Anonymous OP 2w

If he does, it’s always justified in text. He’s the Good Guy. He is, in fact, too good for his own good. He breaks himself for people who will never love him. This is how people write time drake, lance mcclain, stiles stilinski, obiwan kenobi… I’m sure I’m missing some. It’s everywhere, and I get why!! It’s satisfaction and reassurance to the reader. It’s gives the feeling that life was bad, but you’re safe and loved now. I just hate seeing all these fun and nuances characters flattened into

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Anonymous OP 2w

This perfect, uniform, thing. If I’m here to read about obiwan kenobi, I don’t want to hear about how the Jedi are somehow actually evil/negligent and the mandalorians are the forces gift to the universe, because it’s all the same damn story! If stiles’ friends treat him badly, let him handle it! Why are they straight up abandoning him! Why is he written with no damn spine! This is stiles he’d talk shit to a sewer and win! Why is Tim drake always sleep deprived and working himself into the

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Anonymous OP 2w

Ground! Why is he always unappreciated! Where is it coming from! Please let them be different people I beg of you a little here and there is fine but let them have flaws aside from being too good and too self sacrificing. Why is it always men, by the way? Why do we only do this to the ones often written as the bottom in gay fanfic? Feel free to call me a bitch because at the end of the day I am criticizing stories that are free and plentiful and fun. It just bothers me. Let them be imperfect

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Anonymous OP 2w

THANK YOU

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Anonymous OP 2w

now i’m like lowkey worried this is what’s happening in the one i’m writing but it wasn’t intentionally like that 😭 and like they aren’t abandoning the character per say, but there is a fight and it kinda fucks up some friendships (and there’s a second friend group too, but it’s bc I combined 2 characters from 2 diff medias in one) and the main character is definitely at fault too, like he didn’t do nothing, and has also caused some of the issues (and is part of why the fight escalated so far)

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Anonymous #3 2w

but like the characters in one group do seem a little cruel and I actually thinking about it now should write them trying to work it out ever so slightly but they’re also all just on edge and kinda blowing up over everything (sorry for these comments btw I’m also not a fan of that trope, especially when the character is ‘too perfect’, which give them some depth they don’t have to do no wrong, they can say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing and face consequences)

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Anonymous #3 2w

(idk why im keeping trying to justify this) his friends have also like tried to hold the group together better than this one has and while the lashing outs seem justified, its third person limited so there’s that issue of unreliable narration but also the main bad guy of the story could (and the character doesn’t know it) be manipulating the others or in a way influencing their behavior idk

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Anonymous #3 2w

i’m done now, sorry

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Anonymous #3 2w

Dog don’t be sorry for anything, I get it. If the characters actually seem cruel in the og media then yeah, write it like that bro!! And if they’re not, you’re still allowed to write it like that! You’re describing a situation with nuance and layers, not a Mary sue twink, you’re good I swear And there’s nothing wrong with writing the thing I just ranted about too. Like, the reason I know the pattern so well is that I’ve readthousands of them. I just kinda… grew out of it and saw how flat it was

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