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hello, it is me, the problematic 2000

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likes cats and television. kvetches a lot. also a part-time duck.

One of my unpopolar Angel opinion is that I really, really feel bad for Connor more than I do for Angel.

Like is Connor kind of annoying, both in-universe in the way teenager are usually annoying, and from a meta prespective because he is involved in all the worst plots of s3/s4 of Ats (and only in those) and also the writing and acting for him are, as @goofyboymadness says, pretty lacking? Yes. Do I find myself cheering when others characters are mean or straight up physically violent with him, just because he is annoying? Eh, no, because it is difficult for me to cheer on a bunch of adults being like “ugh he’s annoying why can’t he be nice” about a teenage kid who had spent all his formative years completely isolated from everyone with the sole company of a man who taught him that he was the product of the union of two disgusting individuals, that his mother was a monster who didn’t love him and his only purpose in life- the only reason why his “adoptive father” was keeping him alive- was to kill his biological father who was also potentially a monster. I don’t think his character was written or protrayed with enough depht, and he sometimes DOES come off as “ angsty emo teen caricature” which IS annoying but my point is in-universe he HAD legitimate reasons to not be the nice and kind boy everyone expected Angel’s son to grow up when he was a baby lmao. But the show seems to often protray him as irrational or dumb for controversial takes like “vampire should get dusted” or “magic is dangerous”- takes that many others characters, especially on Buffy, share even if they were not raised in literal Hell with a man who hates the super-natural more than anything else!

As always here, this is talking about the actual disorder OCD, not the “I’m so quirky and organized! I like things to be clean!” traits that sometimes get jokingly called OCD.

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How I think I’m writing: Using eye contact, or lack thereof, to display emotions such as intimacy, shock, denial, or nervousness. 

How I’m actually writing: She looked at me, and I looked away. I tried to look back, but she was already looking at the sky. “Look,” she sighs, looking back at me for a split second. “I don’t know how to say this.” We looked at each other and time stopped, but then she looked her lookers at something else to look at, looking tired. 

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