Eddie "Hypocrite" Diaz

Again, I think we all understand why Eddie acted like this. He was literally raised by a father who taught him that a man's place is to provide monetarily for his family while the woman raises the kids, and this is what partnership is. And I think now Eddie knows that's not how a marriage should work, and he probably would do things differently if he had the chance, but the fact remains that what he and Shannon had was not good or healthy for either of them. But if that's the case, then her life was miserable for no reason, without even a loving relationship to justify it, and Eddie just can't deal with that. It's not so much that he puts Shannon on a pedestal as it is he's imagining what it would be like if they actually had the kind of partnership they both deserved, and then substituting that imagination for reality. But we know that he doesn't really believe it, because even when he's half-heartedly trying to get back together with her, the best metaphor he can manage for their love is that it's like falling into molten chocolate that's a little sweet maybe, but mostly it drags you down and nearly drowns you.

Stop telling people to just orphan their fics.

Orphaning a fic means giving up any and all ownership over it. No way to claim it back, edit it or delete it. Yes it's an archive but an author should still have the right to delete their work if they feel like they don't want it to be up anymore.

Readers always scream for authors to orphan their fics instead of deleting because they feel like they have a right to the fanworks that is shared with them for free. If it's so important to you to not lose a fic, download it. Also comment and encourage the authors, instead of telling them to give up all ownership to their work.

To authors, if you think about deleting your fics, there are other options you should employ first. If you don't want it connected to your name, put it into an anonymous collection. As long as it's in there, noone can see you wrote it, you still can edit ot or delete it and moderate comments on it. You can even move it to anther account, just create another one, add it as co author and then take your main account off. Then you can still edit it from your second account but it's no longer connected to your account.

If you don't want it to show anymore put it in a unrevealed collection, that way, the fic won't show up but it's still there, you can still see it, read comments and make it public again.

If you feel the urge to delete your fic, try one of these options first and see how you feel about it after a while, you can still delete or orphan afterwards, but this hopefully makes your decision easier.