Surely I'm not the only one who has noticed that in fandoms, child soldiers are hated far more than the actual adult war criminals who force them to fight? Okay, I understand that ATLA is a children's show and Azula had much more of a presence than Ozai and anyone else (which doesn't make it any less weird to me that an adult audience would react to a traumatized teenager in this way), but for me It was wild how, in a forum thread discussing the Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith comic, people were celebrating how a Jedi beat up a thirteen-year-old child who had recently become part of their army for misbehaving. Oh, and of course, the first search query on Gabi will bring up something along the lines of “why does everyone hate Gabi” or “the reason why I don’t hate Gabi.” I'm so tired of this shit.
