Lowkey I’ve been thinking about those normalized Yandere aus and I think they’re fun in theory, but sometimes the execution leaves me iffy!
Like I would love to see the “Darlings” being more than just the perfect victims in stories, y’know those soft, curvy (white-coded) people that entice all the Yandere around them. Also I’m a rather scientific person (rewrote my own Omegaverse because that shi got me annoyed lowkey 😭) and the concept of Darlings being a genetic thing actually makes no sense to me??
I understand that a significant portion of personality and traits are genetic, and whatever isn’t directly inherited is caused by your experiences. But the whole Yandere/Darling genetics thing feels like it could fit more neatly into a personality disorder that’s been widely accepted and normalized rather than a genetics thing. I’d prefer a whole “They act this way because EVERYONE does and it’s what is taught in schools and at home”, not because it’s a ‘mutation’ that makes people act like either the perfect victim and the captor.
I feel like making Darlings and Yandere a genetic factor feels kinda lazy, because it could be so cool to see a system where people get divided based on early childhood traits that they show, and sure their designation might change as they grow older, but that could be rare because of how differently Darlings and Yanderes are taught, y’know?
All in all this is just me wanting an Mc in the normalized Yandere aus to be less Victim-coded (god that sounds bad) and more like an anomaly that the other Yanderes and Darlings are trying to shove into their “perfect” system.
Plus imagine the laws in a normalized Yandere au?? That stuff has got me so interested. It’s disappointing because this genre has so much potential but it feels like people are using it to romanticize Yanderes (which I just found out green flag Yanderes exist???) and not to tell a story about the horrors of losing your autonomy to someone who wants to own you body, mind, and even soul.












