violence asks 12!
the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
I think we're going to have define "like" here, because there's characters that are meant to be offputting but who I think should still be part of the story (I repeat, Dean Priest).
For me it's probably Andrew Stuart, except I have no defense of this man. I find him very interesting, and I would read a thousand fics about him. I also think all of the critiques of him are a thousand percent valid. I would kill for a Jane of Lantern Hill fic set when Jane is older and processing what actually happened to her, in which she reckons with whether Andrew WAS a disney dad and whether Robin failed her.
I think LM Montgomery held a lot of undeserved love for her own father, and that love comes through in her writing of Andrew. It's warm and tender, and I respond to that. However, the same failures that she apparently overlooked in her father get translated to the text, either as blatant cracks or wallpapered over flaws. For example, I will never forget how one of LMM's biographers was astonished that LMM's father made her travel alone as a young girl because of how dangerous it would have been. According to the biographer, it should have been unthinkable. Meanwhile, in Jane, we have a very pointed moment with Andrew refusing to let Jane travel alone despite her insistence. JOLH has a lot of psychologicaLMM stuff going on underneath imo. Andrew is one example, and the grandmother is another - Rubio theorized that the grandmother was LMM doing a self-portrait!
