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AAA thank you i'd thought i'd be killed for those asks! but for realsies though... while chloe IS still 15 shes done a lot of shit and that can't just be excused with 'she's young' if ppl are going to say the same shit abt lila? but honestly though.... give my girl lila chance to grow if you guys will do the same for chloe. #endlilahate2017, we can do better than this (on another topic: lila demonization in fanfic grosses me out too)

naw u rite. chloe cant be redeemed just like that. she has to grow and develop and apologize for her behavior before she can be cosidererd redeemed. she is also a victim of Bad writing imo, and is mostly a tool to cause lots of akumas and give marinette another antagonist. but like even despite that she gets sooo much sympath in comparison to lila.

imo lila has harmless explanations (not excuses) for all her “bad” behavior. like, new girl, no friends, ofc she gonna try and get ppl to like her. lila is probably very insecure tbh and really needs ppl to validate her, so she gets attention via lying and stuff. she never djd anythinv to outright harm anyone until after ladybug’s outburst (before anyones like Oh No, Lila Stole a Book, remember mari stole adriens Phone, both girls did these things to keep adrien’s perceptions of themselves good), and even then she was under the influence of an akuma.

but for chloe, even if she does have Explanations, like often goes out of her way to make disparaging remarks. her attitude has much more consequences in comparison to lila. chloe has literally caused several people to feel so bad that they get akumatized: nathanael, alya, alix, maris uncle, sabrina, kim, i think mylene too…. probably more. she takes pics of her classmates in embarrassing positions and sends them to the whole class (kim), has her only friend steal things from marinette (diary and hat design), sabotages mari’s uncle at the food competition and more. The only “third dimenson” to her character i can remember seeing is her smiling once when sabrina comes back to her, and even then its probably more for herself rather than for valuing sabrina.

like i said before i dont think chloe is irredeemable but she has to go thru some major development before she becomes a decent human being. the Only times ive liked chloe is when people have written her development really well in fic, she has a long way to go in canon.

tl;dr chloe has done way worse things than lila and still gets lots of sympathy in comparison to her, this is probably due to some racism in the fandom combined with the fact that the volpina we all thought would be a hero turned out to be an akuma (also chloe has been around the whole season, lila only been here for 1). and if zag is going to redeem someone who frequently bullies people to the point of akumatization, they better be “redeeming” someone who just wanted people to like her.

(also ngl, the only love square fic i read was before volpina came out, and since then ive just turned to reading rarepair fic so ive managed to safely avoid a lot of lila demonization. idk why but the love square is just like…. Bleugh to me)

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