#it's a broader issue that I have with antagonists meant to be inhuman bc a lot of them just show different neurotypes

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

Pretend I left a frustrated effortpost here about how I strongly suspect that Zenos yae Galvus, most human evil motherfucker in the story, being specifically read as inhuman in spite of the game making active effort to show that he is Like That precisely because he's human draws from a well of ableism given that he's both the only explicitly nd character in the entire game and one of a very small list of mentally ill characters, almost all villains

And like, when the game with a recent expac where 3/3 of the villains are suicidally depressed and the one dude in a wheelchair gets quietly sidelined despite buildup that should have led to an active role in the story is doing better than you, you need to fucking shape up! I don't care if people think it's "reasonable" to read his behavior as inhuman, the fact that those behaviors are read as inhuman in the first place is the fucking problem!

aaaaaaaaaag