Originally Posted by
BulletsAndDoves
When an empathetic person gets hurt, it's not funny. It's sad. When a troublemaker gets hurt it's comical, cause they had it coming. But who decides what these are? The geniuses at Hollywood and the pure creators that create everything we love. The most powerful people on the planet.
A rule of art. Since Dolphin and Mune and Vero are so empathetic and human relateable, when something bad happens to them in the story, you care- but if a villain gets injured, somebody who is out just to fuck up the entire world and send it down a depressing black hole then you're like 'Yay' when they get punched in the face.
Tragedy makes the best art. Good people getting fucked over is like candy you can't stop looking at. Because it's true. There is no righteousness. Evil is always waiting to strike, and the way to fight this is to realize that it's everywhere.