#'when I see MDZS mains with bad Scum Villain opinions that seems par for the course'

[mikkeneko]

Pondering about that one detail in Scum Villain where the audience of Proud Immortal Demon Way (as reported by Shen Yuan, but there’s no indication that anyone else in the audience disagrees with him) considers Yue Qingyuan’s ambush and death to be Shen Qingqiu’s fault, one of Shen Qingqiu’s many sins, that he ‘betrayed’ the only man who was loyal to him by writing the letter that led YQY to his doom

when you actually get the details of the text it’s clear that it was in no way his fault; it was something Luo Binghe arranged specifically to hurt him; the absolute least charitable interpretation possible is that Luo Binghe extracted that summons letter from him under torture, which is something we have generally agreed is not a good basis for judging someone’s intentions, and all that’s if LBH didn’t simply write the letter himself (and deliver it along with SQQ’s severed body parts, holy shit my boy)

like wow! A+ grade victim blaming on the part of the readers there! and that’s right in the text, and you think “wow, this author sure has a low opinion of the audience’s ability to comprehend nuance or even, honestly, basic reading comprehension, in their rush to be able to point fingers and assign blame”

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Anyway it’s kind of wild how many takes you get in the MDZS fandom where Jin Zixuan is blamed for causing his own death by wearing yellow or Wei Wuxian is blamed for causing tragedy by acting outside the boundaries of accepted behavior or the Jiang siblings are blamed for their parents’ dysfunctional relationships or the Dafan Wen are blamed for their own enslavement and murder or