Just Another Dreamwidth Post (Fourth day)

[elarielf]

Day One: Ten things you want to do some day.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight qualities you think are awesome in other people.
Day Four: Seven (semi)interesting things you've pondered or thought about recently.Day Five: Six things you are glad you did

Comments

Re: I WANNA EAT CEREAL AT 2AM ;_;

[elarielf]

Nah, it's an adulty cereal with fiber and stuff. :( I can't eat sweet things that late and OMG that sounded so old. :'(

Kids are like riding a bike. Wait. That came out wrong. Um.

Seriously though, it really is the more you're exposed the better you get with them. It's hard to imagine being a kid because their brains honestly work differently than adults brains. It's equally difficult to imagine being someone with mania or schizophrenia or autism if you haven't been around those people a lot. And the more you're around them, the more empathy you have, the more comfortable and easy it is to interact with them.

Transgender representations in media is something I've more or less given up hope on. I had no idea (other than crossdressing punchlines) until I actually met some transgender people and realized that FtM people were basically jsut guys, MtF people were basically just girls, and you could spend the entire conversation staring at an adam's apple, or you could dish about how hard it is to be a 6' tall girl and buy pants (it's

[bard_linn]

The nature of Geass is always fun to play with. IMHO, it's possible to CHANGE someone's geass if they had grown up under different circumstances...for example, if Lelouch had grown up with power over people, he would want something else.

I'm all with you on rewarding people for being good. It's like...you're SUPPOSED to do that. Why should we reward you for just doing what you're supposed to do?

Interesting you dislike characters with the same things you like about itself...it's possible that you've got too much overlap? I find when I encounter characters too much like myself I dislike them (of course, usually it's because I see things in them I hate about myself..*cough*Suzaku*cough*)

[elarielf]

I like that theory too. The geass given to each user is so specific to what they wanted and what was missing in their lives. I thought about that during Snapshots when I was considering giving Lelouch a geass, but it was easier just to not do it (fit better with the story too).

The avoidance of evil isn't laudable. Or something. Maybe.

I think you're probably right. The thing is when I deconsctruct why I dislike a characters it's often because of a trait they share with me. Suzaku's wishywashy willingness to compromise rather than stand for something... totally me. Lelouch's prioritizing of what's personally important to him over what's better overall... again, me. And with characters I actively dislike it's even more emarrassingly apparent - Charles's difficulty with forgiveness and moving on, Marianne's desire to do what she wants for her children rather than what they would want (for their own good, of course

[shirogiku]

Hahaha, characters like myself...

I felt very sympathetic towards Shinji. Didn't really annoy me, precisely because we share many self-confidence, identity and other teenage issues. (I don't identify with Suzaku, because Suzaku's self-loathing is induced by guilt). And I hated Suzaku for his mulish righteous attitude so hard.

I do gravitate more towards characters that have nothing in common with me:)

[elarielf]

The thing is that interesting characters tend to make bad... people. I'd never want to be friends with Lelouch or, after I got to know him, Suzaku. Even Lloyd or Milly wouldn't really be great people to be around.

It's the duller characters - Gino, Nunnally, even Ougi - who would actually make better people. And even they have traits that would be awful in a friend, and those same traits make them less boring as characters.

But that's not how we judge characters in shows. The entertainment factor outweighs real life likability. Which is why Seishirou is an awesome character and a horrific human being. XD ♥

Yuu Yuu Hakusho is actually one of the most obvious examples of this I can think of. Kuwabara is fan-hated and relatively quite boring, and by far the best person out of the four heroes.

[shirogiku]

Very true, very true.And that's a good thing. This way I can't confuse my deep feelings for Seishirou with my deep feelings for certain 83-year-old descendants of elvenfolk.

And you'll never know you area boring character until you're in a story. Take Bilbo Baggins, for example.

You commented somewhere how evil takes too much effort. That's also true. Nii and all his degrees and experiments XD

It's very debatable, but Seishirou strikes me as... lazy. Not laid-back, but genuinely lazy.