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[[Hiiiiii I'm plugging this fic I wrote because I'm still proud of it... mainly because these are the same addisons in this blog. Technically it is canon to this blog too so I figured it was worth sharing. The whole series it's apart of that I'm planning will be with these guys]]

[rockinmusician]

Dear Ibuki, I didn’t like your concert and it made me uncomfortable. Let’s just say that while I enjoy rock, punk and metal, I choose not to listen to aggressive/extreme metal subgenres involving death growls and screaming vocals because I believe they sound mediocre, and I can’t stand how strangely popular they’ve become, to the point where mainstream rock stations are now playing this kind of music. Ever since your concert, everything you say and do doesn’t make me laugh or feel happy, it makes me feel anxious, and yet everyone loves you for your positivity, fashion, sexuality, and your help during the class trials. I find it hard to believe that someone who acts so positive and energetic would want to sing songs about dark, negative topics. Everyone says you’re a cinnamon roll but I think otherwise, to me, you’re more like the dark humor joke character whose purpose is to make the player uncomfortable by being a K-ON parody with references to the death metal subculture. Even your free time events weren’t inspiring for me, it was more like, you told Hajime that you’re proud of who you are despite your taste in music, and I don’t want to acknowledge that, and your free time events also felt like you were forcing Hajime to start a metal band and it made me feel sorry for the poor guy. The only things keeping me from hating you is that I find you very attractive and there are some hard rock bands I love that I think you would love too. I apologize for how long this is, and I’m sure you think otherwise, but what do you think I should about it?

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“... Yeah, this one’s on you, Admod.”

I don’t feel like writing such a long deconstruction of Ibuki’s character as an in character letter is something Ibuki can respond to, so you have me.

From what I can see, you have one major problem with Ibuki’s character, and that keeps you from enjoying her other traits. And that’s fine. You don’t need to agree with popular opinion, and it sounds like you have a pretty good reason to not like her specific musical tastes.

I’m pretty sure that was what the joke was supposed to be. “She looks so fun and upbeat, oh, wait, she likes really traumatising music”. And this is apparently a really recent development, perhaps as recent as it being while she’s still on the island.

I don’t know how being a K-On character is supposed to be dark humour, unless you mean it’s because she mixed K-On references with death metal? Ibuki’s talent in Japanese is specifically “Ultimate Light Music Club”, and I feel that explains a lot about how pushy she is in her Free Time Events. Apparently, school clubs are expected to be like a second job, where you dedicate all your free time to them, and competition is fierce. So they get really aggressive about getting you to join, and that’s what Ibuki’s “Pick me!” thing is about. She’s exhibiting her talent, and that got lost in translation.

The main point of her free time events is that it shows her thoughts on music as a way to have fun with others, rather than being some high exhibition art that should only be done by people with talent, and I find that sweet. She also gives Hajime some life advice on loving yourself.

If you don’t like Ibuki despite the majority liking her, that is 100% valid. There’s plenty of characters that the majority like that I don’t. But I feel like it’s a bit shallow to say “I don’t hate you because you look good.” Maybe hypocritical of me to say, but I feel like if her portrayal of Death Metal weighs so heavily against her, then Looks good is a pretty poor counterbalance.

If she doesn’t work for you, she doesn’t work. Neither of us are going to die if a fictional character isn’t 100% adored.

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((Worst thing about rp’ing with mxsecarnival’s Ibuki is that I can’t write Ibuki Mioda in the tags twice))

((What if I want to be redundant, Tumblr?))

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((Is it tacky to send yourself Magic Anons?))

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[[Ohhhh jeez there's already like. a decent amount of you here within a day. Like thank you so much but I expected 2 likes on that first post I'm locking in now. I'll have the first ask up this week I'm putting some good effort into it!!!]]

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((I feel bad at times, because I do have mutuals that clearly would like to write with me, but I just... run so much on inspiration, that I can never seem to interact with them.))

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