defilerwyrm:

The worst part about Charlie’s death is that everything precipitating it depended on the characters being seethingly, irresponsibly, unaccountably dumb.

They have been hunting supernatural baddies all their lives. They have been to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. They’ve faced down everything from minor ghosts to the Mother of All Monsters and then some. They’ve been the subject of manhunts by monsters, fellow hunters, the FBI, and the Heavenly Host. I refuse to buy that they’re so careless and ignorant they would just leave a resourceful, preternaturally-strong enemy chained up by one wrist with the other hanging free, but that’s what the RTP – that’s the Racist Truck People, Buckner & Ross-Leming, for those playing the home game – had them do so Herr Frankenstein could get free.

They made it Sam’s fault because Dean spent the entire episode trying to reach out to him and get some honest communication but Sam, who’s lost his agency and the world to family lies and needless secrets, wouldn’t fucking talk to his brother.

They made Castiel – the billions-of-years-old seraph and former leader of an angelic army who has faced off with all four archangels – completely clueless and effete, unable to so much as get two humans to stop quibbling for a few fucking moments.

They made Charlie, the wily survivor and expert of going off the grid, unable to handle a squabble with another woman (because women just can’t help but be catty and dramatic with each other amirite boys hahaaaa edgy) to the point that she ran off on her own, despite knowing that she was actively being hunted and had she just ASKED for backup she would have gotten it.

Not only did they write Charlie running off on her own to escape ~woman drama~ they also had her leave a literal bunker full of supernatural and mundane weaponry with nothing but a knife to defend herself instead of oh say A GODDAMN SHOTGUN.

They had a lesbian left dead in a bath/shower by a member of the group responsible for the rise of Nazism. That’s not a character running with the Idiot Ball thing but it deserves mention and if you don’t get what’s wrong with that you need to crack a history book bruh.

Apparently it just wasn’t bad enough to kill off the character who was a fan favourite, fandom representative, their only canonically queer character, and one of the few recurring female characters period. The RTP made it the result of four people going out of character to be as foolish and useless as possible. And that’s just bad writing.

Terrible writing killed Charlie Bradbury, and I will not forgive them.