Writing Tips and Reviews

Reviewing Lily Orchard Tips P3

Rin Note:

I've been busy with other reviews lately but since I'm still editing a rant about "Amphibia season 4", I thought I would publish some other reviews that have been in editing for a while and waiting to be released onto the world. And I forgot I had this series running. 

41) Rape victims are not villains and should never be written as villains. Don't be like ***. It costs $0 to not be a misogynistic pig.

Rin: You do realize there are layers to a person? I won't use the example of rape because, honestly, the subject makes me uncomfortable. Charlie is a psychopath, murderer, and freak. He kills people for fun because he likes it. But he is also a victim, he's watched his friends be killed in front of him and his own body broken to the point regular surgery wasn't able to fix it so he needed mechanical implants. He gets with the wrong people who enable his behavior and finds a job that specifically feeds into his insanity. He is a victim but also a terrible person.

Cheetah: While I see the sentiment here... unfortunately this isn't always the case. Sometimes, victims of crimes end up becoming abusers because that abuse is sometimes the only thing they know. Also, no offense Lily, but I find it hard to take advice when the person giving it insults me at the end of every one.

Hibiki: You do not know what caused them to make that decision. Maybe they were pushed to a point they snapped because they've been treated coldly and made out to be an attention seeker? Maybe there's something going on behind the scenes. You do not know. Therefore, this point is moot. It costs $0 to use your brain, Lily.

Stestir: NOT AGAAAIN. LILY, PLEASE, LEARN THAT THERE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD BESIDES YOU. Anyone can be a bad person, especially victims of abuse, any abuse since that is how the cycle of abuse works. If Rape victim decides that because of their trauma everyone should die, that does NOT mean that writer thinks that every rape victims secretly wants for world to die. That is just a character that wasn't able to let go of their trauma and decided to hurt everyone else.

Benzoate: But what if the rape victim is not entirely innocent either? Let's say, Character A got raped. Poor Character A, I know. But then Character A decides to track down the rapist's family and eviscerate them all, including those who didn't have anything to do with the unfortunate incident? Would you still say that Character A has no villanous traits whatsoever?

Bruno: And why only female Victims? Like, It happens with male people too, so The Misogynistic argument is outdated.

42) If straight men really hate a certain character, but lesbians love them, there's a 90% chance that is your best character.

Rin: That's straight-up not how character likability works. It's subjective. Also, what the hell is this point? Who said this to you? And why did you decide "yeah, that's totally how it works"?

Cheetah: Hm, yes, that's totally how characters work. Look, I don't even have anything to say about this one. It's that stupid.

Despair: How could I forget, all straight men and all lesbians are hiveminds? Silly me.

Hibiki: That's not how it works. That's not how it works at all. Just because one sexuality type loves them doesn't mean they're suddenly the best character. It's all subjective, like Rin said. You just love the sound of your voice... This is dumb.

Stestir: Okay, I didn't know that lesbians and straight men are a hivemind society, thanks for letting me know Lily! But on a serious note, that doesn't mean anything, that only means that lesbians love your character, and men hate them. Nothing more.

Benzoate: I don't shit on characters for their sexuality or gender identity but for other more reasonable explanations like how they're poorly written. For instance, I don't like the characters of High Guardian Spice because they lack character development. On the other hand, I enjoy characters that happen to be LGBT like Mike Flanagan from Gengoroh Tagame's My Brother's Husband (one of Tagame's more wholesome works) and Hikari Kuina from Haro Aso's Alice in Borderland because their personalities were fleshed out pretty well. You don't have to be gay to like a character who happens to be gay, similar to how you don't have to be straight to like a character who happens to be straight.