#this series and rhys' stans may be the d4ath of me

[watcherintheweyr]

They also never look at the truth of anything- only how Rhysand perceives them.

Lucien and his trauma (but omg Rhys slayed so hard when he mocked Lucien's abused mother and murdered lover hut he's SUCH. A FEMINIST!) and how he (Lucein) tried to help Feyre after UTM but was also being abused by Tamlin so wasn't able to accomplish much, despite his efforts. (he dIDnT do eNoUgh!) But Rhys who terrorized and assaulted Feyre UTM takes no accountability for what he did to her or for how HE terrorized and abused her for his own gain and purpose. But he's content to imprison and or use Lucien as he like whenever it serves his purposes.

The way the NC takes Eris entirely at face value and condemns him even when the text makes it obvious - Eris is what Rhysand was 'intended' to be- an anti hero/morally grey character who play acts at being horrible without actually BEING horrible in the core. Unlike Rhys who was only 'pretending' to be terrible- but he takes pleasure in rubbing others' trauma in their faces, and neglects and ignores the abuses and atrocities happening in 2/3 of his Court, and spouts genuinely sexist ideals and perceptions of the women around him, but is excused. Eris makes no excuses for himself- but every time Rhys is confronted with the terrible things he's done, he uses his trauma as an excuse to escape accountability- such as when Feyre tried to call him on what he did to her, he had a panic attack and just... moved on.

Rhys empowers and celebrates Mor- who always has a drink in hand, who glories in her sex life and sexuality and has a strange and intense toxic possessiveness over Az and Cass- but condemns Nesta for drinking and using sex to heal, all because it makes him look bad- and encourages Cassian to basically use Wilderness Therapy tactics to break down and isolate Nesta until she's compliant to be a tool for the NC's schemes and will only have sex with who they approve of- Cassian. He hates and cannot forgive that Nesta 'let' Feyre hunt and provide for their family, nevermind that Nesta was also a child- and was the one to keep the house clean, chop firewood, and cook, because Feyre did not do those tasks, and in some cases could not. He cannot forgive that Nesta was 'mean' to Feyre and other people- whilst Amren and Mor are routinely straight up nasty and cruel, both to those deserving and undeserving, and he adores and empowers them both.

Rhysand's perception in the fandom at large is... exhausting.

Grown ass women in this fandom: uwu Rhysand has so much trauma he did nothing wrong and if he did the people probably deserved it 🥺👉👈

Also them: Nesta is the worst like how can you as a fourteen year old make your sister hunt and she is so abusive how she called feyre a wild animal and she should suffer more because she told feyre about the pregnancy that will k*ll her 😡😤