im not really a part of the fandom so its so weird to me to find out rn that everyone thinks of melanie as the Angry One bc i have never thought of her that way? all of her "outbursts" have been completely appropriate imo and out of an effort to protect herself or others (which is part of why i like a butch melanie hc)
oh yeah it bothers me a bit on how ppl describe melanie or tim as like...the Angry One bc i feel like it just..simplifies the both of them when both of their anger is a result of something terrible
i wont get into tims bc we were mostly talking about melanie before but its like a very complex issue with how ppl talk about media and how ppl interpret the talking this is going to be incredibly informal bc i am not very smart but
like the Big highlight of melanies arc and, she says this, was her anger and of course thats what ppl r gonna talk about the most (combined that with how ppl (including myself) like to draw images of the characters and the entities they are intertwined with so we get a lot of pics of chats of melanie with knives and then it sort of escalates from there bc well most ppl dont focus on 1 female characters that much and 2 stuff that can be easily fit into jokes (also in tmas case fluff which is why a lot of ppl forget its a horror podcast)
now because of all these post unless ur like a fan of a character this happens to ppl tend to cling on what ppl r talking about the most wrt meta, theories, hcs etc so if what the most ppl r seeing regarding a character are posts about their anger since it was covered explicitly(altho glancing over some explanation of it an nuance etc) + Many pieces of fanart of them with knives its like that sticks in ppls minds and those who dont rlly care about the character just regurgitate that and they cycle continues etc etc etc
i. actually forgot my last point i didnt mean to go on a small rant in the response to this ask i am just lost in some a81 tunes and am procrastinating my work
i do not interact with most tmas fans but there was a time long ago when i was stupid enough to try
again i forgot where i was going from this but i have spent my time since like idk sept thinking about melanie king way too much and i think i am letting it slip whoops
