Well, still watching Durarara....

This thing is just Utena levels of self-delusion, except for Shizuo, Shizuo knows what he is.

And maaaaybe to a degree Celty, though you have to admit Celty probably should have realized she's being strung along awhile ago, but the fact she's not human sort of excuses it.

Even Shizu-chan has some going on, but yeah. Lying Liars Who Lie primarily lie to themselves yes.

Indeed

Celty is like the third most together character

Also eeeeee please enjoy this show~

number 1 on "has it together" is Tom Tanaka, Shizuou's boss

I'm not so far in to have gotten a good look at Tom, but I can understand that.

I'm not thinking about the characters based about how "together" they have it. One could argue Shinra has it pretty well together overall. He's just aware he's looking down a .45 magnum loaded with the truth, even if he's unaware what the exact truth is (which I'll admit is a dubious thing to assume at best), and he's desperately hoping it never fires.

I mean, overall I'm enjoying it, it's just I haven't seen this many characters quite THIS dysfunctional and actively trying to play it off as "everything is fine" in awhile.

Narita excels at that

Also at portraying couples who are each deeply broken people individually but whose cracks complement each other and somehow work

Right now the ONLY relationship which is even close to "working" in any stable manner is Celty and Shizuo. And that's more of the pair both understanding on a base level, "Yeah, we're both monsters who kinda just WANT normalcy but can't have it."

Yup

You’ll see more as you go

I'll admit I'm a LITTLE spoiled with a couple things thanks to LARP sheets, but yeah.

... to be fair if I cared about spoilers a lot I wouldn't be a LARP head GM.

‘Tis true

Presently I'm still technically preregged for the next meatspace Zenkai as Simon

durarara is such a masterpiece