[ SECRET POST #2333 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2333 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #333.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: too big 1

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Ezra as a background character but I stopped reading anything Ezra-centric when I figured out so many of his fans hate the other characters on the show. And he's the canon racist of the group. I don't even.

Kinda this. I loved Ezra, and I'll admit that I favour Ezra-centric stories, but he was the canon racist. I thought it was actually pretty well done, that it was appropriate for his character and where he was coming from, that he slowly shifted over the course of the series, that it only really showed up when something out of the ordinary happened ('Manhunt', for example, where Ezra just sort of casually reminds the audience that in his POV anyone not white is only decent after they've personally proved themselves to him). It was a fascinating element to his character, and his developing-but-troubled friendship with Nathan was a truly fascinating thing to watch.

But then I kept meeting fics where people randomly made Nathan into a frothing evil bigot who hates all white people and makes Ezra suffer because of his accent, presumably to disguise the fact that in canon, Ezra's usually the one jumping up and down on Nathan's issues about slavery and servitude and taking people's honest money (what else is slavery?). Most of Nathan's issues with Ezra in canon come from episodes like 'Working Girls', where it looks like Ezra's advocating selling working girls to rich husbands as a sort of more permanent john, or 'Chinatown' where it looks for a minute like Ezra's actually bought himself a slave girl, or just the general fact that Ezra's a pretty self-professed thief and conman who swindles people out of the little money they make because he's slick and white and better at playing the system than they are, and coming from where Nathan's coming from that's going to push some buttons.

TL;DR Ezra's my favourite and I like a lot of stories starring him, but as soon as we start getting random evil!Nathan or evil!Chris who just don't understand him, I'm gone. Especially Nathan. Ezra is awesome, but most of the joy of his character arc was watching him grow from that slick, self-obsessed man who wouldn't ride with a black man and abandoned a village to its fate in the pilot, someone still obsessed with playing the rich southern boy the way his mother taught him to, into someone who would ride with anyone to defend anyone, who kept his word and valued friendship and gave away his precious money to help a Chinese girl go to her family in San Fransisco even though he loved her and wanted her to stay.

If you're just going to have always-a-saint Ezra, what's the point?

Re: too big 1

[(Anonymous)]

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Ezra wasn't my favorite character but I liked him a lot, and his arc *was* well done. It wasn't even the bad fic that turned me off the fandom, it was the Ezra fans. Their common hate of the other characters doesn't only show up in their fic, it shows up in discussions and feedback to fic that *doesn't* star Ezra. How dare the rest of us not like what they like, I guess? Or ship him as hard? Or write him the way he is in canon because that wasn't the real Ezra? I don't know. Not all the Ezra fans are crazy, but a lot of them are either convinced he *was* the show, or they act so righteously angry that he wasn't the main focus of every episode, it's hard to enjoy a fandom like that. A lot of other fans who left the fandom feel the same way I do: Love the show, hate the fandom.