It’s been a little too late but I like this topic
I think rather than stupidity or selfishness, she’s more like having mental block? Or maybe Anosognosia?
We both agreed that this is not stupidity.
But I’m not sure if it’s selfishness either.
Selfishness in my opinion is when you do something that isn’t really wrong but isn’t right either. Like putting yourself a little higher than the others?
For example, I sit on the train/subway, the seat is full when suddenly a pregnant woman step inside. She go near me and my mind know I need to give her my seat, but I rather pretend to sleep and think: “well.. this is not the ‘priority seat’ so I don’t have to, and I’m pretty sure other people will take care of her.” That’s selfishness imo.
But Asahi isn’t like that.
In my eyes, she never, not even once, able to think about “her wrongdoing”. She’s too sheltered that her mental state is like automatically blocking anything that make her uncomfortable. Her brain can’t perceive something that is bad for her and even sometimes changing it to something better (not completely good for her, but definitely better than the “bad for her”).
Like when Ruri told her about her friends hurt Ruri and broke Ruri’s thing intentionally. Selfish person know this is real story but she would think “that’s not my problem, I’m not the one doing it, I never told them to.”
Meanwhile, Asahi here listen to the story attentively but then it automatically translated as “oh no they are fighting”.. Because them having a fight is “better” for her reality, rather than her friends one-sidedly hurting her best friend.
That’s why imo, rather than selfishness, she’s like having something that block her sense/mental.
But I’m not psychology major so take my word with a grain of salt. I just like discussing things like this (⌒▽⌒)
Rather than blocking, i think she simply doesn't have sympathy. Since everything is going good for her, she thinks it's also like that for others.
To her, a fight seems like the biggest conflict she can think of, simply because bullying is not something she has ever experienced. I reckon the only reason why she knows what arguing looks like is because of FL and her desperate attempts to get away from Asahi.
Asahi's problem isn't her stupidity. Her problem is her complete lack of care for anyone else. She doesn't care if her followers hurt her friend, and she keeps stalking her friend, and she started a war because she was so obsessed with stalking. Stupidity isn't the problem it's her selfishness.