i'm feeling so attacked right now

The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had that one mostly right.

Fuck subtle.

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In fact, I'd argue less qualified to be a Knight than Murphy. She's spiteful, she parentifies her kids and is pretty high up in toxic Christianity and I'd argue it's only Michael's presence that grounds it out. If Nicodemus said he'd stand down and pleaded to be saved, and she thought her kids were threatened, she'd stab Nick several times over. She couldn't wield the sword of love, she'd never be able to wield a Fidelaccius handed over by Harry because she'd never trust Harry or anyone like him.

I like her in her complications, but I think it's wild some folks still think she was more qualified than Butters. Having martial training and knowing Christian Doctrine doesn't make you qualified, as Butcher has demonstrated multiple times in the series including a short story where Harry was targeted for Amoraccius and Michael made an example of the faith having soldier of fortune who did not understand Knighthood.

Butters's arc has continuously been about faith and trust ever since Dead Beat when the foreshadowing for how he'd wind up started (even the RUNNING was foreshadowed then, damn). He got perilously close to losing all faith because of a war and because he had Bob feeding him constant information about how Harry was going to be a bad guy (which Bob staunchly believes as a spirit with hundreds of years of experience knowing Winter Knights are ultimately bad people). So a scared human who felt powerless tried to be the example of a Harry he thought was dead and stepped up.

Made mistakes? Yes. And it got the people around him hurt. But I wouldn't say that he has been given everything on a platter. He's had his soul pulled out of his body, he's been shit kicked and slapped around, he's lived in fear during a war. Now he's taken up a weapon to fight in it instead of being passive, and be a leader instead of acting out impulsively.

And honestly, I think it's wild to me that he is one of like two examples of zero toxic masculinity (don't even come at me with any of that Andi crap, she's a grown woman and a werewolf and he wasn't a knight when he started sleeping with her, she would not have been manipulated, as fucking SHOWN when he was showing kindness to a homeless woman he cared about and Andi slugged her in the face for using the shower. If anything, she'd be manipulating Butters's loneliness) in a book series where people frequently criticize the sexism and toxic masculinity, and he gets objectively more hate whenever I go looking around for stuff.

Like I don't get it. Is it because he's short and conventionally unattractive? Has a dumb name?

Also Harry does kind of deserve to be called out sometimes. Harry's refusal to tell his allies that frequently bleed for him everything that's going on is his downfall. Could he have just explained to Butters he was trapped because of the parasite? YES. YES HE COULD HAVE. The same as he could have told the Wardens he slept with Murphy. EASILY. He could have told Butters "hey I wanted to come home and I missed you guys but remember those migraines we talked about before? I'm dying. I can't stop it. But I might be able to if I do this job."

That was all it would have taken. Instead Butters had bad information from him AND Murphy, his trusted fucking friends, and biased information from Bob. Of fucking course he got reckless.

Anyway if Butters doesn't have any fans it's because I'm dead. Leave him alone, he's amazing.

And also don't call him the gross one for the White Knight scene, Harry genuinely considered fucking Molly at the end of Proven Guilty and has popped multiple boners over her. We got to read it in 4k. Butters had one moment of 'oh my god I am so uncomfortable.'

And again, him dating Andi isn't gross. Is he older? Sure. But again, her and Marci are W E R E W O L V E S and are in their thirties. They can eat him if they want. Literally bite his face off. I maintain, Andi could easily have been the manipulative one there.

And if she wasn't, we can conclude with how vain she is (and literally her only defining character trait is Regina George, since she's either sex kitten, mean girl, or fucking full of herself when speaking on page) which just tells me either Butters has the best head game out of anyone in the series or he's packing a massive dick in those scrubs.

Probably best to assume if I put up a wizarding PSA or whatever it’s Butters or Will posting it for me, because otherwise I’ll break it.