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Higgs and the infantilization of characters with trauma

This is something I noticed a bit of a spike of recently with higgs in particular, although i do see within other communities. The tendency of to look at characters, specifically villians and antagonists and entirely excusing what they've done and painting them as a Saint for simply having trauma.

Look I am saying this as a fan of Higgs and his character. I feel sympathy for what he had to go through, his horrid upbringing and a lack of a support system, hell I made a whole post about it and how you see it affect his character. I don't quite like how they wrote him in ds2. That being said.

Guys, he tried to make all of life go extinct twice, committed mass bombing wiping out whole cities of people, killed a baby (probably more with the explosions), made a woman run naked through time fall, and other things. He's not a good guy. He is not excused of this. He is not a Saint. Having trauma does not give him a pass to do all of this shit. Like what

I believe Higgs is a forewarning of what happens when people aren't given healthy connections, a support system, and repeatedly isolated in various ways. It is tragic to wonder what could have been different if he was simply given the connections he needed. That being said, what he ultimately ends up doing is still shitty things that he is fully responsible for. He is well aware of what he's doing in both games and pretty damn happy about it at times. He is a full grown adult man capable of critical thinking about what he's doing.

it's the big boss phenomenon yet somehow worse

Then people are blaming sam and fragile.. for what? Do I think fragile could've done more to help higgs when she knew him, sure, but I don't think she knew he was going to try to go on a mass genocide. Nor do I think that justifies Higgs making her run in her underwear through timefall and then make gross demeaning comments about her body.

And Sam, Sam didn't even fucking know Higgs before DS1, what he knows of Higgs is a man who blew up cities, tried to trick him into delivering a nuke, killing/trying to kill him mutiple times, torturing him, killing his baby, and you guys expect Sam and Fragile after that to what? Offer support to Higgs? Do you think that'd magically fix everything kumbaya or wtv?

Sam dosen't owe Higgs shit. Fragile and Sam aren't demons who deserve to die simply because they formed a support system for themselves. Sam isn't one for shutting people out due to getting re-traumatized at times and due to to distrust. It can take awhile for people to accept help and there can be setbacks. Healing isn't always easy nor instantaneous.

You can like a morally bad character who's done shitty things without justifying their actions, all while still feeling sympathy for what they went through, then also acknowledging the unjust harm they cause to others around them. It is okay to like villians while acknowledging that at the end of the day the are villians

#the amount of bizarre 'the game hates victims of abuse'-ass takes ive seen about him in 2 is absolutely outlandish lmao #i love Higgs but the mental gymnastics on how sam and fragile are in the wrong actually is so silly #death stranding