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I think people villainize Demetrius and hate him as much as they do because he’s an autistic coded black man. I doubt he’d be as hated if he was white.

The hate I see for Demetrius always has to do with his very literal perspective of the world and how it negatively affects Robin, or how he doesn’t bother having a relationship with Sebastian, which is definitely not great, but still doesn’t warrant the barrage of hate for his character?

it is also worth mentioning that it is VERY sour-taste-in-my-mouth that the “neglectful step-father” is the ONLY black man in the game. Wtf is up with that?

Now that I think about it actually, I said that he wouldn’t be as hated if he was white, and there’s actually another character in the game that proves it! PIERRE!

Pierre is canonically misogynistic, greedy, takes credit for the player’s work, NOT to mention that he hides really shady shit from his wife (was the bag full of drugs??? HELLO????), tries to force Abigail into “traditional” gender roles, and as far as I can tell, he and Caroline barely have a functioning relationship because he’s always more focused on making money than he is on his family?

But SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, he has more fans, and not nearly as many haters. Demetrius is an antagonist in almost every single fucking Seb-centric fic I have ever read, even when I go out of my way to avoid those same boring recycled plot points. It makes me sick to my stomach.

And if you just hate Demetrius because you want to get with Robin, you’re a coward. Be a homewrecker with your whole chest.

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