ao3sburbanite:

vernacular-science:

oracledelphii:

Um… you guys… John Hunger isn’t the way he is because he’s depressed. When you guys are depressed, do you have the rage-energy to swallow entire worlds and grow with the sole intention of breaking through reality to fight God? Like I understand that depression goes hand in hand with pessimism/nihilism and a loss of faith in love and friendships– but like, what depressed people do with those emotions is very different from what John is doing with them. When you’re depressed you lose the will to live. This guy wants to steal the lives of others for his Grand Purpose without their permission. He kills. A LOT. Do you really want him as your Depression Mascot?
Like, I can sympathize with him feeling that the world is horrible– that’s def a depression thing. But this fucker has a purpose. His nihilism gives him purpose. One of the things I remember hating most about depression was that it stole my purpose from me. It’s an entirely different thing.
John Hunger doesn’t need love and friendship and a warm blanket and hot cocoa. He needs to be taken the fuck down.

Well, I totally get where you’re coming from. And I agree he needs to be taken the fuck down.

But for me, he very much reflects my depression. My depression feels like a void that I need to fill to try and be happy. It swings from apathy and disgust to rage, fury. There are days where I don’t give one flying rats ass about anything. There are days I just want to destroy everything, to hurt people so they understand just how fucking hopeless and worthless the world feels to me. Where I just want to consume all of the emotions so I might just feel something and the absolute fury that I can’t and it doesn’t work.

John Hunger represents the ugly parts of my depression. The part that I desperately want to conceal and that aren’t able to be cured with hot cocoa and a warm blanket. That’s the depression I see him as. And that fuck needs to get taken down.

I agree - sometimes Depression actually feels like a superpower because you stone cold do not care about anything. You’ll go to the shop in your PJs and not give two shits about who looks at you.

John Hunger isn’t ONLY depressed, his behaviour can’t be explained solely by that, but his dissociative disconnect from all social awareness (he doesn’t even know if Merle is a friend or not, he can’t remember what it’s like to feel something) seems like depression to me.

He’s such a complicated villain. I think at some point he thought he was helping other people, and that his anger against the limits of life were justified - by absorbing them they’re freed from those limits but are presumably stuck in some kind of limbo. He talks of uniting them in righteous indignation, and he was once a charismatic leader. His obsessive pursuit of the IPRE is something outside his depression - it’s a relentless crusade to erase the person who rejected his philosophy utterly, probably because on some level he knows Merle is right.

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