I'm very glad that you appreciate my comments. I'm with you on hating certain sectors of fandom. It can be really difficult to find the awareness and caring that is required when dealing with depression/PTSD/trauma/etc.
No one is obligated to like a character just because they have depression or other emotional problems, but they shouldn't write them off because of those emotional problems. It shouldn't be about "oh he's so whiney because woe is him, his parents are dead and now he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. oh boo hoo."
What always gets me is none of the people who act this way would respond any better. It is so beyond unlikely that anyone would be able to cope in a healthy way with such things, but people always get down on the hero who is human and not beyond such things as trauma. I feel it's not just inability to relate but the assumption that heroes must be infallible.
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No one is obligated to like a character just because they have depression or other emotional problems, but they shouldn't write them off because of those emotional problems. It shouldn't be about "oh he's so whiney because woe is him, his parents are dead and now he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. oh boo hoo."
What always gets me is none of the people who act this way would respond any better. It is so beyond unlikely that anyone would be able to cope in a healthy way with such things, but people always get down on the hero who is human and not beyond such things as trauma. I feel it's not just inability to relate but the assumption that heroes must be infallible.
It is so frustrating and upsetting.