>>738563>>738564It pretty much boils down to
>write cahracter with sympathetic traits>people relate to them>shocked pikachu face>>738465It is funny that the arguments often focus on what are essentially harmless quirks, the kind if things you often do see in "mental" aka neurodivergent people. It's pretty on brand for the average reader to have more of a problem with not showering than the political stuff or the violence.
Also, without getting too far into it, Rorschach is effectively positioned as the protagonist of the story. His investigation of the Comedian's death drives the plot. His intuition about something bigger going on is ultimately vindicated, and he's the only one to stand up to the designated villain in the end. Comparatively, Ozymandias and the Comedian are pretty overtly villainous, and Silk Spectre, Nite Owl, and Manhattan are too self absorbed to affect the plot as much. Some of that can be dismissed as the audience being plotfags, but the plot in the story ends up with millions dead, so it shouldn't surprise that readers are more invested in that than in characters' personal drama. Especially since among the dead are characters the audience has probably grown attached to like Bernie and Bernard.
None of this is "moralism" btw. Watchmen is a gem and it's good it exists but that doesn't mean it's perfect or above critique. A lot of the value of a lot of art is in what it unintentionally reveals about the creators and fans.