“You just can’t handle complex characters!” and the character in question is at best Jimmy Mouthwashing but the writers and/or fandom is blissfully unaware of the fact that their blorbo is Jimmy Mouthwashing (thus stripping away everything that makes them interesting at best or making it look like the writer and/or fans agree with their awful character at worst) and at worst a bog standard asshole with a sob story, aka baby’s first morally grey character. You can have your characters be Jimmy Mouthwashing, but you have to frame them correctly, don’t give me the most loathsome and irredeemable characters and try to make me like them or feel sympathy for them just because they suffered.















