Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-1446360-20180519125934/@comment-4010415-20180524185214

It may hurt, but sometimes a character needs to be given the "Reasons you suck" speech, as you put it. Raven stood her ground on defending her actions that led to people getting hurt - physically and emotionally - and were going to continue causing that damage. You cannot sit down and give someone a polite talk about their behavior when they are vehemently defending that behavior the way Raven was. By defending her behavior that way, Raven was putting up a wall. Yang had to break down that wall first by pounding on it with a "Reasons you suck" speech, making Raven see just how angry and upset that Yang was about it all. In other words, it made Raven see how hurt Yang was and start to realize that, maybe, Yang and other people have a point.

She blinded herself with that wall, and when Yang broke a hole in it, she could suddenly start to see the damage she had done.

It hurts, but it's necessary. Better than holding her tongue to spare Raven's feelings while letting Raven continue on, hurting the people around her, pushing people away, making herself end up not having anyone to be truly close with because she won't stop running, hiding, and throwing people under the bus out of fear.