Feferi, they could never make me hate you.
People are so quick to bring up character ages when they’re defending, like, Eridan or something, only to turn around and immediately demonize Feferi as if she 1.) wasn’t the one being victimized in the relationship between her and Eridan, and 2.) isn’t the same exact age. Incomprehensible.
Feferi’s a Privileged Liberal who doesn’t know how to fully tackle the Bigotry at the heart of the Empire she’s expected to inherit, yes. That’s true. She is in fact a 13-Year-Old Alien Princess who grew up on a planet with a remarkably hostile and shitty Government, and she’s known since birth she’d been saddled with the burden of one day being the ruler of the planet. Yes. True.
Can you tell me why you expect a 13-Year-Old Alien Princess who’s only ever known Alternia’s Government to have a coherent Political Framework? Or why you’re expecting a 13-Year-Old in general to have a coherent Political Framework in general? You didn’t have one. If you think you did, you did not, and you absolutely still don’t if you earnestly believe that. Why do you expect a 13-Year-Old to have a well thought out plan of action for fully un-Eugenicizing the Government? She’s tasked with one day having to be the leader of fucking Alternia. Alternia!
The fact that she recognizes there’s a whole lot of severe systemic issues, and has already begun trying to break down ways to correct the Legalized Maltreatment and Murder of Minorities - even if her ideas are incredibly flawed and coming from a place of undeniable privilege - shows the fact that she actually gives a shit and wants people to hurt less, not that she’s a cold, heartless, privileged megabitch that hates every poor person and minority. That would be Eridan you are thinking of.
You can have criticisms of Feferi’s ideas for the Alternian Government, sure. You can point out all the ways in which her ideas are flawed, or where her position of privilege impedes her ideas’ potential for further progressivism. But like. What is with people still yelling at a fictional 13-year-old girl for having kinda crummy politics and breaking up with her shitty objectifying incel boyfriend. She’s dead and so is her ex and also Alternia. Any problems this could have potentially maybe caused have been prevented already. Because she’s dead and so is Alternia. What.