Freakos 1. Civilization 0

Your character doesn't need to be likeable. They need to be legible. The reader needs to understand every decision they make even when it's wrong, even when it's ugly, even when they want to shake them. Likeable is easy and forgettable. Legible is what makes someone stay with you for years. Make the logic of every bad choice visible. The reader doesn't have to agree with it. They just have to follow it.

i love green pippins so much so of course that makes her the specialest girl at the party to me but i swear when her fans try to like 4d chess connect her to the bigger/hottest lore of the day in such a direct way it genuinely makes me tense up LOL

the best part about her is that all her "lorebait" is written to be funny first and foremost and only takes on a second reading when you take it out of its context (which to be clear i think is what you're supposed to do). and it's very important that it is a reading she is herself completely unaware of, as the conceit of the mikes is to allow for a setting that pretends to be ignorant of its own implications... it's a cruel thing to force the green pippins into literal high stakes plot heavy hijinks. it disrespects the soul of her character... must you throw that away for the superficial aspiration of plot relevance? don't you like two layered fun parody mipi...? is she not enough for you... don't you care for her....

*reading tarot* ouch! ten of swords. you mustve gotten stabbed a bunch of times recently

*flips next card over* by the devil

harry is an important character because he would wear all those dumb shirts people find in pinterest

tubi is an incredible streaming platform you'll go on there and they have like, classic who, and blue velvet, and a fuck ton of silent films, and columbo, and the donnie darko directors cut. And then they also have ants on a plane. Folks they have the hit movie ants on a plane