"female characters can’t be dependent or protected by men" This just in, women can't form emotional attachments without becoming weak, I honestly think that says more about that group than anything else honestly. Did they even read your fic to see any of this "dependence" on Trent?
Hi, anon! Thanks for asking. Honestly, and according to this group admin’s total rejection to discuss my reasoning, he/she only watched the chapters illustrations and overlook briefly the text, just to notice the male partner, and crossed out my fanfic as an option to their group. He/she also said something about a chapter in which he saves her life, but anyway… does this make her dependent on him? She also saves him in other moments.
Anyway, I’ve plenty of weird experiences with DA groups and their staff, it’s something you get used to when being so many years there. But it’s the first time someone asks me to remove a character of my fic so it can fit the group rules. Not only he/she revealed he/she knew nothing about TRAOD (or even Lara Croft?????), it was a bit disrespectful to me as a writer. I ain’t even mad, of course, but still…
I totally get that DA groups are like isolated kingdoms, where the rulers make their rules, and I understand perfectly that “their group, their rules”, and if I don’t like it, I just move to another group. I’ve made this a lot of times and I will be doing it many more, without any kind of resentment.
So, I’ve no problem with the fact that a group about “powerful female videogame characters” has its rules, but it just baffles me how they think that a female character is weakened or dependent just because of having a male partner. And the fact the relationship between Lara and Kurtis was judged without actually reading about it.
Anyway, I’m not the one to judge them. I just wanted to share one of the most weird experiences I had in DA. There are many more… but those are other stories.
