[ SECRET POST #2315 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2315 ⌋

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Comments

[cloud_riven]

About the species like rats, foxes, and whatever automatically being villains (with wildcats and owls being the gray area), I recall that being an intentional thing as he was writing for children first. Hence having clear lines most of the time.

Why do you make mice, squirrels, otters and badgers "good" and foxes, rats, ferrets and such "bad"? How do you decide which are good and which are bad?
The bad creatures are those which are traditionally bad in European folk lore and have come to be regarded as sly or mean or evil.The good creatures are mostly small and defenceless, with the exception of the badgers.

Will you ever have any really good vermin or bad woodlanders in any of your stories?
No! The goodies are good and the baddies are BAD, no grey areas.

(from the Q&As on his site)

It really bugged me when I was younger and reading the books though. Veil was pretty much the only character whose motivations were purposefully left open for interpretation, but everyone else was automatically evil, evil, evil! Doesn't bug me so much now, but I think I'm glad for the consistency of writing with a certain audience in mind, rather than "growing up" with the readers.

[blunderbuss]

That mentality really bothers me. Not do I think that it's insulting to think that children can't handle moral complexity, but the idea of 'some people are just BAD' is not a good one to grow up with.

That, and the fact that it's just easier for an author to write. Lots of authorital laziness is covered up with 'but its for kids'.

[gruesome]

Especially since he highlighted it with an entire book being about how a bad-race raised by good-races will STILL BE EVIL and a good-race raised by bad-races will ALWAYS BE GOOD. So you can't even call it laziness at that point, it was clearly his intention to hammer it home.