#she could be great but the crew are lame middle aged white men so

[mystic-myrtille]

Looking back I still find it funny how when Gang of Secret was airing at the time,Alya Stans calls people who criticize Alya or say that she's a bad friend as clowns,but here we are in Season 5 and Alya is worst (and more dumb) than ever and Stans keep making stupid excuses for her and I seriously saw somebody say that Marinette is the problem in their friendship with how controlling she is towards Alya,and don't even get me started on the "If you criticize Alya that means you're racist" logic,imma say it any girls in Mari's class (except Lila and Chloe because hell no) are better best friends than Alya

I remember that too and I honestly didn‘t understand how Alya becoming Marinette‘s first confidant disproved any salty claims against her. It didn‘t change the fact that Alya‘s main role in the show was to pressure Marinette into confessing her feelings to Adrien and sometimes other things. Alya makes a lot of decisions for Marinette, so the take that Marinette is the controlling one is bs (I assume this refers to her as Ladybug giving orders bur like, she‘s the permanent hero and therefore authority in this case? And it‘s not like she just blindly ordered Alya around without ever considering her ideas and opinions)

Alya is the best friend because by the show‘s standard, she „guides“ Marinette into the right direction which is the love square. For example in the NY special, Marinette decided she didn‘t want to confess to Adrien, which goes against the show‘s ultimate goal of „canon Love square“, so Alya „fixes“ this by pushing Marinette into romantic situations with Adrien in order to get her to „be honest with her feelings“ (which really makes no sense because Marinette isn‘t lying to herself, she has a goal of being normal friends with Adrien without the romantic attraction). By real life standards, Alya would not be a good friend.

Basically, Alya‘s entire role is being Marinette‘s helper and guidance to her end goal and I‘ve already talked about this, but if anything‘s racist here, it‘s Alya‘s writing reducing her to a tool to push the love square together (black best friend trope where the black bff only exists to help out the white bff, or in this case half white/white passing). That‘s her number one reason to exist. Outside if that, she has little to no arc of her own (expect for love problems with Nino here and there but that‘s more background), and that‘s why I honestly was excited when she became a confidant. (After being a little mad that Luka didn‘t get the same treatment but that‘s another can of worms) I thought this would give her more to do as a superhero and give her more purpose than „mindless shipper“. Boy was I disappointed, she‘s still nothing more but an „Adrienette shipper“

I‘m not gonna deny that some Alya salters are probably racist (especially people who write Alya salt fics with Chloe becoming Mari‘s new bestie instead of redeeming Alya? Yeah sorry but that‘s sus), but salting on characters of color doesn‘t automatically make someone racist.