If you're staying for the characters, go find a different media with similar characters but with a happier plot. Or make OCs like the rest of us. Don't dig at the birth giver of those characters (author) because the story is dark. (Warning: discussing rape, assault and harassment, suicide, basically all the dark things that could be referenced in media from irl. Read with caution.)
If we all started making content that would be safe for children to look at, grown ass adults will be less aware of actual real life crimes and situations/actions that are morally bad and or destructive to other people. Outside of generally being uninformed, schools don't teach you about mental health issues and you don't really dive deep into them unless you've suffered through them or studied the topic. Like ACTUALLY studied. Not just googled up a document on the things you wanted to know from whatever website gave you that info and just took it as fat for every case.
When a media of any kind shows things like assault of any kind/harassment/rape or anything of the sort, and uses it as a major plot point and a deep thing into the character's psych, victim or offender, does NOT mean they approve of that behavior, sexualize it, fetishizes it or anything else. Just because you don't see every character FREAKING OUT about the situation, doesn't mean the author is downplaying the situation. Some victims don't get support for a very long time because people, in real life, water down their situation, their emotions and give them half baked advice at best/blame the victim. Which, if you can excuse for real humans to do but not fictional ones, speaks more about you than the author of the media or the media itself.
Furthermore, when the author makes a, let's say, queer/disabled character evil, that doe NOT mean they are against queer people or disabled people. Just because you're lgptq+ or disabled or something doesn't mean you're instantly an angel from the heavenly gates who can do no harm. Obviously, with disabled people, they need accommodations to help them with things they can't do for themselves due to their condition, unless it's a brain disability, they would still have the mental maturity to know what they're doing, or do bad things even without realizing, but still, bad is bad, and they CAN change for the better, just like any other person. I'm just saying; being "not normal" in any sense doesn't make you an angel, but doesn't make you a devil either.
Also, just because there are evil stereotypes about certain groups of people doesn't mean that people like that don't exist. There is someone of every kind, my dear. There is/was a human who lived on this planet at some point in time, maybe right now, maybe later in life, who was gay and a predator. To children, even. Does that mean all gay men are like that? No. No, it doesn't. It means THAT specific man was like that, and the author is in no way condoning, agreeing, or supporting that behavior if they show the character getting punished by either law, karma, or even themselves as time moves on.
And I would just like to mention- if a full grown adult sees a dark media that has a content warning and discusses dark themes and then CHOSES to act upon those themes in real life, that is the ADULT'S fault. Not the media. Personally, I know that a lot of people suffer from intrusive thoughts that they could fall into depression from because they could hate their dark thoughts and think of themselves as horrible people. FICTION gives these people a chance to express these thoughts and let them out before they go insane bottling it all up in a way that doesn't harm anybody if the other party would just mind they're business. And if the person shares their work online? So what! There are other people like them, and they are posting this content about this topic in search for people who are suffering like them and are reaching for connection, just like any normal human would. As long as these groups are discussing their interests in this dark media between themselves using tags and content warnings- all YOU need to do, if it bothers you, is to BLOCK those people who you don't enjoy, block and or filter the tags connected to that content, and then you can live your lives in peace on both sides.
Sending hate won't help with anything.
Tell someone to kill themselves won't help with anything.
Sending death threats won't help with anything.
Doxxing someone won't help with anything.
Harassing someone online won't help with anything.
Joking about someone's trauma and watering it down and belittling them for the kind of things they enjoy watching that involves FICTION ONLY won't help with anything.
If you think any of these things are okay to do to another human being over a character on paper/screen, don't talk to me.
OBVIOUSLY, to put it simply, this is me talking about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, and how authors, and even fandoms, are allowed to represent dark things in their media. Because if you DON'T, then lesser people will know about this thing, lesser people would be aware that stuff like that could happen, lesser people who have GONE through those things will feel seen- because all media that talks about the topic that haunts them is making it hurt worse because it's either not existent or not realistic to how people act.
Humans can be very cruel; the fact that these things come from REAL. LIFE. Should be enough for you to realize that. And I will just say this for people who are already writing hate comments: the fact you would choose to send hate to me instead of discussing this, or instead of simply blocking me or unfollowing me, says more about you than this entire post says about me.
I'm sorry for the long post and ramble, but if I lose another person because you fuckers won't stop sticking your noses in someone else's business, the world is done for.
