I read this comment and it compelled me to stop what I was doing and make this for you because that sounds utterly dystopian 😰 lol YIKES! It happens that often?! Did they forget what they watched?! Oh no...
my impression is that viktor has fallen into the role of "character a majority of fans who ship him w anyone identify strongly with" which, due to the projection that follows that role, leads to a lot wildly ooc characterizations of him, especially when ppļ's romantic/sexual fantasies get involved
which i'm stating objectively bc it is a thing that happens forever and ever in every fandom where it can. and is not an issue on its own it just uhhh.. gets really complicated from there wrt depictions of characters with specific experiences, both canonical and headcanonned
jayce usually suffers from a different set of mischaracterization issues... where i see a lot of ooc viktor in relation to projections of the self (ideal or not), fantasies about the ideal 'other' (whatever that person might fantasize about re: a desired partner OR desirING partner) get put on jayce
I can feel my brain cells undergo rapid cell death every time I come within smelling distance of Viktor take from Tumblr, even by proxy. Never before have I felt such a strong urge to rescue a character from some of their fans. Your precious snookums committed war crimes he's not a helpless baby 😩!
im so deep in my own trenches (nice and comfortable trenches i must say), that i forget general public's view on viktor and it gives me such a whiplash. i be looking at them like mean girls in highschool
So very tired of people treating him like he is a helpless (often with an unhealthy dash of ablism) damsel and not the unhinged chaos gremlin full of crimes that he is.
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