#pro recovery mindset

[prognosis-undiagnosable]

Possible Recovery Mindset?

I just think of the things I'd rather have, such as:

enough brain power to function

people not worry about me/my health

Not have to make up lies about my food intake

more time to focus on school & friends than planning out food

Take my friends out and actually be able to have fun and enjoy

The biggest thing that helped, personally to recover is that I'd rather be strong:

to be able to protect my friends (if needed)

to be the one people call for when they need help carrying heavy things

to be able to run around, wrestle and carry my friends for shits & gigs

#pro recovery #prog undia post #ed recovery #pro recovery mindset #reasons to recover #recovery #recovery is possible #recovery is worth it #I love how I put how this isn't a April Fools joke but I accidentally put 3 of the same bullet points down.

[sofiaruelle]

You look sporty today! 🏀🏈⚽️

#doodle #stardew valley #stardew valley alex #stardew alex #he’s such a gym bro #but like the healthy positive himbo kind yknow #its all about the grind and the gains bro #but make it healthy at your own pace #i lowkey feel like he’ll never go pro mostly because he’s had an knee injury #but he goes back to college after a gap year in junior year but for like sports medicine #and maybe he part times as a gym teacher/works as a zumba intructor for the ladies of pelican town #either way sports medicine and he adopts like a super healthy mindset and would be able to help shane and his recovery process

[heal-is-real]

Realest Intentions

#Instagram #mental health #mental health awareness #therapy #positivity #positive mindset #positive affirmations #positive mental attitude #healing journey #self healing #self awareness #self growth #self care #note to self #self improvement #self love #positive thoughts #positive thinking #don't forget #always remember #ed recovery #pro recovery #green aesthetic

[lilacslumberparty]

re-downloaded tumblr recently, should’ve known it wouldn’t last

#recovery #pro ans #Ana #ed but not sheeran #toxic mindset

[92fs]

Mental health community on here makes me a cyberbully, lol. 

#TXT #I can't voice enough how utterly anti-recovery and pro-faking so many of you sound LOL. #The only people on here I trust with mental health posts are ones that talk on the negatives of it. #This 'ohhh just accept it and do nothing about it 'cause it's vaaalid' mindset. Die? Choke? You make it worse you stupid cunt.

[pippin-squeaks]

Oookay... Here's the first (and I hope to god the only) episode of :

@/Periwinkleowski is a proshipper , a pretty bad one too .

(Before we go on , I'll say this . This post won't delve into the stuff she actually draws on this account , but know that it is vile . Please take care of yourself and be careful should you investigate further yourself .)

I went and skimmed through her reblogs and saw a lot of artists that I know aren't proshippers (and who have made it obvious they're against it) , so it's clear that she's not abiding by his own DNI .

Speaking of which , let's take a looksie at her Twitter and Tumblr DNI sections .

Things that stick out to me is is "antific/pro-harrassment" and "(people in recovery are welcome)"

His twitter also states "Pro-contact" folks aren't allowed , meaning she is okay with being around folks of these mindsets , as long as they feign innocence and say they won't do it .

There's also this

While Dead Dove isn't always proship , the tags are usually full of people who like such things more often than not in my experience .

Please just block and stay away from her and her associates . Going through her Twitter following/followers on @/roadkillromcom should do you well . For my sake , I'm sick of being paranoid that the person I'm interacting with is a weirdo . Maybe report her while you're at it , these weirdos don't deserve the safety of their gross little hideaway caves where they can be freaks together .

#the venture bros #the venture brothers #vbros #venture bros #please read im so sick of this #i hate her

[ram-like]

my long-winded and probably poorly thought out perspective on the ""transramcoa"" trend that's been sweeping this site recently:

it's easy to view these people as one in the same with our (as ramcoa survivors) abusers, but in reality I don't think what they're doing is so morally detestable as people suggest. this is not to say I'm pro-transID or transramcoa, I absolutely am not. I just think people are ascribing malice to these people's actions when in reality what's happening is that they've been effectively groomed into believing this is a healthy way to see their own experiences by a larger community.

yes, it's true, this won't apply to all people who identify as transramcoa. and lots of people will probably take me posting this as an attack, that I'm just trying to psychoanalyze them or whatever. but in general, from what I've seen - the people claiming to be transramcoa on this site, posting cutesy, romanticised terms and posts and etc etc - are by and large very young, some as young as 13 or 14, and by majority also "cisramcoa survivors".

I don't support any of these actions, but I do think it should be very easy to see for most people who found out about their abuse history at a young age how easy it would be to get swept up into this charade as a survivor of severe abuse which you can't seem to cope with. if you've been told your whole life that all you're good for is this abuse, or forced to believe you enjoy it, would it not be easier to just accept that? to perpetuate your abusers' rhetoric to yourself in order to make all of the hurt go away, since now it's something that's normal or good or you feel in control of. considering this, and conditioned and programmed mindsets that feed into this, as well as an entire community of people who want nothing more than to endlessly validate eachother, because they effectively exist in an online bubble where this IS the normal, that it's okay to see your own abuse like that and easy to pretend that this is the healthiest way to feel or be - I can very easily see how these people have arrived at the place that they have.

I think the majority of the "transramcoa" community is filled with young people who don't know how to cope with their abuse, and who have met older people or simply people who have been in this community longer telling them that just making their abuse seem like a thing which can be consensual and romanticised and sought after will make it easier for them. I think this is a group of seriously hurt people formalising some of the thought processes or feelings that a lot of abuse survivors genuinely experience. that it's just easier to feel this way. that the abuse you suffered was deserved, or you wanted it, or you want(ed) it to continue, because that's what your abusers told you.

many of these blogs also say they are a singular "transramcoa" part in a larger, anti-transramcoa system. again, it is easy for me to see how early in my recovery, when I had parts who were still very cult-loyal but not the ability to realise that as a collective I should not be acting as if that's their fault, conscious decision, or genuine moral belief, that some of these parts might have been driven to similar spaces if they had existed at the time, because they were forced to believe by both my abusers AND the rest of my system that somehow this was their fault & nobody would ever treat them in a positive way besides my abusers, so the only solution would be to go back, to seek out more abuse, to find their "normal".

these people should not be spammed with traumadumps, or endlessly harassed, or told vile and violent things in their askboxes or any of this. these people should be *ignored*. much of their behaviour reads as attention seeking. much of their behaviour reads like they're telling themselves they enjoy all of the harassment or want it to continue. none of what is happening is good for them. we, as a community of abuse survivors, should be removing the attention we give these people, and this community, stopping the endless hate trains and stopping the fact that we are continually publicising this behaviour, because it is SO easy for young abuse survivors to see it, feel they may have experienced some similar sentiments (like ive mentioned above), and feel that THIS is what people are attacking, demonising, and saying is amoral and disgusting.

we should not be directing young people to find blogs like this. it is an unhealthy way to think, and be, and I truly believe most of these people are hurting and clinging to an unhealthy coping mechanism many survivors have probably considered in a different way in the past.

it is okay to think you deserved what happened to you. it is normal to feel like you want to be abused further. it is understandable to want to return to a traumatic environment or even seek one out. it is even understandable to feel you enjoyed your abuse at times, or that you must've done or you wouldn't have allowed it to continue, hence placing the blame on yourself.

all of these things are normal for abuse survivors. these are not healthy thought processes, though, and I promise they go away with time as you recover, maybe if never fully. these things are not "transid or atypical dysphoria". they do not mean you are transramcoa or that you should be demonised as a person, even though I know these thoughts can feel horrible. what happened to you is never your fault. but this is not the way to deal with it.

I hope all people in the transramcoa community can get the help they need, and I hope people can stop demonising thought processes like this (to be clear - not corresponding actions which cause actual harm), because we as a community are unintentionally feeding into perfect survivor bullshit when we do this. traumadumping in strangers inboxes is absolutely never the solution to anything.

(to be clear, I don't want transramcoa blogs on my blog, but I understand this post is very likely to show up in transramcoa-adjacent searches as I've said the term so many times here. because of that, transramcoa blogs can interact with this post ONLY. thank you.)

#trauma survivor #cult survivor #did system #ramcoa #oea survivor #ramcoa survivor #programmed system #oea #programming survivor #tbmc

[light-as-lavender]

Hello Flowers 💐💜

This is just a little about me! I’m 20 years old, turning 21 in June! I love all music, weed, and cuddling up to play animal crossing. I’ve recovered and relapsed off and on since I was 15. I just can’t seem to fully shake how much I love this mindset. Now don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely Pro recovery! I want everyone to get better, and love themselves, but I also understand the position we’re in. I’m here for you if you need anything! Please don’t hesitate to message me 💜

MDNI please!!! This is a safe space, however, no kid should be on a diet. Be young, be free, be proud💜

💐My stats are below!💐

Cal limit- 647

Gym- 3x a week

Walk/Run & quiet exercise 3x a week

5ft 3

HW: 165

CW: 138

UGW: 110 or 115, I’m undecided

💜My end of the month weight goals!

🔒April-130

🔒May-122

🔒June-115

🔒July-110

[anti-endo-safe-space]

i am vaguely endo neutral bc i believe that there are 'endo' systems that might be in denial about having trauma or being dissociative, but GOD I HATE THE COMMUNITY SO MUCH. it is SO incredibly full of the most hostile people sharing incredibly harmful misinformation, being extremely anti recovery, and in general just being assholes with a superiority complex over "not being broken", and from what ive seen a lot of them seem to treat their 'alters' like shit too (goes along with the anti recovery mindset). this is absolutely NOT a community questioning people should ever look into

The "endos" who are in denial of trauma are the few who we won't give shit to if/once they figure it all, mostly because it can be hard to realize. It took us years to figure it out at all.

That community really sucks. Before we even really understood what they were, we would join Discord servers that would be pro-endo (again we had 0 clue what was going on) and you couldn't mention anything like fusion, dormancy, anything besides just living with it was banned.

If your questioning, please don't go to these communities. They will harass you, yell at you if you disagree, and if you say that endos aren't real, they start calling you abelist and you can even get death threats or told to end yourself. Please be safe

#anti endo #did system #dissociative system #osdd system #polyfrag system #sysblr #system #anti endo supporter #endos aren't real #endos dni #endos fuck off #traumagenic system #traumagenic #actually traumagenic #hate using endo terms but in this case it gets attention #dissociative identity disorder #osddid #did osdd #actually system #actually dissociative #did alter #actually did

[the-visionary-collective]

Detailed personal moral code explanation post!!

(Will be frequently updated as i will inevitably have new things to add)

For those who dont want to read this whole thing but wanna know the basics, The basic mindset is i live and let live with anti non-consensual harm based moral rules

See below the cut for my personal understanding of and/or personal definition of the word harm, i like to include things like this because sometimes i use words and people dont understand what i mean

The rest of the post is under the cut

My moral code:

Informed consent is the #1 priority

free choice with some obvious exceptions

i believe that nothing is inherently bad or evil to do as long as you know the risks, and consent to it, and if it involves other beings they also have consented and are thoroughly informed on the subjects that could negatively affect them and they consent to it

forgiving and loving everyone who has done something bad in the past and is working on stopping their bad behaviours, regardless of their past bad behaviours (yes this includes unconsensual harm to others, i know it sounds contradictory, but people make mistakes, really bad ones sometimes, and i believe everyone can change for the better if they try hard enough and are willing to)

Adding onto the last point, nothing is bad enough to not be forgiven if the person is working on actively stopping their behaviour

Legalization for currently illegal marginalized communities (such as contact for maps and other illegal paraphilic attractions, and currently illegal things related to transitioning for transids) and things that i dont think should be illegal (such as drugs)

more of a set of global moral rules than laws the way they are right now, i dont like the current state of most laws and the legal system itself

Abloish the current state of jails/prisons in most places in favour of a more preventative and recovery care centered state like in certain countries

Most animals cant currently verbally consent to sex and consensually harmful actions as they dont curently understand and/or speak human languages, however they can express consent to things through physical cues (they will tell you if they dont like it, its a survival instinct, for example if my cat doesnt want to be held he will tell me by clawing at me and trying to get away)

Cringe culture and harrasment of people in general is horrible in so many ways and wouldnt be allowed in my ideal world (it will unfortunately always exist in this world because judgey uneducated people will always exist, especially with those who chose not to get treatment for their harmful behaviours)

Take accountability for your actions, especially if you’re trying to heal

Healing in any form should not be forced but it should still be heavily encouraged, this is because forced healing doesnt work for most people (especially a lot of neurodivergent people, as they often can only treat their harmful behaviours if they actively want to)

Beliefs fitting of some youthlib movements (minors can give informed consent, minors should be allowed to vote, etc)

Anything harmful inducing death should be legal as long as the death is consented to, people should be able to experience an end of life of any sort if they know the pros and cons of death itself

Desiring to be harmful or experience harmful things is not a thing that makes you inherently a bad person

Legalizing and normalizing full bodily autonomy, including things that cause any type of harm to oneself, if you know the risks and are okay with them then you should have freedom to do what you want to your body

Death as a whole is not something to be afraid of, factually it is the end of ones concious experience on this planet in this body, which is not something that is necessarily bad for a lot of people (especially those with untreatable physical and/or mental illness), and with my understanding of energy and souls being a form of energy, that to me means that an afterlife of some sort is a possibility

Money is a stupid concept and shouldnt be the norm (basically just communism but that word usually has negative connotations so idk)

And more not yet listed (will be added when they come to mind)

The exceptions (see 2nd point in the moral code):

things that cause any bodily/mental/other harm to others without consent (for example any unconsensual abuse,)

Anything not harmful done to someone else without their (informed) consent (for example, i think minors can give informed sexual consent, so by my morals i think MAPs should be able to have sexual contact) this is similar to the point above but for things i dont define as harmful

Doing things impulsively that may harm you in the future (basically, make sure you want to do the things you do)

My personal definition of the word harm for extra context (reminder that words are subjective when it comes to definitions because language is always changing and is also subjective):

Actions that cause physical/mental/spiritual/etc distress without informed consent (distress in the context of this is any symptoms/experiences you dont want to happen and dont consent to, for example if you dont want to be killed and dont consent to being killed than that is a distressing/harmful thing, but if you are ok on both ends of those circumstances them it should be ok and legal to choose to do)

This post doesnt mean my morals are objectively right since morals are a very person by person thing, they are what i believe is right, respect it or not its what i believe and im not changing my morals for anybody!!

#~-🐈 #>stances< #long post #moral code #last post for now #pro rq 🌈🍓 #rq 🌈🍓 #rqc🌈🍓 #radqueer #radqueer please interact #rq please interact #rq safe #rq community #pro rq #radqueer safe #pro radqueer

[tales-from-sysblr]

We made a post or two being anti-endo and encouraging ppl to get diagnoses or therapy if they're able to (primarily for healing and stuff, but it was also about the anti-recovery mindset that many endos carry about)... Proceeded to be harassed by an itty bitty teen and sent death threats, slurs, and anime gore. Which is funny as a system who is NOT affected by that stuff

Ended up deleting the blog after a while because it was annoying having to worry about being doxxed by an Endo, as it was around the time that quite a few users ended up doxxed and harassed by endos and other pro-endo groups

Rip to anon's old blog

#tales from sysblr #tales from the queue #tales from anon #anti endo #online harassment #death threats

[heal-is-real]

fuck, they lied about it. eating food is delicious. the feeling of a full stomach is great. yeah, there’s bloating and stuff but this is the sign of your happy body after receiving a good meal that will make it through the day functioning perfectly until the next meal. there’s absolutely no shame in having a perfect functioning body.

#ed recovery #recovery #mental health #mental health awareness #positive mental attitude #positivity #positive thinking #body positive #body posititivity #amazing body #positive thoughts #positive mindset #pro recovery #self love #self improvement #self care #self healing #healing journey #don't forget #always remember #ana recovery #eating disorder recovery #original post

[vtoriacore-rbs]

tw. ed + whatever the fuck is wrong w me in general. id actually advise against reading this but this helps get things off my chest.

me slipping back into old ed habits bc my intrusive thoughts actually ended up triggering me 💀💀💀 i went on a 2 day fast and only had mineral water and i feel both proud and horrified that ive allowed myself to do that so now im eating healthy things to kinda make up for it but anyways i weighed myself too even tho i said i wouldn't. like i know i shouldn't feel happy over the fact i starved and weakened my body on purpose but it feels nice to stick to something and actually have some discipline back in my life.

had a breakdown too earlier for no reason (altho im on my period so maybe that's why, fuck you uterus btw there is no us only u someone remove this thing PLEASE). like bro some bitch in college also was telling me how she was losing weight and she deadass told me that my ribcage sticking out was so aesthetic and it just enabled me, we only spoke 3 times before that and im pretty sure she has an ed too bc she kept trying to get my measurements??? she also said she'd sacrifice two of her ribs to get a waist like mine and i know she meant it as a compliment but i wanted to cry and felt low-key ashamed like i hate when people point out my physical appearance and i was stretching i didn't even mean for my shirt to go higher up it was so uncomfy. it's weird tho cause when i starve myself i feel happy abt it but when other people point it out and praise me for it i get really mad. maybe it's bc i discourage eds and im very pro-recovery but anyways that was a weird comment™ i think it played into the breakdown. she tried grabbing my wrist several times and i told her to stop trying to touch me but she wouldn't stop either and was like "just for a second please" like i felt so icky bc of that too like bitch hands off before i retaliate <3 so yeah now im trying to eat again but honestly i feel like im gonna throw up bc i didn't eat for 2 days lmao and the entire day today i felt so dizzy. like yesterday was fine but today ?? no. my muscles hurt so bad so im gonna have a 50g protein shake too ugh im so tired. gonna try get up to 1000 kcal at least and make the deficit up over the weekend bc my stomach physically hurts when i try to eat (but this strawberry yogurt bangs even tho im half full already).

ive been slipping back into an ed mindset over the last month tho even with my binges and i just wanna look ill enough for one of my doctors finally tell me im underweight enough they didn't even acknowledge i was severely underweight 3-4 years ago that felt so humiliating and now im thinking along the lines of "i need to be a better anorexic" even tho its fucked up and like im trying to just snap myself out of this mindset but it's not working so im gonna have to get a therapist potentially. bc i don't want my organs and bones failing but at the same time, i wanna make sure doctors take me seriously this time and maybe it'll be a fucking reminder to take eds seriously. it actually pisses me off hos insensitive some doctors are about eds and the fact they indirectly fucking allow it sometimes too like. just bc im not in a critical condition and only like 3/4kgs underweight doesn't mean i don't have an ed or that it isn't "severe enough" smh this annoys me so much.

if you read it up to here don't worry ill be fine, a bitch always pulls thru and these are just momentary lapses in judgement im not letting mental illness win im too fucking good for this (<- motivating myself kinda feel better after writing this NGL).

[r0t-from-view]

About Me

Hi there!

I guess I ought to make a pinned intro of sorts so people don’t think I’m a lurker or weirdo lol

💕 For anonymity's sake, I'll go by A (pronouns she/her). I’m 26, so minors DNI! 💕

I created this tumblr to act as a vent for my mental health; I’m currently diagnosed and in treatment for: SH, chronic SI, depression, and BPD. I also have ADHD and social anxiety, but that’s neither here nor there at the moment lol. With that being said, this blog will probably mostly be ED related content. (If you think that any of this content will trigger you, please block me and/or don't interact. Stay safe out there, friends 🥰)

✨ This is probably one of the only truly safe spaces I have to express issues surrounding my mental illnesses—especially the ED stuff—so if you feel so inclined, please block instead of reporting. ✨

Without going into too much detail, I am a classic case of the "girl who grew up clinically obese, but has gotten down to a normal weight and now wants to be as thin as possible" (don’t we all, am I right ladies?) Through my current recovery/treatment, I have inadvertently put a small amount of weight back on (ugh!! 😭), so I’m back to ⭐️ ve myself into oblivion and finally reach my UGW

Also, please feel free to interact (if you’re of age, of course)! I don't do a whole lot socially, so don't be afraid to send me a message!

I am basically pro-recovery for everyone except myself because I feel like I’m a bad person and I hate myself so I don’t deserve help for 3d stuff, and I’m not thin enough to be taken seriously or deserve help. I know it’d be a good idea, but I’m still, naturally, a little in denial. And yes, as fucked up and ass-backwards as it is, I am in a very pro mindset and state myself even though I'm in treatment

#ed vent #pro for me not for thee #ana bllog #an0r3c1a #bulim14 #ed not ed sheeran #tw restrictive ed #tw depression #tw ana diary #tw self h4rm #tw self destructive behavior #tw bpd #tw social anxiety

[demondamage]

hi!

dont answer this if you feel like its too much info, im just genuinely curious and interested!

im the anon who asked about the hyserectomy a few weeks ago, and i just wanted to check in and ask how your recovery is going? ive been really thinking about getting one myself but im really scared i will lose sensation *down there* and have issues with recovery. ive had multiple surgeries before and some of em caused lasting nerve damage and i dont know if its a thing with hyserectomis. ive heard it might make you get reduced sensations and if thats a risk i couldnt do it. online they mostly avoid the topic and i dont know anyone else who had one recently. its a huge decision and surgery and as much as i love the benefits of it, it still scares me:///

Hey! I am an absolute open book about this sort of stuff so no worries about asking! For my hysterectomy I got my uterus, falopian tubes, and cervix removed (left the ovaries for hormonal reasons!)

I had the surgery just over 6 months ago and by now I am fully recovered! The only nerve issues i have had is occasional pain along the internal scar, but this is a common thing for me with scars. The 2 weeks after were difficult in the "cant sit and body feels incorrect" way but that goes away. I also had a bit of a rough recovery due to things in my life but even with that I was fine!

Heads up- under the read more is going to be some "sex talk" in the sex ed sort of way!

I can still have orgasms exactly how I did before my surgery. The important thing to remember is that the main cut will likely be internal (where your cervix is) since going through the abdominal wall is a BITCH. So if your orgasms really require you to have your cervix being hit then-- consider that. But if you prefer clit or other stimulation, those were totally unaffected for me!

There is definitely a difference. It might be a "mindset" thing but it feels less deep? Depth is a little less comfortable and feels different (the cervix cramping sensation of that being hit is replaced with more like what hitting a vaginal wall feels like) but I have always preferred width over depth so for me this is not an issue. You can always leave your cervix, but I can not attest to how that heals.

All in all- I am SO GLAD I got my hysto. I was having cramps from hell and now I never have to worry about pregnancy again. Surgery is never risk free and it would probably be best to bring this up with a trusted doctor (and depending on your area- finding a doctor in a sex/trans positive and pro choice area. I got my recommendation through planned parenthood! They dont do this procedure but they had lists of doctors who they trust! I am also in CA and our public health department is V liberal. I got my uterus removed by a woman with a pronoun sticker on her badge lol). Also- everyone's body is different and I think if sensation is something very important to you (i know it is to me lol!) Consider all of your options! But- hey it worked for me so there is that!

If you have more questions you can absolutely slide into my inbox. I am sometimes bad at responding but I will do my best! Good luck!

[overobsessedfanboy23]

Let’s Talk About Kaiser Ryo in Season 4

I think I intended to make a post analysing this way back when I first watched Sho and Ryo’s mini arc in season 4… almost two years ago now. Yeah… I had so much to say about season 4 back then and was also starting to watch Zexal for the first time and get really into it so I never really got around to talking about this in any details. Now that these episodes are fresh in my mind again however, I’d like to discuss them.

I have… mixed thoughts on Kaiser Ryo being alive in season 4. On one hand, his death in season 3 felt very final and the perfect note to send off his character. It didn’t make much sense for him to suddenly be alive with very little explanation and definitely felt like a cop out the first time I watched it. It felt very much like a last minute decision since within season four, he only appears in those episodes with Sho. I haven’t rewatched the episodes where the kids are being tormented by their anxieties in the world of Darkness yet but I don’t recall Kaiser Ryo even appearing in Sho’s warped visions of the future, despite the two of them agreeing to start a pro duelling league together. Plus he definitely didn’t appear at the graduation, and why not? Why wouldn’t he attend his little brother’s graduation if he was staying at the school’s infirmary to recover? Unless he wasn’t intended to still be alive until the crew started making the Sho episodes. Obviously I can’t confirm this, but it’s a feeling I’ve always had. Also the deck giving Kaiser Ryo those electric shocks rather than the damage to his heart just being from the electric collars he duelled in during season 2 is complete nonsense and definitely another asspull. Bringing Kaiser Ryo back did not feel like the original intention and is very poorly explained and feels ill fitting at first glance considering how well done his death in season 3 was.

With that said, I actually really like Kaiser Ryo’s presence in Sho’s mini arc. It’s rushed of course (some parts of season 4 are I will admit) but the fact that we actually get to see a character who hit rock bottom actually recover is really cool. And that recovery isn’t a straight line, he regresses when he accepts that duel and pushes himself too hard like he did in season 3, nearly getting himself killed before Sho steps in. I love that this arc really examines Sho’s relationship with Kaiser Ryo in more detail than we ever really saw before. Sho taking on Ryo’s deck to save him, despite knowing the risk of doing so, and, with a bit of advice from Judai, being able to make the deck his own and finally evolving this seemingly unchangeable deck was really cool. The theme of Kaiser Ryo throughout the series being this gifted kid who was unable to evolve past the “perfection” he found always really fascinated me.

This arc was the perfect way to deconstruct that mindset of his. To show that, no, there is always room for improvement, there is always a way to keep evolving and growing. Because that’s what this show is all about: growth. It’s a theme with everyone’s arcs throughout the show that really shines in season 4. Also, I do think it was important to give Sho and Kaiser Ryo’s relationship some kind of resolution. Kaiser Ryo’s dying words in season 3 were to Judai, completely ignoring the little brother that he grew up with and knew for far longer.

Yes the dub’s version of that scene did actually fix this issue, it’s one of the few things I like about the GX dub, but the GX dub didn’t adapt season 4, it’s not canon to the sub (which is what I’m talking about) so it’s not relevant to this conversation. Season 4 is what fixes this issue in the sub. Sho steps in to help his brother and makes Kaiser Ryo’s deck his own and in the process, evolves it in a way Ryo didn’t think was possible. Finally, after all the years of ignoring his little brother, who he found annoying and disrespectful in duels, Kaiser Ryo takes notice of his little brother and recognises and respects his growth. They had a broken relationship throughout the entire show due to both their bad attitudes and this mini arc forced them to change and show that change to the other so that going forward, they can finally have a positive more balanced relationship as brothers, something they seemingly never had before. And that’s really sweet, and wouldn’t have been possible to nearly the same degree without these episodes.

So while I think Kaiser Ryo’s return in season 4 was poorly implemented and explained, I think it did both his character and Sho’s character wonders and fits in well with the themes of this show. I’m glad this mini arc existed and I’m overall glad Kaiser Ryo returned despite the fumbled execution.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh gx #ygo gx #gx #kaiser ryo #hell kaiser ryo #ryo marufuji #sho marufuji #analysis #mini essay #negative at first but positive later