#thanks for the ask beloved mutual. nice to kvetch about something less gasket blowing :)

[moistvonlipwig]

number 14 for the female characters asks because i have also seethed over a bad rgu interpretation ... i know ur pain

14. Top 5 female characters I wish had (a) better love interest(s)

I'm going to restrict myself to female characters who either (A) never had a good love interest throughout the whole work and/or (B) ended the work in a relationship with a bad love interest. Because otherwise this list would be impossible to limit to just 5 characters.

Lydia Martin from Teen Wolf cuz they really made this poor girl date Jackson (asshole + Colton Haynes), Aiden (murderer), Parrish (GROWN MAN), and Stiles (had a creepy crush on her the whole show). Even if they couldn't make her a lesbian could they at least have let her date Scott or something 😭

Valencia Perez from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend...look I'm sorry Beth is funny but she doesn't have an actual personality and Valencia's lesbian awakening should've been caused by an Actual Character.

Remember when they made Joan Watson from Elementary have a thing with Mycroft? 🫠

I don't even LIKE Emma Swan from Once Upon a Time and I think she was actually a pretty terrible girlfriend herself (anyone else remember when she uhhh violated her boyfriend's soul while he begged her not to and then wiped his memory of this event and kept carrying on with their relationship as if nothing had happened?) but also all 4 of her canon love interests were terrible too. And not in an interesting way either. Just in a 'misogynist scruffy white man' way.

I maintain that Athena from Battlestar Galactica's arc was ruined by the writers' insistence on shackling her to Helo Agathon, the literal most boring fictional man ever invented.