bro just take my fucking job application without a cover letter. we're literally gonna be in a mega economic collapse, you're not gonna fucking read it anyways. do you really need some fucking fanfic about me working at your business?? what the fuck are we even doing right now??
You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light
wedding dresses are white specifically so that if the bride goes axe-crazy you can rest assured you will see the blood stains all over her and it'll be sick as fuck
Claudia (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Ada Wong (Resident Evil)
Claudia
Ada Wong
Remaining time: 6 days 10 hours
Propaganda below the cut:
Claudia:
She's a young black woman who is constantly ignored over the men in the show and reduced to nothing more than tragic pieces of the mens' life story by many of the fans and sometimes even the showrunners.
Not only is she just the best girl around but she's so incredibly complex---we as the audience still don't know the real and true her. I would die to get to know her but it's shocking a large part of the IWTV fandom isn't the same!
I can't speak to her treatment from book/movie fans but TV fans literally only talk about her in relation to being Louis and lestats "daughter". By the end of her life she's in her 40s and yet the fandom only treats her as their young daughter and she is defined by that instead of her actual character
due to claudia being a black woman who is directly opposed to everyone’s white male pookie (lestat) there has been a lot of misogyny thrown at her in the form of calling her a liar because the events of her personal diary (that was never supposed to be read by anyone) don’t align with lestat’s own account of events. she is seen as manipulative and selfish and someone who was trying to drive a wedge between louis and lestat, and her own classification as a victim of abuse in this family dynamic is undermined by her efforts to remove herself and find her own community. the abuse she faces by other male leads like louis and armand is minimized even if fans are able to see lestat’s abuse for what it is, even though armand staged a lynching for her, louis, and her companion madeleine and lied about it, alongside louis minimizing lestat and armand’s actions against her. the fandom is happy to take all the male characters at face value but as far as claudia is concerned everything she did was duplicitous and self-serving.
claudia deserved better from her “family” and it breaks my heart that her life in the grand scheme of things was cut so short just as she was finding her happiness. she is incredibly funny and the love she finds with madeleine is so beautiful. the struggle of being a woman in a body that is at odds with you and who you really are and what you want to be able to do in the world is very compelling and easy to empathize with from so many different avenues whether it’s by race, disability, and/or gender/sexuality. she is such an incredible character that should be seen as more than just an obstacle and loustat’s dead daughter. her and madeleine are the best lesbian vampires and everyone should be tuning into the yuri.
She's either a horrible and manipulative girl who lies in her own personal diaries for some reason about the abuse she faced from her white father or she's an idiot who got what was coming to her when she was lynched or just a tool to be used to further the relationship between two men. Her story is quite literally never her own, her diaries shared again and again without her consent and picked apart by both the characters in universe and fans.
She's literally so interesting and so well acted by both of the actresses who play her. She has such depth and her life was cut short due to racism, misogyny, and ableism. She deserves more than to be reduced to nothing but a liar or a tragic figure to be used to further the relationship between two men.
even people claim to like her will call her stupid for her actions in season two, even though she quite literally spells out her reasons for being so desperate to join the coven. In season one she's shown trying again and again to turn a person and make herself a companion. In season two she tells Louis (her father/brother who she loves but at this point he had gotten physically violent with her when she tried to convince him to kill their maker Lestat once and for all) that the only vampires she's known are him, their white maker (who beat Louis half to death, threatened Claudia by mentioning her rapist, got violent with her, and tried to kill her), the aforementioned rapist, and her white father's white side piece who he was planning to replace her with. She wants to belong somewhere with people like her, yeah she endures humiliation at first but considering what she'd been through at this point, it makes sense that she can justify it for a while to be a necessary evil. It's also important to note that she doesn't have all the information! Louis does not tell her that Armand threatened to kill him the night she was inducted into the coven. There was no way she could have predicted Lestat coming back or Armand and the coven's plan to lynch them. Why does a woman, and especially a Black woman, have to be completely objective and rational and borderline clairvoyant all the time to be deserving of sympathy?
A major theme of s1/2 (I'm not watching s3 lol) is that nothing is really ever about Claudia. Even when Louis says he's doing something for her, it's not really about her. Even her death wasn't about her, it was about Louis and Armand and the coven's relations with each other. And yet the fandom picks up on this, but does not critically examine it. So in fandom…..nothing is about her. It's about Lestat, or Louis, or occasionally Armand, or Loustat's relationship. Nobody ever puts her first despite her being one of the most interesting characters. It hurts my heart!!!
Another big part of the show is how infantilized she is and how much she hated that. She HATED being seen as a little girl. When she dies, she is in her 40s or 50s. And yet…you guessed it… fandom sees this and is like "aw, Loustat's little daughter" or "Louis's little sister" when she actively fought against being treated like a little girl and has an (amazingly well acted, kudos to Bailey Bass) breakdown in s1 over the fact that her mind will age but her body will not.
Justice for my fully grown mature adult woman!
Ada Wong:
Deemed toxic, manipulative and the worst when there are characters regardless of gender who canonically did worse things. Also this stems how close her plotlines are aligned with Leon Kennedy and I guess you can’t be a complicated woman near a popular and hot male character who’s a grown man and can make his own decisions :/
She’s into everyone's business as a side quest and somehow gets the job done. She deserves better because she’s so goddamn cool and hot and funny and so deadpan about her job as a corporate spy/mercenary
She lied to a man ONE time because that is literally a part of her job, and now being a male-manipulator is supposedly her only personality trait. Granted, the games are also guilty for this, but her entire character getting reduced down to her relationships with men (and more specifically, with Leon) will never fail to frustrate me. Folks love to ignore all the times she has made decisions that work against her best/personal interests in order to reduce her down to a selfish witch whose entire life supposedly revolves around being sexy/kinda mean towards Leon's general direction.
She is morally complex, WAY more emotionally intelligent than people like to give her credit for, and she can roundhouse a zombie while wearing 6-inch heels like its nothing. Let's be real, she deserves her own game.
Ada Wong, I'm so sorry that your character is so often watered down to only your looks. Ada Wong, I'm so sorry that Capcom refuses to put you in a game unless Leon is there, despite the fact that the vast majority of the work you do occurs outside of your relationship to him. Ada Wong, I'm so sorry that there was literally a hate campaign against your voice actress from the RE4 remake because SOME fans thought her performance wasn't "sultry" enough. Ada Wong, I'm so sorry that you are viewed only as a male-manipulator, even though espionage and therefore lying is literally your job, and every time you have lied to ANYONE on screen it has literally just been because you were doing your job. Ada Wong, I'm so sorry that people refuse to acknowledge your moral and emotional complexity because you hurt a guy's feelings one time. Ada Wong, I'm so sorry that you are so rarely depicted having positive relationships with other women. Ada Wong, I'm just so sorry tbh
Vote Ada! Her treatment by fandom has historically been…not great, and she deserves so much better!
I am demanding justice for literally every single woman in Resident Evil, especially those who have had the misfortune of interacting with Leon in-universe. Now, to be clear, I love Leon. He's a fan favourite for a reason and I won't dispute that, but DAMN do certain fans adore using their love for this man as an excuse to belittle, demonise, and sexualise the women he has canonical relationships with (whether they be platonic or implied-romantic).
Ada Wong gets the worst of it, in my opinion. She's one of the only prominent women of colour in the entire franchise, so you know some people are holding that against her from the onset, and she is constantly treated like she has no agency outside of interacting with Leon. Now, Leon's whole character in RE2 (which is when they first meet) is supposed to be inexperienced and naïve. This is supposed to be a character flaw, and Ada takes advantage of it because it is literally a requirement for her (admittedly morally dubious) job, and THEY HAVE LITERALLY JUST MET! She does not know this man! She has no reason to feel bad about this! And yet people act like her initial deceit of Leon, who at the time was essentially a stranger to her, is some great malicious betrayal, and that her willingness to hurt his feelings (again, they have not even known each other a full day at this point) is in some way a defining character trait which persists throughout the games. This leads into a pattern that I've seen pop up in a number of other fandoms too, when people begin to infantalise the MMC in order to more effectively pass off the FMC as a malicious entity. When Leon and Ada interact after RE2, Leon has matured considerably and knows exactly what to expect from her. He's not a poor little meow meow completely at the mercy of the mean lady and her feminine wiles, although some people certainly like to act like he is. He's a grown man, who despite his experiences still continuously makes the independent choice to trust Ada when it counts, because despite the lingering hurt from their first meeting he knows that she is the type of person to ultimately do the right thing at the end of the day. Ada is a skilled, intelligent, and ruthless agent who does her job and does it well, but when push comes to shove and she has to make a choice between being self-serving or protecting innocent people, she consistently goes against her own best interests in order to do just that (for example, in RE2 when she had the choice to shoot Leon in order to get the sample she needed to complete her mission, and she decided not to.) She's the type of person to bury her emotions, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have any, and the fact that LEON has figured that out but some fans apparently can't, is genuinely baffling to me.
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