Ask My Characters

     I had written a letter at one point, and eventually came back. I noticed it wasn’t answered months later and I wondered why. Turns out the entire reason was because it concerned LGBTQ subject matter, a “taboo” subject. Now, I wasn’t trying to ship characters together, all it really said was that my character Charlotte understood the pain that Aura Blackquill was going through because she lost her love Violet to a murder.

     I believe this was the time when Co-mod was the main writer. He could have very easily just had Aura say “Thank you for your sympathy.” But apparently he didn’t want even a mention of a lesbian. They claim this isn’t discriminatory, but if it isn’t, what is it? I certainly think the previous mods would not have allowed the subject to be labelled as “taboo”.

     There was something I noticed about Co-mod over time. He didn’t seem to be very... emotionally intelligent, I suppose? I hate to sound mean, but... he didn’t know how to handle a lot of sensitive topics, or even what should be considered normal to most people, without upsetting someone. I know that Modthorne had to correct him several times. Perhaps that is the case, or perhaps he actually was somewhat biased against such sensitive topics. I don’t really know, and it’s not my place to say. I’ve talked too much about him as it is.

     I don’t plan on making discussing politics a habit, and I don’t know enough about the mod that was being talked about to really say anything other than what they themself wrote about. I’m not one much for cancel culture. I dislike it actually. Separate the art from the artist is what I say, especially when the supposed offense is something very small and people blow up about it. But I have to say that if this mod is autistic, I don’t see how they could support someone who openly mocked a person having what I heard to be autism, and with seemingly no remorse. All I’m saying is the person in question doesn’t seem to be very supportive of you, so why support them?

     Now do I think what the other two mods did was right? No. It really just felt wrong. They should have just left without “outing” the other mod. Do I think you should leave Ask Ace Attorney over this if you still enjoy it? No. Now if the remaining mods start being blatantly discriminatory, it would probably be best to stop supporting them, but that’s just me.

     I personally left a long time ago because the quality dropped and I lost interest. What kept me from going back is finding out that people with my thinking were apparently “taboo” now. But what I want to say to anyone else is it’s up to you and your personal judgement.

With love and support,