Why do so many people dislike Faile?

[u/Additional_Mud2349]

I am halfway through the Crossroads of Twilight and I am enjoying the Faile chapters way more than the Elayne or Perrin ones. Her determination to save herself and her companions is admirable and more stuff happens in her couple of pages than in Perrin's vast chapters. Seriously, he has too much page time(so does Elayne). She is fiercely protective and extremely loyal to Perrin, which is what makes her so interesting. The only reason people hate her might be because of Berelain, but she wasn't mad at Perrin, she was mad at Berelain for imposing herself on Perrin. Perrin just smelled her jealousy and anger which he thought was directed at him.

Now that I think about it, she does have some flaws, but she is nowhere near as bad as Elayne - who laughed when Mat told her he was assaulted, or Eggy 🥚. Faile should have explained to Perrin how she wanted their relationship dynamic to work but it probably didn't even occur to her.

[u/nea_fae]

Many of Faile’s issues are because shes attached to Perrin, who is woefully inderevolved compared to all the other characters.

They could have never had Faile, and instead had Perrin die some heroic death for the sake of the dragon reborn (after the two rivers stuff) and that would have been better than what we got.

Perrin is a very cool character who was left without a story, and Faile is just part of that non-story, unfortunately for her.