#jelix

first point being that people who are into it seem to very much dumb down and flat out change the characters to fit into a palatable box. jack's machismo and dominating personality that clashes with felix's self centered and pathetic one are both completely stripped from them. the dynamic is imbalanced for several reasons, namely with how jack is emotionally reserved and focused on what he deems to be his "duties as a male" which in Felix's eyes comes naturally to him. the same cannot be said for felix, his issues stemming from his father's disapproval and need for conformity being pushed onto him accumulate in an idolization of jack. he wants to be him, and everything that entails. you also have the aspects of adultery and repressed sexuality being stripped from their dynamic. what's left after removing everything that makes them interesting both separately and together is a bleak and pointedly wrong interpretation of something that could've been interesting.

on the flipside of that, people who are vehemently against it do the same thing. the desire to seperate the good and tragic victim jack walten from the evil and despicable felix kranken neglects to reconcile with the reality that they were at one point very close. the notion that jack puts his family above all else, including felix, has been disproven time and time again yet fanon prevails. strawman arguments of "well he killed his kids" are used to ignore the 20+ years of relationship prior to the crash. I've seen people box themselves into this idea that jack could never like felix, even simply as his best friend, to the point they've said they were never close at all. felix wasn't even a family friend, just a coworker. it seems that some people cant handle challenging media, and would rather be incorrect and push fanon as the truth than to admit that sometimes character's will do things you dont like.