I'm gonna try to go offline for a few days just because I'm straight up not vibing and I think I need a break from social media. Once I come back, I'm really gonna put effort into not engaging with salt content at all. All this being said, I have a final remark:
I do not care what you think the characters should do to "solve" their problems, and if you're focusing on how their issues could be solved, I really implore you to think on that. Because 1) we don't know that there wouldn't be repercussions to your quick fixes if the characters actually did it in canon, and 2) even if your fixes will work, it's redundant.
If these characters were not doing what they do, they wouldn't be the same characters. Or, maybe better put -- anything other than what's happening would be out of character for the main cast. If Marinette were to see that Chat Noir is hurting more than he lets on, if Adrien were to admit to Ladybug that he needs more than he's getting -- these actions are born of their flaws, but their flaws are fundamental to who they are. It feels like some people are trying to gentrify them, or to prove that the characters are being irrational and dumb, when that's beside the point. These characters are being human, and I really want to know, genuinely give me an answer if you can: What does it matter how they could solve their problems? What are you proving?
Because a lot of people will claim "oh, I'm just being critical of a character, I'm not salting," but then those "criticisms" are ultimately attacking fundamental parts of who that character is. If what you say is that a character "should" do something, but what you mean is that a character "should" be a different way, then that counts as salt in my book.
