here’s a handy checklist for anyone considering redeeming a villain!!!
are they…
❏ a wife beater? ❏ sexually abusive? ❏ violent towards small children? ❏ extremely racist? ❏ a goddamn fascist?
if you checked any of these boxes, not only should you not redeem that villain, but I’m also going to come to your house and pour sewer water into your sock drawer for even considering it
I totally understand why one would feel that way, but basically what you are saying is, the above mentioned people are true evil and can never change and thus giving examples of how such a change might happen must not be written?
Or am I missing something here?
By all means, write well written, conflict-filled, problematic and problem-solving redemtionarcs for abusive charakters!
Give them some rolemodels who actually look at their actions and learn to consider the consequences!
Yeah, this. Redemption doesn’t mean ‘all is forgiven’, or ‘we all act like it never happened’, it doesn’t mean ‘you can move freely through the world as if your victims don’t exist’, it doesn’t mean ‘your harm stops having consequences’.
It means: a person realizes that their behavior was horrible, stops doing it and tries to fix the parts of the damage that can be fixed.
Showing that and showing the capability of change is GOOD. We NEED redemption arcs like that.
(and an important part of that redemption arc might be the moment a character STOPS thinking that they will one day be forgiven by all, accepts that there are permanent consequences for their actions, and continues their commitment to never harm someone like that again.)
Actual fascists can and do stop being fascists and become active antifascists. Groups that facilitate that difficult process have always been an important part of antifascism.
Showing that sort of change in fiction and non-fiction is GOOD. Making it clear that those who did terrible harm can stop doing that harm, can take real accountability for it and can repair some of the damage is important.
It’s my opinion that like if a white supremacist/Nazi is going to be reformed. They need to do so willingly. The only times I’ve heard of successful rehabilitation of fascists is when they made the conscious decision to no longer be one anymore and seek atonement. People who try to like hug and change fascists that don’t want to change are fucking morons
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Todd Hido (American, b. 1968, Kent, OH, USA, based San Francisco, CA, USA) Photography
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Todd Hido (American, b. 1968, Kent, OH, USA, based San Francisco, CA, USA) Photography
Todd Hido (American, b. 1968, Kent, OH, USA, based San Francisco, CA, USA) Photography
Todd Hido (American, b. 1968, Kent, OH, USA, based San Francisco, CA, USA) Photography
Todd Hido (American, b. 1968, Kent, OH, USA, based San Francisco, CA, USA) Photography
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