normalize your villains. writing wise. i think everyone knows villain behavior irl would get you a ticket straight to the highest security prison out there. but this is about building a fictional world. for context, i've recently been on a rewatch for the show once upon a time and this time, i've tried to stay impartial to the characters storylines. the villains seems irredemable in the first season and frankly, i'm disappointed that this changes. hear me out !!!!!
my version of wednesday addams is for the most part chaotic neutral. wherever the current sails, she'll follow. sure, wednesday has the potential to grow and have (somewhat) healthy relationships in her life, but at the end of the day, she's not a hero. she's not even the anti-hero. sometimes it plays out like that and she might look the part, but she's not good goddammit.
for the crimes that she've committed? guilty as charged. for all the people she had hurt? guilty as charged. for all the misery she'll cause others? you guessed it, guilty as fucking charged. i'm not going to water her down.
in my mind, the addamses were always the outliers, but with the bestest of intentions. morticia and gomez welcomed vile strangers into their homes and tried their very best to make them feel comfortable in their home. they have a skewed perception for the world, something that's unusual, morbid, downright grotesque. edgar allan poe, which netflix glorified and here i am doing a shoutout to train my beloved, would tremble had he known of the addamses. morticia and gomez are kind, in their way. but you know who never really was?
their kids. in the comics (both by the og author and some others icr the author, but more closer to our time), pugsley was the devil incarnate. he showed no remorse, he was clearly thrilled by the suffering he caused others. but i suppose the directors changed the storyline and made wednesday the brand new puglsey in the 90s movies. she showed no emotion, she was a okay with murdering her own, even if she knew as luck as it, their younger brother pubert would live. this time around, wednesday was the devil incarnate.
and i agree with the canon, she can be incredibly intelligent and even more ruthless than she is intelligent. but one thing i've noticed is that, she notices her parents being taken for granted. she is aware that others will use morticia and gomez's kindness against them. sure, they can take it, that's their thing after all. but wednesday noticed everything since she was a kid and she remembers.
and guess what?
just because someone went through hell and back (even if said hell is not the worst that could happen), that doesn't mean someone will come out kind and good. wednesday will forever doubt anyone in her life and she will push them away, just as she'll try to give them the world. but no matter the good she does, at the end of the day, she is the villain. it's not the addams family, it's just the kids and i say that because pugsley and pubert have the same rights as wednesday does.
at the end of the day, being evil after witnessing evil is okay. fiction wise, i feel like reminding. some characters are irredemable. just because they do good things sometimes that doesn't make them good. just like doing bad things sometimes doesn't make them bad. but here's the catch with the addamses. they always, always own up who they are. wednesday no exception to the rule.
wednesday, the villain, can do good things. she can save your muse, she can enjoy your muse's company, she can love your muse. but all of this, all the good things do come from a villain. did she deserve the awful treatment she and her family got in canon? of course not, that we can all agree on. but it doesn't matter what happened, what matters is what choices they make afterward. wednesday will always choose herself. wednesday doesn't pick good, she willingly chooses evil.
sure, a villain is capable of love. a villain is capable of both good and bad. but look at how it always ends. wednesday is a villain and she will suffer, your muse too if you dare to come too close. it's not fair, i know. but this is just my theory, vero's theory. and, you may expect it by now,
please, normalize your villains.
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you know, i think the first time julia meet anita- they already have little fats to their body- and its mostly thanks to themmy (bc i forever hc that themmy was the first person and first friend of anita to introduce to the variety of food)- and then gradually get a little more weight as they got to know charge then later as julia, and food was becoming something these two genuinely bonds outside of their banters and teasing they do on the field and at the HQ- but food? cooking together? that was one of the rare moments where anita shows interest and ortega was simply happy to do it to a point she did introduced them to her mom.
that seven years later, she sees anita- there was no fats left in their body- even when she sees them training herald (i like to think that the training varied, from rooftops to just training room in the HQ) and took notice of their body- where was that body neets used to have- its still wide, its still round but it… just feel wrong- and idk if i want that apartment route to be the canon or i can just mixed it together- but that the apartment route is how julia tried to nudge anita to eat well, to eat and to cook with her, because she knew they knew they missed this. the rare bonding they used to have together.
it would've taken years- and years post-whatever the fuck the story will be finished, i do honestly want anita to finally stop thinking about self-sacrifices and putting themself to the death and instead. focus on regaining the body they have- started cooking even if their hands are still weak but slowly steady over time, even when mortum is now part of their life and food. food is everywhere.
and. julia ortega one evening leans on the railing of the porch, mortum on the side with a hot tea. the two looks toward the horizon to the fields where horses roam, and a person walks with their cane as they help lead a horse who was only months old- and. oaughoguhg eating well, food matters to ortega, and anita regain their love for cooking and and and (im BLAMING THAT COOKING MANGA-)
anyway. julia and anita is "i want to cook for you because its simply is love" and mortum is "the food you cook makes me feel loved." and BYE
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