#v!avid

uh.

another gentle reminder

please do not mischaracterize v!avid.

I know all the bullshit makes you want to interpret them in the worst light possible, but I would like to please, please encourage you to do otherwise.

v!avid was a complicated, morally gray person who still did not deserve to be murdered. Pyro is not evil for killing them, but neither was it a good thing to do.

v!Avid was still a victim of the townsfolk, of Scott, and of Owen. They still faced a pretty jarring amount of blatant, explicit ableism.

He still wasn’t ontologically evil. He still suffered. He still could have been saved.

There are so many imperfect victims in vsmp. To deny them their complexity is to deny the story itself.

It’s also a, and I cannot emphasize this enough, a massive disservice to the other characters.

Ignoring the nuances of v!Avid means ignoring the nuance of Legs, Cleo, Pyro, Shelby, Drift, Abolish… the list goes on.

VSMP was an intricately connected web of character interactions and dynamics. To remove or misinterpret one character is to the detriment of all of them.

Apo and pyro interupted

1: Again PLEASE for all that is holy Respect Pyro & Maddy Boundaries, and stop using this as an excuse to harass people, we are a COMMUNITY so can we Kindly act like it.

2: On that topic of harassment, instead of pointing fingers of who's to blame, how about we blame the Actual People sending the harassment for their own actions! If you see this, Block and Ignore them, and be sure to Report them if they are breaking any rules, Harassment is NEVER okay.

3: A&M situation is NOT the same as Pyro & Maddy simply sharing their boundaries. A&M Manipulated, Lied, and tried to Hurt people, they DID hurt people with said Lies and Manipulation. So to compare THAT to Pyro & Maddy simply not wanting their characters to be shipped is just Wrong on so many levels.

4: Before you say it, YES i know what Pyro said in his Stream, and while it was poorly said and i do agree he should clarify to calm down the misunderstanding, he isn't sending anyone out to harass you, him and Maddy made it perfectly clear that harassment was NOT okay.

5: "But this space is for Fans not CCs" Yeah no that's not an excuse either. Just because they are Content Creators don't mean they aren't people anymore, or that they aren't allowed to be in their own communities! The community wouldn't even exist without them making stuff for y'all to enjoy in the first place.

6: No Pyro & Maddy Don't have to just be "okay" with their boundaries being broken behind their backs or a dni tag (whatever that is) Those are THEIR characters not ours, THEY get to choose what they are and aren't okay with.

7: I know someone will say it so before you do "But the community adopted Avids characters and still do what they want" Avid LEFT, he Abandoned his characters, and the community decided to adopt them so that the Characters wouldn't be Punished for A&M actions. Pyro & Maddy are very much still here, and not extremely problematic people, so no i don't want to hear that excuse either.

8: and finally (assuming i haven't forgot anything) you DON'T have to give up your favorite Duo's, i personally Love Lumberjack from VampiresSMP and I'm not abandoning that, I'm just not Shipping them romantically, FRIENDSHIPS exist and can be just as fun to Draw/Write about as any romantic ship can be. If you choose to abandon your favorite Duos that is on you not them.