#compassion so much but no please don't give people a pass Frank is a piece of shit with a fucked up awful childhood but he still absolutely

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This wonderful person has been reading my fic and leaving massive comments each chapter and they just got through Oak and it’s Going Home and Season’s End next up and baybeee the transition from Looking Up to Oak to Going Home and Season’s End, to Midnight Train, to Memento Mori, to Vs? I am thriving the rollercoaster. The ride doesn’t even slow down until you finish 600 Seconds and get to Out of Darkness this is so much fun.

#Single best reaction I ever got to The Cat too. YES! Frank's backstory is terrible & sympathetic & awful & I too wish it could have been #different but this chapter is not /at all/ meant to excuse his bullshit. It is an explanation not an excuse the man is 100% responsible for #the horrendous shit he pulls and if he improves that's up to him on his own choosing to be better. He gets no free pass bc his childhood was #f'd up. I am always so sad if someone reads The Cat and is like 'It's not his Fault ToT he got broken to be this way' like bro I value your #compassion so much but no please don't give people a pass Frank is a piece of shit with a fucked up awful childhood but he still absolutely #made his bed and it's up to him if he wants to get a new better one to lie in. He'll have to make it too! #Frank's chunk of 600 Seconds is so good?? It or Laurie's is my favorite bc he is /suffering/ and it's the first chapter where he not only #knows he deserves that but is genuinely accepting and facing /how much he fucked up and did this to himself/ #and it's /so/ painful and I hurt for him so much. I think I listened to I Don't Love You on repeat for like 4 hours while writing it? But it #/absolutely HAD/ to feel that way. He needed to face reality and feel that and pay to move forward and it's such a necesssary and brutal #and real character moment for him. He grows /so/ much as a person. It's the slowest-build tension of maybe any chapter but like. By the time #he sees the cat and has a ptsd panic attack and decides to basically willingly go back to hell to suffer forever bc it's what he deserves? #Like that is /insane/ for him to want to do but it makes sense. Everything from his first line of 600 Seconds up to it is bringing him to #that crisis point he almost ends at .And it is /so/ painful. Especially his regret over Susie and then Jeff. But like God. I love his arc so #much. MVPS Joey and Julie saving that boy's ass and his soul fighting for him god I lvoe them all #In Living Memory (fic) #In Living Memory #ilm spoilers #anyway I am so happy smeone read the cat and explicitly went 'cool backstory my heart bleeds for kid him--still murder' #like Yes!!! YOU get it!!! Frank sucks! Frank gets away with a /lot/ and he is not an okay person! #His past doesn't excuse that #dead by daylight #it's so important to include humanity in villains because when you don't. ppl feed themselves the rhetoric bad ppl aren't like themselves. #and then when their friends start saying & doing awful stuff they go 'but they're not bad!' because badguys don't do good stuff or have #complex stories right? --- & so you end up w ppl bending backwards to defend & jsutify atrocities bc they think if your story is sad or you #have redeemable traits you're good. & blind to bad people around them bc--bad ppl aren't like humans right? They don't love people & do the #right thing sometimes! They aren't like that. They aren't sad and complex and full of pain and love and regret. Only. They are. & it's #/crucial/ to stay cognizant of that