I'm finding it hard to pity Tory at times

Yeah I was right that people were gonna absolutely hate this post, but I stand by it. I don't hate Tory, I'm not totally unfeeling to her situation, I understand why she does what she does I just can't find it in me to always feel bad for the outcome.

I find her to be whiny(?) lately. Not sure if that's the right word, but watching these past 2 seasons I have found myself getting irritated a lot more with Tory and her attitude at times. I can understand it, but I find a lot of the time she ends up moping or unhappy about things that she herself caused or could've prevented and it often prevents me from really feeling all that bad for her.

It's strange because I really really like Tory, she's in my top 5 characters, she's interesting and has a compelling story but I find it incredibly hard sometimes to feel bad for her. I can understand a lot of what she does and why she does it, I don't think she's always in the wrong and I can comfortably admit when she is.

In the early seasons I feel these situations speak for themselves, these ones are obvious so I won't say much there. (Best season of hers for me was s4, I find her a lot easier to agree with there).

In s5 it was mostly her insistence on staying in Cobra Kai, she already knew what Silver had done. She knew how shady the people were and she knew it was dangerous. Robby told her he was leaving and thought it was a good idea for her to leave too and she went on about how she's "a big girl who can make her own choices". Cut to a few weeks later guess who wants to leave and is now upset that Sam doesn't want to hear her out at the party.

Like I said, I get it. She was the champion and had burned all her bridges with anyone outside of the dojo and that probably influenced her want to stay, but she said herself she felt like a fraud because her win was paid off so I don't understand what was keeping her there?? She had no reason to want to stay, so I find it hard to feel bad for her being unhappy there.

S6 is probably my biggest issue, I was so frustrated for a lot of Tory's scenes. I get that her mother had died and she was grieving, it can affect mood and behaviour but If I'm being brutally honest nobody put her into the situation she was in during pt2 but herself. It was her fault she was unhappy in Cobra Kai.

Kreese had gotten into her head about potential favouritism to Sam and Johnny's comments only convinced her more. That part I won't blame her fully for. But she was reassured by multiple people that they wouldn't take the opportunity away from her to be captain, they told her they would postpone or find another way. They all wanted to be there for her and would've been supportive, she convinced herself that they all hated her and didn't want her there so she could justify her decision to leave. None of that was true, they all told her so.

She cut off her entire support system and was later miserable that she was alone and unhappy. Devon was still nice to her, Robby completely brushed off what was happening with him because of her decision in an attempt to reassure her.

Sam told her she thought they were friends, she was hurt by what Tory did and she was completely right that if this is what Tory decided to do then she needed to own it because if she chose to be an opponent she needed to expect them not to go easy on her or be overly willing to be close.

She had a slew of people ready and willing to help her, she cut all of those people off and made assumptions. Again I'm finding it hard to feel sorry for her when she put herself in that position, Miyagi-do didn't wrong her or hate her like she convinced herself they did.

She spent pt2 not liking or being close with anyone on her team, not being supported by Kim (these two already hated each other) and Kreese, questioning if she made the right decision.. scratch that she knew she didn't and spent the whole time trying to convince herself that she didn't make a mistake. When her team was eliminated and Robby went to apologise her outburst after just pissed me off. Of course it went to shit, she knew damn well what would happen if she joined Cobra Kai again. People told her Kreese was using her, they told her they wanted to be there for her, what the hell is she still blaming people for?!

I still like Tory a lot, but I'm gonna need her to seriously get her shit together and stop making dumb decisions and blaming other people for them because at this point it's getting tiring. Stop cutting people off when they're trying to help girl please!! At some point they may stop coming back and I cannot fault that if it were to happen (I'm saying this largely in regards to Robby, Keenry is still the best ship, but Tory I beg stop pushing him away when you two are clearly in love 😭).