#daft rambles

"oh he's a creep!!! He stalks Emily!!! He's sooo weird!!! He's an incel!!"

Ok so where's the stalking. Because if you're talking about the 1 (ONE) cutscene where he WAS GOING TO CONFESS and chickened out, then you're wrong. That's not stalking. You know what stalking is? Hiding in bushes and listening in on conversations ON PURPOSE. oh wow that sure sounds a lot like WHAT THE FARMER DOES IN HALF THE FUCKING HEART EVENTS EVER. you don't hate him because he's a "stalker" because then you'd hate the farmer, so that's out of the question.

What about him being a creep? Surely this one is a real accusation with some substance behind it, maybe he's super obsessive over Emily or something- oh wait no. You're wrong, again. He actually shows that he's willing to move on from Emily in his dialogue where he questions if he should get a computer to try and find an online girlfriend. "Ew but that's such incel behavior!!" Dating apps. Think about dating apps for three seconds. You make an online profile and find someone to date through the Internet. His idea is actively NO worse than any dating app ever. In fact this dialogue shows more good about him than bad because he is 1) trying to move on from Emily somewhat, and 2) is willing to actually put in EFFORT to find a woman who likes him instead of harassing one who doesn't (which makes him the opposite of an incel). "Oh but his dialogue about Emily is so weird!!" Ok, if you can't understand why he says the things he does, let me go through them for you:

If anything, this one is cute. He thinks there's a disaster happening and he's worried about his crush and wants to keep her safe. Next.

?? He's literally just wondering. He has a crush on Emily, he wonders if she'd be interested in dancing with him. If THIS is a dialogue you have a problem with, I'm concerned for how you think crushes work.

So, this one is a little ridiculous. I get it. You might think this makes him sound like those creepy guys at the bar who always think girls who are uninterested are playing hard to get. But he's not doing that. He's not saying "oh my yoba this means she's in love with me!!!" He's simply overthinking a simple action: something everyone with a crush ever has done at some point or another. "Omg they smiled at me when I walked by do they like me back?? Omgomgomg" is like. A basic 'having a crush' experience.

That's literally all his dialogue about Emily I could find on the Stardew wiki, other than when he awkwardly congratulates the farmer for getting with her if you give her a bouquet. Which is also fair, because if someone who knew you liked a person started dating them, you'd also be a little disheartened. That's his long time crush, guys, cut him some slack.

"that's not what's creepy, what's creepy is that he still says all that stuff even after you date/marry Emily!!" Im actually so baffled by this one. I see it a lot and it just blows my mind that you guys can't think for three seconds why that might be. Take this issue up with ConcernedApe??? Like. It's not Clint's fault the developer didn't want to go through the effort of adding more dialogue that he'd have to SPECIFICALLY tailor to only show up when the player is dating/married to Emily. LITERALLY yell at ConcernedApe if this is such a problem with you, I'm sorry the videogame NPC built with code can't just randomly become sentient and make up its own dialogue so as to not be a "creep". Like what the fuck is wrong with you, actually.

Im sooo sick of the "Clint is a creep!" Narrative because he is literally the opposite.

He specifically doesn't go see the mermaid show even though he thinks it would help him calm down because he's SCARED THEY'RE GOING TO THINK HES BEING A CREEP. Clint is so so terrified of being perceived as a creep. That is literally the last thing he wants, ever.

"oh, but why would he be so concerned about it if he wasn't a creep?!?" Because he's socially awkward, middle aged, and fat. And EVERYONE always thinks those kinds of men are creeps. He's scared of being STEREOTYPED. AND YOU GUYS ARE STEREOTYPING HIM.

Onto my final point: You guys hating him is a blatant tell of your internalized fatphobia and ableism. Fatphobia first:

Every single Clint "fix" mod for sprites, portraits, even his character in general, changes his body type. They either make him a fucking twink or a huge muscled up man. If his weight WASNT what bothered you guys, then why the fuck are y'all changing it? Like actually. This is fucked up.

Alright, now ableism: the OTHER reason y'all hate this guy is his social awkwardness. There's zero doubt about it because I've HEARD people complain explicitly about this one. You call him weird and creepy because he doesn't know how to interact with people. You immediately jump to blaming and judging him for something he can't control; the way I see it, Clint could very well have anxiety, OCD, or be autistic. Anxiety and OCD because of how scared he seems to be of being perceived as a creep. He gets too scared to confess to Emily and doesn't let himself enjoy the mermaid show because he's scared. This could very well stop him from having positive social relationships because of his fear of being stereotyped. My argument for autism is that he doesn't seem too keen on social interaction in the first place; he speaks very bluntly ("don't you have work to do?" "You should upgrade your tools. I could use the money") and largely brushes the farmer off until you have a decent amount of hearts with him. He sits with Willy in the saloon, but they don't appear to speak to each other. He's either socially awkward because he doesn't like being social a whole lot or because his fear is holding him back. Both of which are completely reasonable things that can be helped by people acknowledging these issues and supporting him instead of literally bullying him for them.

I SWEAR to all that is holy, if I see one more "no one saw clints special shoes XD" meme I'm going to lose it. How would you feel if you dressed up for a special occasion and no one in your entire town- let alone the people you call friends- noticed. It would feel like shit. So leave him BE oh my GODS.

You can dislike whatever characters you want. I have no say in that and no right to tell you who you should or shouldn't like. But I do think you should examine what exactly your reason is for being such a cunt to this guy. Genuinely. Cause I think a LOT of you are gonna find some internalized fatphobia or stereotypes you still have to deconstruct.

Individual ones! Percy first, and then Oliver

And also a Perciver one :3

Headcanons and explanations for stuff under cut

Until Viggo FINALLY finds the hidden world and befriends a Skrill who sat on a sea stack near the entrance and couldn't fly down into the opening due to a torn wing. He gets it on his ship and takes it back to his home, where he keeps it secret, and hires Hiccup to build a prosthetic for it. Hiccup immediately agrees because this man says that he APPARENTLY has a dragon, so he's either a madman or a genius. Viggo also offered him unlimited funding to fuck around with new things, and he's not going to deny that even if this guy is insane.

What do you MEAN Scott deserved Jean more than Logan?? BOTH OF THEM DESERVE BETTER THAN HER IN THE MOVIES BECAUSE HER CHARACTER IS FUCKING ASS. FUCK, SCOTT'S CHARACTER IS KINDA ASS TOO BECAUSE THE WRITERS WERE SO FOCUSED ON WOLVERINE AND HE STILL DESERVES BETTER THAN JEAN. HE DESERVES BETTER THAN A WOMAN WHO KISSES AND FLIRTS WITH OTHER DUDES. AND LOGAN DESERVES BETTER THAN A WOMAN WHO LEADS HIM ON ONLY TO ULTIMATELY CAST HIM TO THE SIDE AGAIN AND AGAIN IN THE END.

OH MY GOD ITS HUM ITS CLINT UTS CLINT OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MT GOD OH MY GOD I'M FREAKING THD FUCNOUT IM SO EXICTED IM SO EXCITED IMNSONCIETED HELO ME PLEASE

#1 is the insane about of obsession/yandere/whatever you call it fics, which i heavily agree with yes make those i love them but especially,, because its KINDA CANON?? like we know Viggo noticed the relationship between Hiccup and Astrid because when he gets the chance, he teases him about it to get into his head and shit. but no one talks about how he was VERY okay and even enthusiastic about Astrid dying in the Scurge of Odin/Buffalord episode. He waltzes in after netting the last surviving dragon that produces the curse to this very very deadly plague and when he sees Astrid is the one who got sick he goes "I do apologize that you wont be able to use it to save your little friend," ("little friend" is 100% implying 'girlfriend'). He was very obviously upset when Hiccup used his own logic against him ("are we both leaving empty-handed?") and he was forced to agree to a deal that allowed Hiccup to save Astrid,, he was DEFINITELY trying to eliminate specifically her, consciously or not ,,, i think he sees her as a threat tbh #2 im rewatching (pirating because fuck paying for netflix) rtte at the moment (I literally paused an episode to write this after having a conversation with one of my friends over text about how,, fucking gay rtte honestly is??) and im on S3E12, "Last Auction Heroes" rn and its driving me insane . first of all because of how much Viggo there is in this episode (< cough simp cough) and SECOND of all because of how much snotlout is in this episode (i love him sm but he gives me such bad second hand embarrassment that i dont know how to manage i hate being autistic wtf is this) and then THIRDD of all because i know theres Vigcup tension galore in this episode- as there always is but like especially because they're actually face to face in this one