holy abuse apologism in the fucking dst tags. Y'all really need to defend the old white cis man that bad from *checks notes* the scary non-binary co-worker who was likely less than half his age... The horror. Really seems like an equal amount of power they held there.
Look up the perfect victim myth. That's y'all right now. Holy shit, I genuinely am gonna have a panic attack.
Also people who compare him to Maxwell are fucking insane. Wagstaff did not get tortured and trapped for years, pushing him to do the things he did after he was in debt and had to run away from people trying to kill him and a shadow entity trying to Possess him and Take Over His Life And Bodyy. He's a rich successful inventor who let a guy die for a projector. Yes he could've saved him. Why else would Klei have included him in the short?? Ohhhh Klei's playing 4d chess right now by making an animation all about Wagstaff that's secretly only supposed you Trick you into not liking him.
"He couldn't have actually saved that guy." OKAY THEN, STORYTELLING WISE, WHY INCLUDE HIM?? That makes the entire short meaningless. How cheap do you think fully animating shorts like that is? Do you really think they're investing that much into a big trick you're supposed to not actually take at face value?? You guys are cooking up a Sherlock conspiracy here, acting like Stranger Things fans right now???? You guys are cooking up theories, coping so hard bc what?? Wagstaff and WX have an actually very interesting abuser/victim dynamic where he loved and cared for them and also abused his power over them to hurt them??? Ohhhh scary sounds like an actually interesting story!!
But no yeah, it was secretly just WX being unreasonable bc *checks notes* they wanted to fully transition and Wagstaff in a completely understandable and not at all violating or controlling move said 'No actually, I don't think u want to transition. I will be keeping your old body and identity alive and treating it with the kindness and respect I won't give to your current one." Which means nothing. Of course.
Holy media literacy in the NEGATIVES!!!!!


















