>>96760294That's not what I'm saying, but this whole argument is insane. Esther is a more grounded and realistic character in Giant Days, because Giant Days as a whole is more grounded and realistic. So the 'Dark Esther' stuff doesn't come out so much: she's more of an ordinary girl barring a couple of plot arcs that dip their waters in that direction.
But she doesn't act unrealistically in that setting, nor does she escape consequences (none of the characters escape consequences). For you to kick off about a half-dozen pages with incomplete knowledge of the whole is ridiculous, and would be ridiculous regardless of what we're discussing when we're speaking about context.
Allison hasn't suddenly abandoned his writing of female characters in Giant Days, and he has ultimate creative control over any decision he makes. This isn't the first time he's broken up or gotten rid of characters that people were hooked on, you just mind because you were particularly fixated on this one.
If you want full context to make up your mind, you should read Giant Days. If you won't do that your bitching is always going to seem incomplete. And you've got the consider while you're dug in on the Eustace/Esther thing, what about someone coming into Allison's other work through Giant Days? Reading GD first, then BM or SGR? They probably wouldn't have the fixation you have, but they'd still be in to it if they were a fan of Allison's work: because there is no great gap in the writing between them.
If what ultimately bothers you is that Esther was stupid and slept with someone else, you're never going to get resolution on that. That isn't an unreasonable character move for a girl in her late teens, and if you insist it is that's on you.
