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These stupid, little, idiotic girls that my fandom seems to be infested with. (Yes, that's the right word: infested, like the swarm of unwanted pests they are.) I can understand liking a character and wanting to defend them, but some of the shit they come up with! They're woobifying these guys! And it's really annoying and appalling.
Take, for example, Abe. Abe is a good character. He's also popular, attractive for a 2D guy, and in several of the most popular pairings. But he's a bit of a manipulative bastard who gets angry extremely easily (at least so far as Mihashi is concerned) and most certainly rarely seems to understand how his actions could be misunderstood. (Dude, there's a reason he has no friends, seriously.) I love him. Abe's probably my favorite and I can understand that he's not a great guy. But these girls! They don't see that apparently. And when he's actually in-character in fanstuff they think he's being the worst person ever. To quote one "I actually got mad at Abe for being so insensitive! Bad Abe!" Wait... what? He's always like that. Always! So how on earth is he being any worse than usual that you would get mad at him for it? In fact, he was actually being nicer than usual! No noogies, no yelling for silly reasons. He was making a rational decision to help the team. And apparently this means he's not acting like himself. ...I don't understand.
Then there's Haruna. Haruna who used to be something of a background character but is apparently a fan favorite so now he shows up fucking everywhere. I hate him. I have little to say about him aside from the fact that his fans have turned into the poor-little-boy-who-needs-protecting. Because he's so fucking fragile, you know? 6 feet tall, super strong, and probably more than a little spoiled (which they don't seem to notice), clearly he's delicate. So, of course, when he gets into a fight with his longtime friend it's the friend who gets all the blame! His friend is the one who should feel guilty for letting down Haruna when Haruna should have no fucking say in the matter anyway! (Hell, he should barely feel let down, because he already knew his friend had different goals! So why should the friend feel guilty about not wanting to play ball in the same way Haruna does, just because Haruna wants him too!) But no, because Haruna was the one who felt hurt he shouldn't have to understand that his friend feels differently but will still do what he can to help Haruna. No, his friend now needs to feel all the pain because it was definitely his fault that the precious baby's feelings are hurt.
...Okay, previous ranting aside. No, this is not about the characters. This is not about hating either Abe (which I don't) or Haruna (which I do but is probably not relevant). This is about hating the fans who completely alter characters and their personalities because they can't imagine their favorites being wrong or behaving badly in any way even if it's in their fucking character! I sort of fell this way about any alterations in character. It's like that person who said that they didn't think Romano was a coward when it was blatantly shown by the creator that he was worse than his already super-cowardly brother. (I mean, did we not see him hide behind Germany when the ever-useless France showed up? I'm pretty sure we did.) Or how people will draw these super big, incredibly happy smiles on the faces of stoic/grumpy characters like Norway or Romano (that's just creepy you guys). Why do they do this? I don't get it. Why can't you actually see who the character is, flaws and all?
Well that got a bit long... and doesn't seem to convey what I meant at all, but I've never been particularly handy with words you see. Meh, whatever, maybe when I wake up tomorrow and see this I'll see things differently, but I sort of doubt that for a lot of this.