[ SECRET POST #6844 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6844 ⌋

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[Roar s01e03, "The Woman Who Was Kept on a Shelf"]



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[Undead + Unluck, Zenshu]



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[Sonic the Hedgehog]



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[Helluva Boss]



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[Helluva Boss]

Transcript by OP

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Re: Transcript by OP

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I suspect this is supposed to make me feel with and root for Via, but it’s just convinced me she’s either incredibly stupid or incredibly self-centered.

Her parents have always despised each other, to the point that Stella publicly talked about hating Stolas’ scrawny ass at a society party, even before Stolas started his affair and demanded a divorce. No way did the events of the show shatter an illusion of a happy family for her.

Stolas has recently been kidnapped and badly injured – at least the injuries are public knowledge, since we see cameras in front of the hospital entrance.

He has been stripped of his power and position, which has been broadcast.

He has been trying to call Via for a month, and Stella forbids her from taking his calls and we and Via see her mock Stolas’ trying to contact Via.

But when Via finds anti-depressants in his things, she makes it all about herself, because what could Stolas possibly be depressed about if not faking love for her, and breaks into a faux-liberating, self-victimizing song about how Stolas is such a liar, doesn’t call, and she doesn’t need him.

This inability to see Stolas as a person who has been stuck in an at least verbally/emotionally abusive marriage for years and been through trauma and loss recently and deserves her sympathy and support in favor of reducing him to the role of father with no feelings, problems, or limitations of his own, would be okay if Via were 7 years old, not 17.

Fuck that selfish little bird brat. I don’t care she’s got teenage angst. If she were a halfway decent person, she’d distance herself from her mother and uncle, not blame her father. S!B how dare I hate on a literal child.

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You don't have to like her character or how she's written in the show, but for me she is flawed in a realistic way.

Idk, I grew up in a really dysfunctional family and I was deep in denial as a teenager, I definitely took things way too personally and tried to make sense of the situation in confused ways at that age. So for me the character works in the story. I feel like everyone in the show is pretty flawed too. I can empathize a lot with Via.

Again though it isn't a bad thing or missing the point if you just dislike her as a character, people shouldn't give you shit for that. Watchers react to characters differently.

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She's unfortunately realistic. You grow up around that and think it's normal. Him breaking away is what's abnormal to what she's seen in her life. Girl has what's called a severely broken normal meter.

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+1
I don't like her for the same reasons OP does, but even though frustrating (and I agree, I'd eat it better if she was at least 14-15, not 17) this is basically very close to how things go irl in a lot of cases. unexpectedly realistic for HB, ngl.

[(Anonymous)]

She's a teenager who grew up in an abusive household lashing out at the safe parent, which is fairly normal. Fair? No. But realistic.

Hell, my sister is in her 40s and she still only lashes out at our mom when she's pissed at something our parents did, because our dad had a temper and as kids we were afraid when he'd get mad at us. And our dad was never actually violent, just imposing.

Via has (at the very least) seen Stella scream, throw things after Stolas, destroy Stolas' possessions and physically assault the staff when she's angry. She's not a safe person to be angry with, especially since Via lives with her. Putting all her anger and frustration on Stolas instead is a survival mechanism.