「I am a Sin Archbishop of the Witch's Cult, representing Greed -- Regulus Corneas.」
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Basic info about me !!
Cxrr0t ┆
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腐った少女 • Any pronouns
Femme fluid (female-leaning genderfluid)
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「Most refer to me as Regulus Corneas.
But since you're my 79th wife,
You can simply have the honor of calling me your dear husband.」
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The most important facts about me !!
After watching Attack on Titan and finding out that a LOT of the fanbase was dissatisfied with the ending, I ended up watching a ton of analysis videos on the ending and on Eren Jaeger (Yeager?) which led me to get super into character writing and analysis. It's one of the most important things to me.
I have a really annoying habit involving perfectionism. I can and sometimes do turn in assignments that I don't think I did perfect on, but I seriously hate to do so and it pains me a little bit every single time I do. This probably doesn't sound like a problem but when paired with how slow of a worker I oftentimes am, it can cause me to turn in assignments really late due to spending way too much time trying to do my best even for the smallest, oftentimes unnoticeable detail. This used to be so bad that I just wouldn't turn in an assignment if I felt like I could've done even a little better which then caused me to just not even try to do some assignments if I didn't think I could do them well enough in the time provided to be satisfied.
It's a bit difficult for me to cross the street by myself at areas without lights to tell me when to cross because I'm horrible at telling when a good time to cross is. I usually either end up crossing the street recklessly or I wait for a car that's over half a block away to pass by me when I very much could've crossed the street already.
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General facts about me !!
Q: Favorite color?
A: Depending on the day, either red or blue. I love that beautiful red color that human blood has to it. Blue looks good on me, plus it's just a generally nice color.
Q: Favorite season?
A: Winter, with spring at a not-so-close second. I don't really have any reason for liking winter so much other than the beauty it brings into the world for a short time right after a new layer of snow falls on the ground and the sky is perfectly white to match it. Spring is my second favorite because there's not anything to dislike about it, plus there's spring showers and thunderstorms.
Q: Favorite weather?
A: Either thunderstorms or dense fog. Only issue with dense fog though is that breathing can sometimes be a little uncomfortable.
Q: Favorite animal?
A: Fish. To be more specific, any variation of a goldfish.
Q: Favorite music genre?
A: Frutiger aero. I generally listen to a wide variety of music though.
Q: Any interests?
A: Persona (I’ve played P5R and started playing P4G), JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Tomie, Attack on Titan, Toilet-Bound Hanako Kun, Kakegurui, and various yaois. I'm fairly invested in those interests, but not nearly as invested as I currently am with Blue Lock, Re:Zero, and character analysis in general.
Q: Any other interests that you aren't currently too invested in?
A: One Piece, Chainsaw Man, Death Note, Berserk, My Hero Academia, and JuJutsu Kaisen are all things that I'm stiil considerably interested in, but don't think about too often.
Q: Any fears?
A: Gnats.
Q: Favorite subject?
A: Math. Sometimes I'll even work on some math problems if I'm having a bad day, it's also a subject I'm pretty good at.
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This section holds absolutely no importance and is genuinely just me ranting !!
My current biggest interest over the past weeks is Re:Zero. I can only really base this off of translations I’ve read since I’m not fluent enough in Japanese YET to read the original writing, but Re:Zero’s author is pretty good at writing. It’s fairly easy to visualize what’s happening throughout the web novel while you’re reading it thanks to how much detail there is. I also think that the author does a considerably good job with their portrayal of how the protagonist, an everyday person, would take on everything that happens throughout the series, particularly how it affects the protagonist’s mental stability. With all that being said though, it’s also not unreasonable to say that Re:Zero’s writing can be HORRIBLE a lot of the time, especially when you look at the series as a whole rather than each individual arc or scene. The protagonist suffers enough mentally to where I can’t confidently say that they’re treated like a self insert, but dying again and again aside, everything works out too well for him even with the knowledge that he tries repetitively to make everything go such a way and his mistakes genuinely just get deleted. In the very first arc, the protagonist meets not only the strongest character in the entire verse whom could also solo practically ANY other verse in fiction, but the protagonist also meets and becomes close with a royal selection candidate who has VERY important connections and TWO other royal selection candidates, somewhat becoming friends with one and at the very least meeting the other which ends up being a little important later on. Anyway, the self-insert treatment isn’t really all that bad, just kind of annoying. Actually, it’s fairly understandable with the protagonist being…. well…. the protagonist. What makes the writing so terrible at times is a combination of a few things. One of these flaws in Re:Zero’s writing are the character arcs, primarily the main character’s character arcs. They can be extremely repetitive to the point that it starts to become predictable by the fourth or fifth arc (third if you were locked the fuck in). The character arcs do change a bit, but honestly they’re all built the same. While I think using a format/formula/blueprint for writing is fine and can be a pretty good choice when if comes to helping with consistency, that doesn’t mean that character arcs can’t be unique. I mean plenty of stories use the same format for writing. For example, “the hero’s journey” is a format thats been used time and time again, yet it never really feels like I’m reading the same thing over and over again. It can be argued that “the hero’s journey” is too vague of a format though, so another example off the top of my head is how similar Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen are. CSM and JJK both follow a “dark shonen” formula (I did very surface-level research on that so I dearly apologize if I’m mistaken and if I am then please DM me!!). The “dark shonen” formula, much like “the hero’s journey,” is a very lose formula that leaves room for plenty of individualism and creativity in a story’s writing, as a matter of fact it’s much looser than “the hero’s journey.” Even with the room that the “dark shonen” formula leaves, CSM and JJK still happen to follow a fairly similar story, all things considered. I’m not going to list them all cause…. well I mean I have time but honestly I’m sure there’s a lot more similarities than I could think of and I’m sure this video (
https://youtu.be/xUDHcW7t-5M?si=YRMl-Nb_-PxQqnaB) covers those similarities much better than I could (or at least I’d hope so since that’s the video that got me thinking about the similarity between CSM and JJK and I haven’t actually watched it yet…!!). Even though CSM and JJK are similar in their fair share of ways, they don’t feel like the same story—the closest thing to the stories feeling the same or identical would be how they have similar “vibes” to them, which isn’t a particularly bad thing. The two are vastly different in the series of events and the finest details or finishing touches that bring each of their stories together. Two other stories, one of which may have taken direct inspiration from the other, are Attack on Titan and ………….uhm…………..okay stay with me....... the Bible. I honestly cannot explain this one and will not try to since I haven’t read the Bible and I watched AOT back when I was processing literature with half a braincell so instead I would recommend watching this video (
https://youtu.be/PEITBVhyEqI?si=cGVMqX2P9eUA2iNi). I actually got fairly far into the video explaining how AOT and the Bible are similar and while a fair amount of the comparisons that I can recall the video’s creator making were a bit of a stretch, the similarities are very much there. It’s 4:33am by the way. I started typing this out over an hour ago by the way (actually kind of impressed with myself… maybe I could turn this in as a Japanese assignment since my lazy ass decided “Noooo!!!! I don’t want to do another assignment for this project so I can get an A on it even though one of the choices is deadass just to fold some origami!!” (Hi, I’m fucking stupid and just remembered that I would actually have to explain the similarities between CSM and JJK as well as how the Bible is reflected in AOT, so scratch the idea of turning this in for a grade I suppose)). These examples of varying relevancy are all just to say that even if a plot is directly based off of another plot or is very similar, it can still have an entirely unique feel to it if the author cares enough to take the time to do so. The second thing that ruins the writing of Re:Zero for me is how some things that by all means SHOULD be addressed just don’t end up getting explained. This next part is going to contain light spoilers for like halfway through arc 4 (season 2) of Re:Zero, however I’ll try my best to phrase them in a way that doesn’t give away anything more than needed. For me, the most bothersome example of something simply happening and never being addressed again was when a character tells (or at least implies, I can’t remember the scene perfectly) the protagonist that they’re aware that the protagonist is able to travel back in time, albeit the character speaking to the protagonist is unaware of how the protagonist is able to do so (correct me if I’m wrong on that, my memory is fairly hazy when it comes to this arc). This fact is something that the protagonist is unable to tell anyone in the series and how the character speaking to the protagonist is aware of this fact is just never brought up after this arc. There’s one way that might be possible in which the character speaking to the protagonist was able to figure out this fact, but it’s never actually stated to be canon and if that way is infact how that character gains this knowledge then rather than the author failing to explain details, I’d be upset at how the author fails to flesh out implied explanations. (I could also be entirely wrong about it never being brought up again but I genuinely just can’t recall it ever being spoken of after that). It’s 5:09am now and I can hear birds chirping outside (actually they’ve been chirping for the last thirty minutes), I might not even be able to paste this into my description cause what if there’s a character limit. The third biggest flaw to Re:Zero’s writing, the thing the irks me the most, is how it sometimes feels as though the author is trying to backtrack in order to explain something that appeared out of the blue. When the author does this, the backtracking can sometimes take up the entire rest of the arc. This next part is going to include spoilers for arc 6 (season 4) of Re:Zero and I can’t really avoid having the spoilers be considerably major (at least for that arc). The first example that comes to mind when I think of this issue is when the protagonist wakes up one day and, without warning or being previously hinted at, the protagonist has lost the entirety of his memory, meaning that he can only recall up until he got isekaied. Overall, I think this let the author flesh out the protagonist better than they would’ve been able to otherwise, but it still feels extremely random and is greatly disruptive to the story’s fluidity (I mean… not that the story has a ton of fluidity even before that). Then the rest of the arc is used up on the protagonist trying to figure out how he ended up like this, which would probably be fine if it weren’t the ONLY goddamn thing going on. Right before the protagonist loses his memory of the entire past year, he gets into an argument with a close(ish) friend (kinda). At the very end of the most recent preceding arc, it’s revealed that one of the protagonist’s companions isn’t actually that companion. A little bit after the arc begins, a new, mysterious character is introduced. Not only is the protagonist’s argument with his friend pushed aside, but both the companion not actually being the companion as well as any non-superficial development for this new character are pushed aside too. I actually think that revealing the end result of something before revealing the cause of it can be done really well in writing and add a large amount to something within a story, as soon as this story telling decision starts holding the narrative back though, something which the protagonist losing his memory most definitely does do in this example, then it becomes nothing more than a poor writing choice.
Realistically, these issues I have with Re:Zero’s writing are kind of exaggerated to a fairly larger extent than how upsetting they really are. I’ve got a pretty high bar when it comes to character writing and once I find something a bit annoying with an author’s character writing then I’ll keep looking for more. I do enjoy Re:Zero and if you’re not as critical of a person as I am when it comes to character writing then you should definitely READ it. Emphasis on READ. Not watch. I mean the anime is good but I’ve found that it fails horribly when it comes to capturing the mental turmoil going on in a character’s mind. If you insist on watching the anime for whatever reason then I would recommend that you at the very least read the web/light novel first. You can read the web novel for free on the witchCultTranslations website or whatever it’s called, though do be warned that a the chapters usually span a sizable amount due to just how much description there is of literally everything. Honestly, there’s so much description that you can genuinely read every other paragraph a pretty good amount of the time and end up missing extremely little information. Also I would seriously recommend not reading the manga, it’s behind the anime and is probably currently the worst possible way to consume the series. It’s 6am. Please learn from my poor choices and don’t sleep for thirteen hours straight until 2pm, decide that it would be a good idea to take 1.5x the dosage of adderall that you would usually take so that you can read Re:Zero without getting distracted every 30 seconds, and then think “Oh, this person has a description of themself. That’s a good idea, I should do that!” so you end up yapping for over three hours.
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