Jack made a Polynein Blog

It's complicated? Because I don't think it's any one specific thing but it definitely is a combination of things? There's definitely some orc-coded racism (he and nott are the only player characters that experience anything like racism in the campaign, and yeah orcs and goblins both have real world Charged Histories that tie in with real actual racism) and there's also the queerness (Fjord's fandom popularity as a character DRAMATICALLY plummeted when he became "unshippable" with his major gay ships - Caleb was paired with Essek, Molly was Molly (keeping vague for spoiler reasons), and Caduceus was revealed to be AroAce), but I also think the fact that a LOT of his story revolves around Toxic Masculinity and his relationship to what it means to be a good man is ALSO a part of it? Also some leftover misogyny from people being pissed that he "won" Jester (because so many people saw her relationship as a reward for other characters).

Like don't get me wrong, if someone doesn't vibe with a character I 100% don't think that's an issue, we all have preferences. But I've seen over the years people be WAY harder on Fjord than other characters, and I just kinda squint and wonder "hmm. wonder if fandom would say that if he was explicitly queer or more white coded."