#and that JRO has always had certain problems with writing protagonist centered morality at least a little bit

[lord-squiggletits]

The hard thing about liking Getaway as a character is that people are like "why are you mad people hate him, he's literally evil in the text" and it's like. Yeah I get that and I ENJOYED the way he was shown in MTMTE, the problem is that in LL his character got hit with villain degradation/idiot ball and so my beef with his portrayal is that I think it's shitty and underwhelming writing.

But like, it's really hard to debate about that because canon is the basis of the entire analysis, and if your contention of canon is basically "he would not fucking say/do that" then that means a near-complete rejection of canon in favor of headcanon and you can't really "debate" personal opinions in that way.

Anyways, LL Getaway sucked and the most charitable interpretation one could have of how he was written is that he was a victim of JRO needing to wrap up a billion plotlines at once and getting shafted because the mutiny plotline had to resolve really fast. Which is a flaw of LL and a bunch of its characters/plots in general, not me being an "apologist."

#squiggposting #i am a bit salty about it still lol #getaway literally went from a delightfully evil bastard to like #the most dumb motherfucker who's also simultaneously THE MOST EVIL EVAR #also hot take but i'm gonna say it #part of the reason getaway gets a comical amount of hate even from 'villain enjoyers' #is literally just bc he was mean to poor sweet cinnamon roll TG and got in the way of c y ga/te #shippers will be assholes to any character who is mean to their faves or breaks up their chosen OTP #but also. ll getaway just sucked and was boring and underwhelming and contrived #you can make someone evil but at least make him interesting and smart ffs like goodness lmao #also no offense bc people are gonna be like 'the point of the story isn't karmic justice for everyone' #but it's still kinda rich that ppl are fine with meg being on the LL but god help you if your name is getaway #have fun getting hit with the idiot ball by the writer. who also made M a sad uwu little man #negativity #i'm salty lol might look back at this and cringe but maybe not #it's just a problem with LL in general that everything is so rushed #and that JRO has always had certain problems with writing protagonist centered morality at least a little bit #like idk the vibes i was getting of 'getaway is literally THE WORST EVER and EVIL and STUPID and DELUSIONAL' #as i read were really weird and intrusive and uncomfortable