I don't want to say the person saying this had no point but complaining that Barghest is flanderized into becoming a wife is only like a quarter true.
It misses how important love is to her and her character. She is doomed to love, and doomed to lose those she loves. Love ultimately still motivates her. She wants to find someone she can love. She carries so much trauma from her love.
It's no wonder people want her to have a good ending at the end of all of this. People want to draw and write her, ultimately, in love, happy, and safe. So yeah, on some level, demure housewife Barghest is sometimes exaggerated but it's only a mild flanderization of a pretty natural point of fandom discussion.
I hope everyone knows when my friends send me posts like this I usually aim to kill.
TLDR: I know we all want the big buff lady to eat us - but for her that's a constant horror she lives with.
I don't know if it is necessarily a good idea to lead off a post with "I usually am to kill". I don't know you. I don't know why your friends sent me this post. Stop being a Poster about it.
>She was naturally driven to love those who were strong so she could make their abilities part of herself.
The text is pretty explicit about this though.
>Her lover's flesh was delicious, precious, and horrific. It tasted all the better because her love for him had been genuine.
The text is very explicit about this actually! On some level, the curse is driving her to feel love. She had hoped in this one instance that because her love was genuine, that because it wasn't just the curse driving her, that it would be okay.
The point in all of this is that it is not strength that drives her to feed. It's love. It's a deeply fucked up curse. This is why I say she is doomed to love. Love is the trigger for the curse, and it triggers regardless of the strength of her lover. It's a tragedy. The tragedy here is that in fact, she also wants to love! She cannot help to love, she wants to love, and love is what drives her to feed. It's honestly pretty textbook tragedy writing.
>This horrific faerie, the foulest of foul creatures, will live by eating those they love.
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I'm not going into the tags because tbh I also don't really agree with them, it's a fairly boring way of looking at her. But I think reducing her to a violent monster is also flanderization, in a sense, it's just for a lot of people a more tolerable one.
I don't think necessarily that Barghest would be a tradwife, again I think that is exaggeration, but I think a lot of people want her to be happy, because Barghest isn't just a violent monster. She's a knight who is struggling, desperately, constantly, to love and be loved in spite of the fate placed upon her.
>No…but I will absolutely not become a demonic dog! I swear in the name of the Knight of the Round Table whom I defeated…! My name is Tam Lin Barghest. I will overcome Britain's curse!
Why would this line exist if not for that?
Anyways, hope you have a good day and all.
