Rewatching Astro Boy (2009) as an adult and having the impending realisations:
"Why is everyone hurting this literal child??"
"This kid has suffered THIS MUCH TRAUMA in like...4 days?? Fucking 4 days tops?? So much that when faced with dying he just kinda goes 'this is my destiny, it's fine :')"
Also I came across this one looking for a gif to use for the last post.
It literally hurts me when he completely forgets he doesn't have a right arm so when he leans he just smacks face first into STONE.
It really makes you realize how much of a child/teenager he is when he's disarmed and his brother can't protect him or anyone and he's rendered defenseless. It's so hard to see this hard ass become scared shitless.
poor fucking callie who is so excited to help her mom get away with the murder of her secret lover because she is just so desperate for a genuine connection with her mom and so excited that her mom told her the truth about something for once
Here we get a flashback showing the mother’s motivation behind Kohane’s abuse. When her husband left, she decided to push Kohane further and further out of spite to her husband. She wants to make him miserable.
She, in her own words, wants to make him so jealous that he’ll die.
All of her motivations are born on a dark wish with no concern for Kohane. And when Kohane tries to bring up what she said earlier - possibly, her earlier lie that this was all for Kohane’s sake - the mother snaps at her in a rage, and Kohane falls silent.
And then she demands that Kohane never lie to her - and Kohane accepted that promise as a core facet of her personality up until this point, a part of her that has stayed heavy in her memory all this time, and something the mother seems to have quickly forgotten as an unimportant moment, or out of a pure blindness of her own actions.
You can’t raise a child on spite alone - but Kohane was never treated as a child, only a tool for her mother to enact her revenge fantasy.
Shiori dragged her arm across her face to rid it of the salty tears... which was pointless considering the downpour already doing the work for her.
“It’s raining. Are you really surprised?” she snapped back, not caring about the chill that had worked its way into her body. It was better to stay out here and make herself feel as miserable as possible than to try getting out of the rain. That wouldn’t take the sorrow away.