Your tags on that manga Super Creek post? Fucking A+ golden. You absolutely get it. <3<3
THANK YOU!!!! i love creek a lot, she's invaded my mind very very heavily and i think about her a ton. she's a very, very interesting character and i think she deserves SO MUCH BETTER than the fandom gets, but also its like, i think game creek is still interesting! some seem to write her off entirely but no, manga creek is still there, manga creek is just game creek but dialed up a lot.
hell, she normally isn't like that to begin with (in terms of how much she's dialed up the villain act) because she literally says she asked black ale to help her because she wanted to really put on the act. so part of why she's Like That is because of that influence, but also like. creek DOES THAT in-game!
cross insults the trainer, creek gets Mad, and she locks in. sure, what happens in cingray is vastly different, but at the same time, creek HAS this ability to lock in. she does it a lot in her career. she does still care about racing and winning and doing real good, but she's still got that firey passion - it just gets brought out in a different way. in cingray, it's the desire to fight oguri, to race against her, especially on equal terms. she flat out states as much. even in her career mode, she still WANTS to race against people, to do her best, and you help her realize her desire to do that on her OWN terms. (hell, you could even argue that her trainer getting kinda Slammed for creek's own results is a part of that, since that happens earlier on. creek takes it on the chin, at least a little bit)
hell, the infamous goo-goo babies line comes from her saying she was "really cool" in the last race, and that she wants to coddle someone as a result. she DOES take this shit MAD seriously. she's still there! just in a different way, and in a way that's not easily communicated because of the way career mode works. that's not the fault of uma as a game nor of career mode, that's just how it goes sometimes. its like how an RPG might depict cutscenes even when its a lot more intense than that
sorry for the long ass response i have Thoughts about this character. shes so cool i love u super creek
