#what good will raising up one character do in exchange of dehumanising another?

[bbnibini]

I find it so painfully heartbreaking that Solomon just...laughs off all the derision, the name-calling, and possibly even did "evil" things on purpose because it's expected of him at this point. (He had not always been like this as Thirteen pointed out before). There was a time when he was "innocent". When his soul sparkled. When it resembled the kind of soul everyone in these god forsaken (pun intended with spite) three realms seemed to associate with the ever loved MC. He's just...worryingly carefree. And because he's like that, he feels even more of a tragic character to me.

Sometimes it even seems that he himself would seemingly make up excuses on why he's hated. Oh, it's because I'm a sorcerer this. I might have won a war against Devildom single-handedly this. I have forgotten. But maybe, I did something bad, that. Hon, you were doing that to SURVIVE. You don't have to be a faultless person to deserve compassion. You don't have to be MC to deserve to be loved.

#rant #the more i play and read about nb solomon the more it feels like he's a worst case scenario foil to MC #and it's ridiculous maybe to feel this way but seeing how everyone dotes on mc and just panders to them without question no matter #especially with meaner dialogues #make me dislike the mc to some extent #what good will raising up one character do in exchange of dehumanising another? #i couldn't put a finger on this feeling before #but i think that's also why im so burnt out with this game #the more everyone loves me as the mc the more it becomes so apparent how unfairly solomon was treated #and how everyone ESPECIALLY HIM just rolls with it #sweetie please be angry. please complain. please hate me in some way #but no he just keeps loving and supporting the mc #in game in fandom this man can't catch a break #wanna gatekeep him fr /s #this has just been brewing in my mind for a while. i don't really wanna hear discourse or arguments that's why i put it in the tags #I just need a place to vent my frustrations with this game #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me solomon #spoiler mention #he's imperfect and flawed as all humans are and he deserves to be loved irregardless

[edwinas]

7, 19 & 20 for the NHIE ask game :)

I was waiting for you to finish season 2 now that you have, do you think they would write Paxton off as a horrible boyfriend just to make Devi run back to Ben. I'm honestly way too scared for the next season (if there is one).

Thanks for sending this!

Side note, you get the worst anons and I know from experience that B*nvis won’t listen to anything we say so please take care of yourself.

7. What’s your most unpopular opinion?

Answered here and here! Paxton is a man of colour, you racist cowards.

19. Just anything you want rant about, get something off your chest.

Answered here.

Also Paxton’s extreme objectification - it’s played up for comedic purposes but it seems that’s all people can see. In the pros and cons list in ep 1, all his qualities where physical and Devi didn’t refer to any of the sweet things he did for her. The show makes a good effort to explore his academic life but the running joke of Paxton only being hot is… dehumanising? And not that funny lol. A sexy Japanese character is revolutionary. But NHIE takes it to another level and erases anything and everything Paxton’s done.

The solo episode showed him being underestimated because he doesn’t apply himself in academics but it also has to do with his hyper sexualisation. Hotness is equated to lack of smarts (bimbo, “dumb blonde” stereotypes), especially when Paxton hasn’t shown book smarts. He has a lot of emotional intelligence and decency though. But school smarts is used interchangeably with intelligence in NHIE and in general. Low grades doesn’t mean you're inherently dense and Paxton’s proof of that.

20. What are your hopes/theories for season three?

- DEVI APPRECIATING HER CULTURE. PLEASE. We got Ganesh Puja and the self-hating diaspora kid in S1. Give me Devi willingly participating in a festival with her Pati & Amma.

- an episode where she’s with other Tamil kids who are more knowledgeable about their culture than Devi so she still feels like an outsider. It ends with Nalini telling her that she just not a fake or “watered down” Tamil girl. She’s been raised by Tamil parents in a foreign land where their culture wasn’t always welcome and not the norm. So they adapted. That doesn’t make Devi any less Tamil. That’s such an important life lesson and one I’m still grappling with.

- Kamala and Prashant have a truthful conversation about marriage. It doesn’t have to end with them making up. That’s a reality of arranged marriage and any relationship, things don’t always work out. But it’d be a shame to destroy two seasons of great world-building over a failed engagement that made no sense.

- an episode from Nalini’s point of view: a flashback with Mohan maybe, how they met or settled in the US, Devi’s birth, anything.

- Daxton’s given a real shot – writers don���t bungle Paxton like is S2 to make Devi turn to B*n. Shut it down and give Daxton an honest chance with no emotional cheating. They have a solid platonic foundation so I expect tons of wholesome exchanges, dates, chats about their futures and fears, interacting with the other’s family, DAXTON BEING ENTHUSIASTICALLY INVOLVED IN EACH OTHER’S LIVES. 

It’s likely that Daxton and Paxton will be ruined in S3 but who knows, we might be wrong!

#never have I ever #never have i ever netflix #devi vishwakumar #paxton hall yoshida #devi x paxton #daxton #nalini vishwakumar #my thoughts on nhie #anti ben #anti benvi