Listen, I’m just gonna lay this out here because the problem I currently have with the Resident Evil: Village fandom is one I’ve had with the Far Cry fandom in the past:
If you like, love, simp for, the villains of a series? That’s fine. Go for it. You don’t owe anyone an explanation for why you love a character. They can be the most fucked up person on the planet and you don’t have to explain why you’re so attached to them. Go forth and love all the villains you want, you do you.
There is a difference between loving/playfully simping for a villain, and straight up DENYING that they are even a villain at all.
There is a difference between saying “Joseph Seed is my favorite lil’ gummi bear who Did Nothing Wrong”
and arguing that “No, actually, literally, he is a good person who actually did nothing wrong and the protagonists are the Real Villains for opposing him, this is not joking or ironic, I mean this seriously.”
Because that’s not right. That’s false. I have actual evidence from the actual video game that shows him doing bad, villainous things that make the protagonists 100% justified in wanting to stop him.
This is not a debate: It Happened. There is a whole video game’s worth of evidence to prove it.
Arguing that he is a morally complex character is one thing, because that’s a totally valid opinion you might hold; denying that he did literally anything morally wrong is not, because it is SHOWN in the game.
This the same thing with the villains of RE VIII. If you love these characters, that’s fine- again, you owe no one an explanation!
But when you start saying things like “Ethan is the ACTUAL bad guy for killing these people, he had NO justification killing any of the villains" when the people in question have, in no particular order, committed countless murders, kidnapping of adults and children, torture, unethical scientific experiments…
…I’m gonna call bullshit.
You don’t have to twist a character into looking Good so that you’re “allowed” to like them. You can like the Dimitrescus despite the fact that they set up a murder dungeon and used servants’ blood for wine. They are fictional characters and, one more time, you don’t owe anyone an explanation for why you love them.
But come the fuck on. You cannot, straight-faced, argue that Lady Dimitrescu and her daughters did nothing wrong in this game.
You can’t, because it’s is a FACT that they did. It is literally fucking canon that they murdered and tortured innocent people. That is villainous.
And when you deny shit like that and try to make Ethan look like the bad guy for trying to get his daughter back from the murderous weirdos who have kidnapped her, you look really, really stupid.
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