Y’all need to stop hating on my girl Tsu

yuyuhakushofangirl11:

Okay so the new episodes of MHA came out recently. And like an idiot I scrolled through the comments section when the episode of the ‘Dorm Tour’ came about. I saw a few positive comments, but a crap load of misunderstandings or even worse harshly negative feedback. While everyone is allowed their own opinion, I want to throw mine into the ring on why not only is Tsuyu a great character, but she made the best decision for her on not going after Bakugo. 

1. She has the most to lose. As many of us know Tsuyu, due to her parents working constantly, had to step up to the plate and basically raise her younger brother and sister. This part of her life became so engrossing that she, along with her hero studies, could not make any friends until just before graduating middle school. Now let’s say she did go after Bakugo. What if she got caught? For one, she would have risked getting kicked out of the Hero Academy, and I don’t have to explain how devastating that would be to her financial future. Not only this, but having a criminal record would make helping her brother and sister even more difficult. But, this was the best case scenario. What if she too was captured and killed? Her siblings would have been left defenseless. As an older sibling myself I can tell you that there’s no scarier thought than not being there to protect them. Most of her classmates are only children. They can’t understand this responsibility or this mindset. 
2. She had the instincts to know it was potentially a bad idea. It’s been noted throughout the series that Tsu, either because of raising her siblings or having the natural affinity for it, has a nurturing and calming nature. These are of course traits of maturity and a strong sense of preservation of others. Being attacked by villains and being forced to defend yourself is one thing, but jumping into the belly of the beast? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that going in after Bakugo had the potential to have horrific results. Because, anime logic aside and bravery aside, what they did WAS dangerous and it was, in its own way, remarkably stupid. So much could have gone wrong and my girl Tsu was one of the only students to not have ‘Hero’ blinders on.
3. Hero Law. We all know some of Hero Law is bullshit. The not using your quirks in public unsupervised unless you have a licence, how you can’t cause harm to a villain if you don’t have the licence even if you’re defending yourself and others, all that shit. Let’s not forget the only reason why Aizawa didn’t expel the entire class, perpetrators and otherwise, was in most part due to All Might’s pull. Tsuyu undoubtedly knows that Hero Law is bullshit. She knows that they should be able to save their friend or help. But she’s also mature enough to see the other side. Laws are in place for a reason. She’s one of the only people to put her emotions aside and look at it from the other perceptive. ‘If we do this we’re no better than villains’. While she knows that it shouldn’t be true, in their world by law it is. 

I also heard the arguments that since Tsuyu didn’t support them going and didn’t go herself that she had ‘no right’ to be upset near the end of the episode. There was even confusion as to why she was crying. Well, here’s my take. Even though Tsu knew this could be a horrible idea, she knew the risks and knew that her best friends could be hurt, it wasn’t like she didn’t want to help. Once again, she has a strong nurturing instinct. She would have wanted to be there to support her friends and help them. She was weeping at the sight of not only people she genuinely cared for in harm’s way, but watching as All Might struggled against someone that had the power to kill heroes as strong as Bakugo, Todoroki, or Midoriya.

And when she saw her friends again, she was confronted by these conflicting emotions: Guilt for not being there with them, overwhelmed by the possibility of never seeing them again, anger that they didn’t heed her warning, and relief that they were okay. 

This is a LOT to take in, especially provided that everyone seems to forget our class 1-A babies are just that. They’re children. Despite cultural differences 14-15 is recognized as the age of a minor and therefore a child. These emotions would be a lot to take in for anyone much less someone who just got out of middle school. 

Tsuyu did the right thing for her by not interacting with them. It’s a sign of maturity and tying back to her instinct to preserve others by not putting herself in their way until she properly sorted through how she felt. While I understand that ‘lashing out’ and ‘sipping tea’ is the order of the day in real life and online for too many of us, seeing that Tsu chose to carefully organize how she felt before presenting herself before her friends shows a great deal of her character. More specifically, THE FACT SHE HAS CHARACTER.