After analysing the hell out of everything and connecting all the dots, I really just have to scratch my head at why people are so adamant Alastor is a “psychopath” and “pure evil” and that he’s not going to be written with any humanity.
First of all, why would that be the creator’s favourite character if he was so straightforward in his motivations? Who gives a shit to tell that story?
Second, check the prejudice against people with cluster-b disorders
Third, how do people not see how much Alastor gives a shit omfg 😭 He’s very selfish and self-destructive but he’s literally an adorable little deer and he very blatantly is deeply affected by everything going on around him, even if he doesn’t express it in a conventional, transparent way.
Gonna ramble here, but this is why I really hate Zootopia 2. I hate this idea that if people don’t express their feelings on the “correct” way that they don’t deserve softness. Of course, it’s no good to self-destructively close up and lash out at people, but just because someone isn’t crying, or venting about their feelings plainly, explicitly saying “I love you”, a cuddler, etc. it doesn’t mean that their feelings are just less important and less worthy of consideration. Not only is it just generally insensitive to the diversity in how people cope with their feelings, but it can also really easily turn into a cultural insensitivity, because we’re not all taught the same way in the same communities either, so when we venture out, in a world where there’s only one right way to show your affections and pain, it would be considered inherently invalid because we’re from different environments.