#who did nothing wrong and were actually the victims of the pale king...bc he's a man i guess

[ruthlesslistener]

Wait, there was a time when the HK fandom thought the Pale King hated his wife? But the game is littered with evidences that they loved each other: one just has to listen to the White Lady talk about him to realize that. Yes, it could be argued that the relationship was strained by the end, but everything was falling apart around that time. It doesn't mean there was never any affection.

Oh it wasn't like, outright thinking that PK hated his wife (apart from one chucklefuck who thought that WL was an abuse victim and was innocent and that Radi was also the victim bc PK was an evil white colonizer man) as much as it was the boomer version of 'I hate my wife lol'. People used to make lots of memes about him cheating on her for Herrah and divorce jokes and overall painting them as the sterotypical white straight couple(tm) with all the associated flaws and such. WL was also typically painted as the motherly sort who was deeply agonized by what PK did to her children and wanted nothing more than to be a mother while PK was tossing babies through the Path of Pain and punting the losers into the Abyss

Which, needless to say, is very much not at all how canon actually is, where WL outright says that she was totally fine with PK's dalliance and its end result, and is also the person who is like 'oh, a vessel? Go replace the other, its flawed' because while she IS actively practicing self-punishment to absolve her guilt over what she did, she was just as compliant as the Pale King in killing her children (who, by the way, literally put himself into a hell of his own making via the White Palace, which is all a dream realm thing that didn't exist til the final fall and not a means to 'test' vessels for purity). WL is colder and more detatched than he was. There's also no mention of a divorce or any idea of when she sequestered herself away in canon, so it's just as likely that she left after PK dragged the White Palace into the Dream Realm as before. She certainly seems to still love him, in the same very distant, detatched way she treats everyone else.

Tdlr: the main brunt of the jokes was mostly fandom woobifying her to be a 'correct' female character rather than the complex, nuanced person she is in canon and then having PK treat her like a modern white man in a sitcom would treat his wife. Which is to say, horribly. Luckily I don't see it as much anymore but it grated on me SO BADLY when I first joined the fandom bc if you popped into the game and talked to WL for more than 2 seconds you'd have realized real quick that canon was the exact opposite of fanon