I acknowledge this is largely me venting.
I'm sick of lazy authors. Though, maybe not in the way you might think from how that sounds.
I wish I was the type of person who could just read something and not think too deeply about it. I'd love to just enjoy the content and not think. But I can't. I'm not that guy.
So, when I read all these stories that sound good but utterly crap on the world they're writing in or the characters they're cultivating I get irate. Yep, pissed. It's stupid, I know. And if you knew how few things on actually let get to me you'd be surprised, buti love reading and writing. Is it too much to ask for characters to make sense?
For instance, I recently started reading Re:Incarnate by BlueJayls. I admit I only got thirteen chapters in but I literally couldn't take anymore.
I like isekai and MHA, so blending them sounded great. And starting out, it was. Nothing original plot wise, pretty cookie cutter stuff, but i still enjoy the concept. That said, things only went down from there. Izuku, while starting out as a pretty cool character, has lived over thirty years been his two lives and yet still acts like his timid canon self at times. He's fought war, and somehow Bakugo can still intimidate him sometimes, while others he's cool and reserve, so it seems like the author just chooses whatever suits the moment better. We have Aizawa figure out an issue Izuku had with his magic which makes ZERO sense. Nezu figures out Izuku has magic because of the way his energy acts because no quirks at life that... And finally, while Izuku starts out cool, he's slowly becoming a poor wounded bird more and more every chapter because of random trauma from his past life. I mean, Bakugo's grenade gauntlets gave him trauma flashbacks from childhood training in the other world because a battle mage never sees explosives... For whatever reason, it seems Izuku never dealt with any of his trauma in his past life.
This is what I'm getting at. People keep writing characters that are wildly inconsistent and ignoring the universe they are writing in. I just want authors who think about they characters they've built and the story they have told thus far and be consistent. Not, "Oh hey, that sounds cool. Let's write that instead of being true to the character I'm building."