#no one would be trashing the heroic character as an egotistical dumbass for it

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the way the fandom talks about watts deciding to trust cinder after blowing up at her is sooo obnoxious. he viciously lost his temper and then she spared his life, walked away, and sat down to cry; the next we see of him he’s hovering awkwardly behind her, and from that point on he’s 100% no arguments no complaints following her lead. the man obviously feels bad about making her cry and is obviously trying to make up for it by reversing his behavior even though he has all the social graces of a grizzly bear just woken up from hibernation. it’s not his fault cinder pretended to reciprocate that and then stabbed him in the back

(and he really could not have predicted that she would use the staff to seal him in and then set the room on fire—the danger that she just wouldn’t keep her word to come back was merely a danger that he would need to saunter down to the nearest docking bay to help himself to an airship. lmao)