It's not that felix "can" its that the creators and this fandom don't view it as sexual assault, ergo...it didn't happen, and the impact of everything else he did is also grossly minimized and explained away as him having no choice/not knowing any better... because he's a stupid brain dead baby apparently. But he also totally graduated high school early.
Unfortunately for the creator what felix did IS sexual assault by definition (it includes unwanted kissing) and felix isn't any less of a perpetrator of it just because of his age or because the victim defended herself. But mind you, it should have never gotten to that point- ladybug was audibly saying "no", and felix just didn't care I guess? I don't think people realize how scary and gross it can feel to be backed into a corner under that type of context.
The story does sort of handle it properly at the time, but then s4 rolls around and.. the creepy behavior and lack of boundaries he displayed when trying to assault ladybug is still very much there, front and center, just now being placed under a more favorable, sympathetic light.
Rather than using this to let the audience know that felix hasn't actually changed, the story now frames these traits as misunderstood. Romantically misguided. Sympathetic. Passionate. A king who takes charge and makes his crush cry by murdering her mother in front of her. Isn't it cute how much Felix loves Kagami? #couplegoals
The show kind of acknowledges that Felix was wrong for this... but also not really? Because as of season 6, these traits are STILL there, STILL not properly addressed. Nothing says 'lack of boundaries' quite like child marriage and plotting to have your fiances mother thrown into jail for the rest of her life. Speaking of that, Tomoe is still an issue, and with her often being equated to being the female version of Gabriel who just can't learn her lesson, this inadvertently validates Felix's unaliving of her in s5 (i mean, was it really bad when we can see how much better off adrien is now without gabriel? Why wouldn't it be the same for kagami?) and now again in s6 with he and Amelie plotting against and talking shit about her behind Kagamis back because obvious they probably know that, unlike her fiance and future monster in law, Kagami doesn't want to see her mother hurt or in jail.
And this has been a pattern since s3. Any feeble attempts the show makes to show felix is in the wrong is always eventually walked back on and he always ends up being validated. He never actually learns his lesson, and the show never forces him to. It's never felix who suffers the consequences of felixs actions, it's always other people/sentibeings. Yet we are meant to display empathy and tolerance for this rich sociopath just because he had a tragic past...
But Chloes past doesn't excuse her lashing out and never learning her lesson? Was she just not abused or mistreated enough to earn her "do whatever I want and treat ppl like shit" pass? Aww :/
Felix's redemption, his entire story as a whole, was unneeded. Rich white boys already get passes and avoid consequences for their horrible behavior in the real world, they are not an oppressed group, and Felix's story isn't even unique as there's about 10 other different characters who have experienced some form of both emotional AND physical abuse coming from parents or people they trusted. These people all still get held accountable for their behavior when they start lashing out, even if it's towards someone who might have deserved it.
Its funny that the creator wants everyone to treat felix like a special little glass boy because of the abuse hes gone through and in spite of this characters actions, but his attitude towards real life "difficult cases" seems to be pretty impatient and hostile and mocking.
I don't think its right for people to harass him over chloe, to be clear, but that is not the type of thing someone does unless there is something wrong emotionally/mentally. A lot of them seem to sympathize with Chloe feeling unloved by her mother, some have even told him that, yet he continues to go at it with Chloe fans daily, telling them they're probably horrible people for relating to chloe and for liking her more than Sabrina (I mean thats not how morality works but ok) and other stupid shit. And his most recent tweets seemed particularly edged towards trying to upset them....because that definitely won't make things worse.
Mind you, Chloe fans, unlike Felix, are real human beings. These people can be going through any sort of abuse behind the internet drama, including physical, so what was the point of Felix's utter failure of a narrative if it doesn't actually motivate anyone to help or tolerate "difficult cases"?
I'm convinced that the only thing people actually got out of Felix's story is that its actually totally normal and okay to be a useless hypocrite.
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