theozilla replied to this post:
Yeah, the flanderization of "hard-ass Leia" and "soft boy Luke" is always kinda bewildering when one goes back and watches the actual text.
For sure. I get so many responses that work to minimize Luke’s harsher qualities and moments and go on about complicating factors, difficult circumstances, etc while emphasizing Leia’s harshness and coming up with scenarios where she would be that two-dimensional hard-ass to justify the bad fanon takes, and I’m just ... no. It’s wrong. That’s not what’s in the films and no matter how hard people reach to make it canon, it’s not.
Likewise with Avatar Kyoshi even if readily accepts the responsibility for Chin's death, Aang does have a point in that she didn't actually directly kill Chin. And that is informative and not-insignificant for her characterization.
Yup! It’s not like she went out of her way to assassinate Chin or something, which you’d ... kind of think she had from how the fandom talks about her. She’s more complicated than fanon memeification really allows.
