Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25343309-20150328012833/@comment-24993958-20150422222109

As someone that had his fair share of bullies to deal in school for nearly four years I will say this, taking it out on an imaginary person that YOU have control over what he does and when…honestly that makes Cardin more of a victim than a bully.

Sure, you can write him doing the most heinous acts in order to justify bad stuff happening to him, but you are, in the end, the person that wrote that scene, and Cardin is, in the end, at the mercy of your fingertips.

I’m not saying to suddenly pretend he isn’t a racist asshole, but I am saying that it should serve the overall plot or theme of your fic. Take for instance, what was it called…Hero of the everyman, a fic where Cardin…straight up crosses a lot of lines, none the less they all served the plot and moved it further, and once done he has been removed from the story. If you are writing bad stuff happening to him just for some sense of gratification…I don’t see the point of writing it to be honest.