#she's only a villain if you care about jalice

[the-most-pathetic-edge-marquis]

can’t stop thinking about that post that was like “let maría be evil! she’s manipulative for turning people into vampires knowing she was just going to kill them!”

like. yes, she’s doing something horrifying and soul-wearing, and hurting the people she turns. but she’s also in the middle of a war zone! (A WAR SHE DIDN’T START!!!! SHE’S JUST TRYING TO GET HER HOME BACK!!!! IN THE ONLY WAY SHE CAN!!!!!) war corrupts morals! war presents you with impossible choices! you can’t be purely “good” when you’re fighting for your life!! (like sorry she isn’t a white man who can float around cheating the stock market and pretending to be a doctor??? maybe take that up with the colonizers who wrecked her home????)

and like, that’s the whole point! that’s what makes her an interesting “villain” to explore!!! she’s in impossible circumstances and she’s become ruthless and manipulative as a result but at the end of the day the goal she’s fighting for is righteous and what does THAT mean for the blood on her hands?! you lose ALL OF THAT complexity if you just make her “evil!” not to mention the gross racial stereotypes that are obviously happening there.

also like it’s so stupid to call her a “villain” in the first place bc she’s just NOT, the literal definition of a villain is “a character in a story or play who opposes the hero” and she has no impact on the “hero” of twilight and does absolutely Nothing to affect bella at all (arguably except for positively influencing her by turning jasper), she’s straight-up just Not a villain, by definition

#maría my beloved #i could keep going but i'm cutting myself off there #bc otherwise i will get into the fact that: #she's only a villain if you care about jalice #it really is so frustrating to be invested in this character #and then venture outside my own little carefully curated corner of the internet #bc there are so many people who are Ridiculous about her #also like canonically she's treating the newborns the best out of anyone? #she's giving them more training and letting them survive multiple fights and some of them get to become lieutenants and live? #(like peter!) #so. like. CLEARLY she cares #she also just can't afford to bc. once again #SHE'S FIGHTING A LITERAL WAR #plus she's got the least impact on humans? #they retake monterrery without the humans even noticing! #also god that post was so stupid #other hits included saying 'twilight needs more female villains' #as if we Don't have enough two-dimensional 'angry women who hate bella' #and saying that jasper and edward were clearly the closest #if you read midnight sun #which like #bestie they are Not #edward has multiple in-depth personal conversations with carlisle and emmett in that book #not One with jasper #he spends the whole time pissed at jasper for wanting to kill bella? #and then during the baseball scene finds out that jasper's been keeping the extent of his power secret? #and is worried about it? #like what EVEN