#and to disrespect other chars in the process like…. those villains worked to be villains. thats who they are. don't discredit them yikes

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 🔪 * TAMORA VS. OTHER TW VILLAINS. don’t reblog.

disclaimer:   as always,   i am not justifying tamora’s actions.    she was going about everything WRONG.     she was hurting people who didn’t deserve to be hurt.      what i am doing is defending her viewpoint because it’s one that should be acknowledged.     her viewpoint was wildly SKEWED,     and it’s the very reason she was doing everything she was doing.      she thought she was doing the right thing;     we know she wasn’t.     unfortunately,     nine total episodes is not enough time for a villain to be introduced and to be redeemed    (   we wouldn’t want that.      villains are so much better when developed over a long length of time.   )     tamora never got the clarity she needed in order to change her viewpoint,    therefore she never had the opportunity to redeem herself.   to just stop what she was doing with nothing to go off of,    it would have been out of character for her if she didn’t physically see proof that not all supernatural creatures were bad.      

for starters   -----    tamora did not redeem herself,   but she is not irredeemable.      just as most villains need,     she needed some kind of clarity to really change her mind,    to show her that what she was doing and the way she was living wasn’t the way she needed to go about it all.  

i’ve seen a lot of posts that are comparing tamora to the other villains on the show,     most of them saying that she’s the worst person of all of them and posts insisting that if monroe didn’t get redemption and even people like theo,   peter,   and deucalion did,     then that easily makes her so much worse than they ever were.     and   ——- to even compare these villains is really such a disservice on both sides?      they’re not the same,     at all.      most of the villains’ intentions were evil.      tamora,     even though it doesn’t feel like it because of all that we know,     had GOOD intentions that were poorly executed.       it wasn’t simply her goal just to destroy all supernatural creatures because she hated them for no reason   ——-   think about WHY she was doing this.      her main purpose was to save this town,   because she was convinced that the supernatural being there would ruin everyone in this town.    

she was a victim of the supernatural,     traumatized by it,     and then was LIED TO by people protecting the supernatural over her.       she didn’t have to lie to get her stance across   ——   she told the truth,    always,     that the police had lied to the citizens of beacon hills,     that scott didn’t save her that night   (    even if WE know he would have if he knew she was there,     she doesn’t have reason to know that.   )        and that things have been happening to this town for years that have been covered up to protect this secret,   ultimately hurting the innocent humans of beacon hills.       she has every right to be upset.      

i will repeat this again and again,     BUT SHE NEVER HAD REASON TO BELIEVE SCOTT WAS GOOD.       and that’s heartbreaking,      because we know he is.     and if she saw him the way we saw him,     this wouldn’t be a problem at all.     tamora has made it obvious time and time again that she just wants to protect people,    and she wants people to be able to defend themselves.      if she understood who scott was as a person,     she would be on his side   ——-    she would be trying to work with him to protect this town,    because she could do it more efficiently.      she didn’t know that building her army was getting in the way of scott trying to protect this town.     she thinks that scott was on the SAME SIDE as the beast because from her eyes,   that’s exactly what it looked like.     if she knew he was the one who was trying to DESTROY the beast for the safety of this town,      do you really think she would still be standing where she is?       yes,    sheriff stilinski tried to show her that,     BUT HE HAD ALREADY LIED TO HER,     OVER AND OVER AGAIN.    of course she’s not going to comprehend anything he’s saying to her because she doesn’t know how to trust someone who has made her out to feel like she is INSANE just for thinking something more than a bear attacked her.      that’s why this is so important:      she doesn’t see the humanity in scott.      that humanity in scott,     what other villains DESPISED HIM FOR,    is what tamora is MISSING,      and that’s exactly why she came out of this show still being the villain that she is.       she saw no humanity in these supernatural creatures because her mind was so set on the fact that she had been hurt,     she saw other people hurting,      she had been lied to,     and was so convinced that all supernatural creatures were the SAME as the beast:     made to be killers.    

the other villains in question have been on the show for multiple seasons.     we saw some of them grow to become villains,     we saw some start as villains,     and we saw them go through so many arcs where again and again,    they always chose the side of a villain.     even after seeing that scott was a good person,    they continued to go against him,     or they wanted him dead.      right here is a major difference between a majority of the tw villains and tamora.      these other villains HATED that scott was a good person;     they hated that he was always trying to do the right thing.    they hated his humanity.     gerard saw his humanity,     saw that he was being a good person,     and still wanted him dead.   TAMORA DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HE HAD HUMANITY.    she didn’t know he was a good person.     she didn’t know that everything he did was for the best of this town.    while she might have saw glimpses of it,     she never saw something that was solid proof that her view on him was completely skewed.     all she saw was proof against him;     she saw the boy who walked away from a pile of dead bodies without checking on them.      she saw a guy working to defend two werewolves who had KILLED innocent people    (   obviously,    he changed his mind on that when he saw their eyes,     but werewolves killing innocent people is exactly  the kind of thing that only further proved her point.   )      she saw someone who she was so sure was HELPING the thing that attacked her.      SHE WAS WRONG IN WHAT SHE SAW,    but she was never shown that.      sheriff stilinski told her that they needed to start understanding each other,      but they never did.     scott understood monroe’s point of view,    he’s said that himself,      because he trusted her side of the story and believed it.      monroe needed to physically see scott’s side of the story to be able to change.      she needed to see him as a human,     not as a threat.      she didn’t get to.     scott didn’t get a chance to prove himself to her.

yes,    tamora was an extremely powerful villain all because of the hold she had on the people of this town.     she was willing to protect them,    to keep them safe,     and to tell them the TRUTH,     and she exposed the supernatural as a threat as she was certain they were.      the way she built up an army THAT BIG is exactly why she is one of the most powerful villains on this show in terms of how much destruction she has caused.      but it is incredibly insulting to these other villains to insist that she’s a worse villain than them   ——    because these other villains’ characters were built on their evilness,     while the writers themselves have made it very clear that tamora was an accidental villain who had lost her way.      most villains know they’re villains,   and they use that against people.     they’re not afraid to hurt anyone in their way.      tamora doesn’t know she is a villain.      she sees herself as a protector.     she sees herself as someone who is fighting for what’s right and eliminating threat that will only keep hurting humans.       SHE NEVER GOT HER CLARITY.      like i said before,     she did not get redeemed in the show because she was never given the opportunity.      she needed proof;     she needed something to change in her viewpoint in order for her to be redeemed,      but she wasn’t given enough time.     other villains have multiple seasons to find their clarity and change if they want to.       given that tamora’s main goal is to protect people,     she would have no reason to keep hunting those that are saving this town if she knew that was what they were doing.      i don’t believe in redemption for a lot of villains,     but this is a character who is lacking exactly what she would need to be redeemed.    

she wouldn’t come around suddenly unless she saw reason to do so,     and that’s important to any villain.     theo saw reason to come around.     so did deucalion.    so did so many villains in this show.      not to mention,     they saw this current war from both sides,    and they knew that the hunters weren’t all doing this because they simply just hated them    (    that’s why theo took gabe’s pain.     he knew that gabe didn’t belong on that side of the war.     tamora doesn’t know both sides.    )       tamora wasn’t given proof,     she wasn’t given enough time.     don’t discredit who she is as a character and a villain just because she wasn’t redeemed in the end   ——   that doesn’t mean she would never come around.      we’ve seen hunters transition from being hunters of all supernatural creatures to hunters that work WITH supernatural creatures   (    we watched chris shoot scott in one of the very first episodes just because he was a werewolf,     and now he’s a father figure to him.       we watched allison shoot arrows ruthlessly as boyd and erica because she was made to believe they were evil,    and we know she wasn’t a bad person.    )       if tamora had the information she needed,     if she saw them the way we saw them,      if she had more time to truly comprehend who they were as people,   things would have turned out so much differently for her   ——-     but there was so much work to be done and so much understanding that she was lacking.    

tamora was a villain,    but it was accidental.     she was so desperate to protect this town that she ended up nearly destroying it and the people she was trying to save without realizing what had unfolded.       it would have been interesting to see her die because of the mess she had gotten herself into,     but the fact that she didn’t leaves room for her to finally come to terms with the truth.        

i understand that she’s easy to hate.      we WANT to hate her because she hurt our faves.     she killed and hurt so many people.      she almost killed scott.     but to ignore the fact that she didn’t see him as a human is completely invalidating who she is as a character,     and to compare her to the villains who were inherently evil and were aware they were hurting good people is a disservice to the kind of villains they were and the characters they were.     no villain on this show is comparable.     their intentions are different.     we can’t say someone is a better or worse person other villains had more time to grow,    or when we literally have not seen how tamora would have acted if she knew,    for a fact   (  not just a ‘ take their word for it ‘  way   )    that these supernatural creatures still had humanity.

she is a villain,   but she is not the same kind of villain or at all comparable to the other villains in this series.      she is still convinced that what she’s doing is the right thing for the world;    she hasn’t been shown that what she’s doing isn’t good.     i stand by the fact that she would eventually change her motives if she saw firsthand that these creatures weren’t all monsters.