irrationally angry that someone described rumpleshitstain as a moral grey character he's not he murdered his wife for daring to leave him and loving another man and he's abusive towards belle and he lied and manipulated and abused regina and holy shit
he is not moral grey he is straight up evil
maybe he's done moral grey things originally, back when he was still just a man or whatever (i'm thinking when he smashed his foot deliberately in order to be sent home because he wanted to protect his son but oops self-fulfilling prophecy)
and i don't care if he's your fave or whatever but don't woobify him oh my god.
he's awful. if you like him own up to that.
i'm so tired and groggy now I'm trying to think of other moral grey characters and i am coming up with a blank wow frustrating.
i'd consider stiles moral grey and that's what appeals to me the most about him and makes me so frustrated with fandom who wants to make him this knight of Goodness or whatever
much as i'm a huge fan of naomi, i wouldn't consider her moral grey either. what she's doing is straight up wrong, even though it comes from a complicated place of need, want, and anger (i do believe her anger is justified, though how she expresses that anger is out of line and awful because inhibition of agency is a big no from me but then I'm also frustrated that the narrative only validates certain forms of anger coming from certain people and villainizes other forms of anger when they really should be antagonistic whatever i'm too tired for this) so that's why i like her instead of rumpleshitstain who is basically the walking embodiment of entitled man-pain.
i'd consider meg and ruby and even lilith moral grey definitely. cas sometimes. "i'm a little bit good, you're a little bit bad."
maybe i'm wrong though. maybe i'm overreacting.
actually i'm probably overreacting because overprotective of moral grey characters the blog the life. i feel like i'm being really unreasonable and petty