideal of who he should be in his head, knows what to say to appear that way but falls short because no one has ever taught him patience and compassion. He's lacking examples of genuine kindness and that stops him from reaching his true potential.

Todomatsu is so interesting to me because lol same trauma same mental illness. I also hate sugary sweet totty, like if I wanted to romance a little devil archtype with no depth or bite there's probably an app for that but like. He's so realistic yknow? He's the type of guy who rehearses what to say so many times it comes out naturally.

He's the type of guy who is so desperate to appear likable that he actually repulses most people. He doesn't invoke sincerity in return for really no reason and so he's reluctant to extend it first.

I literally got anon hate back in 2015 for loving him. But ykno I really just sit and think "what makes Todomatsu irredeemable compared to like Osomatsu?" and the simple fact boils down to people's aversion to his feminine behavior and because of projection. People often have mob mentality and only want the narrative to explain to them characters actions. Critical analysis is dead in fandoms so if the show says "He's evil" most people will mindlessly agree. If the show only says "Todomatsu is the only evil one" then people agree. It doesn't matter if the person who said it is angry at Todomatsu and is an unreliable judge bc its easier to agree if you already don't like him.

At the end of the day there's a million fucking essays about how Ichimatsu's stank ass farts are cries for helps or how Karamatsu is a poor sopping wet newborn bunny rabbit and exclusively a victim of abuse and not apart of an intricate orouboros of self cannibalism through others as both a victim and perpetrator.... Or whatever. Like people legitimately think Totty is normal and therefore not worthy of any compassion because he just has ptsd and not cptsd 🙄🙄🙄

Anyways ilu anon we are bffs.