User blog comment:AustinDR/Apologies for a Previous Review/@comment-31563773-20170705190059

It wasn't JUST the girls getting a shred of sympathy (which is still very little), but it was also this small paragraph:

"While there is fighting in the actual show, none of the violence goes beyond being cartoony in nature. Here...just what the heck, man? If the writer really wanted to make a story about this subject, then he should've made up his own characters instead oaf using the characters from the Loud House. They just don't fit well in a story like this. As I have said, the show isn't some deep drama or some insightful series; it is a comedy series first and foremost."

"but if he really wanted to make a psychological drama about this, he could've used his own characters. "

What you haven't explained is why I should have used OCs, when dark fics of the Loud House are generally are more dramatic and don't always use the show's charisma. Dark fics usually make one feel sad, sick, or uncomfortable because of the emotional tone it carries. That's why Underrated's fic gets a lot of praise since he manages to execute it pretty well. Even a few people told me directly they couldn't read past chapter 3 of my story without feeling too sad about it (which I'm still surprised at...) You can't sit here and tell me that if you live with a very large immediate family, there's zero chance of something like this happening, especially considering what happened in Brawl.

In a 1v9 fight, unless you're Jackie Chan, have exceptionally good CQC skills, or your opponents just suck in general, you're gonna end up in the clinic. It's fine if you don't like the use of realism but to say I should've made up my own OCs just because using characters from a kid show seems wrong in a DARK fic has led me to believe that you don't fully understood what a dark fic will entail. . You say that you do, but when you make statements like that it contradicts your argument. And I told you this twice already that OCs do distract from the main plot at times and it's easier for the reader if they're already familiar with the character. I used two for small jobs like one of the doctors and the school principal. Anything else can be filled with an already established character.

I'm normally thick-skinned, but I will call people out if they claim something is bad over somethign that really wouldn't matter on the basis of the subject, particularly if the reason is very shallow.