#and in the abuse way not the 'oh we're a soap and everyone's sly and sneaky and manipulative for the plot' kinda way

[benmitchellshearingaid]

i aint gonna tag it but i gave in and am watching the emmerdale aaron/robert sl and have just reached the aftermath of katies death and genuinely dont understand how i’m supposed to be rooting for them?

like sure they’ve had some good (ish) moments and it’s an interesting storyline, but everything here is largely one sided on the emotional front, and robert is borderline emotionally abusive? all i’m wanting is for aaron to get the hell away from him. am i supposed to be rooting for them at this point or is this the setup to the redemption and real relationship part of roberts arc? 

all we’ve seen so far is aaron admittedly also being a dick by getting with someone he knew was in a relationship and just embracing the whole affair thing, then we’ve seen him becoming emotionally invested while robert has gained all the control over where they meet, when they meet, etc, with aaron having feigned moments where he thinks he’s in control like giving robert an ultimatum multiple times, where robert always talks him round

now someone’s dead, and to save his own skin, robert has decided the best course of action is to take aaron, who he knows has a history of self harm and a tendency already to blame everything on himself, and convince him that the death is entirely on him because he told her where they’d be, despite the fact aaron wasn’t even there when it happened? and now he’s lying to 2 of the only people that stood by him through everything in order to protect robert again? like am i really supposed to like robert by this point? when half of what he does is emotional abuse?

#don't even get me started on the way he plays his siblings and chrissies family like the whole fucking fake robbery thing. like i was #expecting him to have some kind of positive arc this far in but i like him less than i did at the start cause now he's fucking with #characters i was already invested in not just ones introduced for the storylines sake #like he is aware of aarons history with mental illness #there was even a fucking scene where he mocks his scars? knowing full well how aaron got them? and people like him? #does he get one hell of a redemption arc? cause he's gonna need one for me to be convinced he should be within a 100 yards #of any of these people #like some of the things he does is just textbook emotional manipulation #and in the abuse way not the 'oh we're a soap and everyone's sly and sneaky and manipulative for the plot' kinda way #i wanted to like him too #but now i wanna gjve him a slap on his smug fucking face #he's gonna need a good fucking arc to get me on side i won't lie #though i am looking forward to the future aaron sls that ik about #well looking forward to probably isnt the right term but im intrigued by how well they apparently pulled them off