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kyu-bri · 4 years

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Magia Rapport pt 2

@magiarapport

August 24th prompt: What was your favorite event, and why? Is it because of gameplay or the story?

It’s hard to choose so I’m gonna just, gush a bit.

As you can probably tell I’m very biased toward the OG girls, I started Magia Record primarily because PMMM had become my new obsession and I wanted some sort of constant flow of content out of decade old anime lmao.

But another thing I think I hooked onto was Inu Curry’s writing. They really know Madoka Magica and aren’t afraid to really play with them- something the writers for a spin-off gacha game (as with most spin-off stories honestly) can be scared to do. Inu Curry made references, revealed secrets and built upon the story we already know- which lets be honest is what we always truly want from a spin-off series. Magia Record proper does this well by putting more magical girls into the world and letting us see things work out better for them than for the original cast, but what I really appreciated with this story was getting to see that old original cast get to get in on that, and these events managed to do that without watering them down any.

Under the cut is me going on for 3000 words about why I love these three events I’m so sorry. TL;DR at the very end-

I’ll go in release order,

A La Carte Valentine was one of the first if not THE first event I got in on. I was eager to bc 1 Gay Magical Girl Shit Guaranteed. And ofc 2 OG Cast participation.

I want to preface by saying I actually loved all the girls’ stories in this. I was very much still in a state of getting used to Iroha’s gang let alone trying to care about the secondary girls. I knew Tsukasa had this angsty Twins Separated At Birth Deal and liked seeing her home life (also I immediantly stanned Take. Regular well-meaning dude who has no idea whats going on just trying his best and hating his boss). I knew nothing about Ami except Cowgirl Meguca and getting the bulk of her personality in one short even I think really kept me from being absolutely sick of her, she’s just a cute silly teenage girl who could be in literally anything and I was able to just endearingly giggle at that. Hinano managed to do the heterosexual unrequited crush cliché without me groaning or missing any of her regular personality. Also was there a Ren part? I don’t remember because everything Ren does feels like a Soft Yuri Valentines Special. Also I love Momoko. Ok moving on to what I Really wanna talk about.

Madoka is genuinely my Least Cared About of the Holy Sextet. I don’t think she’s bad or even boring- Madoka has a depth to her character, like, really deep- but that’s not something ever really touched upon by the fandom. Even when people like her and make her the Heroine she’s Supposed to be, it’s usually in the context of “Girl who feels nothing but kindness and happy thoughts would cut off her right hand to feed to a hungry dog. Isn’t she so Good????”. And honestly, while I understand the point it was going to make, I wasn’t crazy about her sacrifice in the end of the series. (Team Homura “Rebellion Is Good Actually” ftw) All because I think that I’m an Adult Woman watching this like “You are 14yrs old and need to be home playing Sims and not sacrificing yourself for the greater good you stupid silly little baby girl”

So my point is here near all fan content I encounter tends to emphasize whats sort of my least favorite facet of Madoka. I don’t think she made the ‘wrong’ decision in the context she and the story were given, but it’s still a sad thing to show a depressed(!!!) insecure girl resolving to give away her very existence so that every other girl on earth has a chance to just Dream. Oh and they still usually die young. But that’s ok because then she takes them and lets them sleep peacefully forever in her Heaven Basement (Yes I am bitter stan Homura I would yank this savior complex infant girl out the sky too)

MY POINT BEING (The servers closing let me BLEED OUT ALL MY FEELINGS) This event did not do that!!! It made Madoka…….. EVERYTHING SHE SHOULD BE??? ALWAYS??? Showed her HOW WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW HER??? (Read: Happy and Alive and Confident at no foreboding or sacrifice of anyone else!!!!)

She is Sassy and Surrounded By Friends and Really Funny??? And we get this Ridiculous Oh My God On Crack metaphor about her being this all-powerful apocalypse bringing being which is representing her love for the universe through her Witch form of Wanting Everyone To Be Happy And Safe With Her??? And she still risks herself to save everyone as is her Thing to do but we get to have her do it without erasing her existence as a human being at the end and if that is not some GOOD SHIT????

Ok next:

NGL Sayaka’s (fav character, inarguable best girl, can u not tell) parts in MagiReco til like the last arc have always left me a bit disappointed. She was the only late comer of the OG girls from what I understand and it kind of gives her the air of what a lot of the second(/thirdary?) girls suffer from. You can tell the writers can’t even figure out a trope to apply her to to make her easy and two dimensional to write about so they just don’t know what to do. They definitely try to make up for it (especially in the anime which Praise Be but that’s probably Inu Currys doing) but she’s still lacking like, any of the depth of her personality. Which, I guess I could anticipate. Because most of the fandom tends to as well. (again)

Gonna stop complaining and get on with- That didn’t feel as much the case in her Valentine event. Sure it was still the same formula of “The Issue Is Kyosuke” but that didn’t play out as grueling as her personal story did with “Nine Episodes Of “The Issue Is Kyosuke””

There was one big glaring heart-aching detail of “Mami isn’t really there because SHES IN A FUCKING CULT RIGHT NOW” which kind of jarred the event out of the ho-hum silly valentines sidestory these events usually keep up.

Sayaka has this crisis about Doing Anything Meaningful With Kyosuke which we all know what That’s calling back to, but in this environment we get to have Kyoko come right up and be in a position with her to earnestly and affectionately Push Her To Do It. The lonely little tsundere bitch girl pushes her Not Friend to Give The Bastard The Gotdamn Chocolate Already and for a moment you can only think about What If’s and If Only’s. Sayaka’s is still the weakest of the threes stories in this event but it worked harder to show us different sides of the characters then 6 chapters of Another Story managed to do.

And then there’s fucking Homura.

I will be, eternally grateful for Kuro. As a character that becomes metaphorical for the 2D ways we initially viewed the feathers and just NPCs in games in general, and also like, giving Homura a friend she actually cares about that isn’t the tangled dark web of Bullshit she’s gotten tied up with Madoka in. Please ask me about all my AU’s where Kuro is Homuras first girlfriend.

Seeing Moemura in Magia Record has always been a bit surreal, we never really understand just what stage of Trauma this Homura is in because Multiverses Are Hell, but this event gives us a good chunk of a Homura who still has hope and faith both in the world and Madoka. Theres this wonder to her that while still bogged down by terrible experiences still has the energy to be Trying. And she sees a girl who used to be like her- which when you think about it is probably what Madoka saw in her- and she wants to help. Because Madoka helped her. And Madoka is the best thing in the universe and maybe Homura can be just a little bit closer to that.

Kuro is too far gone though, as is the reality frequently in this series, things don’t work out just because of circumstance. Kuro was a bullied, insecure little girl who realistically shouldn’t have had to become a rampaging monster because of it. We’re reminded of this being the reality of the Madoka universe. Homura, is reminded of this reality. Homura loses this one chance to bring hope into the world like Madoka brought hope into hers.

And then her story ties into the ending of Madoka’s. Madoka saves her life yet again, even as Homura continues to feel miserable and empty. But at least Madoka is with her. The girls then share a quiet, intimate Valentines together. And you sort of understand how Homura fell so far into the darkness that the only thing she was able to still care about and fight for was Madoka’s safety.

That shit slaps. It slaps you right in the heart and causes fucking bruising but then u want it to do it again because you’re masochistic and Meguca Is Suffering.

Anyway I hope Kuroe slaps our hearts more in season2

MOVING ON!!!!

~Nagisa’s Wish~

Ok, I don’t remember what got me so simp over Nagisa, I think it was the heart-aching irony that Mami adopts the witch that fucking ate her. But that is my baby now and I’d die for her. Fandom Charlotte whose pink and silly and loves her mom and is Mami’s cancer-riddled girlfriend is cool and all but she isn’t a tiny Halloweeny baby whose fucking bitter angry and manically obsessed with cheese due to PTSD.

I had saw a summary of Nagisa’s Wish reposted just to quickly explain Nagisa’s backstory, and as such immediately had to search out if that crazy ride was true- so I actually watched this whole event probably before I downloaded the game. It was surreal on its own but replaying it when it came to NA didn’t lessen it any- I got to process more of what I was witnessing and as result stanned Yu pretty hard.

I guess to explain my Emotions here, saving Yu for later- calls for me to just, describe who Nagisa is as a human being and my headcanons surrounding it all with what this event gave us. Whether you consider it canon or not it’s one version of events that we were given and that I am all for accepting.

Nagisa’s Mom was a celebrity, she could have been an actress though I also like the idea of her being an Idol. She met Nagisa’s Dad oh-so romantically and got knocked up- they very well could have been married but it doesn’t seem clear enough. He seems to have left too suddenly for legal matters like that. Nagisa is approximately 11, and while she seems to remember her Father, she doesn’t in the sense of having had a relationship with him or any feelings. Her Mother has to “explain” why he left, so Nagisa was probably still young even if not a baby. What I’m getting at here is the timeline for when Nagisa’s Mom Got Like That. Nagisa can remember her from before she was, and then says that she got sick after her Dad left. So what I’m wondering is did Daddy Momoe ruin this young rich girls life, give her syphilis and then leave her with a baby she was unfit to care for in poverty? I know half of this is running on anime logic but Holy Shit all the possible ways reasons and ideas for why things could’ve gotten This Bad.

Is it ridiculously dark and edgy that the original story we were given was “Girl wishes her dying mother could have her favorite cake but then realizes OOPSIE-DAISY I could have wished for her to Not Die instead!!!!” got turned into “11yr old hates her abusive mother so much she wants to make her suffer in the most symbolic way she can and then goes mental when she isn’t able to do it”??? Yes. But if I had the mental capacity to I have to admit I was in a position to be just as bitter at that age too. I can’t call it unrealistic. I may infact be projecting hard with how much I support and enjoy this backstory.

Anyway Nagisa was in such a state of trauma and distress at a horrifically young age when she died that it broke her mental faculties so severely that even when she came back as a literal Angel of God she had blocked it out so deeply and thoroughly she seemingly regressed to an even younger capacity and hyperfixated on the trait that she has before used to try to bond with her Mother who she had died hating.

And that also slaps u right in the heart.

A N D T H E N !

~Beachside Bonds~

Just the simple structure of this story was so enjoyable and nicely done. We finally get to see the OG girls in a context we wouldn’t be able to in literally any other scenario. They’re going on a summer vacation together and Homura is sentimentally journaling every single second of it. Is this mayhaps because she’s never gotten to be this happy and blissful with these girls she loves so much??? Of course this is are you not paying attention what the fuck. Homura is so optimistic and healed and hopeful she’s acting like what she might actually be doing as a normal teenage girl. (A heartrending contrast to the end of her Valentines Special)

We get nothing short of pure fluffy Slice Of Life shenanigans on the beach which even includes a bunch of the Kamihama girls that the OG crew knows! And they talk about it! And introduce eachother! And their friends commentate on it! Ren gets to see Kyoko Not Being A Bitch and then Sayaka teases her about having made friends and oh my god my heart is turning into cottoncandy as we speak Mom holy FUCK

Sayaka’s existence fucking matters in this story! It’s her families Hotel they’re staying at and she has relationships and memories with the creepy twins that live there and she talks like a fucking person??? And gives opinions??? That aren’t just copypasted “Justice is Good and Bad things are BAD!!!!”

Mami is fresh out of her fucking Cult Drama and she’s still trying to be cool Senpai but then she DECKS Homura in the face and gets scared by the ghost stories and then turns into pudding and waxes nostalgia at Kyoko out of nowhere IT’S ALMOST LIKE SHE’S A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL????????

G H O S T S ? ? ? ?

Y U ! ? ! ? ! ? !

(IS G A Y ! ! ! !)

This whole fucking backstory and truly horrifying Romeo and Juliet on Acid love and death story between Yu and her girlfriend and like if I wasn’t fascinated enough by Yu just being the creepy organ harvester before but apparently thats what she became after she literally made some sort of wish that erased all of her memories besides the nickname her sweetheart used for her and coincidentally also added to her the task of killing all Bad People?????

Yu made a wish to be able to get rid of All Bad People preserving the innocent version of herself who grew up with this girl and it was right after a failed double suicide attempt on fucking Doomed Lovers Cliff fucking Lifetime Will You Ever.

It then pairs with Homura whose PTSD gets to shine through a bit in being unable to believe any bad sort of Madoka which how could you try to force her to at this point while Also pairing Homura with Ren in the “Gay Love Saved Our Lives: Traumatized vers & Vanilla vers”

I don’t remember if there was a symbolic finale and tbh I have forgotten a lot of the details with Yu and her girlfriend Whatsherface because that shit was just so shocking and bizarre to read and much too painful to reread in a timely fashion just.

That shit hurted but it was full of so much love and hope both doomed and stolen but still was wrapped up in the comforting concept that This Is The Universe Where Homura Gets To Be Okay This Time.

She’s still scarred beyond comprehension and this ghost drama accentuated it all but at the end of the day this is still the Safe Universe where all of them are alive and the Holy Quintet are friends and they’re all going to be okay (Godoka & Aniplex willing) and so many of us love Madoka Magica because it shows girls fighting through the same pain we’ve been through and keeping their hope alive and here we get to see them actually find peace in a clunkily written fanservicey spin-off mobile gacha game and hey, that made me happy while I got to experience it. Thanks for the ideas and memories and tragic backstories and funny thirdary characters MagiReco I’m gonna take em all and Run.

Akjsladbfalkjfsbslk If you read this all without getting a migraine or blocking me ily thanks for listening!!!!!!

TL;DR

Me likey A La Carte Valentine bc it’s silly and gay and I simp Kuro

Me likey Nagisa’s Wish bc sawft baby is good and so are Tragic Edgy Backstories

Me likey Beachside Bonds bc Gay Ghosts and Our Girls Finally Get To Be Happy Peaceful(ish) Teenage Girls and that’s all I want for them ;w;

Reeses In Pieces ya’ll

1Ten 2More 3Words 4To 5Hit 6(3000 7Words 8Woo 9Boy 10Howdy

#magia rapport #magia record #pmmm

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itsclydebitches · 5 years

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/Why/ do Ozpin haters keep bringing up "He got Summer killed"? There is no evidence she died on a mission for Oz, just like there is no evidence that she was let into beacon early like Ruby was, or that her eyes were ever a factor, or that any of the Branwen bird stuff happened before they graduated. There's just biased guessing posed as 'obvious inference'. (There's also no body to show shes dead, but I personally think she is)

Because a large chunk of the fandom decided early on that Ozpin was 100% going to be an antagonist - or at least so morally gray as to be justifiably despised - and hasn’t liked being proven wrong. I mean, he’s a fictional character. No one needs reasons to dislike any character, but the people making those arguments aren’t the ones going, “Eh, not really my fave. But you do you.” They’re the ones who spent five years convincing themselves that Ozpin is somehow more horrible than our actual antagonist and then were thrown when Episode 3 came along and the only hand Ozpin had in starting all this nonsense was die.

So yeah, lots of people either twist or just straight up ignore the canon in an attempt to maintain that view. Like endlessly claiming that the act of explaining a horrible situation in depth to Pyrrha, ensuring she knew she had a choice, forcing her to take time to consider that choice even when she didn’t want to, reiterating that she doesn’t have to do this, again demanding verbal confirmation that she’s a willing participant in this experiment, having the experiment fail, telling Pyrrha in the most overt terms possible NOT to fight Cinder, having Pyrrha decide on her own to go solo Cinder when literally everyone around her is saying this is a bad idea, and then watching Cinder shoot an arrow through her chest… somehow means Ozpin murdered her.

Yeah. There’s no logic. Might Summer have died on a mission for Ozpin? Absolutely. Given her close link with the rest of his inner circle and her silver eyes (as well as Plot Expectations), I’d go so far as to say it’s likely. But you’ll note that the focus isn’t on theorizing about “How did Summer die?” it’s “How did Ozpin kill her?” which are not the same thing. Summer, if she did die on a mission, was another huntress like Hazel’s sister: she knew the risks, she decided to fight anyway, and it’s horrible to take that agency away from her. Immortality aside, the world doesn’t actually revolve around Ozpin. Amazingly enough, people can and do make their own choices!

#rwby #mymetas #Anonymous

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guardiandae · 7 years

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Response to @festive-jester (in regards to this post)

festive-joker said: “this is the most accurate one but also *yawns at the annoying "asexuals can have sex" bit they always throw in* i know why they add it and thats okay but also gives people who arent asexual or less familiar with it the wrong idea i think”

I get what you mean entirely, but, a good chunk of the post was dedicated to dispelling the false idea that “aces can’t have sex or have anything to do with sex”. It’s not just a “bit” that’s thrown in, it’s kiiinnd of a huge reason why I made the post at all. When I wrote it, I had in mind people who say, “You’ve had sex ever before in your life? You do have sex with your husband? NOT ASEXUAL!!!”

Sorry it’s ~annoying~ or boring to you, to let questioning aces know that they still are valid, but I’m not here to throw aces who are “exceptions to the rule” under the bus for the sake of “purity”.

Also, I know the post is titled “A Crash Course on Asexualiy, for Non-Aces” but I’ve long regretted that thoughtless specification, because I’ve gotten so many messages from aces telling me, “I know this isn’t meant for me but this helped me so much.” No, bb, it’s meant for you, I wasn’t thinking far enough ahead.

festive-joker said: “like, i use this label to say no and take ownership of my own body. But when I see posts like this i feel like it gives people a false hope, like "oh I can be the one exception" no you arent and if i change my mind about my "no" thats MY business.”

Again, I get the objection entirely and you’re right that there are some assholes who will read the post and think it’s confirmation that aces can have sex. Those assholes would think that anyway, unfortunately. Also, saying “no” should be a sufficient way to say no.

festive-joker said: “there are no posts going around saying "oh lesbians can have sex with men and have sexual attraction to men" sure they can but thats... not them being a lesbian.”

See, I wasn’t going to reply at all, because to each their own, until I saw this bit.

This analogy is not on equal footing at all therefore I’ll ignore how stupid it is, but it also misrepresents what the post said, which was that people who very rarely have sexual attraction may also identify as asexual (see: demisexual, grey asexual). I take serious issue with those who try to police this, because there is no hard limit, no “you must feel attraction this rarely to ride” cut off. It would be asinine to try to establish one. At what point does a grey ace become “allosexual with low libido” or some shit? I welcome you to point it out, and then go to every single grey ace and make sure they are on the right side of the cut-off. It’s asinine. You do not know how often someone feels attraction, or if what they are feeling is actually sexual attraction or not.

if you are an asexual and having sex, that's not you being an asexual. I'm sorry its not.

Here’s the crux of the bullshit. The entire reason I made the post. The entire point of the original post, which you conveniently ignored because it’s not your personal experience, and then misrepresented in your reply.

Having sex =/= having sexual attraction.

Say it with me again.

Having sex =/= having sexual attraction

To make your lesbian analogy actually work as a parallel, here’s one:

I had a roommate who got married to a man. Had two kids with him. And then later realized she was only attracted to women, divorced him, and embraced what truly made her happy. Is she not a “real” lesbian because she had sex, and had kids, with a man?

But the parallel ends there, because obviously if she keeps having sex with men after that, something is up, right?

I also have an asexual friend who married, had kids, and then realized she is asexual. If for whatever reason she is still comfortable having sex with her partner, it doesn’t mean she isn’t asexual.

I do believe that the majority of aces are repulsed, uncomfortable with, or just uninterested in sex. However, as far as I know there are still very few large scientific studies done to pin a number on that. Even if it was 99% of all aces, I will still put my neck out for the 1% that don’t “fit in”. (Because they DO fit in.)

You can identify with whatever you want to identify with, sexuality and gender are fluid concepts. But also theres a difference between a label and a person and i think a label needs to be almost less loose, especially when its used as an adjective for those that identify with it. At least make that point SUBTLY AND TO ASEXUALS that its okay to identify with the term but still have sex and all that.

...Did you literally just tell me that I have to somehow subtly tell just aces that it’s okay to have sex and still be ace? You do realize that there isn’t like, a mailing list... is there a fucking mailing list, guys? Also, these “outlier” aces often don’t realize they are asexual, because they are told they aren’t. And it’s not just “identifying with” the term, they are still 100% ace. Also, you just said, “if you are an asexual and having sex, that’s not you being an asexual.” So which is it??? (Hint: if you think asexual means partnered orgasms can never ever be had, you’re incorrect, please review my notes and re-take the test at your convenience, or see me after class)

because when its drawn out it drowns out the main point. suddenly the exception is the rule and people can use YOUR term against YOU. "how about when we get married?" "I'm asexual and will be for ALL foreseeable future" "yeah but asexuals can still have sex!" asexual doesnt mean anything at that point

Asexual means and will always mean, lack of sexual attraction.

It does not indicate whether someone is sex-repulsed, sex-averse, sex-indifferent, sex-positive, whether or not they choose to still have sex, under what circumstances, etc. When you try to make “Asexual” synonymous with “I am repulsed by sex” or “I will NEVER have sex!” or “Don’t even TALK to me about sex” ...you are invalidating other aces who do. not. fit. that. mold.

I’m here for sex-repulsed aces, aces with triggers and traumas, I’m here for aces who don’t even want to talk about sex, I’m here for indifferent aces who don’t care at all, I’m here for aces that seem wildly sexual online (especially in fandom spaces) but freak out irl, I’m here for aces that will have sex with someone they are comfy with, I’m here for demis who feel sexual attraction once they establish an emotional bond, I’m here for grey-aces who get random attraction at times. I’m not here to pretend that a % of aces, even if they might be a minority, don’t exist or are somehow less valid.

#not sure what to tag this #for the record I'm in the camp that demisexuals and grey aces are also aces #I believe that ace should be considered an all-encompassing umbrella #so if someone who is demi or grey but doesn't want to use those labels #or is unsure #is 100% welcome to use 'ace'/'asexual' and leave it at that #also I am not here for purity wank #which is what this feels like #bye with that

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cozymochi · 7 years

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(Sorry if this has been asked before) When/what got you into liking Yamcha? I wish to hear your fan-story.

OH DON’T WORRY I LOVE TELLING THIS STORY 💙💙 💝It’s kinda long tho since it did involve when I first got into DBZ through my five year break up until this point. (So I’ll try to summarize the first part- and finally tell some pieces I never got to. And “we” refers to me and my siblings) 🌸💕

Sometime in 2011 DBZ Kai was airing on Nicktoons and it was pretty much the highlight of our “about to deal with school” morning. It showed up in the afternoon too, but during this time there was a hiatus before new episodes could air I think- but this was in the early morning. We came into it blind with no fandom knowledge or influence.

Anywho, after a few days of watching we finally managed to be early enough to see the damn [kickass] opening. And right at the end card, we spot some cool-looking guy in the back with long hair and scars and we’re over here like “OH! Who’s that guy?? When are we gonna see that guy??”

Cut to like, some random ass Namek episode in the afternoon where King Kai reveals that the other Z-Fighters made it through Snake Way. A.K.A holy shit, its the other characters from the OP. THAT was the technical first time I saw Yamcha on screen and speaking (and also learned his name finally). I thought he sounded weird when he spoke cuz I did not expect that …I guess “surfer” type of voice to come out of him. (I don’t think any of us did tbh- and I still don’t really like it) But shoot, I remember one of us saying “[GASP] IT’S THAT ONE GUY!!!” Homie was gone as quickly as he showed up, but he appeared sporadically.

Cut to a random Kai marathon from start to wherever they left off on Namek and wheee~ During the Saiyan Arc, we finally get to see Yamcha fight. And it was wonderful. I don’t know if it was the animation (it was) but it was pretty hype. And based on that single fight alone my approval rating certainly went up significantly- as first impressions go for fighting it wasn’t a bad sight. Tho, since the first time we saw him was with a halo we knew at SOME point that he was gonna die. He died right there via sneak attack explosion. Final thoughts at that point: “DANGIT I WANTED TO SEE MORE OF THAT GUY”

Spoilers: We didn’t see more. Not a lot anyway. Not in this show… (Well not until the Cell stuff in which case we shit ourselves in worry and fear of possibly not seeing him AGAIN when he got impaled by Dr. Gero.) I just know every time we (or I) saw Yamcha pop up, It was always a happier time.

Anyway… To be honest, Vegeta was actually my top favorite character in the entire show up until watching the Cell Saga (on tv). In which case, I found him to be… kind of annoying. He had some badass moments, but I think I liked him for what he was in the Saiyan/Namek stuff. Maybe I was sorta in the position of “Theres way too much of this good thing, so I’m getting tired of it…” (I.E, Vegeta was that good thing, but at the same time seeing him so much was kinda draining for me. He certainly complained a lot. Lord knows I also drew a fuckton of him too lol There was a good chunk of him on Namek but dammit, he was great in that) I liked Yamcha too, but he was more of an afterthought around Vegeta. Not like we saw him that much…

[insert discovering Dragon Ball here , buying and binging season 1 of that with a sibling, and pretty much everything else in essence about this whole series is absorbed and the awful personal year of 2011 ends and in 2012 the apocalypse happens]

I just know I DID leave DBZ for a while without much of a favorite character anymore. I just remember by the Cell stuff, most characters I stopped caring about (at that point anyway). I also didn’t think about the series as a whole for a while. Minus watching and keeping up with TFS, I just know I wasn’t swayed by any of the comments that talked shit on Yamcha for some reason. Though, at those points I couldn’t deduce why exactly I wasn’t swayed lol I just thought “He’s still ok to me??” (I’m sure I tried looking for reasons, but nothing really came about)

CUT TO LATE 2016, @since-the-900s got back into it and via many a conversation where I had to keep recalling my previous knowledge in order to converse, by extension so did I. And my first thought AFTER ALL THE YEARS OF NOT REALLY THINKING ABOUT IT SERIOUSLY- was that Yamcha was my favorite character. I just knew that for some reason, and was so sure about that. Recalling more info about him, that got solidified even more.

So, we’ve come full circle.

Based on EVERYTHING HERE, I can probably assume that I liked him the moment I first saw him (thanks in part to his design that kinda stood out), and I always have. I just didn’t really notice until recently when all of my thoughts finally settled and collected as… I guess I’m an adult.

Yamcha didn’t show up enough when I watched the show for me to ever get annoyed by him, so whenever homie DID show up it was always really nice. I WANTED to see him, and I wouldn’t get that much. So maybe that helped…

When we watched DB he was great in all of that- especially with the shocker that “Holy crap? He was a MAIN CHARACTER at one point??” It was quite the contrast from what little was shown of him in Z (Well it was Kai but still, bear with me). The only info about him in Z was off-hand comments made by Bulma that weren’t really flattering to say the least. But …considering every time he did show up he… he seemed pretty okay…? And…what kind of guy whose goal is to be married would even… But y'know.. ☕️(Even now, a piece of me DOES want to believe what she says, honest to God I do, but… really nothing supports those allegations at all, so I can’t bring myself to)

He was also shat on constantly by fans for reasons that I could never fully figure out (then I realize those “reasons” weren’t even real reasons). As far as I could tell watching the show, he didn’t really do anything to warrant so much disdain. (Shoot, he wasn’t even PRESENT [in Z] long enough to do much of anything, period) Being obstinate as fuck, who cares what they think? Especially on youtube comments. A lot of ‘em can’t even spell.

BUT YEAH THATS MY BIZARRE AND LONG ASS STORY. Just a bunch of weird factors… I get annoyed rather easily, but Yamcha was just on my good side rather consistently. He’s a cupcake that doesn’t get much of a shot to REALLY shine. (I mean, he shined before briefly, but I mean to full-extent where more people could see that)

Just another case of “I didn’t realize how much I liked this character until I really thought about it more.” If that makes any sense.

I’ll be damned if I don’t let it be known that I LOVE TF OUT OF YAMCHA.

#cozy ask #raxceni #THIS WAS REALLY LONG #but idfk if i should even put a read more cuz who bothers opening those #ya'll can scroll like mozart

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