You guys have no idea how exhausting it is being a Shadow Milk fan still… (spoilers for the Beast Yeast storyline, specifically BY 2, 14, and 15, ahead, including what we’ve seen in trailers for the next update)
Watching the fandom go back and forth between hating him and loving him, seeing people blame him for their favorites dying (BY THE WAY. HE DIDNT KILL THE BEASTS OR ELDER FAERIE. SILENT SALT KILLED THE BEASTS AND ELDER FAERIE DRAINED H I M S E L F OF HIS POWER KNOWING IT WOULD COST HIS LIFE TO TRY AND STOP SHMILK.)
And then I’m starting to see people actually want to kill Shadow Milk themselves.
And why is this an issue to me when I too hate characters for what they’ve done to my favorites (cough cough Endeavor)? I so deeply and personally relate to Shadow Milk that half the time it feels like we’re the same person.
Now before anyone calls me insane or anything, yes and I already know, thanks! :)
But because of that, it hurts a little more to see those comments. Plus my extensive knowledge (hehe) of his story and my deep understanding of him, but on a personal level it just hurts. I don’t really know how to explain it without sounding pathetically sensitive, but I’ll just blame it on me being a Pisces it’s fine.
But good god… I haven’t gotten actual death threats yet but I know other people have just for what ships they like or for liking Shadow Milk, and it’s just exhausting… I first saw an “I wanna kill Shadow Milk” comment under a post about Pitaya being corrupted, and they (the commenter) were ranting about how Pitaya was their favorite and the reason they got into the game, blah blah blah… that part I get. That’s literally Shadow Milk for me, he’s the reason I started playing (don’t discredit anything I say because of that, yes I know the lore I read/watch it repeatedly and analyze everything. Just keep listening).
But wanting to kill a character because they “corrupted” your favorite? I don’t even go to such extremes with Endeavor, and I HATE him (my bias for Toya and Shoto are too strong to ever forgive him but I wouldn’t wish to KILL him)
I’ve been defending Shadow Milk since I actually read the lore enough to be able to. That said, yes I know he did horrible stuff, I’m not stupid or blind to that. But people hating him because he’s continuously relevant in a story that’s been planned years in advance, because of what he supposedly did to their favs in the story (most of which have to do with killing them, which he didn’t do, I guarantee you…), etc.? It’s actually draining.
He’s not a saint blah blah blah, yes he was actually going to kill Silent Salt before Salt shattered his own soul jam to prevent Shmilk from getting his powers, but he didn’t kill Salt.
I’m getting repetitive- it’s 3 am right now, so I’ll stop here, but the fandom is exhausting