After thinking about kei

It gets to the point that I'm somehow actively kinda hating rei because of how unfair the story is to kei.

It's actually so disappointing how can both be the same standing when one is actively drowning with no help? Rei can do shit Because she was loved and cared for rei has none of that it's just so disappointing.

Kei**

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But for the thing with Keigetsu: I'm not partial to either of them. I believe that what the story wants to drive home is the will to make things happen, even when its hard. Keigetsu is the type of person who will always wallow in self pity. She wasn't dealt a great hand, but she was given a great opportunity. The idea is to show that Reirin made things happen not because of her beautiful face or great standing, but because her inner Beauty shone through. By being inside a body that can't be healthy for even a minute, she was dealt a hand just as shitty. I only saw the anime and came here to check out the manga, so I don't know if it differs and I only saw the contents of the first 7 episodes, so I'm not very far in either, but up until now, everything that happened was due to the two girls' innate nature.
The fact that someone who was supposed to serve Keigetsu, but will be loyal to Reirin, is not due to the fate of life but due to Keigetsu and her personality. She will always take the easy way out and sees herself as the victim. If it had been easy to act pike Reirin to begin with, Keigetsu could have done just that. She never knew what Reirin was all about; she didn't even know that she had a body that practically gave out under the sheer weight of its mere existence. I get that even Keigetsu deserves character development and it seems, according to the contents of the comments here, that that doesn't happen. Then again, I'm sorry, but that type of thing is a part of a person's very nature. It simply won't ever really change. It's the embodiment of "when life gives you lemons". Reirin would happily take the lemons, make lemonade and maybe open up her lemonade business to thrive. Keigetsu would curse at the lemons, then bite the cest and huff the fumes and imagine lemonade, until she's so convinced she should have gotten the lemonade instead that she would be willing to steal it.
Her understanding is that other people just "get" things and she didn't "get" things. But others worked for things and she didn't. But changing this outlook on the world is impossibly from one moment to the next, because the human mind will strive to protect itself and acceptance in such a situation will cause one to redirect all of that hatred, which in part has always been subconsciously directed at oneself, to fully focus only on oneself. It would crush you, so you wouldn't easily accept to have been wrong all this time.
Therefore, change isn't easy and it wouldn't make so much sense here.

How does one even change her bitterness is only there out of sheer desperation how does one learn something when one was never taught it? Honestly I see it differently its nature vs nurture.
How does one even have that kind of personality without that kind of upbringing. I see it the same as humans. Humans who were never really taught coping mechanisms lash out. After all which cornered animal wouldn't?

Worked for things? She's an orphan and a branch families freaking trash of course she has none. I understand people love Rei's mentality a lot. How does one make lemonade when you were never given the time and lesson to make a lemonade. Everyone knows how to make lemonade don't they why didn't she know it? Rei has structure and discipline that was taught to her it feels unfair because it is unfair. How can someone contend with someone who knows how to make lemonade because they were taught how. Kei was just given the lemons and was told make lemonade. Even if it was easy to make a lemonade she was never taught how, she never even knew about the damn lemons.

After all isn't it easy to make lemonade? Is probably what she was fucking told

That spits in the face of every person who didn't end up her way. Yes, upbringing is important. But just as a complete psychopath can be raised within a normal family (though it's the rarer case), a person can be happy and positive after being raised in a broken environment. The latter actually happens a lot, because the people grown in these environments are more resilient; they have a high mental fortitude.

You are supposed to work for things. You don't get them handed.
That is exactly the type of attitude that makes Keigetsu the way she is. "Oh, Reirin got handed everything because she's loved."
No, Reirin also had a huge cross to bear and because of it, she gets up everyday, despite being unable to breathe properly, and when she can't get up because of a fever, she will learn. She will do whatever she can to go a step further.
Keigetsu just put on wild make up, got angry and elevated herself by putting the people around her down. Surprised that none of them wanted to love her? Then you don't know how being human works.
You believe she is capable of learning forbidden magic by herself, but she can't even try and imitate the person who's so different from her, because her funky ass is so sad, she can't be nice to people?
Sorry, but that's just a weak mindset and that's why she loses.

Thats is incredibly shallow. Weak mindset? Are you saying that to every single victim of circumstances? A child born in poverty is more likely to stay in poverty. Survivor bias is real. For one survivor ten more live in that circumstance unable to even get up. Brains wired in survival mode stays in survival mode. Do not say that are you the kind of person to say to a depressed person be happy? She's like that because those are protective mechanisms to protect herself you cannot easily rewire a brain.

How can you work for things when you were never given the tools to begin with? The whole system is designed that way and if you can't even acknowledge that then you're just an incredibly unaware of the wider picture.

What you say also spits in the face of every single person that wasn't able to escape their situation.

Yeah. Because that's on them. Spitting in the face of people who didn't even try when they could have - people like Keigetsu - is more insulting than telling the truth to people who didn't properly try that they didn't properly try and just blamed everyone else instead of taking accountability.

You spout bullshit like this of course im going to get angry. Reirin can never compare to Kei. Kei had nobody. Rei has a family, structure, and more. Kei on the otherhand had nothing. I shall say this again. Nobody can fucking do anything without that structure that rei has, kei HAD NOBODY, every single word she says and does is multipled time 10 and turned against her. You act like someone who talks about pulling themselves up by the bootstraps but when every single thing is against you, how the fuck can you pull yourselves up? When the system is against you how can you? When everyone already has an opinion of you how can they get closer than you, how can you be nice to someone who talks shit about you and is willing to trash you? How can a CHILD rewire their brain that was wired for survival and change the attitude in an instant. I understand that people can do and be different if they force themselves. But what about the people who cannot change because they themselves were never given the tools to change. I understand that system and is willing to look through it in a wider lens, you on the other hand has such shallow opinions like work for things.

How can you even try when there is no one to help you try and the tools needed. You are spitting in every single victim of circumstances. Blaming the victim and blind to the reality of what happens to a hated person like Keigetsu and her life

How shallow of you I understand the reason I understand the reason why kei is the way she is you're no different from any other person who ostracized Kei. After all who's going to listen to her?

Because you piss me off, let me tell you a few things about myself. And I'm btw not saying I've had the worst life - but that's not something to compare anyway.
I was born to a divorced woman with two prior children and no job. My father was barely around and when I was 16, he came around and told me out of the blue that, since I'm no longer acting like a clingy 5-year-old as a teenager (and with him never around) that I'm therefore no longer his child and he would sell me for five bucks if someone offered. My mother was close by and heard every word. I went into my bedroom to cry, she followed me, sat down next to me, patted me on the shoulder like a bro for a second and then walked out again.
We never had any money, my mother was at home all day, but we never talked. When I was in elementary school, I tried to make a connection by telling my mother about my day when I came home from school. That's the time I learned to discern when someone listens to me or iust pretends to. I could stop talking in the middle of my sentence and she wouldn't notice at all. So I iust stopped talking to her. When I was a newborn, we just moved to a small village, far away from the rest of our relatives. My parents knew nobody there. Not a soul. But nobody cared for me, so nobody gave a shit when the random old couple from downstairs would fetch me at 5 am to return me late in the evening from my newborn days up until I was three. Nowadays, I apparently fulfill all signs for someone having experienced early sexual abuse, which I cannot remember. Well, there's that. I also have ADHD which made my schooldays horrible to get around, because nobody cared to get me diagnosed with absolutely anything. In general, nobody really gave a shit, no matter what I did. I could go anywhere, I could stay out the entire day and evening and it's a miracle I survived my early childhood. Because of that environment, the first years of my life fostered hate between me and my siblings.
Even from my schooldays, my teachers were people who would openly berate or talk down to me for random things because of my bum mother. Because it's a village and they all knew who she was. I was a pariah for that alone. I never had a chance.
I pulled myself out of that hole. I graduated. I did all the things I wanted to do. Never went to university, though that was because of the crippling depression I had during that timeframe. But I grew it out. I moved far away. I found a good job and are currently on my way to becoming a team leader. Now I have friends I can trust and the only family I kept by my side is my sister, but that's all the family I need.

I have another sister with whom my connection isn't very strong. She has the same father but a different mother. She's also 18 years my senior. When my father "lost" her to CPS, she went from one foster family to the next, each new one worse than the last. She now lives in a suburban house, with her husband and 5 daughters, with a good job and a nice life. That's for a different flavor.

"Having nothing" doesn't mean "not having any chances".

Then remember that not every fucking person survived like you 10 fucking people get left behind and die.

We're talking about people in Situations comparable to Keigetsu. Not child soldiers in the middle east or victims of human trafficking.
In situations like her's, you always have a choice. She had more than one chance. If you can't do it, you lack willpower. I have no feelings of pity for those people. I feel nothing towards them.
Every failure of my life was a choice. I could have pulled myself together, so I could have gone to university, no matter the circumstances. There's always a way, even if it isn't perfect, even if it takes longer to reach the goal, but you have to put in the effort. If you don't, you don't. But that's on you, and you have to take accountability for it.

You put you're entire life in a comment section, I didn't. How does she even know she had choices? She was thrown into the wolves without anyone backing her. YOU MISSED MY POINT. This is anime is about a freaking harem. Their lives revolve around the crown prince. Their treated by how the prince favors them as well as the emperors. Her family didn't even give her any support. Their lives are on the line based on the mood of the men around them. You do not understand the power of gossip in a court surrounded by wolves. How does ONE GET TO CHANGE IN A PLACE UNWILLING TO LET YOU CHANGE. The opinion is already there and with how shallow you're opinion is of kei you are no different from thos who alienated her.