#this shit went down the moment sjm needed to make abuse commentary

[sad-scarred-sassy]

The only reason I don’t like Rhysand, and I can’t move past his wrongdoings and abuse enough to appreciate him as a character, is because of the badly written justification and “explanations” for why he did everything he did. I won’t ever judge anyone for being able to do it, I simply can’t.

I hate feeling manipulated by the narrative in a way that I, as a reader, have to be told who to like in a piece of work, and worse, I have to watch the narrative turn over in itself to portray them as heroic, ROMANTIC even, while demonizing others for doing the same (or even milder things).

Look, I could like it if it included some type of commentary about actual abuse, about how men in positions of power can actually influence the way you view them completely even after doing the most heinous stuff, but this, and I cannot stress it enough, needs to be addressed in the narrative in SOME WAY. It isn’t.

Nevertheless, the topic is very interesting, and I think that by dissecting and actually talking about this bias we can draw the full circle the author never managed to.