so you’re okay with chloe getting a redemption arc but not lila? okay *eye roll*

asexualtuckerfoley:

A, I never said I was opposed to Lila getting a redemption arc, just that it would be a hard sell for me.

B, I really don’t have to give you my reasons, but maybe it’ll teach you that people have reasons for posting the things they post and you’ll think before being a cowardly jerk on anon

C, The reason I’m comfortable with Chloe being a hero and not Lila is because I didn’t really have to deal with a Chloe as much as a kid, and she’s not as dangerous as Lila. Everyone knows Chloe’s blowing it out her ass when she does, and time after time, the only person she isolates is herself in the end.

Lila, though? I had Lilas in school. People who lied to teachers, to our peers, to anyone and everyone to make themselves look better, often at my expense. People who did everything in their power to make me feel small and isolate me from anyone who might want to be my friend, all because I… what? Presented a challenge to their popularity? Was smarter than them? Just seemed like an easy target? I honestly don’t know. And I don’t particularly care about them or their reasons anymore. But when I see a character going through what I went through? Sitting alone and having their voice ignored because people believe someone else’s lies? It makes me angry.

It reminds me that I am in therapy and my psychiatrist diagnosed me with CPTSD and deemed what I went through to be, not bullying, but full-blown child abuse to the point that CPS should’ve been called on my teachers, because of people like Lila. That people like her pushed me so low that even as a seven-year-old, I contemplated suicide. That I thought I couldn’t go to anyone- even my own parents- because people like Lila were so good at lying that I thought my word would never stand up to theirs, even if they started saying the sky was green and the grass was blue.

Chloe? She pissed people off, but in the end, she just turned everyone against her and into the support of their peers. Lila? She does the opposite; she divides people and pits the crowd against anyone in her way, and she’s good at it.

So no, I don’t like Lila, and if they try to redeem her, they’re gonna have to do a lot more for her than they did for Chloe, because she does a lot more harm than Chloe.

And D, if you don’t like what I have to say, the unfollow and/or block buttons exist for a reason.