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Ami Angelwings
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Question of the Day: What's a character in fiction that you think gets a bad rap in popular consciousness, and why do you think their reputation is unfair?

Ami Angelwings
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Corollary to yesterday's Question of the Day: What's a character in fiction that you think gets an overly positive reputation in popular consciousness that's unearned, and why do you think it's unearned/misplaced?

@ami_angelwings To dredge my well-worn hellbird bit over onto Mastodon, I'm going to say FINAL FANTASY IV's Cecil Harvey who textually commits a war crime despite acknowledging that it was wrong simply because his king told him to and expects pity for how guilty he feels afterward.

He then spends nearly the whole game after he rebels constantly faceplanting and failing to stop the villains from accomplishing anything right up until the final stretch where he has his magic space uncle's help so it doesn't really count when he ostensibly saves the world.

He is then inexplicably rewarded by being crowned the new king despite lacking any sort of political qualifications beyond having formally been an air force captain.