Character Bashing... It's FUN!!!11Let's face it. You know it, and I know it. And don't pretend with all this crap about tolerance and the need to understand and appreciate our fellow peoples who share this so called planet called Earth.
That's bullshit.
Character bashing is fun.
There, I said it.
But why, you may ask? What does this bashing of otherwise popular (and not so popular) characters of any fandom, appeal so much to all ages? It's because we were too wussy at school, or high school to punch someone in the face we didn't like, and instead we imagined ourselves in imaginary scenarios where we live out our darker sides, or eat as much ice-cream as we can. Now, this is all well and good, but it gets to be a problem when established characters who have their own problems, not quite like ours, and are set in their own behaviours and what not, are used to replace those people in real life. Sure they make it more accessible to the wider audience, and dare I say more popular, but by the gods (and God), this is not a teen soap opera, where every guy is a prick (except for the guy the girl likes), and every girl is a whiny little tart and only kicks arses when she feels like it.
There are so many fics like this, where one character or two is constantly picked on. I have no idea why this is so, it's just bash, bash, bash, while on the sidelines, the author is going giggle, giggle, giggle. (A/N isn't this funneh?) I really don't get it. Okay fine, you hate the person, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I would hate them. It just means I wouldn't want be your friend if you had thoughts like that late at night.
Take Hojo for example. In the original manga and anime, he's seen as the nice kid, always friendly, and a good heart, especially towards Kagome. So of course, he's the bad guy, and most of the time, the butt of everyone's slapstick jokes. I mean, why? WHY?! What did he do to you? Smile at you? Yeah, I see it, that's the grin of evil. I remember reading something where every chapter he is bashed black and blue, and later we find out that he had been put under a spell. So when the spell was lifted, it was suddenly alright and he was back to normal. Dude, you could have went to the hospital an infinite amount of times, and now you suddenly didn't notice all the bruises?
Then there is Inuyasha, the most misunderstood character, despite being the main one. Oh, you know what I mean. What's this, dickhead of the century? Where he hurt Kagome so many times by running into the arms of Kikyou, called her bad names until she wept openly while running away to cry some more, and god forbid, never said 'I love you' to show how much he supposedly cares for the girl? You dog, go to Kikyou, that rotten corpse, for all I care. And yet, I love him so much, my heart breaks into a million pieces each time he betrays me... Stupid hanyou. SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT
Sounds to me that this person got dumped by their boyfriend. teehee!
What is wrong with you people?! You don't like Hojo because he's too nice, and yet you don't like Inuyasha because he can't let go of the other girl. Can't you make up your mind? And Inuyasha can't love two girls while Kagome can have any bishie from any anime she likes? Who's the whore now? It's not like the hanyou actually had sex with Kikyou, oh wait, there are at least a thousand, if not more fics like that. I suppose it's a classic.
Oh yeah, he's a little dimwitted because of he's upbringing. Everyone, let's laugh at the stupid hanyou for being stupid.
Well, how about Kagome? Nothing much really. What? You know she's a goddess, with angel wings, an angelic voice when she sings, noble, strong, always fashionable, knows how to talk to animals, beautiful, no way in hells a damsel in distress (but only when she needs to be rescued), loving, caring, Mary-Sue...
All in all, she's a bitch.
Because she has fallen in love with Sesshoumaru, though I don't know why. Can someone explain it to me, because I still don't get it.You know what's really funny? Pairings fics, with warnings that there will be character bashing. If it's a Inu/Kago, Hojo and Kikyou get bashed, or Sess/Kago, Hojo, Kikyou and Inu get bashed, and so on, because really, it's the same thing. And you know what really rubs me the wrong way? Where the guy love interest is portrayed as a warm, and understanding wuss. Or simply a girl with a guy's voice. Seriously, I know a guy can be sensitive, but it still doesn't give you an excuse to make guys think the same way as girls.
Anyway, I'm rambling, and tired.
I am so sick of seeing these kinds of fics. Sure we have characters we don't like, but must we be reading about how they are so stupid that they would trip over their own legs, over and over again, for each and every chapter, while your chosen pair rides gleefully off into the sunset holding hands, and not caring how their actions have affected your (oops, I mean 'their' ) hateful enemies?
Is this what the manga 'Inuyasha' is all about? Instead of well-rounded characters who have their own faults and virtues, we get characters that get either bashed or put on a pedestal so high, well, it wouldn't be worth it to pull them down. And to think, this was all because of a Inuyasha's inability to pick which woman he liked best.
Come on, Inu, pick SessMum. Think about it. Kagome would cry about it, but in the next chapter, she will run off to that fur-ball called Kouga, Kikyou will go to Naraku (because if you didn't know by now, Nara-chan has suddenly turned into a good guy), Hojo would become a jock, even though he is from Japan, and best of all, Sesshoumaru will finally have a father to look up to.
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