Talk:Sophie Elizabeth Foster/@comment-2604:3D09:737F:DA3F:6890:9935:FD35:8131-20190224040340

I'm just going to start off by saying that I adore kotlc and I've grown up reading it and I've been a fan of it since it came out, but that said, I have a plethora of problems with it. When the series came out, I thought it was perfect and amazing and stuff like that, but it really isn't. Sophie is probably one of the most mary sue-ish characters that I have seen and I kind of hate it. She grows up being the social outcast, and then she finds out that she's actually special and not what she thought she was and she goes into some sparkly world and every single boy she's interacted with is in love with her because she's skinny and beautiful and fits the mold of the conventional beauty standard. She has more powers that everyone else in her world and is the "most powerful elf ever" and she's smart and kind and makes friends easily even though she's awkward and has a photographic memory, and, well, I could go on for days, so let's just say she's perfect. She also doubts herself and has low self-esteem, and thinks she isn't beautiful, but everyone loves her anyways. She is also in the "majority" of everything. She's white, straight, and cis. See the problem here yet? She is literally the quintessential example of a human being, or in this case, elf. Self-doubt and low self-esteem aren't flaws, they're just labels the writer plasters on to make it seem like that person has flaws. Clumsiness also isn't a flaw if it's celebrated or it's "cute" or she's only clumsy when the author needs her to be. Besides, a well-written character is supposed to have the same amount of flaws as they have good personality traits, however, Sophie's strengths far outweigh her so-called flaws. One of my biggest problems with this series is its representation of minorities. Literally all of the characters are straight, and most of them are white. There are 4 Asian characters and 2 of them are hated by the fandom. There are 3 black characters and one of them was half crazy for the majority of the series. What are readers who are part of the lgbtq+ community supposed to think? What about readers who are people of colour? However, though the series has it's flaws, I like the imperfections that the elvin society has. The superiority they feel over other species, the way they treat  the talentless, the government being useless, etc. I also like how while on the surface, the elvin society is great, it really isn't and there are so many flaws. All in all, kotlc is basically just one big cliche, and does not represent minorities at all, but in spite of all that, I still love it oops. I'm probably going to be attacked for this haha, but please, let me know what y'all think! I want to hear your opinions.