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fernsnouveau · 1 year ago

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It's so bizarre that the show canon has repeatedly, consistently demonstrated for 100+ episodes that Adrien has pretty much been surviving and staying a mostly decent human being because of his frankly remarkable psychological resilience, despite the constant emotional abuse, isolation, increasingly severe clinical depression, various hardships... he's basically been going through a standard villain arc the whole time but, thanks to his extraordinary resilience, without actually becoming a villain (fair enough, it was kinda nice while it lasted to see mental illness just make someone be garden-variety annoying and off-putting instead of a demonized "evil psycho" stereotype),

...and then, season 5 comes along and tries to convince the audience that, actually, Adrien is really negatively reactive and emotionally immature and volatile, and he just can't be allowed to face any negative truths or difficult experiences because he's uniquely un-resilient and incapable of dealing with them, so he needs to be swaddled in psychological bubble wrap and denied agency and informed choices forever.

Like... if the showrunners wanted that to be the case, then why did they spend the first 80+% of this story arc blatantly demonstrating the exact opposite?!!

Movie!Adrien didn't fully move past his mother's death, and he presumably had years compared to show verses' one, but he didn't become a mass murderer. I don't want to compare trauma, but they are the same person!

Is this to push the narrative that Adrien isn't emotionally mature enough to handle any hardship even though he dealt with his mother's death/disappearance already?

You know that's probably it.

#and this isn't even going into the implication that if everything else was the same but Gabriel WASN'T abusive #then Adrien's awfully inconveniently volatile emotions would have been free to get all dangerously out of control #and he would have become a violent edgy murderboy supervillain #so actually canon!Gabriel was doing the world a FAVOR by abusing Adrien into becoming compulsively convenient #and also Marinette at the end of s5 NEEDS TO inherit Gabriel's mantle as Adrien's controller/owner/manipulator!!1 #to make sure that he stays placated and passive and convenient and angelic and without true free will!!1 #it's for the greater good! child abuse victims NEED to be strictly controlled and limited or they go evil!!1 #...I hate the s5 abuse apologia and victim grooming so much 😭#ml paris special #ml paris spoilers #ml spoilers #ml special #ml writing criticism #ml writing salt #ml paris criticism #ml s5 criticism #abuse #abuse apologism #mental health #adrien #griffe noire #gabriel agreste's a+ parenting #ml movie #murdernoir

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