Aug 30, 2025
"They were a good person with good intentions and strong convictions and belief in doing the right thing. And because of that they deeply hurt people including people they were trying to protect" - is fantastic characterisation that too many people reduce to only one half of the equation
"They were a good person and people still died because they didn't put trust in anyone else" ← is so fucking good but people don't fucking appreciate it
"They were a good person and they failed. Over and over again. They failed." ← DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND HOW DELICIOUS THAT IS!?!?
I am on my hands and knees begging people to allow characters to be complex and flawed and not reduced down to "The Good Guy" and "The Bad Guy"
#this is a out Wei wuxian and Yue Qingyuan but also do many other characters#and let's not even get on the fact that the cycle of abuse is rarely shown past one generation of it#like do you really think it wasn't fucking obvious that Ozai wasn't the Zuko of his family growing up?#the cracks are there#and it's pretty obvious#literature#fiction#characters
