#MISUNDERSTOOD CHARACTERS

[biggesthomuradefender]

every time someone mischaracterizes homura as not caring abt the other girls & only caring abt madoka, an angel dies.

like, how could you completely miss the point of rebellion that fucking bad??? genuine question.

[xxamarisknightxx]

"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women...merely adored."

~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

[love-nlove]

gotta be honest.... i need everyone to stop misunderstanding characters. and going with the fanfic stereotypes . or whatever first impression they give off..

basically, goodnight only to those who don't take people at face value or don't jump to conclusions about characters and to sebek, leona <333333, malleus, gojo, kalim, cater, riddle, jamil, and especially floyd <3 and sleep tight, hope you have sweet dreams tonight gojo satoru <3333 and those who have them as their favourite characters.

[rtclyzavhie]

REASONS WHY THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE OCEAN!

Her backstory is actually sad, she's a misunderstood character she always does her best to be perfect to prove her worth and she reminds me of how the "gifted" or "achiever" child like me and others act although I don't stand by her actions of bullying it's actually sad that the people who want more "representation" of misunderstood people hates a misunderstood character... They don't see how much she tried to prove her worth of being smart and kind and when she panicked she started acting like how the other kids probably acted because she still wanted to live... I COULD RANT ABOUT THIS ALL DAY AGHHHHHHHHH ISTFG PLSSSSS

[1800naveen]

Characters who are clearly complex or are misunderstood but half of the fandom don't want to believe/say it because they did a few bad things even though there are characters who are a lot worse>>>>>

[geegers22]

Something that bothers me so much is when people take a character’s actions in the beginning of their story where they did something bad and compares it to later in the story where they denounce someone else doing something bad and then they call the character a hypocrite. Like that’s not hypocrisy that’s called character development.

Most of the time it’s female characters too.

Thinking about Katara getting shit on by certain fans for telling Toph not to bring attention to them by stealing after she made that same mistake in season 1. Like yeah because she learned her lesson and she didn’t want the same to happen to Toph (also she was right lol)

And then Annie saying all she wants is for there to be peace even though she killed many people. Are we just going to ignore her entire backstory and the mental anguish she went through in the time between when these two events happened?

It just bugs me that when a male character makes mistakes and learns from it they are a well written complex character but when a female character does it she’s a hypocrite and a bitch.

[birdiegray01]

I’m so tired of the misunderstood character dying to be understood like no i want my baby to live to be understood.

[booksteaandcrying]

So...

Um. I have a story I'm working on. And I need desperate motivation to finish it. So please. Flood my asks. Also check the tags It'll give you a hint on what's it about.

[xxamarisknightxx]

And she did. A legendary crash-out. A crash-out that shall be like a beacon for all the subsequent crash-outs to follow.

an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen

[biggesthomuradefender]

“homura is a bad person and that’s the point of madoka magica !1!1!!1!1!1!”

quick question, have you ever heard of character complexity and moral greyness?

[xxamarisknightxx]

Posting a little edit I made almost a year ago.

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[theladwhoisweird]

"People will tell that you're a child of a mad person.", said mom and her poisonous tongue.

"Well, actually , I am, Mom, I am!"

I only shouted those things inside me even I wanted to do so on her face.

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[divineturtle]

Bothers me when I'm reading a fanfic and they make Doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy just like. A mean asshole? MY Doctor McCoy introduced Spock to baby talk. MY Doctor McCoy bounces on his toes and has a smile bright as the sun. MY Doctor McCoy knocked Kirk *and* Spock out with a hypo to sacrifice himself for them even though the aliens said he was almost for sure going to die, and the other two would probably live. MY Doctor McCoy was like, hey, sure Spock committed mutiny, but do we really gotta arrest him? Yeah he's grumpy sometimes, but have you considered the fact that he's stuck on a ship in Space with two assholes that literally never listen?

I just watched the Abraham Lincoln episode and I stg it's a miracle McCoy isn't actually a huge asshole, because wym "this planet WAS deadly but Abraham Lincoln says it's cool so we're going" "hey, don't do that, you could beam down into lava and literally DIE" "Ugh shut UP McCoy we're following Abraham Lincoln onto the Lava Planet That WAS ENTIRELY LAVA until two minutes ago" dude I'd be swinging at a mfer. Especially if I was their doctor knowing it was going to be my job to sew them back together. They're absolute menaces to him and he still loves them and is willing to die for them every other episode.

And I don't ever want to see another "ahh he hates Spock" when he so obviously does not. In the last episode, he wasn't even sure that Kirk and Janice had swapped bodies and yet again, he was ready to commit mutiny with Spock and Scotty (why does Spock love mutiny? 🤨) He does like to rib Spock and get reactions out of him, but Spock likes to do it to McCoy just as much. He's been around humans his ENTIRE life, his mom is a human, he's half human, "I have no idea what you mean, Doctor, I'm just a simple little logic machine," you cannot convince me it's not a game.

And every time I feel like McCoy is being hurtful for actually no reason, the next scene is Spock taking action because of whatever McCoy had said and allowing himself to tap into that human part of him. He has a way of speaking Spock. It's not always nice but it's a way that gets through. Do you think asking Spock to use his Vulcan powers to permanently alter his friend and captain's memory so he forgets his grief over this chick he fell desperately for and then also she died in the span of like four hours is a great idea? No, he'd probably have some moral or logical issues with that. but just speech at him about love and feelings and stuff, throw something in there about how great it'd be if he could just forget, and he'll do it himself.

ANOTHER THING. When he's an asshole, he apologizes. He's not an asshole often, but when he is, he apologizes. Leonard McCoy is a lot of things, but he's not really a dick.

I think he deserves to be represented for the guy he is. He has SO many nice and good moments, he's just subtle about them. Remember when Kirk was like, "Bones, why didn't you tell me she was blind?" And he was like, "Idk Jim maybe because that'd be rude? Have you considered it's not your business?" REAL. Honestly, real.

This is a much longer rant than I meant for it to be and somehow I still have more I could say so imma cut myself off right here ❤️ If you read all that, thanks, you're just as weird as I am, even if you don't agree with my lil character analysis. If you didn't read all that, then you're not reading this ✨️

[sunderwight]

I love how the general consensus in Scum Villain ABO fics is that whatever Shen Jiu's secondary gender was, he was lying about it.

Omega? Obviously he's going to cover that up. Potential weakness! Probably related to past traumatic experiences! No one can know! He's going to pretend to be either a Beta or an Alpha instead.

Alpha? Hates it and everyone else and has no interest in playing the type. Hides it less because of how other people might respond and more because he's having some kind of complicated dysphoria about it.

Beta? I've never see it but I bet he'd disguise that as well. He's totally an Alpha, don't ask questions, fuck off and don't violate the mile-wide personal space bubble.

Whatever Shen Jiu is, we all know he'd be wildly uncomfortable with it.