redstonedust:

love the idea of a character who seems like a twist villain but the twist is that they’re actually being genuine and the villain is some other guy. character who is just so fucking bad at communication that everyone thinks she’s hiding an evil plan but also nobody has told her yet so she thinks shes getting a good grade in friendship. this too is autism.

i once read a mystery novel where a character is basically the prime suspect in everyone’s eyes, partly because they just find him viscerally unlikable, and partly because he keeps saying things that are demonstrably untrue about what he saw

but at the end it becomes very clear that all the inaccurate statements he made about things he witnessed were 100% explainable by the fact that he was red-green colorblind. he was completely unconnected to the crime. Always felt kinda sorry for him

(he did not get a happy ending. he died, in a way that initially looked like someone killed him for reasons related to the crime, but turned out to also be explainable as an accident due to his colorblindness. unlucky bastard always in the wrong place, wrong time, possibly wrong novel. Relatable)