Being late to fandoms means you get to hear about past shit and it's like who the fuck is hating on Akiko and her relationship with Terui I just wanna talk. In a locked room with no cameras.
Akiko is fucking fantastic. She is rough, abrasive, butts heads with everyone, obsessed with money, and has more guts than brains and all of that means she gets her own arcs, her own personality, and she pushes herself, Shotaro, and Philip to be far more than they think they can be. And her relationship with Terui is one of the more adorable het relationships in Kamen Rider. It feels extremely natural and just good.
you block me on main. then vague post abt me almost 2 months later like i dont have PROOF of you being the akiko hater😭
insane how you still magically manage to mischaracterize her in THIS VERY POST by boiling akiko down to a ‘girlboss’ which does js as much disservice as outright hating her.
if you wanna talk abt it lets talk. im all for an open dialogue
I'm just commenting so even if you think oh you can just delete this post and make me look silly for citing you as the reason I'm watching and writing Gokaiger fic, this can be immortalized and I can still cite it.
Anyway I hope you absolutely hate the Gokaiger fic I'll write in your name! 💜💜💜 I'll try to fit it into Memento Mori so I can write Akiko yet again, just for you. Do you want to be cited as badpunhere or by a different name when I get around to writing the Gokaiger fic in your name? I'm going to cite you either way, but I figure it's polite to ask.
first of all. just know i will never delete a post even if i am totally in the wrong. if i get jumped, i get jumped🙂↕️
second of all. like a few days after i posted this i realized i was lowkey tripping with those last few tags. its fuckin toku fanfic literally nobody is supposed to care that much😭so for that i apologize.
HOWEVERRR. if you wanna write tht fic for me, you can just use badpunhere. ive reached a zen when it comes to your writing; i’ll read the fic, go ‘yeah. that was kinda baddd’, and move on with my day. its not worth being so mad over anything somebody else writes.
I was honestly about to let this go because it's not worth it, but that last paragraph, whoo. You've been itching for this fight, but you really don't know what you're poking. I call myself a salty marshmallow, and you poked hard enough that the salt is pouring out.
So you want a fight?
Let's dance.
There is a very good reason why I had pointed out Born Dead, Buried Alive and why I am certain you have NOT read it before you decided to break containment on your bitching and come at me hot. Because you asked why I wrote Philip and Shotaro like that.
I don't know.
Maybe because this was first chapter of Born Dead, Buried Alive.
Maybe because in the second chapter, we got to see how codependent they're getting.
Maybe because in the third chapter, we can see them getting comfortable with the other being the only safe person to be around.
Maybe because by the fourth chapter, we can see that they are being stalked by something that gets angry enough to throw a fucking typewriter.
Maybe because this happened in chapter 5.
Maybe because chapter 6 was the chapter inspired by the beginning of Abigail when the titular vampire herself was getting kidnapped.
Maybe before Shotaro and Philip fucked, they had to overcome the fact that Shotaro couldn't get over the trauma of seeing Narumi die.
Maybe because they had to kill mercs in ways that would fit in better with the Radio Silence Productions film Abigail than the tokusatsu show Kamen Rider W. Or else Shotaro would be dead and Philip would have been kidnapped and back at Museum.
But you didn't read Born Dead, Buried Alive, did you? Because you would know why Shotaro and Philip are hostile towards Akiko. You would know that they have been through so much, and the lesson they both needed to learn was the entire world wasn't after them and they can let people in more than just being an informant. You would know why this scene is so important.
You would know why Philip thinking of her as family now is significant, far beyond what W actually showed in this episode. You would know that Akiko being her abrasive, money grubbing, violent, stubborn, loyal, and willing to throw down for the people she cares about self meant that Philip and Shotaro now are coming out of that codependent shell.
But you didn't read it, did you?
You would know why Philip calling Terui a broken man was what Shotaro would have become if he didn't have Philip and Akiko. You would know that Akiko is the tertiary main character.
Oh wait, you didn't get to Terui.
You didn't get to Philip calling him a deeply broken man. Or Terui challenging Shotaro to a duel that is won by Shotaro proving to Terui that it's not Philip that's the important part, it's the fact Shotaro and Philip care deeply for each other.
You didn't get to me being silly and having Akiko break Philip out of a hyperfixation by using hospital food when Shotaro was being discharged after Terui kicked the shit out of him, because I had been in the hospital recently and was still fascinated by how bad it was.
But you didn't like what I wrote, so of course you didn't get to it. Reading those chapters isn't going to change anything other than you possibly got to the last chapter where Wakana gives Philip her body so he can come back, Philip finds out Shotaro tried to kill himself because of above codependence, and Akiko takes the newly human Philip to a fair for food (and Philip catches a glimpse of Ankh and Eiji in a cameo).
However, I'm very not done.
You see, the thing I find the absolute most fascinating (and hilarious) thing is this.
You called it popular and well-liked.
My dude.
The last time I was anything ever even approaching popular was in the early 2000s. When I was in the Fullmetal Alchemist fandom. And out of the group that invited me in, I was so very clearly the least known of all of them.
How did it feel when no one took the bait? How did it feel when no one came to my defense?
How did it feel to take the bitching you were doing to friends in a private group chat, try to get me to fight you, and have no one come to my aid? Did it feel good? Did you think "oh wow this bitch is wide open for bullying"?
How did it feel to see me shrug, knowing I just had fun with this story and that I was exorcising the demons called Plot Bunnies?
Not to mention, how does it feel to know every single thing I say about Akiko's personality is me ringing the endorsement bell?
How does it feel to know when I say she's violent, money grubbing, and short tempered that I could also say this about Lina Inverse, someone I had a crush on when I was in high school? Someone I drew more often than actually paying attention in class, and had someone in choir notice me drawing the sorceress who will chuck a Fireball at you if you even think the words "wow, small tits" in her direction and that's if she's in a good mood and a Dragon Slave if she's in any other mood?
No, seriously, when I was Lina's age I had a massive crush on her.
How does it feel to know I still would put my head between Koudelka's legs, even if I'm in Edward's position and about to get stabbed because she wants my stuff? And that I consider Koudelka far more abrasive than Akiko could ever be? And I played Koudelka after Shadow Hearts, so I was well into my 20s when I realized yeah, I still am hot for women like this?
That was the crux of your argument, wasn't it? That I clearly hate Akiko, despite being on record that if I hate a character, I just don't write them? That I have gone out of my way to only write Saiba Nico once because I really do not like her? That I gave Aso Megumi the smallest role I could and tried to cut her entirely from The Many Sides of Me because I really do not like her? That I have had many places where I could put Mlynar Nearl in my Arknights fics and I fucking refuse to write him because of how he talked to Blemishine, his niece, in Maria Nearl?
The crux of your argument was "this person is taking a canon Akiko, not sanding down her flaws, and putting her against a Shotaro and Philip that dealt with a year of being terrorized by mercs and Shroud and have also been keeping each other alive by Philip nearly killing Shotaro several times drinking his blood and the both of them having killed mercs in very bloody ways, and still coming out the other side as their friend and family."
Oh right, you also didn't get confirmation that there were times Philip was alone, heard someone moving upstairs that wasn't Shotaro or Akiko, and had to deal with the terror that this could be someone there to kidnap or kill him while they were gone, only for it to be Shroud checking up on her son and doing it in the worst way possible.
How good or bad my writing and plotting is isn't something I can assign. It is something you can. And you find it bad. Fine. There's a reason I say I'm not popular and why you saying Drawn to the Spiral is popular is still making me wheeze laugh. But you either read one and a half fics in Memento Mori before deciding to ignore Born Dead, Buried Alive and ask me questions answered in that fic (as well as make posts ignoring that your problems have answers in that fic), or you are trying to get me to fight you.
And to be honest, I've been in fandoms since the 90s.
I can see through your shit.
Don't try to say I hate a woman that fits my definition of an ideal fictional woman I've had since reading Secret Vampire by LJ Smith in 1996.
Look me in the face and tell me that the reason I started playing Arknights, someone I have maxed out both her and her alter, someone who is just as strong willed as Akiko and seething with rage under that Saintess shell, is someone I hate.
Or do you have more out of context screenshots that you're working overtime to bend into "hates Akiko" to put into this fanfiction you wrote about me?
But I do have to give you one thing. You recognized that I purposely wrote Shotaro and Philip's relationship as unhealthy and codependent. I can bake you a cookie as a reward.
Though you didn't recognize that I also wrote it as "this is the best they've got in this situation where they feel like they can only rely on each other and it's at least keeping them alive despite being horrifically unhealthy and codependent" so I have rescind that offer of a cookie.
okay. so. i hope you know next month would make a year of us going on and off about this.
anyways. never claimed to have ever fully read drawn to the spiral and i DID fully read born dead, buried alive and also didnt like THAT. SO I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS😭😭I STILL DONT CARE😭😭akiko’s treatment lowkey isnt even my main problem, im mostly bothered by the characterization but akiko is the point that YOURE harping on and i would say ‘lets keep talking about her then’ BUT I DONT CARE.
I DONT CARE ABOUT WHATEVER THE HELL ELSE YOU LIKE. I DONT CARE ABOUT REVERSE 1999. I DONT CARE ABOUT WHAT ANIME CHARACTER YOU HAD A CRUSH ON.
I DONT CARE THAT YOU WROTE SHOTARO AND PHILIP TO BE UNHEALTHY. YOU WROTE THEM WRONG ANYWAYS. AUS BE DAMNEDDDD.
i said ‘i dont like this w fic and im going to talk abt it and explain why’ you couldve just blocked me after that. i dont why we’re still here talking abt this!!!!
and so what if i called the damn fic popular by mistake, can i not fuck up????
anyways. about what i said at the end of my last post. it was a joke. i wasnt being wholly serious. because why would i be if youre offering to write me a fanfic abt my favorite toku show bc i said mean things about you on the internet? why would anybody do that? if you want i could return the favor and write you a vampire w fic OR SOMETHING
"I got called out and now I have to pretend it was a joke because otherwise it's very obvious I was the one in the wrong because if I had done everything I said I did here I wouldn't have even gotten to Drawn to the Spiral before giving up because I didn't like the characterization and writing. So now I have to pretend I read seven chapters and 14,852 words that fully explain why Shotaro and Philip have this mindset. Oh and I have to try and explain away the whole Akiko thing after I'm drowned in proof that Akiko is the author's ideal woman."
And tbh, please write the vampire W fic. No, really.
No, really.
Sometimes I do write things because I want others to write it too. I have a love of vampire AUs to the point I lampshade it, and oh my god I have had to stop myself so many times from putting more vampires in my fics. But I love vampire AUs. I love when people dig into characters, change a part of them, and then we get to see what happens. Shaking a premise is so much fun. Like both Born Dead, Buried Alive and Drawn to the Spiral had some fun things shaken out of it. I came into Born Dead, Buried Alive with the idea that became chapter 6, and proceeded to shake out how? Why? And then Drawn to the Spiral happened to shake out what happens next. Why? How would things change with Shotaro and Philip being so broken by these events? How would almost bleeding out instantly and having to kill someone in a very gruesome way so he could save Philip change Shotaro? How would it change Philip to need blood like that? How would a more canon adjacent character react to Philip and Shotaro being far darker due to circumstances far beyond the scope of W? How would a person who has loved horror since the 80s approach it, and what would come out when said horror loving person shook this premise?
That shit's fun!
And you should do it too! Take an idea. Shake it. What comes out? Is Philip the vampire this time? Is it Shotaro? Akiko? Terui? Wakana? Saeko? What's the premise? Mine started with just "hey what could have been if they had more of a budget and time to really make sfx that Philip could use in interesting ways because of his circumstances" and then I added vampires. And then I shook it over and over and over until this came out.
I mean, I won't read it. I'm not reading W fic right now. But start shaking a vampire idea.
But also understand that I know you've been looking for that fight ever since you came at me with "my buddies and I are laughing at this fic behind your back and I have questions." You just chose the wrong person to try it with.
Because why would you break containment? Why would you go to the person you've been dissing in a group chat and tell them you've been laughing at my fic behind my back? Why would you go tell the author you read an entire fic and a half with characterization you didn't like that you've been hate reading it and laughing with others? You were completely in the wrong.
Not maybe.
Not even initially.
Completely in the wrong.
If you hated my characterization of Shotaro and Philip, why did you read seven chapters and 14,852 words of it? And then why did you get halfway through the sequel and then have to ask questions answered in the previous fic?
Why did you think any of this was a good idea?
And why did you spend so much time on how I write Akiko, including having to take the time to respond to this initial post if it ended up being a joke?
I mean, it was fun to bury you in proof that everything you said is a fucking lie, and watch you backpedal. I do have fun with things like that. Shit's funny to watch you try to rile me up more. I know that's why, when it's very obvious I said I play Arknights for Pramanix, you called it Reverse 1999. I did try to play Reverse, found it boring. But I know you're trying to rile me up, and to be honest, it's kinda pathetic. Reminds me of a child calling me a poopie head.
But it's so funny to watch you not even realize I set up a nice little post that if you even attempt to call me out again, I can screenshot proof that you are lying, trying to fight, and are so bad at it. Do you realize that? Do you realize I understand paper trails? Do you realize you're giving me a beautiful one that is just... so childish that it's almost art?
Do those "friends" of yours that you apparently were MST3King my fic with exist at all? Or are they smart enough to know to keep everything in the group chat? Or at least not to put their thoughts in the very public tags in a clear attempt for a fight?
You're so very bad at this. Getting worked up to the point you're trying to insult me by calling a game by the wrong name? I wish I liked Reverse! The art direction of what I played is great. I wish I found someone I liked in it enough to keep me going! But it was just... so boring... such a shame. It didn't even have something like the factory building in Arknights: Endfield that made me so engaged that I lost track of time and time travel several hours.
... man, this makes me sad that something with such a kickass art direction was so boring.
But I'll be honest. A lot of what you're doing is just shouting "NUH UH!" and expecting people to believe you, while taking actual proof of your words being wrong and trying to dismiss it. Because otherwise that means you read a fic that you hate and its sequel and then tried to harass me about it by leading with that you've been laughing at it and then tried for yet another fight by putting your thoughts in the public tags and then responded to this AND THEN tried to find ways to take pieces and call them a joke.
That's pathetic.
And I want to believe that you aren't pathetic.
But let's be real. You're just pathetic.
And let's also be honest. If you weren't trying to make yourself look good and right in this situation, we could be pathetic together. I could help workshop anything you shake out of a vampire W fic idea. I went at mine alone. The only toku friends I had at the time were two people I was in a group chat with. I mean, I have a lot more now and we have fun shaking ideas out, but I didn't have anyone really to bounce ideas off of at the time. If you weren't so intent on being the right person here, I wouldn't mind workshopping ideas with you.
Hell, I love talking about the craft of writing. I could have explained how I approached the idea of Philip's vampirism not being blood itself, but data, and workshopped with you how you want your vampires to work. I could explain how I approached the scene where Akiko stops Shotaro from killing someone. There's a lot behind it! By that point, I needed Shotaro to be close to the point of no return, and I needed Philip to be in a similar spot. But the important thing was Akiko. She was the normal person there. She's their first real bond outside of the hole they stuck themselves in for safety. I could explain how that scene was a key one to me, and how it differed from the scene in Born Dead, Buried Alive where Philip absorbs Cyclone but was just as important and how it shaped not just Shotaro and Philip, but also how Akiko handled these two men who have killed, are willing to kill, and need someone on their side so they don't lose themselves even further. And all this is really helpful to know, by the way! It's really helpful to know how someone approaches a scene they think is key, and why they think it's key. Like, really, think about scenes and if it's one that defines that act. And if it is, why does it define the act?
I could have workshopped all this with you, if you had even come at me initially with just asking about specific questions about specific scenes in specific chapters in a way that wasn't unbearably rude, because then I would know you actually did read it and not watch you backpedal once you're called out.
But you're intent on being pathetic and trying to be the right one.
And honestly? My own pathetic ass needs sleep.
funny as fuck youre implying my good buddies @cinnamon-bugg and @alicethenobody arent real.
also. i said i was ranting in the tags
sue me for wanting to rant publicly. so much for free speech😒
and this is all i originally said about akiko
again. YOU keep harping on this
and you have yet to fully address my main point in that post, you can say that you wrote shotaro and philips relationship like that on purpose all you want. but thats like half of what i said here
never said a peep on this point at all.
and like. youve seen me admit fault every single time i felt as if i had done something wrong yet i havent seen you just dismiss me as just some random jerk. and maybe thats my bad for continuing to fan these flames. so i’ll stop responding. for real.
also never claimed all my post to you were jokes. THIS is what i actually said
that part at the very end is also a joke. if you cant tell.
why am i joking around? because im watching you be so upset over a mildly negative response to something you wrote. if youve been on the internet for so long why is something this simple bothering you so much?
by the way i have no idea why youre acting like youre going to catch me in a lie or something. i said wrong or right im not deleting my posts you dont need to have proof😭
and why? you ask. why does mystery science theater exist? why to people watch bad tv shows? play bad games? read bad books? whatever answer you can give for those questions are probably the reason why i did this. and why the questions i asked you in the beginning? because i was genuinely curious.
and again maybe i shouldnt had said i read it with friends or we were all ‘okay man’ about it. maybe i shouldnt had made you think the worst, my bad.
