#also claiming de Clare is a coloniser and a murderer is like having the reading comprehension of a 5-year-old.

[moonylads]

This is a story and stories have arcs. Characters are a certain way in the start, experience things, learn from those things and often change - for the better or for worse. There is often foreshadowing which hints at where a certain arc is leading us.

Christian is already getting into deals with Devi, is most probably sincere about them and it is pretty clearly leading to him eventually turning into a traitor among the Britishers and helping out Devi, whether or not she is romancing him. Having this mole on our side while also being wary of any possible betrayals, definitely betraying him several times and all else this path can entail is pretty intriguing to me and I suspect would be pretty fun.

What is fun in stories if we are not going to discuss and dissect all the elements going on in them that suit our tastes.

This is not a battle of the virtuous. The most moral character might be Ram, or if we are being honest, Ratan but romancing Christian in no way implies that Christian is a better person or a better partner, it simply means I find his path to be more intriguing and want to explore that. It is normal and fun to hate certain characters including Christian! It just gets insufferable and weird when you start targetting actual real people just for their choices in a story and start calling them names instead of just creating an anti-Christian post. Say whatever you want about fictional characters, just don't make the fandom toxic.