getting a cat was the best decision ever
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honestly, i think the reason this fandom has been so unable to accept the bad choices buck has been making for the past two seasons is because...before this, it was incredibly easy to blame everything buck was doing on his circumstances or the people around him. the lawsuit? well, that was bobby’s fault and the firefam weren’t supportive enough. the trauma of the tsunami and the ladder truck was part of the reason too! buck being unprofessional on the job? oh, that was his abandonment and intimacy issues! and abby and ali didn’t help either, those evil witches who left him! you get the point.
but, like...it’s becoming very clear that at the heart of all the bad decisions buck is making lies his own problems. his own tendency to self-sabotage. his own tendency to be unable to see beyond the life he could have, to the one he does. it’s a fundamental flaw of his character, not just something that makes him a sad uwu boy. and the reason he’s going in all these circles is because he’s never properly dealt with the trauma that caused them, never truly tackled them at the root. his conversation with his parents, breaking up with taylor, etc...all of that just put a mere band aid on the problem. it’s never solved anything. and while he’s shown admirable growth in some areas, he’s still gonna regress in others as long as he continues to sweep everything that’s happened to him under a rug. and that’s why people hate it and call it out of character, because it’s pretty hard to paint someone as the golden boy when it’s becoming increasingly obvious that he’s not just someone that things happen to, he’s been actively playing a part in his own destruction, so to speak.
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Y'all, I think I've figured it out. Operating on the assumption that the finale is indeed an alternate timeline from the manga, then someone could have written on a page of the Book to rewrite reality to lead to the events of the finale sometime during season 5's events. In other words, this would explain the INCONSISTENCIES with things that were established or at least heavily implied/assumed prior and in the manga: Chuuya being a real vampire and not in control, nothing being planned, Dazai giving sincere speeches, Dazai really being shot and saying his "last words", Fyodor's hand not being injured, soukoku not killing Fyodor while in Meursault because they literally couldn't and Dazai needing Sigma to discover Fyodor's secrets because of that, Fukuchi's goal not being one that relied on Fukuzawa being alive since he clearly intended to kill him, etc etc too many more to count
Events and explanations in the finale feeling so contradictory and out of place, and characters feeling so ooc and not acknowledging any discrepancies, makes perfect sense if you consider that, up until a certain point, this was our canon timeline — until someone rewrote the ending of the arc with the Book, starting with Fyodor injuring his hand...! We only have one example of the Book being used to majorly rewrite reality in the manga, and when that happened, the main players — the ADA members — were aware that reality was changed, even though they did have memories of the new rewritten reality. BUT, Nikolai was unaware of this during that scene, and so also were all law enforcement because of the clause written on the page accounting for that, so what if the same thing could happen in this instance, to prevent all our characters in the finale from being aware that things had changed? We literally saw someone writing Nikolai's dialogue for him; imagine someone doing that during Dazai's final speech in the episode, and during all the rest of it! I don't know who this would be, but possibly a mysterious third party who got a hold of a different page from the Book somewhere and wrote things to turn out this way, because they wanted the ADA to win against Fukuchi and Fyodor? Maybe even because... this is the only way they can win?
Remember Atsushi asserting this plan, and how silly and too simple it sounded? What if someone else ended up doing just that, writing their own simple outcome for the ADA to win (as a narrative of course, which is probably why it had to start with the major catalyst of, again, Fyodor injuring his hand)? Additionally, if that's what happened, maybe the ending of the finale is a sort of side effect to the Book being used improperly in this way, leading to a destabilization of the timeline or a mishmash of other timelines into the anime one, leading to the alternate Fukuchi and Akutagawa we see there?
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people being mad nat died from an overdose like … she didn’t actually overdose that’s the tragedy of it! also … we KNOW misty kills with fentanyl she steals from her job, it’s been established multiple times! like that’s the tragedy of it all. she’d finally got clean & she was finding a purpose again … it’s exactly how it was going to happen.
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