You people are way too comfortable to label a POC character as "aggressive" or "dangerous," when what's actually being shown is someone visibly overwhelmed.
Let's be honest here... For a moment, yeah? A character snapping, raising his voice, or reacting emotionally under pressure DOESN'T automatically make him a threat, it means he's overstimulated. He feels too much and he is barely holding himself together, and it shows.
Overstimulation can look like irritability, withdrawal, or snapping at others. It's not always pretty, and it's not always comfortable to witness, but it is real. It DOESN'T make someone dangerous. It makes them human.
And what's more telling, though, is how that same behavior is interpreted depending on who it's coming from. Characters with darker skin are consistently read as more hostile, more threatening, etc. for reactions that would be excused, sympathized with, or even romanticized in others. That pattern doesn't magically disappear just because the setting is fictional, it just becomes easier to ignore.
So when a character is clearly overwhelmed, emotional, and in pain, and the immediate response is to reduce him to something aggressive or unsafe… That says more about the audience than it does about the character. Not every intense reaction is violence or an emotional outburst is a threat... But it seems some of you are more comfortable assuming the worst than asking yourself why you saw him that way in the first place. And whether that bias is intentional or not doesn't really change the fact that it's there.
It sucks how a character I and many others deeply relate to somehow gets reduced to "aggressive" or "dangerous" the moment he shows emotion. He's one of my biggest comforts, and I connect with him on such level. Seeing you people so quickly antagonize him for being overwhelmed says a lot. And whether intentional or not, it's rooted in racism, because let's be honest: if he were white, this conversation wouldn't even be happening, right?
As an autistic person with dark skin, you don't know how hurtful it is to me and others. You people PISS ME OFF. If you think I'm overexaggerating, being too passionate about a fictional character, and think this doesn't affect real life, FUCK OFF!!!!!!!
