when the objectively bad person has traumatic and honestly reasonable reasons for why theyre like that but it doesnt excuse their actions and only serves to make them more tragic as a character
My favorite thing about Pinky and the Brain is, as we see in the episode “The Pinky Perspective”, all of Pinky’s non sequiturs and odd pondering make perfect sense to him. He keeps a running commentary in his head and sometimes he forgets that no one else is following his stream of consciousness. Pinky is the autistic mouse icon of our age.
Look, there’s no denying that Homer isn’t the best father, but Peter is an absolutely abhorrent human being.
The fact of the matter is Simpsons codified the adult animation tropes that shows like Family Guy (ironically) flanderized into awful, unlikeable people.
I will gladly take strangulation played for laughs over Meg's very real, very lasting emotional and physical abuse any day.
Worst Animated Dad Bracket Round 1
Propaganda:
Homer Simpson: Early Homer had some nice moments with his kids. Occasionally, he still does. Sometimes, he's just a larger child. Also strangling ain't great, dude
Peter Griffen: Man constantly endangers children, usually for his own goals. One time tried to marry his son. That's not good. Beats his daughter constantly
Ace culture is seeing ace characters in queer media be treated the same way gay characters are in straight media. Basically someone for the main character to talk to about relationships without them actually participating in any main relationship. Makes me sad :(
Accidentally posted this to my sideblog, good as time as any to plug it I guess
Anyway, Doof is theoretically capable of establishing and maintaining a totalitarian regime and has a personal vendetta against child abusers, so yeah, not gonna be a pretty scene for Bob when he finds out Bart’s ten.
Winter is an Atlesian elite, likely from the richest, most powerful family in Atlas, unlike Cinder, who was a powerless orphan, poor and enslaved by other Atlas Elites.
Winter is an elite Huntress, unlike Cinder, who wanted to be one as a child but things took another turn and now she hates Huntsmen.
Winter is the Winter Maiden. She was chosen for it, the powers were given to her, as a gift from someone who loved her... unlike Cinder, who killed Amber and took the Fall Maiden powers by force.
Even her name. Cinder chose her surname, Fall, so it would fit her vision of her destiny as the Fall Maiden. Winter was given the name, as if she was destined to become the Winter Maiden.
In Cinder's eyes, Winter is someone who got everything handed to her, who's never suffered. Of course, that isn't true; yes, she is privileged, but she is still, in a different way, an abused kid, who much like Cinder, ran from one abuser to join another one without realizing. The thing is: Winter is now free of that cycle as well because she ended up realizing the kind of person Ironwood was; Cinder hasn't, so she's still stuck.
Damn, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Emerald befriended Winter in Vacuo and she ends up seeing Winter as what she thought Cinder was to her.
To sum up: to Cinder, Winter represents everything she hates, but also, everything she wishes she was.