[Kineli]

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Started as a tweet in English, and don't feel like translating it.

About this chain of tweets and the compassion toward villains in fiction.

Some people might have thought that loving flowers and all, I'm nice and kind. But, surprise-surprise, I'm not. This post is not too.

Usually, I'm somewhat okay with people loving villains. I don't understand it, I don't like it, I probably won't get along with those people, but, well, I realise that it doesn't necessarily mean that the person supports hurting others.
But here, it's the people who don't sympathy villains who are at fault. They're just too immature, think too simple and lack compassion.
I don't call myself mature or compassionate, but all this "saying that you don't support the villains is flat and simplistic" gets on my nerves. (wow, not getting charmed by evil is now morally wrong. belittling their sufferings, huh).

Okay, this characters didn't physically hurt us. Now what? Does it mean that we can't get angry? Does that mean that we, as outsiders, can't side with the victims? When any crime happens irl, we, in fact, outsiders too. Why not to understand a rapist or a murderer? Well, they didn't hurt us personally, so we have the privilege to understand and sympathise them, right? (No, don't). Yeah, I know the difference between real and fiction. It's just that logic sounds too similar to me. In this tweets there were nothing about literature interest. It was about being an outsider and (not)compassionate enough.

I feel so bitter that people brush off nice characters as boring, but full of sympathy to practically any villain. I wouldn't say anything if a person was sympathetic to _anyone_ who is in pain. But observing the fandoms I noticed that the sympathy depends on character's charisma and not their suffering. Why the hell do characters earn compassion because of charisma and not pain? Why do they get more sympathy than their victims?
and.. why the hell should you be "understanding" to people who chose the path of hurting others? (I don't blame characters who were literally forced to be evil). "Nobody deserves being in pain?" Than what about *ﾟ: .☆ r e s p o n s i b i l i t y*ﾟ: .☆. I'm against all that freaking extremes as "let's murder all evil". But "let's be understanding to all evil", though not that disgusting, still an extreme.

It reminds me of one canon where there was a character who was toying with lives of others. And another character thought that it might be because they were unhappy. One other character believed that the villain could change and offered friendship. They tried to help.
Guess what happened in the end? Everyone died. Except that villain, 'cause, you know, others were killed by them.
I deeply respect the characters who wanted to help, I really do. They couldn't see the full picture being involved in all this, but we, as _outsiders_, usually know much more to make a clear conclusion.

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