Talk:Stereotype/@comment-31077845-20170324042958

I don't know, this seems to send kind of mixed messages. Half the moral of the story seems to be "Don't be a dick and say mean things about people behind their backs", while the other half seems to be "Be even more of a dick, because if you dare be friends with some weird kid he's probably going to kill you while the bigger dicks receive no retribution at all".

Maybe I'm a sheeple for expecting some kind of moral message but...idk, neither character seemed identifiable. Gary was apparently pretty stupid (even in The Cask of Amontillado, Fortunado was decidedly drunk before wandering off alone with Montresor, if that's any indication), and I really, REALLY hated Matt; no, killing pretty much your only friend won't cause people to leave you alone, it's going to completely confirm their belief you're an inhuman scumbag who doesn't deserve any mercy whatsoever since the one person who showed you ANY mercy and trust you killed, not through being some tough guy who overpowered him, but through being a cowardly, manipulative little bitch. Like I said, I really didn't like Matt.

It just felt very difficult to get invested in the story with a bunch of unlikeable, unrelatable characters across the board. That's the sort of thing that isn't really a concrete criticism though, that's just my personal opinion. From a structural standpoint things seemed sound, and it didn't, like, offend my logical sensibilities like some stories do though, so those are both good things.