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Post by dmc1001 on Sept 20, 2021 22:12:20 GMT
She acts like a brat during Thessia. This bothered me mainly because she knows damn well how hard Earth was hit. The best you can do is mild neglect. I "cheated" on her. That was a great reaction. She still ended up treating me like a best bud at the end.
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Post by Sonya on Sept 21, 2021 11:54:59 GMT
This bothered me mainly because she knows damn well how hard Earth was hit. It seemed to me she knew almost nothing as was busy planting bugs in Shepard's room mostly and arcoss the whole ship. -- How the hell is the Liara the only one who knows about Allers in Shepard's bed? -- When she saw how reality looked like, like Thessia, renegade slap interraptions were really needed - what a bitch demanding others to help her home while those others were trying to survive and help to build the device. To the point. Not a fan of Kelly's character in general. Do not need her crew descriptions - no help at all. The only useful thing: she can notice if someone is interested in Shepard and she, as well as Kasumi, noticed Samara's change of behavior if there is Morinth onboard ("Samara refuses to talk to Kelly" - because it was Morinth already). And, of course, fish. That is the most important. Sam, on the other hand, is more interesting. Her behavior and manners are appealing. She is so alive, opened and shy at the same time. Sam actually helps gving side quests and tracking ninja.
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Post by obbie1984 on Sept 21, 2021 15:43:35 GMT
She acts like a brat during Thessia. This bothered me mainly because she knows damn well how hard Earth was hit. The best you can do is mild neglect. I "cheated" on her. That was a great reaction. She still ended up treating me like a best bud at the end. It's just annoying how much fan fare Liara's homeworld gets when Reapers invade. I still find them mostly unsympathetic for staying out of the war for so long. And also how everyone coddles Liara back on the Normandy. When everyone elses world is in shambles, they keep it together. But we need to make Liara feel better because she's best girl apparently. Even worse, Shepard takes all the blame for Thessia. In your case, you at least had a romance with her, so her being kinda clingy makes a tad bit of sense. But if you do a run where you get her last in ME1 and don't even talk to her in ME2, she still acts like an old chum. She will still rescue you in Citadel DLC.
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Post by obbie1984 on Sept 21, 2021 15:47:06 GMT
BioWare needs to stop trying to force best friends on the protagonists. Liara, Garrus, Varric, etc. Whenever they try to force it, it just hurts the character and the relationship with them. Agreed. But it seems to work. Those are some of the most popular characters though. Players seem to love chatacters that fanboy over the main character, but the have issues with characters that can think on their own.
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Post by Sundance31us on Sept 21, 2021 16:32:48 GMT
-- How the hell is the Liara the only one who knows about Allers in Shepard's bed? -- I'm sure EDI was aware.
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Post by Sonya on Sept 21, 2021 18:21:14 GMT
I am sure as well. Meant potential LIs. Still can't think of any other explanation why only Liara talks about it - stalker, bugs, Shepard's quarters guard, secretary, etc. etc. And also how everyone coddles Liara back on the Normandy. When everyone elses world is in shambles, they keep it together. But we need to make Liara feel better because she's best girl apparently. Wrote about it several times: my crew turned into idiots. At least Javik and Sam remained focused on the mission.
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Post by dmc1001 on Sept 21, 2021 19:23:50 GMT
In your case, you at least had a romance with her, so her being kinda clingy makes a tad bit of sense. But if you do a run where you get her last in ME1 and don't even talk to her in ME2, she still acts like an old chum. She will still rescue you in Citadel DLC. It was an accidental aka ninjamance romance but I stuck with it because it didn't matter until I hit ME3. There had been no available romance for me - they kind I like - until ME3. Mods hadn't yet been made to fix it. So when it became an option I dumped her. So satisfying.
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Post by talyn82 on Sept 22, 2021 2:17:07 GMT
After my current run of Andromeda, I am going to do my third playthrough of LE, and am going to romance either Ashley or Miranda to see how creepy Liara can be. In both my playthroughs of LE I romanced Liara, and thought her infatuation with Shepard was part of the romance. I did not find it creepy when she had a piece of Shepard's armor on display in her apartment. I just thought "well she loves him." In ME3 after Mordin dies and Shepard has that dream with the boy when he wakes up to find Liara there. I just thought "well they're sleeping together."
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Post by Pounce de León on Sept 23, 2021 15:03:52 GMT
I also find the dream kid creepy. It never seemed to belong there and why Shepard would bother so much didn't work out. You can tell Kelly mostly to STFU but the dream sequences are scripted and unavoidable. Is Starbrat the same as dream kid I always wondered? I guess so.
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Post by Phantom on Sept 23, 2021 18:18:41 GMT
I also find the dream kid creepy. It never seemed to belong there and why Shepard would bother so much didn't work out. You can tell Kelly mostly to STFU but the dream sequences are scripted and unavoidable. Is Starbrat the same as dream kid I always wondered? I guess so. Well that is one of the cornerstones of Indoctrination Theory....
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Post by Pounce de León on Sept 24, 2021 8:13:45 GMT
I also find the dream kid creepy. It never seemed to belong there and why Shepard would bother so much didn't work out. You can tell Kelly mostly to STFU but the dream sequences are scripted and unavoidable. Is Starbrat the same as dream kid I always wondered? I guess so. Well that is one of the cornerstones of Indoctrination Theory.... I wouldnt know about it. It all began to go downhill withe green drink at the bar. The Intoxication Theory delivers the true ending.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 24, 2021 15:42:02 GMT
I also find the dream kid creepy. It never seemed to belong there and why Shepard would bother so much didn't work out. You can tell Kelly mostly to STFU but the dream sequences are scripted and unavoidable. Is Starbrat the same as dream kid I always wondered? I guess so. Well that is one of the cornerstones of Indoctrination Theory.... It is...but that wasn't IT, it was just shit PTSD writting.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 24, 2021 15:46:52 GMT
I agree. My Shepard wanted to throw the asari's whining a** back in the volcano yet Bioware forgot about that part and went with every Shepard likes the asari crap. I know people had different reactions/thoughts about what their Shepard thought when first seeing the armor, but mind thought back to what Jacob said, you were nothing but meat and tubes. Shepard's imagination runs wild of what it took to remove the armor from his/her corpse. Then thinks back to the conversation with Anderson, we thought you were dead, and back to the encounter with A/K on Horizon. So yes, I would have liked Shepard to ask the asari questions about that. It's also my number one pet peeve about the trilogy, Shepard not able to ask questions throughout the trilogy. My Shepard would also want to know if the asari made any effort to inform anyone that his/her body was in the hands of Cerberus. The other thing is the samples of dna placed in the apartment. What was the asari going to with those samples had Shepard never been revived? On Illium, she will say was I suppose to let my friend.....my Shepard never consider t'soni to be a friend. The dogtags make no sense. I don't believe her saying Hackett gave her the tags. He would know any personal belongings of Shepard would go to his/her mother, for those playing as a spacer. Since I play Arrival last in all my ME2 playthroughs, I would have liked the option to ask him about the dogtags. If the trilogy were to be remade, I would have Shepard survive the beginning of ME2 to get rid of the above crap. We already know the answer to that: Liara didn't. That's the reason why A/K was so upset, they had no idea what was going on, and it looks like Shepard faked his death and then joined a known terrorist outfit. Liara had no interest in informing A/K or anyone else because she wants to make moves on Shepard. Literally no proof of that, but nice assumption. The reality is, Bioware didn't write that in, because they didn't give a shit about the VS, and forgot they existed. That is the reality.
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Post by Sonya on Sept 24, 2021 17:13:15 GMT
Literally no proof of that, but nice assumption. The reality is, Bioware didn't write that in, because they didn't give a shit about the VS, and forgot they existed. That is the reality. What is the starting point of "zero f*cks about"? Was that VS? BW did not write in anything about such thing as "explanation of Shepard ending up with Cerberus": Shepard just can do a thing, can say nothing to others, can't ask, can't explain, can't do anything at all - does it look like reality? And from here the rest things just go down, including VS, about whom BW indeed just forgot. Considering "reality" written in/forgotten" there are different assumptions, thoughts and ideas, including information from the previous game like ME1 for example where I yell at Liara, threaten her and recruit the last one. Including dialogues with the same Liara in ME1 where she is interested in Shepard. And other things.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Sept 24, 2021 17:28:43 GMT
We already know the answer to that: Liara didn't. That's the reason why A/K was so upset, they had no idea what was going on, and it looks like Shepard faked his death and then joined a known terrorist outfit. Liara had no interest in informing A/K or anyone else because she wants to make moves on Shepard. Literally no proof of that, but nice assumption. The reality is, Bioware didn't write that in, because they didn't give a shit about the VS, and forgot they existed. That is the reality. Eh, I wouldn’t say there’s no proof. As someone pointed out, she did keep Tali’s feelings towards Shepard secret so she’d have a better chance. So it does show she’d keep things to herself if it bettered her odds. Again, not much but it’s more than nothing.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 24, 2021 18:49:29 GMT
Literally no proof of that, but nice assumption. The reality is, Bioware didn't write that in, because they didn't give a shit about the VS, and forgot they existed. That is the reality. What is the starting point of "zero f*cks about"? Was that VS? BW did not write in anything about such thing as "explanation of Shepard ending up with Cerberus": Shepard just can do a thing, can say nothing to others, can't ask, can't explain, can't do anything at all - does it look like reality? And from here the rest things just go down, including VS, about whom BW indeed just forgot. Considering "reality" written in/forgotten" there are different assumptions, thoughts and ideas, including information from the previous game like ME1 for example where I yell at Liara, threaten her and recruit the last one. Including dialogues with the same Liara in ME1 where she is interested in Shepard. And other things. Yes, it is the reality. You shit on a character for things that are Bioware's fault, because they suck at writing. Period.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 24, 2021 18:53:27 GMT
Literally no proof of that, but nice assumption. The reality is, Bioware didn't write that in, because they didn't give a shit about the VS, and forgot they existed. That is the reality. Eh, I wouldn’t say there’s no proof. As someone pointed out, she did keep Tali’s feelings towards Shepard secret so she’d have a better chance. So it does show she’d keep things to herself if it bettered her odds. Again, not much but it’s more than nothing. That is proof in regards to Tali...which again, is not a fault of Liara, because Tali not telling you is her business. Literally zero proof in regards to the VS. It is by definition an assumption based upon negative bias and Liara not telling you about other people's personal business, which I guess is a bad thing now, somehow.
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Post by Sonya on Sept 24, 2021 19:35:01 GMT
Eh, I wouldn’t say there’s no proof. As someone pointed out, she did keep Tali’s feelings towards Shepard secret so she’d have a better chance. So it does show she’d keep things to herself if it bettered her odds. Again, not much but it’s more than nothing. Would not say it is Liara's fault in any case. If Tali or any other person can't tell what she feels, it is only her fault, Liara has nothing to do with that even if noticed (l'amour). Might make a hint, but does not have to at all (interested in Shepard or no). Though assumption/proof about VS might be applied here since VS is LI in ME1, there could have been conflicts. Yes, it is the reality. You shit on a character for things that are Bioware's fault, because they suck at writing. Period. Some games are made not only for shooting bad guys. Such as MET or DAT make players think a lot: think about combat, think about events and characters. Liara is written as she is, bad writing on purpose or no, who knows. I can say the same thing about Leliana watching how she is written in all three games and was it done on purpose or shitty writing? I know neither. The game is done, charactrs are written and nothing can be changed. People play, discuss and and make conslusions.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Sept 24, 2021 20:05:15 GMT
Yes, it is the reality. You shit on a character for things that are Bioware's fault, because they suck at writing. Period. I don't understand, if a character is written in a way that I don't like, am I not supposed to dislike the character? What about Kai Leng?
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 24, 2021 20:32:58 GMT
Yes, it is the reality. You shit on a character for things that are Bioware's fault, because they suck at writing. Period. I don't understand, if a character is written in a way that I don't like, am I not supposed to dislike the character? What about Kai Leng? All of the writing problems, are Bioware's fault. Every complaint I've seen about Liara, is Bioware's fault, and not the result of an action she's taken that is consistent with her character. If that was the case, something would be her fault. The problem is, she has no consistent character to judge anything she does. Her only consistent character trait, across the series, is her love of Shepard regardless. Hating a character is valid, if they do something that is actually despicable, or makes a choice that goes against their established principles or personal rules they live by. Finally if the character is simply defined by their immoral attitude or actions. Because then they are acting villainous. Hating a character because you can't ask questions, or because she has a piece of armor you don't want her to have, or any of the other things you've listed over the years, is not valid. Because she has no character to judge these actions against, because she was never given a character. Now, since her only trait was "I love Shepard", if she for example, during those two years moved on and got with someone else, then that is a valid reason to hate her. I would disagree with hating her in that situation because I think moving on from a dead loved one in two years is an okay thing to do. However, it would be acceptable to hate her for that, because that is a conscious choice she made, that flies in the face of her only character trait. If she consciously decided to r@pe Shepard at any point, that would be a valid reason to hate her, because she's choosing to do something despicable. But she hasn't, she's never done anything that is villainous, as well as having no character flaws to be critical of. It is valid to hate Ashley for being Specist, because she is. However it's deeper than that, because the logic she uses to justify that stance, is provably correct. That is a character flaw, that was written into her story, and is thus a valid reason to hate her, but the argument persists because ultimately, she was right in ME3 about the aliens abandoning humanity like you were their dog. Being critical of art is a very nuanced process sir, and it is absolutely critical that you break things down as far as you possibly can before deciding what the problem is, because your feedback can come from a flawed understanding of the problem, and thus the developer (if they care enough to address it) will apply a fix that does not work, because the feedback they got didn't go far enough in dissecting the core issue. It is Bioware's fault, for ignoring the other characters. Not telling A/K is literally the result of the writer's forgetting the VS even exists, so ofc they don't write anything for that. Hating a character, for the actions, or lack thereof of the writer, is ridiculous. Liara does nothing during the franchise to warrant this type of vitriol and behavior, she just doesn't. She is just as much a victim of Bioware's incompetence as everyone else, because she never got to be her own unique character, because she was written to be the original Rey Skywalker. You guys need to learn to compartmentalize properly, and put the vitriol and blame where it belongs. Yea, you can hate how she is written. That does not mean you hate on her, and act as if she's a terrible person.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Sept 24, 2021 20:35:32 GMT
Can't I dislike her character, because she has no character? "She loved Shepard" is not a character, it's a psychosis.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Sept 24, 2021 20:53:49 GMT
I don't understand, if a character is written in a way that I don't like, am I not supposed to dislike the character? What about Kai Leng? All of the writing problems, are Bioware's fault. Every complaint I've seen about Liara, is Bioware's fault, and not the result of an action she's taken that is consistent with her character. If that was the case, something would be her fault. The problem is, she has no consistent character to judge anything she does. Her only consistent character trait, across the series, is her love of Shepard regardless. Hating a character is valid, if they do something that is actually despicable, or makes a choice that goes against their established principles or personal rules they live by. Finally if the character is simply defined by their immoral attitude or actions. Because then they are acting villainous. Hating a character because you can't ask questions, or because she has a piece of armor you don't want her to have, or any of the other things you've listed over the years, is not valid. Because she has no character to judge these actions against, because she was never given a character. Now, since her only trait was "I love Shepard", if she for example, during those two years moved on and got with someone else, then that is a valid reason to hate her. I would disagree with hating her in that situation because I think moving on from a dead loved one in two years is an okay thing to do. However, it would be acceptable to hate her for that, because that is a conscious choice she made, that flies in the face of her only character trait. If she consciously decided to r@pe Shepard at any point, that would be a valid reason to hate her, because she's choosing to do something despicable. But she hasn't, she's never done anything that is villainous, as well as having no character flaws to be critical of. It is valid to hate Ashley for being Specist, because she is. However it's deeper than that, because the logic she uses to justify that stance, is provably correct. That is a character flaw, that was written into her story, and is thus a valid reason to hate her, but the argument persists because ultimately, she was right in ME3 about the aliens abandoning humanity like you were their dog. Being critical of art is a very nuanced process sir, and it is absolutely critical that you break things down as far as you possibly can before deciding what the problem is, because your feedback can come from a flawed understanding of the problem, and thus the developer (if they care enough to address it) will apply a fix that does not work, because the feedback they got didn't go far enough in dissecting the core issue. It is Bioware's fault, for ignoring the other characters. Not telling A/K is literally the result of the writer's forgetting the VS even exists, so ofc they don't write anything for that. Hating a character, for the actions, or lack thereof of the writer, is ridiculous. Liara does nothing during the franchise to warrant this type of vitriol and behavior, she just doesn't. She is just as much a victim of Bioware's incompetence as everyone else, because she never got to be her own unique character, because she was written to be the original Rey Skywalker. You guys need to learn to compartmentalize properly, and put the vitriol and blame where it belongs. Yea, you can hate how she is written. That does not mean you hate on her, and act as if she's a terrible person. She...she's not real, man. She is a fictional character written by a game developer. You can hate a character for how they are written because they only exist as writing. She doesn't choose anything because she doesn't have free will.
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Post by Sonya on Sept 24, 2021 22:09:35 GMT
All of the writing problems, are Bioware's fault. Every complaint I've seen about Liara, is Bioware's fault, and not the result of an action she's taken that is consistent with her character. How can you tell "written on purpose" from "shitty writing"?
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All of the writing problems, are Bioware's fault. Every complaint I've seen about Liara, is Bioware's fault, and not the result of an action she's taken that is consistent with her character. If that was the case, something would be her fault. The problem is, she has no consistent character to judge anything she does. Her only consistent character trait, across the series, is her love of Shepard regardless. Hating a character is valid, if they do something that is actually despicable, or makes a choice that goes against their established principles or personal rules they live by. Finally if the character is simply defined by their immoral attitude or actions. Because then they are acting villainous. Hating a character because you can't ask questions, or because she has a piece of armor you don't want her to have, or any of the other things you've listed over the years, is not valid. Because she has no character to judge these actions against, because she was never given a character. Now, since her only trait was "I love Shepard", if she for example, during those two years moved on and got with someone else, then that is a valid reason to hate her. I would disagree with hating her in that situation because I think moving on from a dead loved one in two years is an okay thing to do. However, it would be acceptable to hate her for that, because that is a conscious choice she made, that flies in the face of her only character trait. If she consciously decided to r@pe Shepard at any point, that would be a valid reason to hate her, because she's choosing to do something despicable. But she hasn't, she's never done anything that is villainous, as well as having no character flaws to be critical of. It is valid to hate Ashley for being Specist, because she is. However it's deeper than that, because the logic she uses to justify that stance, is provably correct. That is a character flaw, that was written into her story, and is thus a valid reason to hate her, but the argument persists because ultimately, she was right in ME3 about the aliens abandoning humanity like you were their dog. Being critical of art is a very nuanced process sir, and it is absolutely critical that you break things down as far as you possibly can before deciding what the problem is, because your feedback can come from a flawed understanding of the problem, and thus the developer (if they care enough to address it) will apply a fix that does not work, because the feedback they got didn't go far enough in dissecting the core issue. It is Bioware's fault, for ignoring the other characters. Not telling A/K is literally the result of the writer's forgetting the VS even exists, so ofc they don't write anything for that. Hating a character, for the actions, or lack thereof of the writer, is ridiculous. Liara does nothing during the franchise to warrant this type of vitriol and behavior, she just doesn't. She is just as much a victim of Bioware's incompetence as everyone else, because she never got to be her own unique character, because she was written to be the original Rey Skywalker. You guys need to learn to compartmentalize properly, and put the vitriol and blame where it belongs. Yea, you can hate how she is written. That does not mean you hate on her, and act as if she's a terrible person. She...she's not real, man. She is a fictional character written by a game developer. You can hate a character for how they are written because they only exist as writing. She doesn't choose anything because she doesn't have free will. I hate Ma-Rey Sue from Star Wars but have been told I am sexiest because I don't like her, even though I hate her because she is an objectively bad written character.
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Post by duskwanderer on Sept 25, 2021 4:20:22 GMT
I don't understand, if a character is written in a way that I don't like, am I not supposed to dislike the character? What about Kai Leng? All of the writing problems, are Bioware's fault. Every complaint I've seen about Liara, is Bioware's fault, and not the result of an action she's taken that is consistent with her character. If that was the case, something would be her fault. The problem is, she has no consistent character to judge anything she does. Her only consistent character trait, across the series, is her love of Shepard regardless. Hating a character is valid, if they do something that is actually despicable, or makes a choice that goes against their established principles or personal rules they live by. Finally if the character is simply defined by their immoral attitude or actions. Because then they are acting villainous. Hating a character because you can't ask questions, or because she has a piece of armor you don't want her to have, or any of the other things you've listed over the years, is not valid. Because she has no character to judge these actions against, because she was never given a character. Now, since her only trait was "I love Shepard", if she for example, during those two years moved on and got with someone else, then that is a valid reason to hate her. I would disagree with hating her in that situation because I think moving on from a dead loved one in two years is an okay thing to do. However, it would be acceptable to hate her for that, because that is a conscious choice she made, that flies in the face of her only character trait. If she consciously decided to r@pe Shepard at any point, that would be a valid reason to hate her, because she's choosing to do something despicable. But she hasn't, she's never done anything that is villainous, as well as having no character flaws to be critical of. It is valid to hate Ashley for being Specist, because she is. However it's deeper than that, because the logic she uses to justify that stance, is provably correct. That is a character flaw, that was written into her story, and is thus a valid reason to hate her, but the argument persists because ultimately, she was right in ME3 about the aliens abandoning humanity like you were their dog. Being critical of art is a very nuanced process sir, and it is absolutely critical that you break things down as far as you possibly can before deciding what the problem is, because your feedback can come from a flawed understanding of the problem, and thus the developer (if they care enough to address it) will apply a fix that does not work, because the feedback they got didn't go far enough in dissecting the core issue. It is Bioware's fault, for ignoring the other characters. Not telling A/K is literally the result of the writer's forgetting the VS even exists, so ofc they don't write anything for that. Hating a character, for the actions, or lack thereof of the writer, is ridiculous. Liara does nothing during the franchise to warrant this type of vitriol and behavior, she just doesn't. She is just as much a victim of Bioware's incompetence as everyone else, because she never got to be her own unique character, because she was written to be the original Rey Skywalker. You guys need to learn to compartmentalize properly, and put the vitriol and blame where it belongs. Yea, you can hate how she is written. That does not mean you hate on her, and act as if she's a terrible person. Calm down, she's a fictional character.
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