- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Ignoring the fact that this takes place in the FNAF universe, we’re supposed to root for Sarah throughout the story, including being thrilled when she finally becomes beautiful and joins the popular crowd, as well as getting with her dream guy (while hoping she learns a lesson about her beauty obsession in the process). However, some of Sarah’s actions (before and after her deal with Eleanor) notably do NOT paint her in a good light:
- When talking to Abby about them winning a hypothetical million dollars, Abby says she’d use the money to treat her family to a nice vacation, while Sarah would use the money to get a bunch of plastic surgery. When Abby points out how dangerous that would be (especially for girls their age), Sarah gets mad and blows her off.
- Sarah tries to go behind her mom’s back to dye her hair platinum blonde to try and get more attention, but ends up dying her hair green by mistake. This results in her mom having to use a big chunk of her paycheck at a beauty salon to fix Sarah’s hair. Notably, Sarah doesn’t apologize for the inconvenience she caused her mother.
- Related to the above, when Sarah and Mason begin dating after she finally gets the beauty she wanted, the narration makes it clear that Sarah does NOT want to introduce Mason, whose parents are both doctors, to her mother, a social worker, with it being all but said that Sarah is embarrassed that she and her mother live paycheck to paycheck while Mason is upper-middle class. The fact that her mom seems to try to go above and beyond for her (while still living within their means) makes Sarah seem like an ungrateful brat.
- Regarding Mason, after he gets annoyed when Sarah accidentally bumps into him with her lunch tray and spills her salad all over him, that’s the first hint as to him being a Jerk Jock (even though anyone would get annoyed by such an action, that he bitterly refers to her as “Salad Girl” over an innocent mistake speaks volumes). The fact that he only gives her the time of day AFTER Eleanor starts giving her a makeover (while still remembering her as “Salad Girl”) makes Sarah seem shallow for wanting to get with him, implying she doesn’t care about his personality, but rather his looks and status.
- All in all, these actions paint Sarah less as a wallflower outcast eager to fit in, and more as a desperate Social Climber who doesn’t want to accept her lot in life and is willing to use underhanded tactics (in this case having a robotic woman give her a “makeover”) to get the life she thinks she wants. She doesn’t deserve what happened to her at the end, but the fact that her best friend and her mother tried to talk some sense into her, only for her to completely ignore their advice (and even get mad at them in the process) can cause some readers to lose a little sympathy for her.
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