"naming names only allowed if the thing is creepy / bigoted" Okay so everything by The Wallflower, right? I'll name that name and have no regrets.
Other peeves: Actual Child Axl. Yeah he's "the kid" archetype, but he's not an actual ten year old. He has lived through some serious scrap, and he first appears in game as a happy assassin, so... he's juvenile, he's a delinquent, but he isn't a human juvenile delinquent. And fics where he calls X and Zero daddy? Well, whatever floats your boat, author, but it ain't my schooner.
Abusive Wily. Hate hate hate hate hate hate this. Yes, he's the bad guy. But is he the bad guy because he beats and rapes his robots? No, he's the bad guy because he's a self-absorbed megalomaniacal attention hog who got butthurt over Light getting more recognition for the robots they worked on and thus started a 15-game custody battle. (and for those who don't think that Light and Wily both worked on blues and the first game RMs, just take that last sentence with a grain of humorous salt) Despite building robots to take over the world, he's really low on the scale of black-hearted villainy. You don't need to white knight Wily in fics (like i do because i am a loser) but there is absolutely no reason to twist his character darker and edgier and completely out of recognition. (Protomen Caveat : even here, where Wily is darker than usual, he's still just being a technocratic dictator!) This is almost always done in the following two circumstances, which compounds its terrible nature : 1. DARKNEDGY BLOOD WHISTLE FIC HEAR ITS CRY ; 2. Romantic fic where just about everything else is still in character and light-hearted, but the author needed to give a Wily Bot a tragic backstory so out comes abusive rapist Wily. That's cheap. Cheep cheep cheep, Mark. Sure, it's fine to paint Wily as not really caring about his creations. I'd say that this goes against his characterisation in Super Adventure Rockman where he declares his love for his robots, but I'm not writing your fic and you may well yell that Inafune thinks SAR is out of canon. But there's a big gap between "negligent" and "abusive rapist." And I really wish authors wouldn't go out of their way to jump over it.
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Okay so everything by The Wallflower, right? I'll name that name and have no regrets.
Other peeves:
Actual Child Axl. Yeah he's "the kid" archetype, but he's not an actual ten year old. He has lived through some serious scrap, and he first appears in game as a happy assassin, so... he's juvenile, he's a delinquent, but he isn't a human juvenile delinquent. And fics where he calls X and Zero daddy? Well, whatever floats your boat, author, but it ain't my schooner.
Abusive Wily. Hate hate hate hate hate hate this. Yes, he's the bad guy. But is he the bad guy because he beats and rapes his robots? No, he's the bad guy because he's a self-absorbed megalomaniacal attention hog who got butthurt over Light getting more recognition for the robots they worked on and thus started a 15-game custody battle. (and for those who don't think that Light and Wily both worked on blues and the first game RMs, just take that last sentence with a grain of humorous salt) Despite building robots to take over the world, he's really low on the scale of black-hearted villainy. You don't need to white knight Wily in fics (like i do because i am a loser) but there is absolutely no reason to twist his character darker and edgier and completely out of recognition. (Protomen Caveat : even here, where Wily is darker than usual, he's still just being a technocratic dictator!)
This is almost always done in the following two circumstances, which compounds its terrible nature : 1. DARKNEDGY BLOOD WHISTLE FIC HEAR ITS CRY ; 2. Romantic fic where just about everything else is still in character and light-hearted, but the author needed to give a Wily Bot a tragic backstory so out comes abusive rapist Wily. That's cheap. Cheep cheep cheep, Mark.
Sure, it's fine to paint Wily as not really caring about his creations. I'd say that this goes against his characterisation in Super Adventure Rockman where he declares his love for his robots, but I'm not writing your fic and you may well yell that Inafune thinks SAR is out of canon. But there's a big gap between "negligent" and "abusive rapist." And I really wish authors wouldn't go out of their way to jump over it.