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6/29/2025, 8:52:19 AM
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I figure it's because Blackjack kinda starts off as a twerp. She's complicit in an oppressive bureaucracy that treats stallions like sperm dispensers and feeds them into the food recyclers when they hit 21 or whatever, and she spends a lot of the fic trying to un-fuck her head after realizing she's essentially been the bad guy since she stopped going by Go Fish.
Other characters had great aspirations/were innocent and got broken down by the wasteland until they reformed into terrible things out of necessity. Blackjack essentially started life as a bad guy and willingly seeks out self destruction because she wants to rebuild herself into a hero and (not or) die trying. She's openly and habitually self-destructive instead of bad shit just happening to fall down on her, which doesn't really trigger the same kind of sympathetic response as characters who tried their best and simply lost.
I figure it's because Blackjack kinda starts off as a twerp. She's complicit in an oppressive bureaucracy that treats stallions like sperm dispensers and feeds them into the food recyclers when they hit 21 or whatever, and she spends a lot of the fic trying to un-fuck her head after realizing she's essentially been the bad guy since she stopped going by Go Fish.
Other characters had great aspirations/were innocent and got broken down by the wasteland until they reformed into terrible things out of necessity. Blackjack essentially started life as a bad guy and willingly seeks out self destruction because she wants to rebuild herself into a hero and (not or) die trying. She's openly and habitually self-destructive instead of bad shit just happening to fall down on her, which doesn't really trigger the same kind of sympathetic response as characters who tried their best and simply lost.
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