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Sorry to rant in your inbox (the post about your fanfic really riled me up, I’m so sorry that happened), but I feel like there’s a definite problem with people in this fandom excusing toxicity, right? In fanon content it’s so common to see characters like Virgil get away with being verbally abusive or outright violent with the others (usually deceit or Roman), and it’s always played off as a joke because those characters can ‘take it’ or ‘deserve it’ or whatever. (1/2)

Idk, it’s so uncomfortably unfunny, and I just feel like if the roles were reversed there would be an outcry at how unfair it is. Maybe that’s why people reacted that way to your story; because they’re so used to seeing Virgil get away with being an uwu salty boy, that him being portrayed as genuinely in the wrong is inconceivable. Anyway, sorry to ramble! I appreciate that you speak out about this kind of thing because it’s definitely an Unpopular Take. (2/2)

Okay, first things first- Always feel free to rant in my inbox, ESPECIALLY if it’s to call out the fanders and/or one of the Sides shitty behaviour (looking at Virgil of course but if anything is to arise in new videos, i’m always happy to give my two cents, because it’s just about all I have), I love getting to post these things and talk about them, especially if you want to say it but are too scared to post it on your Actual Blog- I’m always open to anons.

Secondly- regarding the fic, it’s alright- well, it’s not, but I’M alright, at least. I should’ve expected as much, it’s just frustrating, yknow?

THIRDLY, to get to the meat of the anon- yea,

This kinda draws all the way back to my qualms with the way the fandom writes Sleep- or, as they’ve dubbed him, Remy. A lot of his content includes him behaving in particularly toxic ways, he can come off as doing quite a lot of nonconsensual things but it’s fine and glorified because it’s Remy.

It’s completely fine to write or draw abuse or toxicity- the line comes when you take it and you glorify it, you laugh at it, it’s a haha funny, but it always comes down to, if Deceit was drawn doing this, would it be the same? The answer may shock you; No. Of course not.

It’s the same concept- you’re completely correct, I can’t tell you HOW many fics I’ve read in which it’s all been fine, and then I’ve had to leave because Virgil is berating one of the others- who am I kidding, berating Roman, and it’s passed off as nothing more than a haha, a funny, playful antics.

It’s a little unrelated but my mind is brought back to that post that was Virgil addressing Deceit and being like, ‘Patton is nothing but good, the fact that he hit you last night only shows how capable you are of driving saints to madness’, and there was a fucking tw for Deceit of all things but not the, you know, VIOLENCE.

And I just don’t get how it’s funny- how can you get a laugh out of these things? Did you laugh when Virgil nailed Thomas in the head with a rock? Did you laugh when Roman vented for the first time Ever and Virgil then called his past creations ‘gargantuan failures’? Is that funny to you? Why?

Where is this all going? I don’t know, i’m scatter-brained, I feel like Virgil Stans grabbed me by the brain and shook me around for a good bit, just know that you are 100% correct, the rampant excusing of Virgil’s borderline abusive behaviour is Disgusting and really shouldn’t be as common as it is, ESPECIALLY in, ‘The sweetest most nicest most bestest fandom uwu!!!!’