Hey! My name is Char, don't mind me just obsessing over my favorite characters. Warning: I might ramble. 28, She/Her, Cis, Autistic, Virgo, African-American. Icon credit: @ominus-potato
Yes that character has indeed done a bad thing in the story, as you pointed out for the 10th time now.
But have you maybe considered… THAT THEY AND THEIR CRIMES ARE NOTREAL, so who the fuck other than you chronically online dipship gives a crap!?!
Trust us, most of us know our faves did a bad thing or are not great people.
But we don’t bring up their actions and flaws 24/7 because we’re not people obsessed in being morally correct for liking/disliking a fictional character.
i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you’re not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don’t treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.
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