#like zuko is my favorite character but he’s also a monarch so lol

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also want to establish that liking a villain as a well-written character who is supposed to be a villain, and criticizing characters who we’re supposed to like but cause serious harm without question/present harm-causing entities in a positive light/etc, are not contradictory

#like I can’t comprehend how someone would conflate liking azula as a character with condoning murder #like what are you on #she’s a villain we’re supposed to think she’s bad and that murdering is bad #but the cops in lok are supposed to be characters that we like #locking people in high security prisons in solitary confinement is torture but that is how the cop characters we’re supposed to like act #so it presents the message that locking people in high security prisons is behavior that is congruent with liking those characters #that’s fucked up #lok doesn’t ever question the brutality of the police and prison systems it depicts #they’re presented as the good guys always #it’s not just about how cops and prisons are irl it’s about how they literally are in the show and how they are in the show is violent #not that you as an individual can’t like those characters #but it’s disingenuous to defend them unconditionally or to act like critiques against them are illogical #like zuko is my favorite character but he’s also a monarch so lol #lok crit #block lok crit if you don’t wanna hear it lol #atla crit too I guess