[THIS REBLOG CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE CHARACTERS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SOURCE MATERIALS]
Coming in first place for the worst character whose also one of my favorites, we've got:
- The Nowhere King from Centaurworld. And I'd think that out of everyone in this list, you'd be correct. The Nowhere King himself had created an army of minotaurs and went on to start a war with his human-half, the General, while also attempting to destroy/commit genocide against the human world and Centaurworld, managing to successfully ravage the human world while destroying entire herds (including Wammawink's own), all because his human half got the life he wanted (and he was locked away for ten years in the worst solitary confinement which kind of made him crazy as the Elk). Now I don't necessarily count the General as the same entity as the NWK, he (and NWK) merely seperated from the same entity (the Elktaur), so I won't list his dubiousness.
In second and third place we've got:
2. Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club. And while yeah she did do some seriously awful shit, I will point out that there is a situational and psychological aspect to this. Yeah killing all your friends because you've been obsessing over a person not even in your reality is pretty shitty, but compared to the other characters in this list, Monika's pretty tame. There's two ways you can look at this: the first is that she (and her clubmates + the MC) are an A.I in a dating simulator, and therefore the world they live in is fake, so the harm she does is limited compared to other here, because she's not actually hurting people (just the emotional attachment we have to those characters), because she and the world she lives in with others aren't real. Now counterargument second POV is that since Monika has gained self-awareness to the point she knows she lives in a dating sim, it can be argued that she is alive, and since this self-awareness can pass onto the likes of Sayori (and presumably Yuri and Natsuki too), whether it makes them go insane like Monika or you get the golden ending and it just ends there, the others are alive enough to feel pain too, so yeah still shitty of Monika. But then comes the fact... as far as Monika had been concerned, she was the only one "alive". Self-aware and not entirely stuck to a script. She didn't know this self-awareness could pass on, and who knows how long she'd been in this state. And from what she's described about the fact when the game turns off, she's stuck in this state of torturous limbo (and considering this game probably takes hours and people do take breaks), she's been through this a lot. Still pretty selfish person, but stuck in a pretty isolating environment. And still, compared to everyone else on this list, she's pretty self-contained. Her only reality is the dating sim, and eventually she allowed herself to be deleted out of guilt and heartbreak while also rebooting the game so we could go on to play the game without her interfering (which is pretty sad, actually).
3. Alicent Hightower from House Of The Dragon. Now I've only seen Season 1, I haven't seen Season 2 yet, so I'm only going on the knowledge that I know. Also the books don't count, only the show. Alicent I'd say is the product of the environment she lives in, the historical time she is born in, the family ties she was raised by and the political views on women and their worth. So yeah, Alicent was not lucky from the start. Like she was pimped out to the king by her father at age 14 so that's already traumatic enough. I'd honestly say that she's not as bad as people make her out to be and in comparison to most others on this list. A lot that happens is out of her control, and when it's within her control, she neither has the entire story nor has any reason to disbelieve the story she's been given. Like, we can't just pretend most of the things she does is entirely her fault. Otto is the main contender in her fucked-upness. And regardless if she didn't hear or misinterpreted Viserys' last words, Otto was always going to ensure Rhaenyra wouldn't get her throne. Alicent's mistake just gave him the advantage. Is she entirely innocent? No, absolutely not... she's also not that good of a mother (which can be understood as generational trauma considering Otto doesn't teach her shit and Viserys was no help as usual). But is she consciously malicious? I disagree; she's trying to keep herself and her children alive, since Otto dumped her into this situation. I'm also going to make this very clear; Rhaenyra and Alicent are both not innocent but aren't entirely at fault for the Dance of the Dragons, as they were broken apart and used as pawns by the men they entrusted to help them and keep them safe. It's also a tragedy so that's the standard. So in other words, fuck Viserys, fuck Daemon, fuck Otto, and fuck Westeros in general. These two girls should have ran away on dragonback and eat cake across the seas. I feel bad for them and their kids. That might change in Season 2 who knows.
4. Donna Beneviento from Resident Evil Village. Yeah she's 100% not a great person. One could argue that she is the product of Mother Miranda's experimentation and the fact she had a mental disability and trauma with Miranda taking advantage of her orphaned status could possibly mean she didn't have a choice in the matter really. Still doesn't change the fact that Donna & Angie had killed who knows how many people in her house of horrors. Plus psychologically torturing my boy Ethan and taking apart a baby is always gonna send ya to super hell.
5. Charlie Emily from Five Nights At Freddy's novels. Uh... okay? That's uh... definitely wrong LOL! Rude, insensitive and puts her friends lives in danger due to her impulses and obsessions? Yeah, sure. Like the worst things she does is breaking and entering so... That's a flaw she has, but like... I'd expect the least amount of votes on her honestly. Anyway, moving on.
5. Anton Castillo and Faith Seed from Far Cry 6 and Far Cry 5 respectively are a tie. And honestly yeah, that makes sense. Anton is a dictator of Yara utilizing slave labor and upholding fascism while grooming his teenaged son, Diego, into becoming as brutal as him (plus the fact he kills his son and himself in what is called an altruistic filicide-suicide to ensure his son doesn't experience what he went through as a child... a mercy in his eyes obviously, but one that could have been avoided if he simply trusted Dani to take Diego out of Yara and out of Libertad's hands). Faith Seed is one of Joseph's heralds (in the Henbane region) and his adopted sister (the third replacement at least). Throughout the game, Faith distributes Bliss to help Eden's Gate and keep their followers either calm or turn civilians into mindless labor workers/shock troops. Faith is also a manipulator and a liar, twisting words and people's perception of her to her advantage. While she definitely was innocent when Joseph took her in at 17 and helped transformed Rachel into Faith, she definitely isn't during the present game. She literally has Burke kill Virgil (and then himself) and almost got Whitehorse so far into the Bliss that he'd hang himself (if what the Deputy was seeing was true). Comparing whose in fact worse, I'd say Anton. He's at least aware what he's doing is evil but necessary and effective. While Faith, much like her brothers, believes in Joseph and think what they're doing is justified because the world's going to fucking end, so how wouldn't it be. But it's either one really. They both still suck.
6. Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Ulysses from Classroom of the Elite and the Lonesome Road DLC of Fallout New Vegas. Two very traumatised individuals, however, I'd say Ulysses is worse. He's an adult male... Ayanokoji's like 15 in the most stressful highschool ever. Ayanokoji is the product of the White Room which is pretty terrible, so his suppressed emotions and manipulative tactics are results of Atsuomi's awful parenting, and the whole point of going to the ANHS is to challenge that. Meanwhile, though Ulysses has been converted to Caesar's Legion and been traumatised by the whole ordeal (plus several other things like the White Legs, Big MT, the Divide, etc), he still tried to blow up the NCR and the Legion with nuclear warheads and attempt to kill the Courier who either had unintentionally destroyed the Divide or never had done so in the first place.
7. Nobara Kugisaki from Jujutsu Kaisen. Okay, yeah she commits violence but usually it's towards people who deserve it, especially curses. She's pretty heroic.
8. Torrin from "Bad Travelling" in Love Death + Robots. Sacrificed his crew to a man eating crab? Sure. But counterargument! His crew was traitorous and were willing to let the man eating crab get to its desired destination to devour innocent people.
9. D'arce from Fear And Hunger. She should not be on the bottom of this list. I love her, but, she did commit war crimes and holy crusades for L'egarde. And Prehevil kind of fucked her up, you have to admit.
So yeah, in my opinion I think it should have been:
- The Nowhere King
- Anton Castillo
- Faith Seed
- Ulysses
- Donna Beneviento
- Monika
- Alicent Hightower
- D'arce
- Torrin
- Kiyotaka Ayanokoji
- Charlie Emily
- Nobara Kugisaki
