pc miz and henrik were on the opposite ends of people enjoying a villain wrong fr you were there like "she's literally just a human person" and i was here like "he's not the good guy" like you'd think making them work together would make ppl like Get It, but, alas....

YOU RIGHT - YOU RIGHT! Henrik got hella woobified and Miz got demonized (and those few players that sided with her even a little were condemned as well jfc-)

It is amazing that PC Henrik got COMPLETELY declawed in the eyes of the players, I don’t know how that happened other than he happened to be a “canon” character who is generally perceived as a “good guy” by the fandom and so that characterization of him was assumed? Idk, I agree that I would have thought that having him and Miz (who is viewed as Worse than Satan) as coworkers (not even really, Henrik was her boss) would have been the connecting point that made the players realize that he’d done some shitty stuff and wasn’t really a good person. Or maybe bc he was dead we created a martyr/victim??? Idk man, it is a bit wild tho.

Like don’t me wrong, Miz, especially during PC, is a real piece of work, she’s down right nasty at points, but she’s much more than a mustache twirling villain. I developed her as a character to be a person - an antagonistic person, sure! - but ultimately she’s still a person. And c!Miz is a person with Internet literacy, so she didn’t share everything she’s ever thought or felt with the players, which also didn’t help with her being viewed at Actual Satan, but no one asked the right questions to get her to share more/get her emotional enough to slip up. I would be fascinated to know how many of the players went back through all her messages (like, back to her being part of Humanette) after the fact to see how she’s a normal person in an INCREDIBLY difficult and delicate position and it eventually wears down her patience. Then once she got to Marionette and everyone jumped on her immediately and fucking DESPISED her (although granted, probably rightfully so), she decided she wasn’t going to try and be civil with those who already had such a negative perception of her. Like, there’s a pretty clear progression lol

Anyway, long story short, PC Henrik and Miz are both three dimensional characters and I will forever be a bit salty about how players reacted to them sfjhajflsh