what about enabling and supporting rapists and abusers gets your rocks off?? like you realize youre basically saying "screw all the people's lives she fucked up, my needs are above the sanity and wellbeing of everyone else", right???
((Kay, no, ooc here because this is going too far.
Eridan is a child who has been maltreated. He’s not ‘getting his rocks off’, he’s not saying ‘screw everyone else’. Sugary has been kind to him, so he likes her - in relation to him and him alone. He has repeatedly stated that he would not trust her with anyone else.
He does not disbelieve anyone who has had bad experiences, and he would not suggest that his needs were above anyone else’s. Who he gets comfort from, ultimately, does not matter to anyone, as he is not endangering anyone else from it.
Eridan is a child who has been maltreated.
His reactions come from that standpoint and not from some evil desire to see other people get hurt - not that anyone else is getting hurt from this! He isn’t ‘enabling’ her - interacting with someone who does bad things is not necessarily ‘enabling’ them, that idea comes from the mob standpoint that says “whenever anyone does anything bad ever, we just shun them! No one is allowed to ever talk to them or they’ll be evil!!”
Life isn’t that simple, whether it’s in character or out of character.
No, Sugary isn’t a redeemable character. Eridan isn’t trying to redeem her, he’s not trying to defend her, he’s not trying to suggest that anything she’s done is even okay. He’s simply saying that he, himself, and himself alone, cannot outright hate her because she’s done nice things for him.
Since when did ‘I don’t fully and completely hate a bad person” become “I am evil and support everything this bad person does”?
I am deleting any further asks like this. If you want to discuss character reactions or emotions or why he’s reacting the way he is, talk to me out of character - and off anon - and I can try to explain. But I am not going to answer these in character, because no child, real or not, should have to try to defend themselves against accusations that they’re getting their rocks off by supporting and enabling an abuser and rapist. That’s just not okay.))