@JakeMorph, I know the forum doesn't have a reply feature yet, but that's no excuse to vaguepost.

I feel like most people don't have any strong feelings one way or the other about Equius, and he isn't without his fans either. That's very different from the situation Eridan has always been in, where he's extremely polarising. I didn't mean to suggest that the fandom at large loves Equius or anything, or that he isn't without his haters, but clearly there's something else going on that leads so many people to feel so strongly about Eridan in either extreme.

Which honestly might just be characterisation. Equius is kind of a humurous, over-the-top personality, and Eridan just complains a lot. I would love it if we could be that honest about the situation, instead of moralising about trolls, who were always meant to be insane, messed up fantasy aliens.