Problematic because: "she's fortunato’s pr attack dog, which means her job is making the usher family’s scandals look survivable no matter how many bodies, lawsuits, or dead lab animals are involved. she doesn’t make ligodone, but she helps polish the machine that sold it. she collects dirt on everyone, including her own siblings, because leverage is basically her love language - her whole thing is spinning bad behaviour into good press while keeping blackmail files ready for when charm won’t do. she also sleeps with her assistants toby and tina/beth while being their boss, then immediately turns cold when they choose each other over her, so even her personal life has this nasty little power imbalance built into it. instead of exposing victorine’s illegal animal testing because it’s cruel, she wants the dirt because she’s jealous, angry, and looking for ammunition. she sneaks into the rue lab, ignores verna’s warning, photographs the traumatised chimpanzees with flash on, and gets mauled by one of the animals victorine’s experiments have mutilated."
Propaganda: 1. "camille is awful in such a precise way. pr ghoul, blackmail collector, workplace nightmare, professional family scandal polisher. she doesn’t need a lab coat to be part of the damage"
2. "She’s one of the Ushers who knows exactly what the family is. She isn’t deluded like Tamerlane, trying to sell purity from inside a contaminated dynasty, and she isn’t pretending to be noble like Victorine. Camille understands that everything is ugly. Her mistake is thinking that means she’s above it. She’s sharp, funny, mean, observant, and usually right about everyone else’s weaknesses. She knows where the bodies are, metaphorically and sometimes literally. But all that intelligence is wasted on maintaining the same system she’s judging. She can see Victorine’s corruption clearly, but she doesn’t go to the lab because she cares about the chimps or the patients or the ethics. She goes because she wants a weapon. It makes her very Usher - smart enough to diagnose the disease, too invested to stop spreading it."
3. "The way she dies is perfect for her because she gets taken out by the one thing she doesn’t know how to spin in real time. She can handle scandals. She can handle sex, shame, family crimes, corporate rot, everyone else’s hypocrisy. She cannot handle standing in a lab full of suffering animals and being told, plainly, that she could still walk away. She takes the picture anyway. Of course she does. She always needs the proof, the file, the angle, the thing she can use later. This time, later never comes."
Problematic because: "He killed everyone/almost everyone in his town, raided an air force base, and almost committed a school shooting (load bearing "almost")."
Propaganda: "He represents what can happen to a person when put under too much stress, and how pre-existing mental health issues can effect that"
