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TW for thread: talking about teacher AU, specifically why "evil Lio" doesn& #39;t do it for me. disclaimer that this is just me musing over my own tastes and no shade against anyone involved w that AU or similar ones! i support creative freedom of expression 100%
ok with that out of the way: i was thinking about my distaste for "sadistic/evil Lio" content in a little more detail today, and came to some interesting conclusions. Cause at first I thought I just didn& #39;t enjoy it bc i prefer Lio whump to Galo whump.,-
-and also because I don& #39;t particularly care for the 2 of them hurting one another instead of a 3rd party doing the whump. But I& #39;ve come to realize that evil Lio actively squicks me in a way other gllio noncon does not.-
- And I think it& #39;s because the core of Lio& #39;s appeal for me is his goodness and nobility. He& #39;s a jaded idealist, he& #39;s been through hell but he& #39;s still gonna fight for what he believes is right.-
Even roleswap AU w FF Governor Fotia can have some elements of this, he becomes a well intentioned extremist, similar to Kray but w some different motivations. he can still be horrible ofc! but that core is recognizable still. -
So any AU that takes that away from Lio entirely - makes him enjoy violence & causing pain, at least without significant context abt how he got that way... it stops feeling like Lio to me, at least not the Lio I love so much. -
(And variations on teacher AU which give Lio more context - make him more of a broken version of canon idealist Lio - are ones I can actually enjoy, i& #39;m sure partly bc they also involve more Lio whump lmao)
Anyway I have no real point to this, just thought it was interesting to figure out where my squick came from when other, similar content didn& #39;t bother me at all.
