mango-llama replied to your post “there’s fic about Charlie being an empath and I’m like….really?? like...”
I think they started it before that side of Charlie really surfaced
yeah, don’t worry, I’m aware of that, it wasn’t until episode 4 and episode 5 that Charlie’s empathy problems have become more apparent
but the second part WAS published the day of/day after ep 5 aired, so clearly they still don’t see too much of an issue with it which is what I find just....baffling
because if anyone is still looking at Charlie after episode 5 and thinking “ah yes, very plausible that he could physically feel other people’s emotions”, I’m sorry but what the actual fuck, this boy doesn’t even have a hold on regular empathy let alone that kind
I’m sorry I hate hate hate that I’m being so critical when people are at liberty to write what they like
but it just REALLY troubles me that people potentially view Charlie like that because I think a lot of people haven’t accepted how skewed his sense of morality and empathy is because they love him or Marlie too much