thereās 1 thing i donāt understand in this fandom and itās how ppl straight up forgive all the cast yet demonize mink. donāt get me wrong he did horrible things but the other characters too?? and just as badly??
honestly i was feeling horrible during clear and noizās routes bc 1. clear literally forces sexual intercourse on aoba as his dying wish, thatās literally morally wrong asf + emotional manipulation ?? help, and 2. noiz was SO disrespectful he kept being mean with aoba and then the end was all rainbows and sunshine and they got together as if he never also forced himself on aoba??ā¦..
letās not forget koujaku! horrible man too, he forces himself on aoba too, itās not consensual. itās just as bad as mink, even worse emotionally, imagine if your best friend did that to you?.. and yes i know the circumstances of the scene, but unfortunately all these scenes have circumstances, even minksā ones..
mink has done horrible things but god is this fandom immature, yāall can say you donāt like him (and thatās normal!!! this is called personal preferences) but people straight up saying heās not revelent to the plot pmo so bad.. like heās here for a reason.. mizuki aināt a route for a reason too (mentioning him bc more and more ppl r saying they want to replace mink with him)
i fucking hate how all the cast and ESPECIALLY virus and trip are put on a piĆ©destal and that their actions are never acknowledged and neither discussed by this fandom⦠oopsie, yāall do talk abt it! however all your doing in comparing it to minkās actions to somehow excuse them for some obscure reasonā¦
realistically, if mink had the looks of koujaku or noiz, yall wouldnāt be talking like that about him, yall would be excusing his actions like whatās happening with the other characters. i highly doubt that yāallās physicall preferences are rooted in internalized racism
on another note, iāve seen people say that narratively mink is badly written bc heās full of harmful stereotypes.. and i do agree, heās the embodiment of many stereotypes abt native americans and african people. HOWEVER yāall glaze the rest of the game, yāall are only calling out the harmful stereotypes that mink suffers from, but yāall never mention the fact koujaku is ALSO full of stereotypes about japanese people (dude wearing a kimono, exotism, being part of the yakuzas, shy abt his feelings (thatās an actual stereotype given to japanese people.. this sort of « shynessĀ Ā»). obviously itās important to nuance bc clearly the degree of harmful stereotypes mink and koujaku suffer from is different.
but the list could go on, even noiz is portrayed in a stereotypical way : european (and ppl from the west) being depicted in a weird extravagant way from (im referring to his piercings) from a japanese perspective (gaijin culture or wtv), or even the fact heās german and pretty much looks like an arian guy.. weird
i donāt actually care abt these stereotypes because otherwise i wouldnāt be able to enjoy the game.
but im calling out how differently yāall treat characters and the way yāall denounce injustice and stereotypes only when it serves to defend your weak narratives
i know this fandom is halfway made of minors (there are maybe even more minors than 18+ players) so im not gonna argue further because i know how immature fandoms can be, especially when a fandom is constituted of people whose brain is half developed
finally and more broadly, dmmd is a game with heavy themes and many morally wrong stuff in it. itās not hidden or anything, itās explicit that its content is weird and donāt twist my words, im not saying yāall canāt take this game to heart, but yāall need to understand that when you indulge and like content with lots of morally wrong elements you cannot objectively say that this or that character is worse because of this or that when there are characters just as flawed as the one yāall target (in this case itās mink).
yāall seem to not understand the nuances between each characters and that the stuff theyāve done to aoba is as bad as what another character has done to him..
being abused by your best friend who you viewed like a big bro figure does more damage to your brain than being abused by some stranger.. but who even i am to rank whatās worse and better. anyways here as well im pointing out the double standards
if youāve read everything thank you, if you want to reply you can
i wish you love and critical thinking ā”