I tend to write a bit dark (imo) because that's where I'm drawn. That's what I would want to read. Those are the problems I want my characters to work through. And having different characters is an exploration of empathy. If we use the same characters over and over (I'm sometimes guilty of this), we don't get to see different scenarios through different eyes. And as Star Wars ahs taught me, just because you like a scenario or a ship, doesn't mean that you think it's ok in real life.
Some people don't get that. Fiction is fiction. It's not real. It doesn't need to feel real, or always actions the way they would be carried out in reality. Bad things happen. Let's put our little mice into the maze and find out how the get out of it.
I hope that made sense.
