#I can live ineffectively and inefficiently and be imperfect and embarrassing and mess up all the time in ways that are my fault and still b

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Strong independent woman? More like pathetic dependent woman who’s flaws counter out any good qualities she has twice over. I’m still talking about Aqua. I love her so much. That’s something I really like about the Konosuba cast in general. Found family without the wholesome. They never leave the first town, they’re constantly in debt, everyone knows them as those weirdos who cause problems, but they kind of love each other anyway. They’re found family because they all suck so much they can’t survive without each other. They aren’tin a position to reject each other because of their weird or unlikeable qualities. They’re the same. You just kind of accept it. And isn’t that what family is?

I’m not wording this right, but they’re just such normal people. They like cool stuff even if it’s seen as cringe, they can’t help but blow their earnings on nice alcohol, they work a regular job because adventuring doesn’t really pay. They adjust to each other. Kazuma taking Megumin out to do her explosions, Aqua and Kazuma being the same fucking person, both irritating each other and understanding each other because of it. Kazuma not wanting to fight the demon king because it sounds like a lot of work. They accept each others weirdness out of necessity. That’smy type of found family.

#idk how to word it #it’s just that they don’t have anywhere else to go because they’re too selfish or cringe or lazy or annoying so they stick together #It’sa really funny version of my love for the intimacy out of necessity trope #They come to except the weird parts of each other not because they’re angels but because they just get used to it #It’s like that concept of all the fun people being in hell #It’s all the horribly flawed people that stick together and in that way it’s sweet #Aaaaaaa I can’t word this right #But Aqua the light of my life #It feels very human #It embraces the parts were meant to shun yk? #They’re fully themselves and push a lot of people away because of it but they find each other anyway #They’re themselves fully even when it’s detrimental and there’s something very enticing to me about that #They don’t exist to please others ig and they accept the consequences of that because they have to #They contribute nothing to the world around them but they continue to exist in day to day life! #I feel like for me it strips the concept of living from the obligation to be any one thing #It’s not free of consequence to be themselves but they can’t really do much else so they keep on trucking along #I’m probably reading too deep but it questions the idea that existing and being valuable is tied to being useful or succe #contributor to society #It doesn’t idealize living like this but it shows it’s possible #I can live ineffectively and inefficiently and be imperfect and embarrassing and mess up all the time in ways that are my fault and still b #alive #at this point I’m just psychoanalyzing myself to figure out why these characters appeal to me so much #But they really do #They’re not role models or beacons of morality or anything to look up to they’re just people #Idk I just love them #they’re cool to me