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ANONYMOUS SENT A MESSAGE:
I'm going to suggest to you what I suggest to all the Cullen-haters: why don't you ACTUALLY ROMANCE HIM?? If you do you'll see what a sweet and dorky bowl of noodles he is. And he has flaws but that's called GOOD WRITING. Also he has PTSD which is confirmed so you have to remember that too. I'm just saying I think you might actually like him if you bothered to get to know him, and I saw that to everyone.
Sorry about taking so long to respond to this. It’s been sitting in my inbox for like, two days, mostly because I couldn’t decide how I wanted to respond; either with a gif of someone laughing, or with a serious answer.
I decided on serious. And to go a bit further. So here we go.
To begin, I have romanced Cullen. I’ve romanced all the options at least once. And TBH I did find a little bit of enjoyment in it eventually, (50% was just boring) but only when I was able to completely immerse myself in my character and forget about analyzing it as a player. A player who has extensively played the previous games and is aware of all his BS. The scene where they awkwardly talk about the weather was adorkable… So don’t think I’m someone who is just dismissing him based on other’s opinions. I have formed my own, based on my own playing.
The part about your message that especially bothers me is that you claim you have sent this to other people. I strongly suggest you stop that. I know of at least two folks who are abuse survivors who hate him for very personal reasons, and to go out of your way to send this kind of message to them just isn’t nice. Now, I also know people like to reply to posts with this kind of message. I can’t say anything against that because posts are a public, community-based thing for discussion, etc. So that’s a different story. But personal messages and asks are different. I’m sure you mean well, but I’m just saying. I don’t send messages to people who hate Sera suggesting they romance her. Partly because I’m sure at least half of them would use that homophobic mod to do so, if they did at all.
I also know that not all Cullen fans are bad people. And I appreciate those who follow me despite not agreeing with every little thing I think. Because I’m not telling anyone they’re wrong when I write/reblog critical posts about him. I’m expressing my own opinion, and sharing posts I happen to agree with, and/or I think are well-written and worth a read. Do I encourage people to question themselves? Well, yeah. Because that’s just how I feel. But I’ll be respectful to you if you’ll be respectful to me. (And if I mistake you for being antagonistic when you’re not I will apologize.)
But I’ll tell you what. I accept your challenge. After giving it some thought, I am going to romance him. (Again.)
With an elven mage.
And I am going to collect all the things wrong with it.
It’ll be a good project.