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webnovels will introduce a female antagonist with a compelling backstory & great character potential only to completely diminish her character by making the most unhinged and pathetic writing choices so that people don't start rooting for her instead of the flawless, perfect, mary sue main character.

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“we need more morally gray women in fiction” y’all couldn’t even handle rashta from the remarried empress.

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when you look back to the beginning of TRE rashta was so innocent. navier's ladies-in-waiting framed it as if she was out there purposefully getting stuck on hunting traps to seduce the emperor when she was running away from a life of slavery after she thought her baby was murdered. she didn't have manners because she was ENSLAVED and they all judged her for it instead of sympathizing with her. she was happy that sovieshu defended her from laura and everyone thought, "she must be pleased with herself, that conniving little mistress", when he's probably the first person in her life to have ever defended her from anything.

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It's funny how kdrama/manhwa fandom suffers from "second male lead syndrome" but never the second female lead syndrome. If a female character dares to breath next to male lead she gets the most hate. Male leads and second male leads could be rapists, mass murderers, destroy people's lives but if they say sorry or simp female lead, it's all fine and dandy. But a female character (not as a female lead) even side eyes the MC, she's treated as demon incarnate.

Unfortunately it's not just in kdrama or manhwa. I saw this phenomenon in Hollywood too. For example breaking bad. Skyler gets so much hate for not being okay with her husband being a meth maker, the guy who ruined people's lives, tried to tape his wife, abused his son. But somehow she's the most hated character in BB.

In Harry Potter, Umbride is hated so much yet Voldemort gets woobified.

There are so many examples like this.

Male characters could do absolutely vile things yet still get forgiving but if a female character is a bitch, she's the worst.

Y'all just love to hate women.

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i’m sad because rashta is so sweet and cute. when she misunderstood and thought duke ergi was having an affair with heinrey, she was prepared to be supportive and kept their affair a secret. when navier first revealed her relationship with heinrey, rashta was immediately worried about ergi first because she thought they were in love. she really saw ergi as her only friend while he was using her and doing his best to harm her because..? he held a grudge against sovieshu. rashta didn’t even do anything to him yet she became his punching bag… sovieshu was still the king in the end, while rashta.. is dead. because she never had a friend before and didn’t know any better.

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since some of u lack critical thinking i am going to be generous and give some hints:

rashta is NOT responsible for whatever tf happened to ergi in the past. neither directly nor indirectly

rashta as a runaway slave who lives in a country where slavery is accepted and normalized is in NO WAY comparable to a noble lady who became the emperor’s mistress. if u think she can refuse sovieshu and he will still annul her slave status out of the goodwill of his heart, u are a fool.

if u ever blame a mistress for whatever tf the EMPEROR, the most powerful person in the country does, u are braindead and a misogynist

if u defend ergi and think his behavior is “understandable” (i.e., pretending to be someone’s friend to use her and stab her in the back, misdirecting his anger towards an innocent woman who was a victim of slavery, hating mistresses and blaming WOMEN for something a MAN does, etc.) u are also braindead and a misogynist

please check urself and why u have those kinds of thoughts and why u feel the need to be sympathetic towards a pathetic scheming man who effectively has done nothing for his own “revenge” other than kill an innocent unrelated woman instead of being sympathetic towards the woman he actually got killed.

and in case i didn’t make it clear enough and there are still people who entertain thoughts like “i can be sympathetic towards both”, let me clarify that i think u are an idiot and i do not want to hear whatever u want to say. please leave, post ur own thoughts on ur own blog where u can bond with other braindead misogynists who make a million excuses for a man to act shitty.

you’re welcome.

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women! be difficult! be mean! they’re gonna hate you either way!

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women be difficult and mean even if you'll be loved for being demure and meek! ESPECIALLY if they love you for being meek! that's not true acceptance and that's certainly not true love!!

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free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it

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free my girl she has the same character traits as a male character but is getting deemed a bitch for them

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free my girl she acted irrationally in a situation where it was impossible to act rationally and is now being hated for it

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rashta’s relationships with men is genuinely one of the most heartbreaking things in TRE. people hated rashta for knowing that she was beautiful and trying to use it to her advantage. people hated rashta for acting cute or being a “pick me” towards men. she was a slave with nothing to her name; no education, no friends, no family. the only thing she had ever been desired for was her beauty. the only people who have ever treated her “kindly” was those men who desired her beauty. everyone else (with a few exceptions being people that sovieshu employed to serve her) pretty much treated her like shit. the only way life has ever taught her to survive or receive better treatment is by appealing to her predators.

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they killed her for being too beautiful

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Think of it like this, people: If the Rashta fanbase continues to infantalize her, strip her of her flaws and remove every ounce of her nuance, then in a weird way, the fanbase will be giving Alphatart the satisfaction by perpetuating the idea that Rashta is a one dimensional bimbo who only got as far as she did because men were lifting her up.

Instead, we should be upset that Rashta's villainess side was either actively stifled by the author or just lazily written in general. What's the point of trying to convince your audience that your main antagonist is a threat if you're too scared of her besting the protagonists? No more random characters that have all but five panels of screentime no one will care about for Rashta to betray and/or kill, I want more characters like Delice! Characters who had build up, ones you could connect to!

I'm not saying I want Rashta to just be a complete monster with no nuance at all, that was literally what I was fighting against for two years 😭, but the girl is no perfect victim and she shouldn't be forced into that box. Perfect victims are Navier, they don't exist irl, and they're misogynistic stereotypes of what a "good woman" should do if she was ever hurt by a man.

Rashta is not a perfect victim, she gets attached to her abusers, she's quick to resort to underhanded measures without thinking of any consequences just to get what she wants, she's more distrustful of women than she really should be, she can get violent as a knee-jerk reaction, and she dodges accountability. While all these traits can make her more frustrating, they are all a significant improvement writing-wise compared to Navier's occasional elegant crying.