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u/BeduinZPouste Too few porn and too much politics in my porn with plot fics. 16h ago
Bit of opposite, but also me when the villain in villain centric fic gets suddenly redeemed instead of elaborating on villainity.
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u/Horrordestroyer 13h ago
Am I the only one who makes the villains worse and better at the same time?
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u/KaijuGuy09 14h ago
One of my favorite subversions of this trope is “the villain never was actually bad, it was just an act/trick.”
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u/A_Undertale_Fan Self-indulgent bastard||Ata: https://abellover.atabook.org 14h ago
Megamind strikes again /silly
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u/Fast_Stage_6296 9h ago
So many times😭 And it's hard to read about your favorite going through abuse because they 'understand' the bad guy has a bad past or something. Until the bad guy doesn't really change, but starts caring for your favorite so hm maybe I should stop abusing them... (but will still do it every now and then).
Like could be great angst but not when it's portrayed as redemption or anything, or fluff😥
Or they just die and now everyone is chill with all the messed up stuff they did. Though I often see fics fix that from canon😂
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u/Plasticewe 7h ago
Shen Jiu, my boy, is a victim of this...the rampant woobification is heartbreaking! (not really, you guys do wtv makes you happy 🩷)
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u/drewmyth 2h ago
Unpopular Opinion: Most fics fail at character redemption arcs due to authors' irl time constraints and it genuinely being difficult to pull off.
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u/puppetlover4 puppetlover2 on AO3 15h ago
It's that or they're immediately good.