Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-198.52.158.171-20200706211530/@comment-36009152-20200801144252

Anon·chan wrote: Electra33 wrote:

Anon·chan wrote: He's neither. Mika is simply an overprotective friend who wishes to save the last of his family. Labeling him as "yandere" undermines his trauma and entire character, and "tsundere" is just false, i wont even bother explaining why. ^^^ Personally, I dislike people stereotyping traumatized characters as “yandere” because it completely overlooks every single aspect of their actual character to reduce them into something violent and creepily overprotective (not to mention that it’s usually used to sexualize a ship and demonize a character). Mika wants Yū safe, which is fair and understandable considering they are in a post-apocalyptic world and Yū is quite literally being used as an experiment. Also, Mika doesn’t want to “keep Yū to himself”- he wants to take in children with him, after all! His ideal dream is ALL of the Hyakuya orphanage being safe and alive and happy, not just Yū! Yū just so happens to be the only one currently alive. And yes, Mika loves him, but he’s not trying to ‘keep Yū to himself’... he’s trying to keep Yū alive and safe using whatever means he has. Tsundere.... is just so very inaccurate. I shouldn’t have to explain why 😂.

TL;DR: Yandere has very negative connotations (at least in the English-speaking fandom, from what I’ve seen), and we shouldn’t be trying to push an extremely traumatized character into a box when he has so much more to offer. Dude you explained it perfectly. I agree with every word you said. Further agreement and commendations for observing the issues with attempting to classify something serious in a somewhat comical 'yandere' or 'tsundere' framing. Would also add that Mika made it clear early on that he was not trying to abscond with Yu and take him away from the squad. It's not some cartoon behaviour, just Mika not wanting anything bad to happen to Yu and he is willing to forego his suspicions of humans to keep Yu around those he trusts.