[ SECRET POST #3073 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3073 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Master Chef]


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[The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Star Wars]


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[Frank]


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[Discworld]


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[Baccano!]


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[Cher Lloyd/Kingsman: The Secret Service]


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[Eurovision]


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[Hannah Rutherford (Yogscast)]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #439.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I admit he's one of my favorite characters in the series, but it's precisely because he's so morally grey (though as anon above pointed out, so is virtually everyone in the series).

I never understand why people feel the need to take complex character and turn them into fluffy bunnies. Embrace the fact that he's fucked up and dark; that's what makes him a fascinating and interesting character (which as yet another comment said upthread, is distinct from making him a good person).

Honestly, I don't see the woobifying of Claire to be anywhere as bad as the woobifying of Izaya in Durarara!!

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I don't set foot in DRRR fandom in part because of what I've seen of the woobifying of Izaya, so I won't argue with you there.

I have no problem with people liking him if they're honest about his morality! My major problem is how people act like he's a saint. I guess they don't realize the gray on black morality and try to translate it into white on black.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I don't understand how an entire fandom can run with such a complete misreading of a character as they do with Izaya. I can understand why; I just can't get how.

Like Izaya, I find Claire utterly fascinating because he's so awful. Because he's shades of gray, and has his own bizarre moral(ish) code that makes sense within the context of himself even if it's horrible to the rest of the world. Because he doesn't make the excuses that fandom seems to want to make for him.

I love what Narita does with such amoral characters (which, arguably, could cover ALL his characters), I love seeing how he teases out fragments of their psyches along the way. To reduce them to poor misunderstood babies is not only boring, it's a complete shallow bastardization of what Narita does with them.

I don't see much of the Baccano! fandom (turned off enough already by the Durarara!! fandom) so I've never seen the Claire-is-a-saint stuff, thankfully.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

That I can appreciate! One of the reasons I love the series is how it is populated mostly by people on the moral "bad" side.

Yeah, as much as I love this series... I would not recommend diving into fandom much, save for maybe a blog or two.