#the truth is that sabina is one of the only characters to point out alex’s own hypocrisy to him
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i think some of you need to sit down and interrogate why you dislike sabina so much because from where i’m sitting a lot of it is just thinly veiled misogyny. you don’t have to ship her with alex and you don’t have to like her but i’m so tired of people treating her as nothing more than an obstacle to their ship of choice and then trying to shift the blame onto horowitz for writing her poorly when there are literally dozens of male side characters who we know nothing about that get more fandom attention than sabina does. she’s not some evil irredeemable wench for struggling to support alex after the events of eagle strike. she’s a fifteen year old girl whose entire life was upended and has to watch someone she cares about be blackmailed into putting himself in danger again and again. if you can forgive yassen for sending alex to scorpia or k-unit for treating him like shit in brecon beacons, why can’t you forgive sabina for pulling away and trying to live a normal life. you can find her annoying or boring or pointless as a character, but alex very clearly cares about her. acting like he doesn’t says more about your attitudes towards female characters than it does horowitz’s lol
#alex rider#i’m not going to deny that she was badly written at times#especially after eagle strike#but that’s not her fault as a character. that’s on horowitz for being weird about women#the truth is that sabina is one of the only characters to point out alex’s own hypocrisy to him#she was the only person who suspected something was going on before he told her#her family literally took him in after he thought jack died#i can totally understand not shipping her with alex.#but you cannot deny that they care about each other. alex didn’t leave san francisco because he didn’t care about her#it’s not sabina’s fault that he’s traumatised and it’s not her fault for wanting to move past her own trauma#she didn’t do anything wrong. and like i’m sorry but this is anthony horowitz we’re talking about#he erased the mention of a gay couple just EXISTING in christmas at gunpoint when it got reprinted in secret weapon#i promise that even if sabina never existed yalex/tomlex/fredlex still wouldn’t be canon#she’s not getting in the way of anything.#so please stop fucking punishing her in fics where those ships DO get together#just stop punishing her in general. you dont have to write about her if you dont like her
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