Okay you might be thinking- “What does a human bully character and an evil dragon boi with magic have in common?” And to that I say: their origins Let me explain:

Both Chloe and Darkstalker are based off of real people in their creator’s lives. Chloe is based on the real life bully the created of miraculous ladybug had. Well Darkstalker is based off of Tui’s ex.

My problem arises with how each characters were/are treated in their respective properties. I’ll start with Chloe because it makes me more mad. For those who don’t know: Chloe is the bully character sin ML. She had no other personality trait other than “entitled brat”. Then she got a sympathetic home life, and a character arch.

SHE WAS A GOOD CHARACTER. Her arch was believable. And she was becoming a better person. And then it was all thrown away because the created of the show believes she’s worse then the ACTUAL VILLIAN.

If ya can’t see the problem it’s the fact that her arch was thrown out a window, ran over by a buss, and then left to rot in the woods. This happens because the created still hates his childhood bully, and just has a vendetta against the character based off them.

Now onto Darkstalker. Who was handled better, but not perfectly. But for those who don’t know (shield your eyes if you have yet to read darkness of dragons, or plan to read WoF. If your sill reading you either don’t care or have read the book):

Darkstalker is a villain. He did bad things because he thought it was right. He has a sympathetic backstory and has basically lost everyone he ever cared about. He has the foundation for a possible redemption arch.

And that didn’t happen. Instead he was forcibly turned into a totally different dragon. I won’t lie I understand why he wasn’t just killed off (I personally would have rathered that.) Darkstalker is based off Tui’s (I think abuse or manipulative) ex. Killing him off would have been like saying “I kinda want this person to die”

Now with what happened said this is how I’d fox them: I’d get rid of Chloe’s sympathetic story and character arch. OR even better make it so that from time to time after character arch was thrown out the window and into a dumpster fire, show her having some molded maybe even bitter regret. Like she wants to be angry, but her going back to her bratty self is just a way she’s covering up her feelings.

And as for Darkstalker? Making him turn into another dragon is a big Nono. Have him do it by his own accord. Or even relinquish all of his magic, immortality, and invulnerability. Letting himself live out the rest of his life as a normal dragon.

In the end do I think that my solutions are perfect? Nah, I bet there are even better ways these characters could have been handled. Do I think that the solutions I came up with are better? Yea personally. Do I think all characters that are based off real people that have in some capacity hurt the creators handled poorly? Mostly, there has to be one out there that has been done well. I just haven’t heard about them yet.

Rant over. TLDR: Characters based on real people who hurt the creators are often if not always handled poorly. And I rant about it because I can.