#controversial characters

Summary: Mad. His brother was mad; grief had turned him so. He and his wife both had lost their wits to sorrow. For why else would they present a dead child before the King as if it were the norm?

Pairing: Future Dunk 'The Tall'/Aerion Targaryen

It just up and...disappeared behind some password screen.

Like I don't doubt its true

But I often find myself disliking woman characters usually because they remind me of fictional men I dislike (mostly characters from superhero comics, and many of them heroes going through a "troubled phase" while given too much sympathy for awful actions)

Suboshi (Fushigi Yuugi)

Treize Khushrenada (Gundam Wing)

Minael & Yunael (Magical Girl Raising Project)

Ascot (Magic Knight Rayearth)

Touga Kiryu (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Akio Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Kazuto Kirigaya (Sword Art Online)

Suguha Kirigaya (Sword Art Online)

Akihiko Kayaba (Sword Art Online)

Folken Fanel (The Vision of Escaflowne)

Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter)

Severus Snape (Harry Potter)

Connor Murphy (Dear Evan Hansen)

Magus (Chrono Trigger)

Chaco (Suikoden II)

Jowy Atreides (Suikoden II)

Rowd (Suikoden II)

Asgore Dreemurr (Undertale)

Citan Uzuki (Xenogears)

Kahran Ramsus (Xenogears)

Roger Smith (American Dad!)

In defence of ‘whiny’ characters; discussion.

We’re all used to reading about protagonists who struggle to live honourably. Who face slim odds but it doesn’t matter, because they’re brave enough to take those odds.To overthrow governments and do the right thing when it’s almost impossible. And it’s, oh, very inspiring. But then, there are those characters that doesn’t have the bravery nor the honour. Simple creatures, full of doubt and…

It seems as though there are certain corners of the fandom that treat Dr. Toshio Ozaki like he’s some sort of psychopath who would kill you as soon as look at you. But that’s really not fair to him. Dr. Toshio Ozaki is depicted from very early on as extremely protective of the village and its inhabitants. This is partly because he’s an actual doctor, whom the villagers count on to keep them healthy; but it’s also the case that he appears to be the village’s de facto patriarch. There’s a point in one of the first few episodes (can’t remember the exact one) where he says “I’m not gonna let [the epidemic] kill my village” (emphasis mine). He seems to fancy himself at least in broad strokes as a caring, nurturing father figure who’s going to protect all his kids, as it were. He meets his match in Sunako and her shiki friends, though, and he can’t protect the villagers from them nearly as well as he would want to. That drives him to more and more extreme behavior as the series goes on. A desire to look after the well-being of the village also drives Dr. Toshio Ozaki to do everything in his power to avoid abandoning the village, even as it falls to ruin, until the last minute, where finally he has to accept that it’s doomed.

But even at his worst, he actually doesn’t come across as completely heartless. When he tortures Kyoko you can see him going out of his way to ignore the fact that it’s her, like how he covers her mouth with tape so she can’t talk and averts his eyes from her face as he stakes her to death (and he does try to put her to sleep--it’s just that anesthetics don’t work on vampires). So it’s not that he isn’t conflicted about what he’s doing, but he does it anyway because he sees himself as having no choice. Additionally, toward the end of the story we see Dr. Toshio Ozaki order his buddies to lock up people who’ve been bitten by shiki until they come to their senses. It’s Tomio Ookawa and a few others who decide instead to kill them all, without Dr. Toshio Ozaki’s blessing.