Xander And Ryouma Are Terrible People- Note I Didn't Say CHARACTERS- Who Are Treated Like The Greatest Things Ever - Tumblr Posts

Fates had tons of good characters, but the writers' obsession with portraying the playable ones as pure angels when they SHOULDN'T be honestly makes it seem like most of them are Little Timmy's first crappy OC. Having Xander condemn a murderer like Hans while allowing a murderer like Peri to serve him when NEITHER showed signs of being rehabilitated is proof that he's... complex, to say the least (he's actually a raging hypocrite and a TERRIBLE leader, which would be interesting in a character that's meant to be a just leader, but the narrative paints him as a bastion of justice who's somehow... "better"(?) than Garon despite showing in his actions and supports that he really isn't???) Most of the fandom *I've* interacted with acknowledges that the CAST of Fates was passable, at least in terms of broad character strokes, but the actual writing of said characters ruined everything.

The most interesting characters who could have provided lots of backstory for the world at large- ie, Shura, whose people were genocide'd by their neighbors and who was denied asylum by the royal family; Gunther, who's village and family were slaughtered by the king he fought for out of sheer (yandere) pettiness; Flora, who was a political hostage forced to serve ANOTHER political hostage- are all shoved in a corner to make room for the waifus to have every boy tell them why their rampant xenophobia and SERIAL MURDERS are okay. When THOSE are the kinds of characters that get the most "development", it's easy to see why people assume the worst of the cast at large.

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