#i’d like to give a shout-out to my former/recovered-douchebag of a dad who has given me plenty of writing inspo for Jason’s character

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A little note about how I write for Jason Carver in my sapphic!Chrissy Cunningham AU

I know Caleb said in an interview that Jason was actually a good guy who was just fed a bullshit narritive that he believed because of his own biases, and that he acted on because he was passionate about his girlfriend and mourning the loss of her… I get that… However, Jason, like most people in the midwest in the 80s, would have been incredibly homophobic and also kind of a dick, even if he did have a good heart underneath it all.

My dad was a jock in the late 80s-early 90s, and, even though he’s always been a great guy at heart, he was still an ass in high school because that’s how all of his friends behaved and that’s how society told him he should behave. I imagine Jason would probably behave in a similar manner. No, he’s not racist, that’s been made clear. My dad wasn’t racist either. That being said, Jason probably still had a lot of the same prejudices and biases that my dad had; homophobia, fatphobia, etc. So yeah… Jason might have a good heart, but in the case of sapphic!Chrissy, he’s gonna come across like a major ass because of those prejudices.

Mason’s great, truly he’s wonderful, and he deserves to be treated better by this fandom!! His character, however, will likely continue to be treated like shit in fics because, unfortunately, Jason was a jock in the rural midwest in the 80s, so he’s gonna have some major character flaws, to say the least. That being said, I will always try to humanize him and show his positive characteristics whenever possible because I know how shitty it can be to see characters misrepresented in fics and treated like absolute garbage. He was a good friend/mentor to Lucas before shit went south and he was, seemingly, a good boyfriend to Chrissy, so I’ll always try to keep that in mind. As for that som’bitch who dared to hurt the Erica Sinclair and who made those shitty little comments about a literal dead girl (I don’t care that he didn’t know it was Chrissy at first, that was still an incredibly shitty, vile thing to do), there will be no redeeming qualities/nuanced characterization for you, Andy the Prick.