#anyway if you're a woman in HSR you will likely die. oh and you have no plot armor whatsoever

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do you think is it just an alice thing or most rc russian writers give unfair treatment to their female characters? because i see the same issue w sasha and if you played hsr latest eps, she made anna even worse by making her side w donovan even if its just for a short period of time. and her backstory, dang, i've never seen a writer hates her female character that hard. not surprised to see fans cancelling anna, though it's mostly on reddit. but the bigger problem is sasha herself.

I think it's an issue with more authors, Sasha's case is definitely not good. It's hard because yes HSR is her first book but it's also part of the HS ~multiverse~ the probability of it flopping was low. On to how she handles the women in HSR, it's awful. The joke's been made numerous times but she seems only capable of writing one good female character: Lane. She can't write friendships, a good rivalry, or a good romance involving two women. The whole 'rivalry' with Kira was sooo predictable and her death flags were obvious when she started her whole monologue about wanting to change and so on. Anna is just there for Lane to look pretty and more of a glorified stylist than a friend. Their romance is written badly, it's pretty obvious that Sasha does NOT enjoy writing their scenes. The growth is non-existent and 'feelings' are especially rushed, the internalized homophobia is so odd, and just when you think "oh! it can't get worse" it does. They are not giving toxic yuri - it's just amazingly BAD. I don't dislike Anna but I think the author does have something against her, the whole Donovan thing was such a filler. HSR was never one of my faves so maybe that's why I am not taking Sash'a bait to dislike Anna because there are literally worse characters.

It's also so odd to me that all three of these HS universe books only have one female li, having only one choice would annoy me no matter how great the li is. They need to do better with their female characters. HS2 was a mess and I'm not looking forward to it bc my li will likely get chopped. With Elena, I think what she's doing with Felonia is great and I hope she continues to show care to her. ABH isn't without flaws but damn the difference in how she's treated is night and day. It's crazy what we're forced to accept ngl

I do see some (Russian) authors wanting to do better with writing wlw and I really hope they mean it.