#it’s not that I hate yukio

[iamteamponcho]

[frobby]

i think a core component of the okumura twins relationship is that if you told them before the series what happens in the future, they would worry about each other before themselves

[thatgirlwithasquid]

dude’s having a fucking crisis in s3, good lord

[introspectivememories]

[nori-draws-sometimes]

last time i posted, i didn't include a lot of the yukio ones bc i hate him too much so if this post has too much yukio i swear it's not because i like him it's because i'm too lazy to make new ones

[wezzyaug]

(SPOILERS!!!!) this has probably been said multiple times by multiple people in the blue exorcist fandom but we need to chill with the yukio hate PLEASE i beg, i know he can be jerkwad sometimes but there are a lot of those and only yukio gets hated for it im i love yukio a lot hes just a goober :( and also a lot of people haven't seen the manga and don't understand there is so much more to his character!!!! i know people have their own opinions and all that but most people will jump him cus hes rude to rin from what i've seen but gang rin aint perfect either and yukio is 15, a teacher, an exorcist, son of satan, and HAS to deal with his brother (with unleashed demon shit going on) while dealing with the grief of their dead adoptive dad and dont get me started on the whole arc with his satan eye and the illuminati and shit, hes gotta deal with alot and hell ive seen some people who HAVE read the manga say absolutely AWFUL things towards him, hes a kid, i understand actions aren't 100% excusable especially some of the stuff hes done but please tone it down??? i could go on and on for this but, its ok to have an opinion but like bro maybe hear out on the other side cus most yukio haters i see are the most stubborn ass people EVER

[crunchkind]

You can’t adore yukio without a bitch in your ear on TikTok or somewhere else saying how horrible he is. I need yall to understand that the way yukio processed trauma is like how he gains satan in his eye he’s scared of it and it festers and lingers for so long until everyone’s going on other problems and your utterly alone so you shut down and reject everyone around you. Yukio although unreasonable he’s like unstable and self sabotage is his one way of breaking out of a cycle, rin does it to but it’s more light to other people because he would rather hurt himself than others and yukio would hurt himself and doesn’t care about others in emotional turmoil because he never gets to process it cause he’s grown up so fast. Yukio is physically lacking in how to go through strong emotions like rin because he never got to experience it as strongly as rin always did cause he was always strong. Yukio was just having a very drawn out long moment he couldn’t control and people saying he shit his brother most of the time it’s out of fear/instinct or it’s literally to save his brother the brother he knows. Yukio is very clearly terrified of rin turning into satan and it’s frustrating because he won’t communicate and neither will rin and there frustrated at each other so they lash out people will never understand yukio because they demonize him so quick

[tonguetiedraven]

You approve of Yukio even after he threatened to kill people and tried to kill Rin and Ryuji?

I have answered this question at least three times now, and I know you're just trying to bait me, but woooowwwwww I must have missed something in the manga. When did Yukio try to kill Ryuuji? If you're referring to the moment when Yukio points his gun at Ryuuji, that wasn't trying to kill Ryuuji. A dead Ryuuji would not have been a Ryuuji who could talk, and that was what Yukio wanted. Answers. Ryuuji wasn't threatened with death in that moment, and Ryuuji -- the only injured party in that scene -- has forgiven Yukio and worked with an armed and loaded Yukio since then, so I think they've both moved on. Ryuuji had also kind of helped lead to one of Yukio's sort of adoptive uncles dying a few days earlier, so I think Ryuuji mostly thinks that was earned. (It was a very messed up little while in that section of the manga.)

I feel like every couple of months everyone in aoex needs to remember that none of these characters are real and none of these situations are real and that they are story devices and plot devices and that they are young teenagers in the canon story and teenagers make stupid choices. Especially when they're tired, stressed, and being made feel like they're older/more mature than they are. (IE, when they're given jobs and responsibilities for others life's well beings.)

I could talk about Yukio being a mentally ill character who has been living in some form of fear since he was born. I could talk about him knowing he was Satan's bastard son for his entire life and knowing that his twin was a ticking time bomb of awakening into a possibly massively deadly demon, but likely no one will care and they'll already know that.

I could talk about Yukio being brilliant in pretty much every way but reading emotions, but people will still assume that any time a gun appears on screen that it is loaded with the most lethal of bullets and wielded entirely with the intent to murder. (And yet not make the same assumption about the flames of Satan that have killed vastly more people than we've seen shot on screen.) And they will assume that Yukio intended to kill instead of intended to interrogate or frighten or slow someone down.

Again, no one would really care about that and they would realize it if they read the manga because it talks over and over about the kind of bullets Yukio uses not being particularly harmful to Rin who seems to take Yukio's bullets like they're the kind in a nerf gun.

I could point out that no matter what Yukio does -- even when he unloads every Armumhael bullet in Rin that they have and he makes Rin entirely human for a few minutes -- that Rin is still the more powerful party. That Rin is the dangerous one in the situation. That one thing we should all be getting in this current arc is that Rin is a god next to these exwires. He got disintegration and disembowled and ripped apart and destroyed in a horrifyingly large number of ways and just kept on going like it was a big old nothing. He can go toe to toe with Satan so I feel like mortal Yukio and his little pistols probably can't do a damn thing against Rin even if Yukio wanted to.

I could talk about the fact that literally the most avid Yukio haters will never loathe Yukio as much as himself or the fact that Rin thinking he wasn't the most incredible person on the planet never even occurred to Yukio as a possibility despite the fact that Yukio thinks of himself as not worth being alive and can't see the way he's admired by a lot of people.

I could talk about the fact that the only person we've really seen Lewin comfort is Yukio, which means that even "I have no empathy for others" Lewin Light could tell that the boy was drowning under the weight of his own self-loathing and endless guilt, or that Shura has been watching him crack, or that Toudou, Lucifer, and Satan all picked him to be the one they tried to manipulate and crack and even pulled Renzou in on their drive to do that, and that Mephisto has also been manipulating and toying with him to try and push him to his own ends. Yukio just might be the most manipulated character in the entire damn manga.

But at the end of the day, the manga is there and people are capable of reading and looking at it themselves and I'd rather just read it and write my stories and draw my pictures and just. Be okay with a well written character who has acted pretty damn human in pretty much every scene he's been in. Who has fought with his super human brother and loved his super human brother and hated himself and is trying to make amends and still hates a lot about himself but is loved by his friends and is trying to save his world from his horrible extended family.

And once again, who is a fictional person that has committed fictional crimes and fictional acts of kindness. Drink something warm and soothing and touch some grass since Yukio and co are stuck in the frozen arctic and can't. (And fictional.)

[jamsofdeath0]

No one gets Yukio Okumura like me 😞

[mikmikey]

[wibblyparfait]

YAHOOO I HAVE A NEW HANOI OC 🌊🌊🌊

say hi to Clem hes not stressed enough to get sent to the TOWER but hes just there anyway as per polite request of his human lover <3 he is just going to eat hot chip & vibe as a feast SNDNSDN

also unrelated to tawahano. Yukio post 🫵💥

cuz i tweaked his genshin design + stole the Frostbearer for a DND campaign. as a treat <3 SNDSND

[skattig]

The twins for their birthday! Yknow, Rin and uhh the other one!

[frobby]

I think it would be really funny if rin was the more helpful one around his house. Like u would think rin would be the disrespectful one who always bails on housework or mass but its actually yukio who would always have an excuse not to go or forget about chores to the point that rin just does them instinctively now

[jays-therapist]

Literally all I contribute to this fandom are shitty memes. Anyway here are some more

[hellcifrogs]

Feel free to defend them in the comments.

[nori-draws-sometimes]