Talk:Shu Itsuki/@comment-68.5.188.80-20160713095403/@comment-26322848-20160713130323

This is just my thoughts on it, but I think the same actions can be percieved differently by different people. For example, the way Nazuna always tells people to call him 'nii-chan' and depend on him may be comforting to the ra*bits boys who are worried about their inexperience, but it might come off as condescending like he think's he knows better only because he's older to someone else. So I think it's a matter of perspective depending on who he's interacting with.

I think Shu's being a perfectionist and fussy about details works okay with Mika, who recognizes that he's not as smart or as skilled as Shu. We know Mika's a really hard worker and that he wants to perform the way Shu wants, most likely because he believes in Shu's artistic talents more than his own. Additionally, things like Shu taking home toys for Mika in Wanted 5 and Shu saying he wouldn't mind Mika performing alone in Toy Box 5 (because he feels Mika is skilled enough to be okay without him) show a little more of how Shu actually thinks about Mika behind all the tsundere verbal bashing. I think his relationship with Mika, at least, isn't abusive. Shu says insulting things, but he doesn't appear to actually believe them (given the whole toy box thing), and Mika himself isn't phased by it.

Nazuna, on the other hand, doesn't mesh as well with Shu's perfectionist personality, so maybe this is the part you were having trouble with? The way I see it, I don't think Shu really realized how much he was suffocating Nazuna back when he was in Valkyrie, especially because Nazuna was always so quiet and didn't say anything to stop him until it was too late. While they way he treated Nazuna was wrong, I don't think he meant to hurt him, escpecially because of his line "I still don't have my feelings sorted out, so I'm certain I would end up abusing him with cruel words" in Toy Box 7 when he tries to avoid talking to Nazuna. So /was/ he abusive to Nazuna? maybe, yeah. Is he actively, knowingly abusing Nazuna in the present? I don't think so.

Does this maybe help? ;o; sorry it was long... I would've just messaged, but anon orz