Like so many great feminine or queer monsters of the past, her rage is cathartic even when it's not communicated to the audience as moral or relatable.
She rapidly cycles between moods and states of being. She has a tragic backstory that is specific enough to be sympathetic but broad enough to see oneself in.
There is a kind of strength and unity in being able to identify and empathize with her. It makes the viewer feel less alone, and it makes the viewer see her as less alone.
Lain Iwakura (Lain), Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks), Crona (Soul Eater), Tsumiki Mikan (SDR2), Joker 2019, Saya Sayanouta, the entire cast of Doki Doki Literature Club, and Homura Akemi.
cishet writers create queer villains who rage at the world destructively, and in doing so unwittingly create catharsis for real queer people who have been trampled by an uncaring world
Honestly most of the female cast of Umineko is this, though most of them are written with genuine kindness and sympathy if not always perfectly, so it depends on how much you wanna count it
maybe this is why I don't like Double Trouble. They aren't traumatized enough to tap into this so instead they just came off as pointlessly mean and deceitful
the essay's thesis was roughly that while Elfen Leid is extremely bad, it's bad in ways that just plug directly into the brain of a disaffected mid-00s teenage girl
but in that context yeah. i was a super depressed highschooler around the time i read the manga so i wouldn't be surprised if that was part of why i latched onto it
She's the kind of character you see being a mess and go, 'I'm gonna make that bitch my private twitter icon'.The kind that's relatable in all the ways she's unsympathetic and dysfunctional.Ripe for the picking even when the source material misuses her or squanders her potential.Like so many great feminine or queer monsters of the past, her rage is cathartic even when it's not communicated to the audience as moral or relatable.She is a product of circumstance and the society she was born into, but her actions are still her own, and still have consequences.She rapidly cycles between moods and states of being. She has a tragic backstory that is specific enough to be sympathetic but broad enough to see oneself in.Her struggles are, though non-exclusively, distinctly feminine in nature, or otherwise speak to the experiences women face.She is also, on some level, a power fantasy. She is strong, willing and able to fight back.There is a kind of strength and unity in being able to identify and empathize with her. It makes the viewer feel less alone, and it makes the viewer see her as less alone.Other classic traumabitches include: Rika Nonaka (Digimon), Mamimi Samejima (FLCL), Heather Mason (Silent Hill), Misato Katsuragi (Eva), Rei (Eva), Asuka (Eva), and Shinji (Eva),Lain Iwakura (Lain), Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks), Crona (Soul Eater), Tsumiki Mikan (SDR2), Joker 2019, Saya Sayanouta, the entire cast of Doki Doki Literature Club, and Homura Akemi.the entire cast of Doki Dokibrings you back tho,Female readers who are being crushed by society: what a queen