#why do ppl always condemn abuse victim characters for getting super attached

[ssaalexblake]

the relevance of Adam in caos s2 was like, Really Obviously just commentary on abuse and willfully ignoring that his inclusion was to tell a story about abuse that actually places the victim front and center and examines its effects on her and her potential for healing that has added historical context added to it by having it be a guy named ‘Adam’, and then implying that everybody who takes something from said story are just boring hets (or worse) is just... the opposite of woke.. 

i mean, even aside from all of the above, he was fridged, his only relevance was to prop up lilith’s story, he had little to no personality, we know basically nothing about him, not because of poor writing, but because we don’t need to know, the plot never had anything to do with him. 

and i’m not meta-ing about said abuse because honestly i’m not anybody’s mother, but there are missives that could be told about it and how lilith reacts to him and why she would react in such a way, but honestly, Yikes. He was not plot relevant as a character, at all, he was an exposition tool used as nothing more than a way to prop up Lilith’s story, it wasn’t about either him nor Mary, when what they wanted to say was done, he was just, unceremoniously killed off to further her plot. 

A plot about abuse she’s suffered and taking her own power back, not anything else. 

Adam was not a character, he was exposition. And totally frankly? It wouldn’t have been nearly as thematically poignant had it come from anybody else but a dude called Adam. And I honestly much prefer the idea of them using That specific plot on a man Anyway, considering the implications of what happened in said plot had it not been a man.