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LOLOLOL, look at them, getting jealous of Ijin for supposedly having a girlfriend.

They were like; I could tolerate you having a caring grandpa and a cute little sister. But don't you think having a girlfriend is a little too much?😂😂😂

They were like older brothers who got jealous of their younger brother for having a cute girlfriend before them. 😂😂😂

#right?!?!? #hes living well🙃🙃 #when youre happy for your bro but somethings just a little off #fellas dont you think its unfair to escape a government sanctioned torture camp to raise the ultimate soldiers and then get a girlfriend? #like??? #lmfao

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These three having a heart to heart/redemption

Meanwhile, Ijin:

😂😂😂😂😂 I'll never not find this funny. Even better:

#mercenary enrollment #teenage mercenary #yu ijin #yeongchan #hyukjin #jaehyung is best boi #best redemption arc #i just love all of them #😭😭😭 #so freaking funny #ijin really said 3 second rule

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There they go again smh 😂😂😂

These 2 have no fucking chill and for what 😂😂😂

#teenage mercenary #mercenary enrollment #yu ijin #go seok-ju #theyre so funny #i love this manwha #not a single chill

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#teenage mercenary #mercenary enrollment #yu ijin #grandpa yu better live until the end of the manwha istg #yu dayun #i will never get over them #everytime i reread teenage mercenary they make me cry tears of pure joy #i freaking love them so damn much

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You're going to be okay.

Just another diary comic.

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love 2 learn new things

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Midnights gonna keep me up for the rest of my life

#bye sleep #not that i did much of that anyway #taylor swift #midnights #lavender haze #taylor always got me in a chokehold

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"And the voices that implore you should be doing more, to you I can admit that I'm just too soft for all of it" ugh Taylor Swift makes me want to both melt and go feral

#midnights #taylor swift #sweet nothing #its so fucking sweet #i wanna run a mile #and melt in a puddle

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if you don’t like Vigilante Shit it’s because it’s for hot girls sorry i don’t make the rules

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anti-hero

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there is something inside of you that you do not want. you claw at your chest, choke on air, wishing to drag it up and out of you. what procedure can excise pain? how can you live with this?

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i love it when artists put their own spin on canon appearances/aspects of character whether its making them fat or adding features like freckles, spots or scars, or if its projecting their ethnicity onto their design. i think it is so so beautiful and i love seeing fragments of peoples hearts within their favourite characters. i think people who disagree should disintergrate btw

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Pretty much everyone said this would happen. One ticked off parent can throw a tantrum and get any girl investigated because their kid didn’t win. Gross.

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another thing that shows that el will always feel different and "out of place" compared to everyone else is because no one has ever actually called her by her birth name except for her mother and aunt. and obviously el is a cute nickname and it makes her feel more human in a way, but it's still short for 011, her subject number from the lab. brenner has always called her eleven, but sometimes other characters even blurt it out without thinking too (like when mike is upset with her or when they're arguing) and it just feels so dehumanising, even if they don't mean for it to sound that way. she even admitted it herself. "i am different. i do not belong." no matter how long she's been with everyone and no matter how long she dates mike, unfortunately he will never fully understand what she has experienced and she has so much unresolved trauma that's bottled up inside. a romantic relationship where they BOTH don't feel like equals (because even mike admitted he feels inferior to her because she's a "superhero" with powers) is the last thing they both needed and they rushed into it way too quickly. it's just unhealthy and unfair and i don't understand how anyone could want these kids to continue being forced in a relationship that they weren't even ready for

and during their fight in 4x03, mike called her eleven instead of el and he kept calling her that afterwards too. it's like a harsh reminder of being in the lab and also a reminder that so many people just see her for her powers. they look at her and they see the superhero that saves the day, but not jane as a person. and although some people might say "but it's nice how she's their superhero" or "they're just reminding her that she's not a monster", it's not always what she wants to hear, and she is so much more than her powers. people also need to remember that she got her powers because of abuse and she had no choice. she was abducted, abused and traumatised and they destroyed her mother's life as well. eleven had no say and never wanted any of this. she never asked for powers. then to make things worse she struggled physically and mentally in the lab, couldn't develop or learn about the real world like other kids her age and had to be locked up in a dark, claustrophobic room whenever brenner wasn't happy with her

so no, "you're my superhero" is not what she wanted to hear especially during a forced monologue where her boyfriend finally tells her he loves her right AFTER she gets her powers back. she was crying in her room begging to hear the words, not as eleven, but as jane, and mike couldn't do it then (he couldn't even write it on paper), so how do people think the monologue is genuine when he was lying the whole time and had to be pushed into it? not only that, but he didn't even list things about her as a person. he only spoke about her powers, which was actually a parallel to brenner. it truly boggles my mind that people say things like "oh, you don't like mike and el's relationship which means you hate el" like are you kidding me??! why do people act like her entire character is based around her relationship with mike?? not only that, but that is so wrong on so many levels. i love her and care about her so much, and i think anyone that actually watches the show and understands what she's been through would know that she wasn't ready for a romantic relationship with mike and she deserves someone that will see her for who she is as jane rather than just eleven. mike and el met during a traumatic time (el just escaped the lab and mike was searching for will who was missing and suffering in the upside down) and mike only ended up letting her stay with them when he found out the bad guys were after her and when he found out she had powers and could help find will. they've always had a trauma bond and mike heavily associates her with her powers and idolises her for being a superhero and it's just not healthy or fair to either of them

and no, i'm not just saying this because of byler. i know a lot of people immediately assume "oh you hate mike and el together just because you want byler", and that's not true. obviously i do think mike and will belong together because they have the closest relationship and they understand each other better than anyone else, but even if byler didn't happen, i still don't want mike and el to stay together. it's that simple. it's not because they're "in the way" of byler, it's because their relationship just simply isn't healthy for many reasons and mike's character got so much worse when they started dating. i think they have a beautiful friendship and they love each other so much but they don't belong together romantically and that's okay. it doesn't make their love any less strong. if anything, i think being friends would actually make them stronger