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An Ask Heather comic, done in response to an ask that the blog got. Said ask wondered if Stanley Coleman (a creepy presence who stalks Heather through part of the game leaving her disturbing love notes and poems) was Alessa's boyfriend or had a crush on her.
The blog gets a lot of asks like that and I'M OCCASIONALLY BAFFLED OVER WHY THEY DON'T THINK STANLEY IS AS HORRIFYING AS I DO.
Heather Mason is (c) Konami.
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Yeah, the romanticization of unhealthy behavior has always been and probably will always be a thing. I can see why people are attracted to the idea of a character like Stanley the same way that people are attracted to the idea of like... serial killers and stuff. But I feel like you can like creepy things like that without excusing them or making them sound cute or normal-- the people who think Stanley was sweet and say stuff like MAYBE HE WAS JUST ALESSA'S BOYFRIEND AND MISSED HER boggle my mind.
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These are my thoughts exactly. I like the Phantom and I do find him a pitiable character, but liking him and pitying him does not mean that I think he gets a moral free pass for all of the awful shit he did. And I freaking love/obsess over Dracula (as the name implies), but he has even fewer redeeming qualities than the Phantom in his original source material, and I speak both of the fictional count AND the historical voivode in that regard. But people have been trying to find ways to justify all the horrible things he did for so long that he's basically ceased being a monster and become a romantic lead, even a hero. And that diminishes so much of what made him perversely appealing to me in the first place...
tl;dr: "woobiefication" has gone too far
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it's beautiful how you portrayed heather's feelings in this. the colors, her movements, her facial expressions-- it's wonderful. there's so much emotion here. awesome work!!!!
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Oh man, thank you! I really appreciate it. I was really glad when this comic passed the 'UGH NOTHING IS TURNING OUT RIGHT' stage and started to come into its own.
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I have found that fandom is really, really good at justifying truly vile behavior if it helps them ship people.
Phantom Phans are ESPECIALLY adept at this, tending to forget that their woobie of choice was also a dangerously obsessive psychotic murderer who stalked a girl half his age (at best) who saw him as a father figure and tried to force her to marry him.
But, you know, he was lonely and he cried sometimes, so that's all forgivable.