Anyways, re: James saying Patty SA'd Henry, below is copy pasted from his big dumb analysis on it on his ao3 account in case you dont feel like reading countless words of stupid bullshit.
2. Patty’s Power Patty’s power is influence. She is the only person in The First Shadow who ever successfully got Henry to use his more prolific Vecna-type powers, such as remote viewing, mind reading, and mental searching, and she does so by baiting Henry with honey rather than vinegar. Where Brenner uses the only tactic he seems to know—agitation—and he only gets access to Henry’s standard telekinesis, Patty uses positive coercion and gets more. This is something I've spoken about before. For example, Henry expresses fear of his supernatural situation in the confession booth scene, and Patty calls his powers a miracle, telling him he ought to use them to make his “nightmares” into “good” dreams. Henry likes Patty almost instantly, and he definitely wants to please her. He wants Patty to keep liking him, so he agrees to use his powers for her on multiple occasions despite the risk of the Mindflayer attacking. Then, when Henry tries to back out of searching for Patty's mother with his powers, Patty refuses. She says that using Henry's powers to find her mother, despite his insistence that he doesn't want to, is something she "has'' to do. Henry is locked in. She soothes him with a promise of a normal date some other time, but otherwise it's presented to him like he has no choice. To be perfectly clear: Henry offers to use his powers for Patty as a favor, and when he tries to back out she says he can't. Given the sexual overtones in the attic scene, it's not a great look for Ms. Newby. In fact, it puts her in on-screen Brenner territory. This is not the only time Patty does this, either. In a slightly more uncomfortable and overt way, we have the Henry-Patty kiss. In the audition scene for Dark of the Moon, we're shown that Henry has a fear of/aversion to kissing Patty. Whether it be because he's gay or because he's just...fearful, it doesn't particularly matter here. Either way, he runs away. Then, when we get into the Dark Of The Moon rehearsal, the full cast of Dark of the Moon corners Henry into letting Patty grab his face and kiss him. This comes immediately after Patty says that she and Henry are connected...whether he likes it or not. Henry refuses, over and over again, but he is not allowed to say no. He is forced. He tries to run, he tries to hide, and he tries to make it go away using his words. And doesn't that sound familiar? Even so, in contrast to Will, Henry is consistent centering Patty rather than himself. His mind is on her safety, meanwhile her mind is...elsewhere. He ran away from a kiss with her even before the Mindflayer got more involved with him, so it's not a matter of "he'd want to, if it weren't for the Mindflayer". It's a matter of "Henry doesn't want to do this regardless, but rather than center himself, he centers Patty, because in his mind she's more 'valuable'/worth protecting than he is". Patty steamrolls both reasons for Henry's refusal and simply does whatever the hell she wants. Girlbossing, amirite? To be absolutely clear: We watched Henry be sexually assaulted by Patty. He said no. He was ignored. He was cornered and kissed non-consensually. This is not subtext. This is blatant sexual assault. As a quick aside, here's how Brenner reacts to Henry recusing himself from their activities:
Not a great look for Ms. Newby. Anyway. All these alone are more direct, physical consent violations than Brenner ever imposed on Henry. Brenner goads Henry, he insults him, sure, but at the end of the day Henry's participation isn't physically forced. Brenner himself says he can't force Henry to kill if he doesn't want to. Henry could easily fight his way out if he wanted to, and he does exactly that later on when Brenner tries to intimidate him into staying. Brenner alone can't force Henry to connect with Dimension X. That's the whole point of the catwalk scene. He needs to eliminate the thing keeping Henry from agreeing to work with him.
"Not a great look for Ms Newby", he says, as if he hasn't just displayed the same type of historically racist thinking that has literally had black people murdered. For my white people out there who may not know, the idea that black people are sexually aggressive and manipulative, especially toward white people, has indeed been a staple of historic racism and we know that James thinking on this doesn't follow the same track when a white man is in the picture, because he does this to actively compare Patty to that white man in a negative light, who he ships with Henry and believes is Henry's true match. Patty's true intention here is to show Henry that he doesn't have to be afraid. She kisses him to show him if he kisses her nothing bad will happen. She encourages him to use his powers to show him they can be good. None of this is an SA allegory, quite the opposite. She's helping him understand that he can do and have all these things without fear or negative consequences.
Keeping in mind James is talking about two literal 12-14 year old children who are dating and Henry has very much expressed his interest in Patty in a romantic way. Even if not, a spontaneous kiss or a kiss of any kind between kids who like each other and are suppose to be rehearsing for a play where they are love interests and kiss each other isn't sexual assault. But he constantly, CONSTANTLY has to compare Patty to Brenner in a light that depicts Patty as inappropriate in comparison to Brenner, whose actions and behaviours he instead minimizes and depicts as loving and supportive.
Yeah, James, I think anyone with a brain would expect you to start tearing into Brenner, a grown adult man, perhaps with the same energy you have given to a little black girl who kissed a white boy you're attracted to, but no! Of course not. You don't. You never do. You instead sit here and say Henry has Stockholm Syndrome about the little black girl he was in a consensual romantic relationship with but not "as much" with the man who kidnapped him, explicitly abused him in various ways and kept him captive his entire life? Right? You instead hope to compare these relationships as at least equals with Patty's behaviour being highlighted as the more inappropriate of the two. Again for my white people out there, this is active racism on display in fandom/shipping culture. The audacity is mind blowing. Does it really not occur to James that the reason Henry's telekinesis activates when Brenner is screaming at him, insulting him, pushing him and even kicks him, that maybe the manifestation of Henry's power as a physical force was defensive and was a result of trying to protect himself from the adult man that was assaulting him? In comparison to Henry's illusion casting powers, which are done when he isn't feeling any threat to himself and is instead trying to connect with someone he loves?
Like. No for real, I could tare this whole pile of shit apart piece by piece in great detail and maybe I will in the future just for fun but I've been waiting for the pro-shoot to really talk about The First Shadow. But the themes of Henry and Patty's relationship are really important, particularly the interracial aspect.
Anyway. James is racist as fuck for this. But I'm aware multiple people have tried to tell him and he keeps sticking his fingers in his ears and going "lalalalalalala" because he wants to live in a delusional world where the non-consensual relationship between a 12 year old boy and 32 year old man is peek romance and dirty little black girls shouldn't touch the white boys he's attracted to and sees himself as (Who he once argued were depraved homosexual rapists, weird how this theme keeps repeating with him), not to mention how he seems to repeatedly show the only people he thinks are allowed to have genuine love and support for Henry are all white, where as with Patty it was totally just an infatuation and she was only using/manipulating him for her own interests. Which he thinks is "canonically supported" because season 5 was a pile of garbage as if we haven't all established season 5 is a whole other can of worms for how much injustice it did to every character and story arc. Like the fact he even wants to offer El up as someone who "loved Henry" over Patty is so insane, omg. El never loved Henry, its wild.
Anyways. For people who asked for the receipts on James saying Patty SA'd Henry, here they are.