#they said these white boys are feral gremlins i don't wanna be near them

[lxikoniko]

I want to have a little analysis of the White Blood Cells in Cells at Work. More so talking about the phobia that nonimmune cells have towards the immune cells, and how the Neutrophils are portrayed so differently from the other white blood cells.

Its really no secret that the Red Blood Cells are scared of the immune cells during battle, shit gets bloody and everybody is yelling all the time. But even out of battle when everybody is calm and nobody's in danger of getting hurt, there is still this group phobia towards the white blood cells.

A lot of background cells will be giving say U1146 dirty looks when he's just walking around or helping out AE3803. Then you get this image which really hits me.

You've got AE3803 and NT4201 riding relaxed together, another two RBC's seeming to talk with one another while one is letting a Platelet hold on to them, probably out of fear from the ride.

And then two more RBC's riding with a Neutrophil. It's not very big but you've got them using their Oxygen package as a barrier between them and the WBC and also not looking directly at him.

You've also got NT4201 being very open about her distaste towards WBC's, and U4989 crying over AE3803 caring about U1146, saying he didn't know any other cells cared about WBC's.

I mean hell they even touched on this subject in CAW WHITE, where they try to improve their image

Which this actually brings me back to my second point of this post, the Neutrophils are the only immune cells that change from calm to bloodthirsty at the drop of a hat. Macrophages remain calm while killing bacteria, while Killer T cells keep their aggressively masculine gym bro personas while beating the shit out of viruses. Not even Eosinophil or B cell have such a drastic personality change when fighting bacteria or viruses.

Neutrophils 99% of the time vs the moment their receptors go off

I really want to know the reasoning behind this, it has to be in their cell programing, perhaps it has something to do with them being the first responders whenever any antigen is detected? Its likely caused by the body needed to eliminate the anitgens as quickly as possible so the Neutrophils are made to go feral and attack any nearby germ.

it really doesn't help their already established bias against them, but it doesn't seem like they can control it.

ahh well I'm rambling.

#cells at work #hataraku saibou #cells at work white #these poor fucking cells can't catch no break #you've got fucking cell racism going on #they said these white boys are feral gremlins i don't wanna be near them #which the neutrophils aint doing much to help that