For centuries, scholars, storytellers, cultural anecdotes, and spiritual leaders have made it abundantly and painstakingly clear that faeries, whether one believes them to be real or merely creatures of legend, have an entirely different set of ethics and morals compared to humans. It is often pointed out that they vary so much, that terms like good, evil, and neutral cannot be applied to them so easily. In fact, humans doing exactly that despite the warnings and meeting their downfall as a result is a popular and reoccurring theme in fae based tales.
Therefore, in knowing this, I will never understand why the Maas fandom froths at the mouth when her faeries, even the ‘good’ ones, partake in events and say things that, to humans, are morally questionable. They are faeries, not humans. The Holly Black fandom seems to understand this perfectly well, and her faerie stories take place in the twenty first century! There is such a disconnect within the Maas fandom that I will never fully comprehend because it’s so easy to figure out why her characters behave a certain way.