Charlie Morningstar is a fantastic protagonist
it truly boggles my mind that charlie gets so much criticism. Theres a lot to criticize about the Hellaverse, even if i love it, but Charlie is honestly such an interesting lead and tbh a lot of what people say they don't like about her are traits that they like in the male characters. She is extremely willfully ignorant to actual problems that are more gray and complex.
Yeah charlie is a massive hypocrite, can be pretty selfish, doesn't listen to people, is pushy and overbearing and inconsiderate a lot of the time.
Those same traits are what people love in Alastor, Lucifer, Vox etc.
She's NOT perfect. She has a ton of power and influence and privilege and you can see how that makes her very inconsiderate. She IS spoiled. She doesn't want to use and acknowledge her immense power but she also uses it every day without acknowledging it. Ep 3 of season 2 was incredible, I love how Angel told her that saying sorry doesn't matter if you keep doing bad things. I love how it showed her strange morals about dressing appropriately and how actually disrespectful it was. I love how she is so caught up in what SHE wants she doesn't realize how much she is hurting everyone.
I love that she becomes so fixated on proving that she is right and proving that she is "good" that she stops actually being good.
She has an undeniably good heart but her extremely sheltered and privileged upbringing make her so wilfully ignorant to the harm she causes.
giving the main character, especially the main female character, actual bad flaws is so refreshing. I appreciate that they dont sugar coat it or make big excuses for it, they actually show how harmful her actions are.
more complex female characters!!!!















