Shirota Mahiru appreciation post
ok so i just had this epiphany while driving home from class today and i want to make a post appreciating mahiru, because i feel like he’s underrated, despite being the main character in the show. like i’ve never seen a blog completely dedicated to mahiru (there might be some, but there aren’t enough if so) and i’m guilty of this too, i don’t think i’ve ever posted specifically about mahiru before so i’m doing it now
he is literally the biggest sweetheart ever. he had a rough childhood but he is so nice and considerate of others, even people he doesn’t know, like when he befriended sakuya, and stayed loyal to him even while they were on opposite sides
and his relationship with kuro is so important. even though he was the last of the eves to make a contract and should be the weakest/least knowledgeable for that reason, they end up being the most powerful pair because of the person experience they have together. mahiru literally pulls kuro out of a depression that he’d been going through for hundreds of years
this all leads up to the fact that he is just such a great and supportive person that he won’t give up on anybody, regardless of what they’ve been through, like licht and misono, they didn’t make very good first impressions to mahiru but he ended up befriending them and being loyal to them anyway
and he has an incredible amount of self-control and passion. when kuro was about to kill belkia and tsubaki, even though they are on opposite sides of a situation, mahiru stopped him both times, because he’s so humane. and when the time did come to finally settle the war between trubaki and him and his friends, instead of killing or hurting tsubaki, he hugged him… HE F***ING HUGGED HIM