#problematic characters

[xunehh]

off the top of my head

[witcheshollow]

There are some characters that I am willing to take criticism on and then theres the aftg cast, nesta archeron, aelin and crew, fiona Gallagher, micky milkivich, sandy milkivich, Mandy milkivich, Damon Salvatore, violet sorrengail, xaden riorson and the rest of my problematic favs. They are the mfs that I just will not hear criticism on. You can point out their flaws till the cows are home, your blue in the face and Sunday had passed, i will not give two shits. They can do no wrong in my eyes.

[moonandris]

It’s not my fault I like to write and read dark and spicy fiction... 🥺

Me reviewing the list of trigger warnings for my scifantasy/dark romance WIP: Bahahaha, I am literally ✨ n e v e r ✨ getting this published. This is the kind of story where you finish writing it and yeet it out in the ether of the Original Work tag on AO3 before lighting up a cigarette and contemplating your life choices. 🤣😭

[himi-wiz]

If I have a nickel for how many pathetically toxic, practically irredeemable unless it's an au adult men I ended up enjoying, I'll have 3 nickels.

It's not a lot but it sure as hell weird. Also all three are involved in the stem field in some way who are determined to stick to their committed evil paths even if it sucks for them and two of them are retired military personnel that are pretty shitty dads or dad-figures in their 40s.

Guessing game:

First is a sorry excuse of a doctor running a Mafia whose greatest joy seems to be shipping his apprentices, acting delusional enough so people would underestimate him but also he likes being delusional anyways, game theory and bugging his ex-husband. Way too obsessed with finding optimal solution, please stop logick for once and have a heart, you managed that in a canonical au before why are you doing this.

Second is a conman who helped the current government overthrow the system by creating the setting's famed mind control musical device, may have helped created a bunch of pink clone children and is happily avoiding child support (for both his bio and clone ones) and spends his life on various schemes cheating people out of money. At least he's got drip and a very good voice. 100/10 will get cheated and wouldn't even realise it.

Third one is a sad mop of a failing med student pressured by his parents who gets obsessed with hunting down his current target because of jealousy when this walking inferiority complex can't cope with his daddy/mommy issues. Talking about why he is heinous is a serious spoiler but when your best friend is a little girl who understands you because you both have antisocial tendencies is not a good sign.

[manufacturedrainbows]

It's so hard naming Bad Guy Tm characters because then I feel terrible for every real life person that also has that name

[passionphantom]

Darren Jae Hallow ( an original character from my old dead dove comic called Dark Clouds )

I added his character and parts of his story into the story I have called Tears Of Iscariot ( a wip that will post in October 2023) and changed his design a little bit.

[glamrockdreams]

It's so hard liking a problematic character lbc I like them bc they're fucking hot not bc of some deep internalized fetish

[everyonesadoptivedad]

Stole this for this fandom bc some pEOPLE need to hear this today.

[enemywasp]

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A CHARACTER FLAW.

Last year everyone and their mother was complaining about all the Mary Sue ocs! Pick a lane!!

[problematic-tip-centre]

For anyone wondering:

•A backstory involving abandonment that affects the way the villain views certain situations (e.g Simon Laurent from Infinity Train Book 3)

•Caring towards someone else (other than their children)

•Experiencing horrors like war or death that hardened them

•Seeks to ‘right’ a wrong that has been done onto them by performing evil actions

•Is a nice person that fell into the wrong hands (abusive relationship, manipulated by extremist)

•Has unrequited love (performs evil actions both to cope with this love, or as a subconscious response to it, or maybe this love is unrequited because of their actions)

•Didn’t do anything that bad (e.g stealing, fighting or vandalism)

•Cannot control their evil (e.g blacks out or is forced to by another person)

•Has a vision for a better world which causes them to do evil

•Trying to prove that their worthy to an estranged, villainous loved one

•Wants to teach their victims good qualities by performing evil on them

•Trying to make amends for a mistake, but their attempts cause more harm (for instance they may become overprotective of others and destroy anything that they may see as a threat)

It’s not everything that makes a villain sympathetic, but it’s some things other than children (which are already good to give a villain nuance)

not the first person to say this but the main thing for female villains when it comes to thriving to make them more multifaceted and dimensional and empathetic for an audience being “but she loved her children… but she wouldve done everything for her children…” drives me up the fucking wall. the men do not get this same treatment at all. there is so fucking much other shit you can do to make these characters sympathetic

[passionphantom]

When you arrive in Hell and Satan gets to fuck you first.

(My OCs)

[leahdrawsstuff]

they can never make me hate you Caitlyn Kiramman. Girlboss girlfailure supreme. I support women’s wrongs and I love you

[general-sleepy]

Fic writers, put in the tags what the difference in hits is between your most and least viewed fics. Mine is 7,720 (7,779-59).

[mckitterick]

[ ID: screenshot of a tweet by @RachelSketching: "people end up unable to see depiction as anything other than endorsement when their entire cultural diet is escapist fun and reassurance. they see something make them uncomfortable and can only assume people are watching horrible shit as vicarious pleasure and are horrified" /ID ]

depiction is not the same as glorification and I need people to get that 

[paradisekore]

severance writers are doing a rare portrayal of a female protagonist who is also her own antagonist, showing she’s capable of horrible, manipulative things because her upbringing repressed all the goodness in her and brought her inner conflict to life, making her have a literal psychic battle of self-loathing and showing the self harm she’ll do to her own self on both sides ….only for people to say “what a bitch she should just shut off her brain and let her other self take over completely, they aren’t even the same person really “ like... WHAT? 😭 does anyone like authentic storytelling and challenging character journeys ????

[folkdevilism]

I'm perpetually in awe at the number of people who are well in to their twenties and beyond who still think an on-screen portrayal of something, regardless of nuance or background context, automatically equates to inherent glorification or real-world endorsement of the actions being portrayed.