Hi, I enjoyed your Eggy misogyny analysis and as an Eggy fan, I'm happy I was able to read it
If you don't mind me asking can you tell me about your "Fan of Underrated Characters" thing you have in your "posts I won't make but I am willing to talk about" list? I do agree with it, I have seen so many fans of underrated characters (sometimes, I see more of them than diehard fans of popular characters) and if you look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/BattleForDreamIsland/s/Ox9o5WMdG2 some of the subreddits that are dedicated to underrated characters have more members than ones dedicated to popular ones (the subreddit dedicated to Naily has more members than most of the subreddits dedicated to BFDI characters!). I really want to see your perspective on this particular topic
Every character is someone’s favorite
Remember that old meme? The one that goes “What your favorite one of these says about you”? I quite like that one, but there’s one part that, while funny, is rarely true.
“If this one is your favorite, you’re a liar. This is nobody’s favorite.”
Except most of the time, it’s the favorite of more people than you think.
Take Orange. The color, not the fruit. Orange just sort of seems to be there most of the time. You’d think nobody likes it.
But people do. My mom does at least. Orange fans aren’t very vocal about it like fans of more popular colors are. But if you sat down and asked, “Why’s Orange your favorite color,” then they’d probably have a story to tell.
Behind every personal favorite that anyone has ever had, there’s a story. Some longer than others.
Common reasons for picking your favorite of anything are:
It was the first one of its category I saw so it had more time to grow on me
I was looking through them and this one stood out
Someone I love introduced it to me and it reminds me of them
I picked this one because nobody else did.
My favorite slime in Slime Rancher is The Tarr. Some say that Tarr fans don’t exist. But that could be a thing called a “Loud Minority”, which is when an uncommon opinion is mistaken as a common one because the ones who believe are more vocal about it. Or you know, could just be because The Tarr are outright hostile.
I have a story behind my love of The Tarr. I saw it in a Slime Rancher video before I played the game and I thought it looked pretty. Now I like how it adds a sense of danger to the game. I wish that if another Slime Rancher comes out, we’d be able to tame and ranch them. But that’s off topic.
I could go on and on with examples. There’s a social media post about a mother who wanted to buy an Onyx plushie because it was her daughter’s favorite. Every TPOT debuter received at least 100 votes, meaning at least 100 people thought that a particular one was the best. My favorite smiling friend is Glep, for crying out loud!
But the point is, everything and everyone is somebody’s favorite, even if they don’t have the energy, resources, and/or ability to sing its praises online. So to every unpopular fictional character out there: