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fanon illuso rant :) also if you know anything about mass effect fanon...lets go with kaidan rant :)
It's been a very long time since I even bothered to touch the Mass Effect fandom with a ten foot pole but I can go off about some of the common stuff I remember seeing back in like high school
Fanon Illuso is... oh boy. Illuso is literally always either flat out ignored or characterized as like. Very petty and catty and just sort of a cunt and to me he just sort of feels like the character that people put the least amount of thought into among La Squadra (aside from like. Sorbet and Gelato who are so hit or miss with whether they're even included in stuff). I think people's interpretations of Illuso pretty much comes largely from the fact that his stand is based around mirrors and the fact that we know he and Formaggio have some sort of rivalry going on, since he's the only one we canonically see giving Forma shit about his stand ability.
I think my biggest gripe with fanon that I see most often is that people will look at his stand ability and equate the mirror thing with him being vain and shallow which is I think a very... easy? Way to look at it but just sort of feels off to me. Like he's definitely a cunt and we see it very clearly in his fight but I think there's more to him than that? Like I think people tend to view the mirror thing with him as self-obsession in the form of vanity but to me I sort of view it as like? Self-obsession in the form of one's own reflection if that makes any sense? I think there's things that he does and says that sort of suggest that the personality he puts forth is somewhat of a front that he's putting up. He reads very much to me like he has a deep-seated desire to be in control of how others see and perceive him. He clearly does a lot of intel gathering (probably for his own purposes as well as the rest of the team) so I just get the sense that he has to know everything about everyone else, but people can only know about him what he deems is ok for them to know. Like he's self-obsessed but there's some nuance to it besides him just being sort of vain or shallow. But fandom just kind of boils him down to a gossipy instagram thot imo.
Also I want to mention shipping with him briefly because I feel like he's not shipped around that much but I have thoughts on it anyway. Obviously most of the time he's getting shipped with someone it's with Formaggio and I don't necessarily have a problem with Forluso I think it's fine I just personally view it as a relationship that wouldn’t work very well without a third person mediating for them like I think that if anything it's an interesting relationship to explore how they kind of come to a middle ground on things because I think they have a lot of stuff they would have to work through personally idk it's something I could get more into but it's really just a personal interpretation of them but I guess all of this is. The other ship I feel like I've seen like? Enough to be aware of and irked by it is IlluAbba? Which I like... get the appeal of the dynamic I guess but it's like BruPro to me where it feels sort of gross based on the perceived age difference I have between them personally but I digress... Idk maybe it's just because it's not a super appealing dynamic to me to begin with but like. Not everything has to be perceived enemies to lovers sometimes people just try to murder each other in media.
Uhhhhh anyway onto Kaidan... idk I only have a couple things to say about him but I do very clearly remember back in high school when I was more actively looking for mass effect content and more aware of the fandom there was... SO much hate toward Kaidan especially from people who romanced Garrus. He very often got downplayed as like some sort of obstacle to Shakarian or he would be like super jealous and salty about Shepard being in a relationship with Garrus and not with him like... it drove me up a fucking wall every time I saw it. Kaidan is literally just some guy he's like... idk he's somehow got protagonist vibes going on with everything he's got going but he just sort of walks in the opposite direction from it. He just wants to be your buddy and hang out unless it's ME2 in which case he's rightfully pissed at you for being part of cerberus. His romance is genuinely so good particularly in ME3 and I saw so many Garrus fans just like. Hate on him for no good reason. (This is not me being anti-garrus or Garrus stans DNI he's my bestie but come on.)
Idk I guess other than that the only real gripe I maybe have is I guess some people sort of reduce him to some goody-two-shoes boyscout type and it’s like… not really he’s just rightfully pissed at you for joining a cartoon evil organization during ME2 and he’s just like. A good chill dude. Idk he’s like a very powerful biotic and a sweet guy and I love him so much Kaidan haters DNI.
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