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inksandpensblog · 16 hours ago

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Still fascinated by how much hate Mitsi gets for the whole "dead fem-coded loved one backstory" thing and all the hangups surrounding that when Purple's mom is arguably a much more egregious instance of the thing everyone is upset about Mitsi for but she ultimately got a pass because...idk, she was The First?

#animator vs animation #animation vs minecraft #avm shorts #avm #ava 11 #ava11 #this is me analyzing the fandom as much as it's me analyzing the actual series #idk maybe I'm missing something but I just #find it interesting that Mitsi gets all the vitriol seemingly just because she's the newest example #because when you look she's not the worst example at all #and part of me thinks that there's some underlying misunderstanding here #like. I get that everyone's mad she got fridged.#but the way some folks talk it's like they think her dying was her only contribution to the story #and that's not the case at all #she has so much more going on than Purple's mom did #she's a narrative foil and a character foil. she serves a thematic purpose as well as a plot one.#it's because of her that Victim was able to connect with anyone else. he loses touch with their community once she's gone.#Rocket was her idea! it exists because she wanted it to!#and now when we look back at the last two episodes we can see her haunting the narrative #we only learn enough about Gold and about Purple's Mom to make us sad for King and for Purple when they die #but we don't really miss them ourselves #because they don't really exist outside of King's and Purple's pasts #Mitsi feels so much better integrated because she exists in the story as more than just part of Victim's story #and her influence on the story doesn't end with her death #but it feels like people believe that her dying for Victim's backstory negates everything else she does for the story #and that's the only thing they see #but I'm wondering if she's the target of everyone's upset not just because she's the third backstory-death #and not just because she's only the second overtly fem-coded character and both died in their introductory episodes #but because there WAS more to her...so people are upset that she STILL died for someone else's story?#maybe

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