#sry for the rant i'm just very passionate about these characters

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(ok i realize i want on a long rant, this is mostly my analysis and opinion of the characters btw)

(also i'm not mad or anything)

i think an important point to writing and analysing the characters is that they are all extremely immature, especially mal

they're all teenagers, and they all seem to be awkward and confused about everything,

zoey is lonely and knows very little about friendship, so it makes sense she'd have a hard time adapting to new people, also, she watched all of total drama, her avoiding sierra a bit makes total sense, and dawn and dakota are also not great at making friendships, they both act weird around zoey

it also would make sense that she wouldn't know how DID works, mike doesn't seem to know how it works either really, noone would have perfect knowledge of it at first

mike is extremely ashamed of his alters, and he's the one who treats them the worst in the whole show, he activly tries to make people think they are him, he tries his best to make people think they're "funny characters" he plays

anne maria is only physicly attracted to vito, she doesn't try to get to know him at all, where as zoey is activly trying to get to know mike because she's actually into him and not just his body, even if neither zoey or anne maria are great people, because again, they're 16

zoey has the right to be mad at mike about anne maria, mike and her were basicly dating, even if it wasn't official, you can tell mike was mad at vito too, and hey, she doesn't get mad when mike tells her the truth, even if she doesn't get it perfectly right, it totaly makes sense, her calling him an oddball, allbeit a bit cringy, isn't the worst thing ever, she's just trying to show him that despite everything, she doesn't mind, and that she's ok with it

zoey is a bland character for sure, but her relationship with mike and his system is fine really, she doesn't know a lot about did so of course she's easily scared by mal when he tries to threaten her by telling her mike is gone, she's naive, and she just wants mike to be safe, of course she's mad at mal, also her being uncomfortable at vito and manitoba makes total sense??? they're both very forward and flirty and that's very much not her, she says she hates people like that multiple times, she has the right to get along with mike but not the others, because again, they're different people

her relationship with mal sucks ass, because mal is absolutly horribly written, she's scarred of him because that's activly what he's trying to do, he wants to scare her, the writters didn't make mal a protector/persecutor, because they did zero resurches about did, he's just evil and chaotic because it's funny

mal is interesting, hell he's my favorite character of the whole show

but trying to put the characters on such a high standards for the way they should act just isn't a great idea, because people irl aren't going to act on those standards, especially not 16 years old on tv,

writing mike to be this perfect guy who did nothing wrong and zoey as this really bad girlfriend for him is commoun in the fandom, and if you want to interpret it like that it's fine,

but in my opinion if you want to write their relationship in a canon way, this isn't how you should write it

Zoke makes me cringe honestly especially how she called the alters funny weird characters and just not adjusting to them when Manitoba was fronting in evil dread also not to mention she calls him a oddball…. Uhhhh

SAME (also I may or may not project most of my trauma onto her bec she acts in a similar way to someone who gaslighted me throughout my childhood so UH)

Also, when she learns about the alters and says "More of Mike to love!" UHHHH, girl no, t-thats not how it works...

So when I write her (especially in Mal centered pieces, meaning like - all of them) she ends up being lowkey/highkey toxic (depending on the fic)

Like, at best she's co-dependant and at worst she's emotionally manipulative/abusive