#I hate redditors 🩵

[somehwere-between]

john donovan for the ask meme😛 (this is beth btw<3)

HIII BETH !! For anyone who is unaware, mafia 3 is a game I talk about incessantly over on my mostly-fandom blog, @rottingmanifesto . But I’m lazy so I’m answering this here. Yay.

How I feel about this character

Morally-gray 1960s CIA agent driven to make America fair for all Americans, while causing some chaos recreationally (because it’s the 60s and he’s in the CIA). Not necessarily a good person, but definitely a good character. I’m VERY selective about my interpretations of him. But when done correctly, he’s a fantastic character to analyze and funny to boot. Also, his sarcasm is fantastic. It’s the Reddit bros that ruin him the most.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Alcoholics Anonymous. Lincoln and John are cute, John and Aldridge are horrible for each other but balance out well, etc. This man just needs to get out of the closet. It’s see-through glass.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

He isolates himself from others a lot of the time, but I really do like his bond with Lincoln. Romantic, friendship, mutual trust (even if Lincoln doesn’t think he’s kind of insane), what-have-you. FJ is such a hater and John just does not give a fuck outside of FJ being a religious figure. It’s fun. Marshall and John are begrudgingly pleasant (former) coworkers.

My unpopular opinion about this character

Allow fictional characters to have faults and time-accurate views, please. I have major beef with both Reddit bros AND Tumblr users who try to characterize John as wholly good or wholly bad. He’s 1: a CIA agent in the 60s, no shit, but also 2: a registered Democrat who adored JFK and vocally advocated for the promotion of a mixed race man in the US Army, and actively abhors white supremacist groups. He’s not always morally upstanding, yeah, and that’s fine because he’s not fucking real.

Also no, liking a fictional CIA agent character doesn’t make someone an imperialist. It’s a video game. Y’all (here and Reddit) need reading comprehension + media analysis skills. I mean this is the “how dare you say we piss on the poor” website so I can’t wait to see this be misconstrued 🩵

One thing I wish happened with this character in canon

Stones Unturned as a DLC sucked I can’t lie— I like Aldridge fine enough even though he’s really bland to me, Marshall is interesting I guess, but there was literally no reason for it to occur and was so tonally unconnected to the game itself— but a John-and-Linc DLC done right would’ve been great. I’ll write something someday. Probably.