I don’t want Anti to have a redemption Arc.

impulsiveinstinct:

I know. I KNOW.
“But impulse weren’t you all ‘team Anti’ and ‘save anti’ two days ago?”
I was and I still am but hear ask yourself this:

How many villains get a redemption arc? How many times do we do a song and dance of hating and fearing the bad guy until we find out he’s just misunderstood and then praise him as he switches sides?
Happens pretty freaking often doesn’t it?

Now think back on all those “redeemed” characters and you’ll notice a pattern. After switching sides and becoming a “good” guy they lose half of what made them stand out.

Okay now back to Anti. He was AWAYS meant to be the bad guy. The antagonist. The one who calls us out on just idly watching and playing favorites.
The dark splash on Jacks otherwise cheery channel and he needs to stay that way.

What I mean by save Anti is this: Save him just this once.

I don’t want him to change. I would honestly be a little upset if he crossed over to being good.
All I want and all I think he needs to switch it up from his normal antics is this:

A moment of clarity.

Just one brief moment of trust in us fans.

I want to see him angry and triumphant over the other egos, them laying beaten and bloody at his feet. I want him to drag Chase (or the fandom fave at the time) up by the hair and go in for the kill only to hesitate.
For words to glitch on the screen.
Our words. Talking about how we love him. How we want to see more of him. How exciting and crazy it is to interact with him.

Most importantly I want him to see a fandom that, for the time being, loves him and just him.
I think it would floor him.
Just imagine Anti holding Chase up by the hair with his knife pressed tight against his throat freeze. The manic grin fade from his face and glitching slow down.

“Do you mean it?”

He looks straight at the camera when his asked this, voice a soft static and he’s gone. The video ends with Chase trying to wake the others and faint zalgo text in the background: Don’t forget this.

Can you imagine the hype after that? Suddenly Anti is the talk of the town fan art after fan art. Fiction and edits everywhere all about him. He finally has what he has always wanted.

The fandom.

But as always, the hype dies and the fandom goes back to fawning over Jack.
But he trusts us. We love him now right? There’s no way we forgot.

Marvin gets a new power hour…
Everything is suddenly flooded with fans cheering for the magician.

“It’s okay! He can have his turn. They love me too. They said so…”

Schneeps returns with his silly antics.
“They’ll include me this time right? They also draw us together! There’s no way they could have forgotten already….”

Time and time again everyone else got to appear and time and time again everyone cheered for them. Again Anti would be left out. A gimmick. A side show. Nothing worth paying attention to once everything was said and done.

Chase gets a new video and that’s where Anti will draw the line.
He’ll reappear and this time he’ll make sure we don’t forget.

Tl/Dr :
I want to save Anti and have him put his trust in us only for us to let him down. Because once the hype dies he’ll be pushed to the side again and even if he isn’t he wouldn’t truly believe us anyway would he?
And he’d make us pay for tricking him.