hey i've honestly never seen any hate for danny lawrence's character!! what did you mean when you said people had a shallow/misinformed view of her?
If you’ve managed to avoid it, I sincerely congratulate you on that because that’s a challenge.Like. Dude. You could tell how much Danny was in an episode by how flooded her tag was with hate after it dropped.
There’s basically been a nonstop list of things since s1e24 when Danny and Laura had their fight and shit never stop hitting rock bottom from there. Basically every season there’s been harsh judgement of her character and actions that took no consideration into understanding her character and motive beyond how it relates to Laura and h*llstein. Breaking it down by seasons we have
s1: Danny has a hero/white knight complex and is always trying to insert herself into situations she doesn’t need to be in to get glory, danny is obsessive and controlling over laura and doesn’t respect her independence which, danny was vindictive, unreasonable and abusing her ta powers when she refused to give laura an extension, abusive because she threw fruit at laura during the pep rally
s2: Danny was constantly inserting herself into Laura’s space waiting for h*llstein to break up so she could make her move, she was disrespectful and invasive for sitting in the hallway when h*llstein broke up, the rampant belief that danny was a double agent and trying to poison laura with the apples (LMFAO THAT THEORY WAS THE BIGGEST PILE OF SHIT I’D EVER SEEN BUT PEOPLE WERE STILL CONVINCED EVEN AFTER ELLEN SAID THEY WERE JUST APPLES), she was a dick for being mean to “””poor puppy””” kirsch, danny was a cold bitch for using the locket to kill mattie and it was her fault for starting the fight between them in the first place, danny had a prejudice against vampires/supernaturals, she purposefully puts herself into the position of most power so she deserves the shit she gets, negating her whole speech in ep33 because of the “right person” line to laura and people jumped down her throat about how it was the most inappropriate thing to confess her feelings then and what a burden it placed on laura god danny you bitch. honestly the list goes on so long for this season because of how much danny was in it. people just found anyway they could to undermine her good deeds and noble actions for the sake of it.
s3: i’ve had sandwiches that lasted longer than danny’s appearance in this season so there wasn’t much except for the jumping on the ‘oh danny is evil now fuck her’ wagon and that she deserved all the horrible stuff (forcefully brought back from the dead and controlled by the dean) that happened to her.
And frankly that’s just the tip of the iceberg because I’ve had mutuals who literally left/stayed out of fandom because they would get anon hate UP THE WAZOO for defending/supporting Danny. If you want more examples you could probably go through my “ginjoints needs shots” tags where I probably indirect commented on a lot of the stupid shit I saw going through the Danny tag when the show was still running. But…. yeah that’s basically the jist of it.
