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[stardust_rifle]

the stupidest kind of fandom discourse happens whenever someone says that character A and character B are foils and then someone else barges in to say HOW DARE YOU COMPARE CHARACTER A, MY FAVORITE, TO CHARACTER B, WHO IS THE WORST

i just look upon it with a sickening sense of Unidentified Emotion

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[yvannairie]

Ohh God the worst. You have that jolt of "oh wow you think you're in this story somehow. You think the audience is supposed to have a deep personal identification with the narrative."

Lowkey, I feel like this is why I don't like reader insert stories. At some point, asking people to fictionalise their lives gets. Incredibly fucking bizarre, and I could never get over the dissonance of a character being made to behave in ways that flatter my sense of being special while supposedly still being themselves. I'm too aware that if I existed in the universe, I would just be a random person to everyone involved, and me and the characters would not even have the kind of personal relationship I have with them from a canon-outsider perspective. I don't fucking know these people. That's not the point

[ocean]

The sane part of fandom: So these two characters are specifically designed to be foils to each other, and they might butt heads but they still get along--

The Fandom Police™: Um ackshually they're POLAR OPPOSITES and would never ever fall in love OR be friends OR put their differences aside OR EVEN TOLERATE EACH OTHER, and any interactions they have are abusive, and if you ship it you condone abusive relationships in real life!!!