hiya!!! not part of the marinette critique studio but i really liked your post about the way damian is characterized. i haven't really familiarized myself with DC properties, so i wasn't aware how exactly daminette fics mischaracterized him, but i think you bring up good points on how the way he's treated is racist.. yet another reason to dislike daminette i guess 😭
Thanks! I recently got into the DC fandom seriously, and Damian has become one of my favorites quickly.
For my followers who aren’t in the Miraculous circles, my post in the Marinette Critique Studio was such
Racism has kinda always been in MLB salt fics, though mostly to demonize Alya and (hopefully) unintentional (though we all damn well know there’s a subsection of the fandom that was gleeful about writing trash about the poc characters)
But I’ve never really seen anyone talk about it in regards to Damian, who is a popular character to ship Marinette with in these kinds of fics, so I wanted to share my thoughts
I don’t have much else to say myself, but the original post led to some comment threads that I found fascinating, about how these fics also reek of classism, as Marinette and Damian don’t really have much in common and there’s no real reason to put these two characters together, other than Damian is rich. And as well as how they always make Chloe Marinette’s new bestie, replacing Alya. And while I love some Chloe redemption, I’m still pissed at how dirty she was done in canon, there’s no actual redemption. No process of becoming a better person. She was a bully then bam, they were besties. At least make her work for Marinette’s trust a bit
Yes indeed, fuck Damienette
I also hate the trope of the class being black listed from their desired industries over a little middle school bullying. And I say that as someone who’s been bullied since elementary school until the start of high school. Bruce would not care about blacklisting a 10th graders from their dream careers
You think he would look at Adrien, with his trauma and shitty father and desire to learn and do better but is being blocked by a mentor with serious favoritism, and think anything other than “ah yes, a new son”? Bffr