I’m actually a big fan the way Awkward Zombie portrays him though. This is an example of a fun alternate interpretation
Haven't followed that comic in a long time but it used to make me laugh, yeah.
Doesn’t the fandom generally hate her?
I don't honestly know. I never quite got what large chunks of FE7 fandom were smoking and I've given up trying to figure it out. I just remember browsing a good many fics where Serra was ruined because the writers didn't grasp how damn vulnerable she is. And then there were the ones that tried to compensate by making her a hyper-competent person instead. Nope.
Curious. How does this work out for you? The idea is appealing.
Well, it kind of doesn't work. See, if FE13's big contention is that the bonds that are formed during the in-game timeline help save everyone, then IMO the lack of those bonds in spite of rushed marriages and various children effectively help doom everyone. Cordy loves Chrom but settles for Freddy, who also loves Chrom in THAT way but doesn't have the leeway to even express himself the way Cordy does because of Ylisse's special "wink wink no homo" attitude. They try to make a go of things but they don't really gel and the world around them is going to hell in any event. Cordy goes off to war alongside Chrom and dies, leaving Frederick to raise Severa until the apocalypse catches up with him.
What is it that you hate so much about these two?
I don't even like the concept of Taguel but Panne's actual personality has its good points. Her son is just one-note not funny, not sympathetic, not anything. As for Miriel, I hate hate hate that this walking talking Thesaurus is presented as, of all things, FE's conception of a goddamned scientist. Like, Lute as the prodigy with social issues? I've met Lutes. I get Lute. She can be awful but she feels real to me. Miriel as a SCIENTIST? No. I (really) don't like Kellam, but he doesn't personally offend me in his execution the way Miriel does, and the fanworks I've read that try to redeem her have only made me like the original less.
Love for most of these. The WWIII/Finn ones are especially notable for being awesome and tragic and ouch.
Aw, thanks. With Finn, two things out of the Treasure artbook that I found out last year caused me to tinker with my headcanon-- first, that he was definitely from a high-ranking noble family to start with and not plausibly a truly ordinary kid who ends up in the Holy War (which is what the Oosawa manga ran with), and second that he was intended all along as basically the designated witness to the apocalypse. Once you get the sense that this role of witness-to-history existed and he was either born for it or somehow selected to it (or self-selected by wanting a piece of the action a little too much?), it puts a new pin on everything from the Miracle skill to the appalling human cost of protecting Leif between the wars. When Finn dodges a hit in-game that would certainly have killed him otherwise, it's not pure luck (or Lck). Some higher power actually is rigging the cosmic RNG in his favor. @_@
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Date: 2015-12-28 06:51 pm (UTC)Haven't followed that comic in a long time but it used to make me laugh, yeah.
Doesn’t the fandom generally hate her?
I don't honestly know. I never quite got what large chunks of FE7 fandom were smoking and I've given up trying to figure it out. I just remember browsing a good many fics where Serra was ruined because the writers didn't grasp how damn vulnerable she is. And then there were the ones that tried to compensate by making her a hyper-competent person instead. Nope.
Curious. How does this work out for you? The idea is appealing.
Well, it kind of doesn't work. See, if FE13's big contention is that the bonds that are formed during the in-game timeline help save everyone, then IMO the lack of those bonds in spite of rushed marriages and various children effectively help doom everyone. Cordy loves Chrom but settles for Freddy, who also loves Chrom in THAT way but doesn't have the leeway to even express himself the way Cordy does because of Ylisse's special "wink wink no homo" attitude. They try to make a go of things but they don't really gel and the world around them is going to hell in any event. Cordy goes off to war alongside Chrom and dies, leaving Frederick to raise Severa until the apocalypse catches up with him.
What is it that you hate so much about these two?
I don't even like the concept of Taguel but Panne's actual personality has its good points. Her son is just one-note not funny, not sympathetic, not anything. As for Miriel, I hate hate hate that this walking talking Thesaurus is presented as, of all things, FE's conception of a goddamned scientist. Like, Lute as the prodigy with social issues? I've met Lutes. I get Lute. She can be awful but she feels real to me. Miriel as a SCIENTIST? No. I (really) don't like Kellam, but he doesn't personally offend me in his execution the way Miriel does, and the fanworks I've read that try to redeem her have only made me like the original less.
Love for most of these. The WWIII/Finn ones are especially notable for being awesome and tragic and ouch.
Aw, thanks. With Finn, two things out of the Treasure artbook that I found out last year caused me to tinker with my headcanon-- first, that he was definitely from a high-ranking noble family to start with and not plausibly a truly ordinary kid who ends up in the Holy War (which is what the Oosawa manga ran with), and second that he was intended all along as basically the designated witness to the apocalypse. Once you get the sense that this role of witness-to-history existed and he was either born for it or somehow selected to it (or self-selected by wanting a piece of the action a little too much?), it puts a new pin on everything from the Miracle skill to the appalling human cost of protecting Leif between the wars. When Finn dodges a hit in-game that would certainly have killed him otherwise, it's not pure luck (or Lck). Some higher power actually is rigging the cosmic RNG in his favor. @_@