is it wrong to say that there's something mentally wrong with rollo/fellow/henrik (there's probably only two people in the whole fandom that like his bigback ass though) simps/likers/etc?
like it isn't just that i hate the characters (i do) but there's a point at which you have to step back and realize that you're obsessed with a character who attempted ethnic cleansing and is based on a sex offender/a human trafficker/a colonizer who tried to enslave someone.
i'm sorry but there's 22 characters in the main cast plus some for staff, grim, and any normal event characters, can't you just choose one of them to be obsessed over instead of the characters who would be in jail if they were real?
and i get that twst is dark, it's a game that explores themes of being morally gray (since it is about villains), but i really don't think the actions of even the overblotters compare to what rollo, fellow, and henrik did. you can't compare a 17-year-old who was strict and almost tyrannical with his dorm due to family trauma to a 50+ year-old who tried to enslave the prince of a marginalized group just because he didn't like the group. you can't compare a 17-year-old who scammed people because he wanted power to prove the people who traumatized him into thinking he was useless and couldn't do anything right to a probably 27-33-year-old who doesn't have very much magic and was denied a lot of opportunities and decided that fucking HUMAN TRAFFICKING was the best course of action. you can't compare an 18-year-old who wanted to destroy the world that had hurt him and rebuild it so he and the brother he lost could finally have a life that wasn't predetermined and be appreciated for his skills to an 18-year-old who lost his brother and just started absolutely hating magic and everything associated with it, thus attempting ethnic cleansing and generally acting very bigoted. you cannot compare these teens, who have very good EXPLANATIONS (not excuses) for their wrongdoings to these (mostly) adults who commit literal crimes for either no reason or reasons that don't really provide a good explanation.
think of it this way, would you support someone in real life who tried to commit ethnic cleansing and was extremely bigoted because he lost his brother? would you support a king who tried to enslave an unborn baby prince from a kingdom he's at odds with and try to colonize their land and people just because he didn't like them in real life? would you support a human trafficker who did it because he "didn't have anything else to turn to" (he did though, just become an accountant or some shit) in real life?
if you answered no to these questions, yet still like/simp for/etc rollo, fellow, or henrik, you probably have a "fiction doesn't affect reality" mindset. that, if you didn't know, is mostly proshipper logic, which loops back to my main point.
anyway, all of this is not to say that all rollo, fellow, or henrik likers are the absolute scum of the earth. you can get attached to characters for a multitude of reasons, and those people could have gotten attached to those characters due to trauma. if someone is traumatized and latches onto any of these characters, i do not truly blame them. sometimes, latching onto a character is someone's only option for coping (this is not me supporting the proship for coping reasons is good rhetoric, nor is it me saying these people are absolutely innocent victims. i have latched onto characters who are bad people in the past in the worst times of my life, and i am not proud of it. i am understanding people here, not excusing people.).
but, as a rule of thumb, if you like/simp for/support/whatever else any of these characters, and for the fact of the matter, any character like them, please take a step back. look at what you're doing and saying. think about the reasons you're doing this stuff, and how good it really is. then, get help. no matter what the reason is for your enjoyment of that character (besides stuff like "i just think theyre pretty" or not knowing about their actions) you do need help in some form. after, distance yourself from the character. don't allow yourself to fall back into that pattern again. finally, on any social medias you mentioned them on, state you don't enjoy that character anymore, maybe include details on why if you're comfortable doing so, and remove them from your social media.
in conclusion, since this became much, much longer than i imagined, if someone likes rollo, fellow, or henrik, they need to take a step back and seek help. there is obviously something mentally wrong with them.
Not gonna lie, the way people demonize the Leech twins like they're Satan Yandereson while woobifying these fuckers always baffled me.
The guy that tried to engulf the entire world in parasitic plants? The human trafficker? Really? The thirty year old human trafficker really isn't the best person to simp for, in my humble opinion. Trust me, Jade and Floyd are way less satanic or irredeemable or whatever than this.
And honestly, let's look at the reasons people like these characters. A. They're hot. B. Their backstory C. Their archetype or whatever like Rollo being Tsundere for Malleus or some shit.
Honestly, in my opinion a lot of the times it's not necessarily that they need help but that they completely overlook the actual personality of the character they're simping for. Like, yeah, it can be fun to simp, but... The twst terrorist hate crimer, the human trafficker, and the guy that wants to enslave a child are quite possibly some of the worst picks.
I see it kind of like simping for Vox from Hazbin vs simping for Valentino. Like, yeah, you could say they're both villains... but do you really like the rapist? Is that really who you want to pick?
