#which for them is as exciting as getting to openly call us racist slurs while not only getting away with it but being applauded for it.

[averyhollow]

Darth Ed?! Say it ain’t so!

I see people worrying about how fans will treat and characterize Ed in S2 if he goes to as dark a place as some advance viewers have claimed (and the show’s creator alluded to), and can’t help but laugh my ass off. If only there was a section of fandom that already saw Ed as having anger issues and less than healthy ways of addressing conflict and stress; but didn’t think it made him less than human, undeserving of love, in need of being saved by someone else, any worse than any of the other characters, or any less babychild. And among the subsection of that subsection, might be those who personally didn’t think he has what can be described as anger issues and/or a bit of a sadistic streak, but still didn’t automatically dismiss that view as inherently racist.

If. Only.

Because I’m sure those fans would be, generally speaking, more prepared to go into S2 (if it’s as dark as some claim/worry) without doing a complete 180 on their feelings for Ed or constantly scrambling to find ways to mitigate his actions in order to make them less horrible. Because those people been liked/loved that Ed, and/or accepted a dark-gray and complex view of him, and/or at the very least didn’t outright reject such views as inherently racist.

If. Only.

Ed already had fans (and people who dislike him but begrudgingly accept that he and That Other Creature are the leads and appreciate his layers), willing to show and argue that someome can think of him as having traits that manifest as “anger issues” without being racist about it or having arguments rooted in unexamined expectations towards non-white characters. They might even be more well-positioned to pick up on any 180-views of Ed that might be rooted in racism and double standards applied to non-white characters, since they’d have experience examining underlying arguments instead of making blanket dismissals.

If. Only.

Oh well, too bad no such fans exist.