#& therefore the character likers by association. especially when physical harm is neutral but sex crimes are the greatest evil.

[whatever-you-can-give-me]

maybe i'm just biased because of my specific analytical read, but every time i hear something to the tune of "xyz thing knives did to vash wasn't actually quite as bad as you think it is" my hackles go up. Maybe I'm Just Biased. but i think if you cannot emotionally confront the way that knives' entire character is based around ignoring the consent or wishes of. everyone, but especially his siblings, in a myriad of extremely loaded ways, you should probably have a think about how your knives apologism starts to sound.

#i've been having trouble putting my finger on why this specific thing bothers me so much #and i think where it reaches the point of discomfort for me. beyond just. 'i see we have different interpretations of this scene' #is the way so much of the dialogue on it sounds very much like the Um Actually responses to survivors of nonstandard abuse #it can't actually have been [x] (implication: because [person] would NEVER do [x]!) (implication: because [x] is much worse than that!) #i understand vash is not a real person #and the survivor narrative of trimax is... subtextual. i guess. if you don't want to see it. #but i think the ways ppl discuss the actions of characters they like as though ascribing certain descriptions tarnishes them somehow #& therefore the character likers by association. especially when physical harm is neutral but sex crimes are the greatest evil. #it can give an uncomfortable sense of. how that person confronts things they Don't Want To Deal With. #this isn't about any specific person or post it's just a thing i Keep Seeing and i Really Don't Like It. #trigun meta