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It really bothers me that Maki is seen as "cruel" or "selfish" by the fandom when she's quite frankly way too selfless for her own good. She becomes an assassin to protect a friend of her's, Volunteering in her place so "She doesn't spend the rest of her life crying." Maki had sacrificed any chance she had at a life of her own to save her friend who died while Maki was training anyway. And even then, Maki stayed an assassin. Trying her hardest for every single mission for the orphanage, She endured literal torture and kept having to experience it(Implied) and she literally refers to her life(Not directly) as "A fate worse than death" But Maki persists. She sucks it up and keeps going so no more children at the orphanage would have to go through what she did. She has literally gave up any control over her life and like any free time for the orphanage. And the majority of the fandom only sees her on surface level and doesn't understand why she acts the way she does and just blames it on cruelty or selfishness
Also I saw someone call her a "pick me" for talking about her problems, Like????