(Whether Ren is a hero is debatable, but that's not the point here.
The point here is that nothing meaningful and worthwhile can bloom without its hardships – a concept that Ren and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts hold within their very core, with all they have endured. There’s a certain type of strength in vulnerability, in pain, that propels them forward, that inspires them to work through their mistakes and to channel their anger and disappointment into making a difference so that others don’t have to go through what they have. The Phantom Thieves of Hearts won too, and yet, here he is standing before Damien, still carrying the weight and the trauma of being arrested for a crime he hasn’t committed, of the stigma that he faced daily and of all the psychological effects the situation triggered on him. And yet, he wouldn’t change it.
Heroes bleed. Isn’t that the reason they’re heroes in the first place?
They’re flawed, human and they make mistakes, like Ren has, and still, those become the very foundation to conquer whatever goal they have to accomplish. Ren couldn’t save Akechi this time, nor could he last time. Akechi himself has told him – it’s impossible to save everyone, specially when they don’t want to be saved. It won’t stop him from feeling shitty about it, but he will do what he thinks it’s the right set of actions to make sure this doesn’t ever happen again and let that be his redemption; be better going forward rather than to beat himself up to the point of inaction.
Something meaningful that blooms from hardships.)
I know you care about him. (For someone who told Damien to use his big boy words, Ren barely ever does. Time to shift out of that for a while.)
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The point here is that nothing meaningful and worthwhile can bloom without its hardships – a concept that Ren and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts hold within their very core, with all they have endured. There’s a certain type of strength in vulnerability, in pain, that propels them forward, that inspires them to work through their mistakes and to channel their anger and disappointment into making a difference so that others don’t have to go through what they have. The Phantom Thieves of Hearts won too, and yet, here he is standing before Damien, still carrying the weight and the trauma of being arrested for a crime he hasn’t committed, of the stigma that he faced daily and of all the psychological effects the situation triggered on him. And yet, he wouldn’t change it.
Heroes bleed. Isn’t that the reason they’re heroes in the first place?
They’re flawed, human and they make mistakes, like Ren has, and still, those become the very foundation to conquer whatever goal they have to accomplish. Ren couldn’t save Akechi this time, nor could he last time. Akechi himself has told him – it’s impossible to save everyone, specially when they don’t want to be saved. It won’t stop him from feeling shitty about it, but he will do what he thinks it’s the right set of actions to make sure this doesn’t ever happen again and let that be his redemption; be better going forward rather than to beat himself up to the point of inaction.
Something meaningful that blooms from hardships.)
I know you care about him. (For someone who told Damien to use his big boy words, Ren barely ever does. Time to shift out of that for a while.)