yo this blog is dead and it’s whatever but I just gotta say, at least somewhere vaguely public, that ky/lo re/n is actually super important to me and I want him to have a redemption arc because he’s one of maybe TWO characters with coded bpd that I can think of in mainstream genre fiction and the current state of the discourse about him has me really exhausted and upset. there’s literally no empathy to any of the hot takes I’m seeing out there, all of his trauma and gaslighting is being completely shoved aside in favor of He’s Just An Awful Person, Always, Forever, And He Always Has To Stay That Way Because He’s Not Worth Any Effort Put Into Him and given that his trauma and much of mine are extremely similar, it only stokes my paranoia that if anyone knew the person that I really, truly am on the inside, they would all revile me.
like, fuck, I see so much of myself in him and watching everyone tear him apart with absolutely no empathy whatsoever is exhausting in the extreme. like I Get Why You Dislike Him, I Know He’s Not A Good Person, but fuck, it hurts that while invalidating any effect of his trauma, everyone’s gotta invalidate mine too in the process
