

- DON'T MESS WITH A YANDERE ... WHACK THE CREEPS (ALL KILLS & FUNNY MOMENTS GAMEPLAY) SERIES
- DON'T MESS WITH A YANDERE ... WHACK THE CREEPS (ALL KILLS & FUNNY MOMENTS GAMEPLAY) FREE
ANYWAY, it goes to show that you can use "dere" characteristics as BASES for characters but not have them be completely ruled by their "dere" aspects. and not to get into spoilers but if you watch the show you know what I know and you know he got his just desserts.

he's all loving and sweet to Catelin and Sansa but he's malicious and nefarious to everyone else who is in his way. Now to answer the question, I think these "dere" characters are boring and one dimensional, how could they not be when you are putting them in boxes from the start? Granted, there are some GREAT "dere" characters out there like tsundere Asuka from Evangelion and, believe it or not, yandere Littlefinger from Game of Thrones! Most of the time, however, they are just predictable as in you already know what's gonna happen (tsundere girl is mean, warms up to boy, falls in love, "BAKA!!!", yandere girl is cute, she is in love with boy, boy likes other girl, yandere girl kills girl, she kills boy/self, or ends up with boy) you know what I mean?Īctually, Littlefinger is a fucking great yandere now that I think about it. he's pretty normal when it comes to how he acts, he's just a chill shonen archetype dude who just happens to go crazy in his demon form, what I mean is that his personality is pretty even through out, even when he hulks out he has some sort of human Melodias reasoning and comes back to his senses.
DON'T MESS WITH A YANDERE ... WHACK THE CREEPS (ALL KILLS & FUNNY MOMENTS GAMEPLAY) FREE
If anyone has any recs for good, well rounded yandere characters though, feel free to throw them my way! I'd like to see it done well. I could see it more if it was portrayed like an ACTUAL abusive relationship, but with reasonings like "Ohhh but she's actually really hot" make me roll my eyes so hard. The protag goes along with it because she's a cute girl or needs her for some kind of skill, and then it just spirals into this weird, unrealistic manipulative relationship.
DON'T MESS WITH A YANDERE ... WHACK THE CREEPS (ALL KILLS & FUNNY MOMENTS GAMEPLAY) SERIES
Or, hell, they use it as an excuse for excessive fanservice or to make another character jealous.Īnother thing that really bothers me is that they are NEVER called out for it or face consequences (at least, in the series I've seen them in). It's usually a combination of "shock value", "girls are clingly lolol", and "let's make the protagonist have a confused boner". It isn't because I can't appreciate characters that are bad people (I love well written baddies), but because it's often used in a cheap way. I personally really don't like yandere characters in media, especially flat ones. ^^^^ A lot of what said is why I tend to hate the trope.

It seems like it's really easy for this type of character to swing either way - they could be a genuinely frightening character who's complex and difficult to understand, or a cheaply dark character whose only personality trait is "yandere." That said, I don't have a problem with a controlling or darkly obsessive character, and the idea of a character who seems nice and loves genuinely but can become deeply unsettling and even violently possessive is a fun one! But the stereotype that I tend to see associated with "yandere" - the cute smiling girl with a knife, spattered in blood - is honestly a bit boring to me? Having a sweet girl "go crazy" is something I have a hard time taking seriously, because it can so easily hit both the character development laziness of "and then they snapped and went crazy" and the shallowness of "haha girls r so needy and crazy amiright?" that can make a character feel very flat. I do know some people hate Yandere characters, though and say they are abusive.Īn abusive character is probably a bad person, but not necessarily a bad character, imo! They can be handled clumsily - e.g., portrayed as a reasonable relationship, played for laughs, etc - but having a character who is abusive isn't a bad thing in and of itself.
