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I just saw someone say "Kageyama is hostile", and well, I want to unpack this because oh God, how wrong you are
1. Kageyama in middle school - he was a traumatized 14 year old, people were calling him names and almost no one there was taking the time to talk to time +
1. Kageyama in middle school - he was a traumatized 14 year old, people were calling him names and almost no one there was taking the time to talk to time +
they decided to only leave him out of things instead of idk,,, sit down with him and understand him? So how do you expect a 14 year old boy to react when he is being mistreated? To smile and receive his teammates with open arms? For sure, for Kageyama, reacting the way he did +
was a way for him to defend himself, to make himself being heard, he was being attacked by others and no one was trying to understand him, he wasn& #39;t being "hostile", he was trying to shield himself. Let& #39;s not forget that most of the time he was there he was trying to find +
company, he was trying to find that "someone" his grandfather told him about, everyone around him misunderstood his actions, and Kageyama /has/ a hard time communicating how he feels, so ofc reaching out wasn& #39;t something he would just do out of the blue, I mean, even when he +
was in Karasuno, a more welcoming place for him, he struggled to communicate what was wrong, so this task becomes even harder in a place like his middle school. Kageyama& #39;s actions when he was 14 is the product of him being a lonely kid experiencing a traumatic moment in his +
life while also being in an unwelcoming place and struggling with communicating, it is months (probably years) of having to keep how he felt with himself and even then, he regrets it, all of it
2. You mean he frowns a lot? Uh, okay, so what? Since when does frowning +
2. You mean he frowns a lot? Uh, okay, so what? Since when does frowning +
means that someone is hostile? You do know that sometimes people frown for no reason whatsoever right? And seriously, for him, his actions speak WAY LOUDER, how about the time he went to a training camp but came back with a way of helping others? Something he didn& #39;t have to do, +
what about the time he decided to communicate more with people even though he struggles with communication? What about the way he took Hinata seriously? Or helping him feel confident in himself? How many times he didn& #39;t try to be there for others? How many things +
he did for his team? How many things he tried to improve even when he disliked it? He is constantly trying to be there for others and be good, so don& #39;t blatantly dismiss this
3. Or do you say it because he& #39;s a blunt person? I& #39;m sorry but most of the times he isn& #39;t +
3. Or do you say it because he& #39;s a blunt person? I& #39;m sorry but most of the times he isn& #39;t +
aware that what he says is something that others can perceive as rude, have you notice that? Most of the time when people tell him something about the stuff he just said he is surprised, because he genuinely didn& #39;t /know/, when Tanaka told him about how important timing is +
when saying things, he was confused. He never says this kind of stuff on purpose, with the goal of bothering someone, on the contrary, when he notice that certain expressions bother a person, he doesn& #39;t say them (notice how he never called Hinata "shorty" or something +
similar, or how he didn& #39;t make any remarks about Asahi& #39;s anxiety, he also didn& #39;t push Tsukishima into being more "into the game")
4. You mean because of how he tease Hinata? Uh, yeah,,, they literally tease each other in the same way +
4. You mean because of how he tease Hinata? Uh, yeah,,, they literally tease each other in the same way +
So yeah,,, I don& #39;t see how he is a hostile person when he clearly isn& #39;t, if you see him a aggressive you are literally disregarding his actions, expressions, and everything that points out the opposite of this, and yes, people can read the character however they want +
BUT c& #39;mon, even in my literature class my teacher would say "uh, no, this is not where the author is leading when they say/do this", so you can CLEARLY misread a character, and saying that he is hostile is misunderstanding the character when everything the author is doing +
doesn& #39;t lead to the conclusion of him being hostile, in conclusion: yes, he did bad stuff at some point (like, literally every character in Haikyuu has done) but that doesn& #39;t make him the aggressive characters some people want him to be, it just make him a complex character, +
here& #39;s the thing, characters have depth, they make mistakes, they don& #39;t react in healthy ways sometimes, BUT THAT WHAT MAKES THE CHARACTERS MORE REALISTIC, it makes them complex, and it is those mistakes that allows the character growth.
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