IF I EXPERIENCE ONE MORE PIECE OF MEDIA WHERE THE TRAUMATIZED, ABUSED CHARACTER JUST DIES IN THE END I’M GOING TO FUCKING LOSE IT
Like what do you mean they went through hell and survived just long enough for the pay-off to be death!?
What do you mean you're proving them right, saying there is no other path for them – no other way to live?
Stop treating trauma as a cheap plot device and setup for misery.
You could've given them friends, a found family, a real feeling of belonging.
Could've let them experience safety and care and gentleness or something resembling peace.
But you decided to just... not do it?
Because you think it's what – heroic this way? Poetic even?
Well, you're wrong.
There's nothing 'meaningful' about a character who's known nothing but agony being allowed to meet their end.
Why is it that the characters who suffer the most are so rarely allowed to live?
And what kind of message does that send to the people out there?
Real people.
That it's meant to be? That there's no life past the pain?
Don’t you dare tell people who see themselves in these stories that rest, healing, and happiness were never an option.
Because it's not true.
And fuck you.
