i guess i'll be the uh, one to explain how trauma is um... important when it comes to writing?
okay so... what Clover (the host, and blog above me) wanted to say basically is um...
that @fazbenderspizza makes a... really good point there.
she said that the following comparison that is going to be said may sound um... "shitty", but, essentially keeping "me" (or- um, by far, "source me") away from the fear of being hated is uh, kinda like keeping Shadow the Hedgehog away from the fear of humans...
I mean... Maria died for a reason in the Sonic franchise, didn't she...?
if she didn't die, Shadow wouldn't have that trauma of her death, and therefore wouldn't have a reason to hate humans or act the way he does.
what um... Clover believes in, is the idea that trauma creates good writing for characters like me, i- i think? because it gives us something called "flaws"
i believe that if @an-artist-place-for-extra-art well, didn't give source-me the trauma that he carries, he wouldn't have the flaws he currently has.
i-it's like taking away the trauma Sportsy (i've um.. gained this new habit of calling him that because of uh.. the other me... i- i think im what you would call a subsystem?) from that same source of ours.
b- but if he basically didn't get the trauma that two certain characters gave him, i- i guess my source wouldn't exist in the first place.
a- adding another "shitty" take to further explain this !!
f-flaws are what makes a character be who they are a- and not what... what did you guys call it- a.. a "Mary Sue"...?
for example! our- or rather, Clover's William from the FNaF AU that she owns was um, raised by cultists.
i- if we were to take that away from him, he wouldn't be so desensitized to murder and all, and we basically wouldn't have a story to um... tell.
f- flaws exist for a reason!
source me wouldn't have the fear of being hated if we took away the fact of how his "father" treated him, and would make his character be... um, "boring"?
Sportsy wouldn't be so defensive and closed out if he didn't die, or if source me and Henry basically didn't k- kill his siblings or- by far him, in a way, b- but at the cost of the universe literally not existing because the story didn't happen.
a- and our AU's William wouldn't be so cruel if he wasn't basically raised by cultists, but the price to pay for that is Fazbear Entertainment ceasing to exist because h- he wouldn't be so cold or desensitized without that flaw caused by trauma!
and also because he named Fazbear Entertainment after the cult he was raised by...
i- i think this is the best way i could explain it..
i- i feel like i- um, might get attacked for saying this... sorry-