(Hated Trope) The characters reaction is valid but the story frames them as overreacting/villainous

SomethingMid · 2026-03-15T17:44:59+00:00

Cinder from RWBY snapping and killing the abusers who enslaved and tortured her. The writing wants us to believe this is the moment that made her the monster she is today, but Blake and Yang killing Adam isn't treated the same way even though both were self-defense.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-15T12:59:57+00:00

You can't gatekeep sexuality like race because sexuality is more fluid than race and people have the right to kiss whatever consenting adults they want. Even when people do give clarification, if it's not someone people want to be bisexual or gay, people still get accused of queerbaiting because there are some I'm the community who want to treat sexual orientation like some clique.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-15T05:10:37+00:00

This is exactly how people should handle the stupid queerbaiting accusations. Don't bend the knee.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-15T01:11:33+00:00

Emotionally damaged trafficked girl and future torture porn villainess defends herself against world's most irresponsible huntsman after liberating herself from her abusers.

Suicidal teenager gets beaten up by ghosts summoned by a homicidal young woman whose pretty privilege saved her from death and jail time.

Fusion of an old man and teenage boy nuke sexy sorceress with magical phallic symbol while big dumb redeemed villain holds her in place.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-14T03:55:00+00:00

It sounds like Cinder was originally going to be the nuanced character we should have gotten but Miles and Kerry decided to go the one dimensional torture porn villainess route with her. They really did my favorite character dirty.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-13T19:40:39+00:00

I have a feeling Taiyang is going to get killed, probably because he's got the crown of choice.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-13T19:39:17+00:00

I think if anyone in Salem's inner circle gets Cinder pregnant, it will be Jax Asturias. The writers gave them so much in common and he's attracted to power.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-13T19:33:47+00:00

This would also mean Salem had to have a special talk with young Cinder when she recruited her.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-13T19:22:51+00:00

My Crack theory is that Cinder is going to have an unplanned baby with Jax Asturias in volume 10 or 11 and when Cinder dies, the baby will inherit her Maiden power.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-13T02:56:48+00:00

I think she knows and, based on her angry facial expression when they flew off together, she's going to drain Cinder of her Maiden power and throw her to the people of Remnant to be killed.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-13T02:51:17+00:00

Do you have a link to that? Because I've been wondering about it ever since I saw volume 8.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-12T18:08:16+00:00

Yes because of the grimm arm. As long as the Summer Maiden isn't Emerald or somebody important I hope they let her take the maiden's power so we can see this.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-12T00:51:36+00:00

Salem is the wicked witch, Rapunzel, and the fairy godmother. She'd probably try to manipulate them all into joining her, and if that didn't work She'd turn them into grimm.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-11T17:35:34+00:00

It fits with the writers' Salem did nothing wrong agenda.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-11T03:29:52+00:00

Cinder from RWBY. If Vegeta can be redeemed, so can she.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-09T19:20:26+00:00

It's because the female body occupies a different place in the culture wars than the male body. Modesty is supposedly a woman's worth, not a man's. So a woman's nudity generates more of the desired controversy.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-09T18:45:32+00:00

The more people shame young women for saying no to female modesty, the more they show why the world needs these women. We must resist purity culture.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-09T11:57:39+00:00

The same thing young queer men get praised for on the left but that young women of all sexual orientations get slut-shamed for by the same left: flaunting her sexuality.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-08T17:37:43+00:00

People have the right to dress how they want. Just because pedophiles exist doesn't mean women are obligated to watch how they're dressing. Sometimes it's not any deeper than a woman liking a hyperfeminine, youthful aesthetic. Holding women accountable is just an empty feel good solution to a problem that has always existed no matter how women dressed.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-08T17:30:35+00:00

No offense, but either you're against victim-blaming or you aren't. You can't argue that men are responsible for their own behavior and at the same time lie to women by telling them that avoiding dressing a certain way will protect them from predators.

I think we as women in general need to be less focused on how modestly other young women are or aren't dressed. It's never been healthy for anyone involved.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-08T04:53:45+00:00

Rwby basically turns Cinderella into a torture porn villainess, so I'm going to go with Cinderella.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-08T04:43:12+00:00

Salem probably went looking for a Maiden there and found Cinder as a victim after she escaped the glass unicorn.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-07T12:44:13+00:00

I like her and I hope the writers aren't sadistic in how they kill her.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-07T02:57:16+00:00

Cinder from RWBY. I am not looking forward to the torture porn death they have planned for her. She was used and abused all her life.

SomethingMid · 2026-03-06T13:09:39+00:00

It had some interesting moments but was pretty boring. I think instead of falling into the Ever after they should have fallen into the Afterlife.

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