[ SECRET POST #2298 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2298 ⌋

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

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

Of course some people can redeem themselves! I think those are often vastly interesting stories that can leave the viewer/reader interestingly conflicted.

I'm just saying I think some people need to justify their love for an evil character by downplaying their actions, or by blaming their childhood, whatever...and I think that sometimes makes it more creepy. I think it's perfectly okay to love a well-written villain, it's the whole turning it around and making him a victim what makes it iffy.

[(Anonymous)]

Part of it might be that people have trouble separating love for a character with love for a person, so they feel guilty for loving the character because if they loved a person like that it would make them a bad person. So they try to excuse the character to help with that guilt.

In some circles if you say you love a villain, people tend to react with "OMG, how can you love someone who does something like that, you sicko!", when what you meant was "This is a really cool, creepy character who is doing awesome things to the storyline." So people can get a bit subconsciously defensive, and get caught up with trying to defend the character as a person since that's the accusation being leveled, forgetting that it's probably not actually the reason they liked the character as a character in the first place.

Not always, of course, some people genuinely do believe certain characters are redeemable and/or excusable on a personal level, and that's fine too. Arguable, but fine so long as no-one in real life is being hurt. But I think the subconscious defensiveness and confusion on person vs character might still be part of the wider pattern showing in fandom?

[kallanda_lee]

It might be, yes. Also it might be a lot of fandom is about shipping and/or crushes. That sort of would make it more difficult. "Eww, you crushing on a psycho" or "eww, you're writing him in a couple with my favorite character".