I’m the anon you replied to and yeah. It bothers me that this fandom has jumped on the drug cartel thing. In the show, all Carmen says is that her ex husband was “a very bad man” and that they had to get far away from him. That could mean so many things, it doesn’t just mean “drug cartel.” I’m not a Latina, but this whole consensus about Miguel’s father being a narcos really bothers me. The man simply could’ve been a shitty dude with a little gang he hung around (hence his enemies Carmen mentioned). I don’t really see the point of writing this fic for that reason alone (the message it would send).

And I do understand the concept of having a Dark!Character, but I really don’t want this precedent to be set. I would rather celebrate a character who gets ignored instead of change everything about them. There are so many fics with Johnny and Daniel, so I think it’s fine to explore dark versions of them, but when there’s so little written about Carmen, it kind of makes me feel sad to think that this is the kind of representation people want to give to such a neglected and underrated character. It’s like she would become a stereotype instead of someone complex and well-rounded.