#mp posting

[ragnar0c]

I have a separate blog for oc posting. (@ragnar-ocs) Like original stuff, but I dunno. Maybe I should post them here too. It’s been a while so i feel kinda anxious esp when tumblr is more of a fandom centered space.

Anyway, I’ve been redesigning ocs between projects (Fabula, OoS, Eo4). Here are my three protags for Mage Prophecies. Their names are Shoko, Mio, and Nu. You might see them around here more. Or not.

[157marcy-park157]

you smoke pot?????

Yes, I find it spiritually and intellectually stimulating. I get it from Agnes whose boyfriend gets it for her, Agnes is our exchange student from Germany, and she always says “If anyone needs to smoke marijuana it's you Marcy.”

However, she says it in German, my mother won't let us talk in English, so I can practice my German in a “practical setting.”

[157marcy-park157]

@brookconeybear, I took these pictures to commemorate our zoo trip.

[157marcy-park157]

what’s a word

What’s anything really.

[157marcy-park157]

Hi Marcy! :)

- @olive-ilove

Hi, Olive. I hope you are well. It’s good to see you and I miss you, smiley face.

[157marcy-park157]

what’s being catholic like

It’s pretty great. I get to talk to Jesus, and because Jesus knows every language we can have conversations in Hebrew and some in Latin, which I don’t speak fluently, yet.

I also get to confirm soon, which is cool I’m very excited. My mother want’s me to pick St. Sebastian as my patron saint, he’s the patron saint of winners. Personally I would rather St. Jude. Thaddeus because he was cousin’s with Jesus; also because I don’t want to do what my mother says.

[157marcy-park157]

Hello, Marcy.

- @willamoirabarfee

Hi, Barf.

[datastate]

do you ever kind of fucking lose it over the sheer amount of things shigeo does for total strangers. taking the time to befriend a traumatized, ill-informed guy whose clearly being manipulated by his boss despite it being the middle of a crisis. saving a bunch of random kids because his brother cares about them. getting hit by a truck for a kid he doesnt know because he doesn't have enough time to use his powers. he's not 100% (heehee) selfless and he constantly does not do things for other people that he could definitely do but there's an emotional aspect to risking yourself for someone you love and an entirely different one for risking yourself for someone just because theyre a person and they dont deserve this

it's genuinely one of the most appealing parts of the series!!! shigeo's still young, but it's because he's been shaken to the reality of what his powers are capable of so early on that he ends up. taking this responsibility in crisis. he's doing what he can to prevent destruction/death (without using his powers on living beings, because he considers that in itself. dangerous), and will show people the destruction they've brought as well. not in a malicious way, but because he is giving them the benefit of the doubt that they don't understand the gravity of misuse.

many of the other espers them are reluctant to admit this because they've already experienced isolation due to their powers and have found relief in being able to show that. you can see the catharsis at shigeo's breaking point in the mogami arc -- finally reclaiming this and feeling justified in it at this point. my words may be a bit messy here & i apologize, but. i really loved this arc for how painful it was to watch by comparison to what shigeo actually wants. and it was very interesting to me seeing that it's not just his memories of the people he personally cared for that brought him back, but what brought him here at all: "i came here to save someone" ... that moment brings back the heart he tried so hard to keep, even when his classmates wouldn't bother with him. he instead directed it to other living beings whose provocation he could understand - and because he now understands that this reality was intentionally meant to provoke him, that's when he understands he's the same as other human beings in justifying his right to exist. everyone is trying to guarantee their safety; the ambitious see safety as 'power' and others may see safety as 'apathy' ... but granting someone that chance to step into actual safey -- unconditional support -- is incredibly important for setting that first stone of a new path that doesn't rely on violence to guarantee it. and with all he's gone through, he's been forced to save himself from the brink of that, too. re-realize that acting upon violence would begin to carve into his personal bonds as well. it goes against what reigen asked of him, and it would force ritsu to relive the pain mob put him through with the added fear of his intention.

just! ahhh, this is specifically within the context of mp100's message, some parts i find to be a bit more difficult to apply on a large scale -- but again, this is an anime meant for younger audiences and it does so, so well at conveying the importance of having that stance that ignorance is one of the main causes of interpersonal conflict. whether it's willing or unwanted, that's what a lot of the antagonists end up confronting ... or even force shigeo to acknowledge!!

i was surprised (in a good way!) when i first realized that ritsu was going to be the antagonist, especially because it put his kindness toward shigeo in a new light that is really valuable for both of them! it plays into a fear that both of the kageyama kids have, and having ritsu admit that aloud finally gave them both a chance to. acknowledge this and work toward finding a healthy balance again. he'd seen proof of shigeo's improvement when fighting suzuki, managing to control its extreme when he recognized ritsu was afraid of seeing him fall to that psychic overdrive. &... in a weird sense, i feel like ritsu would be relieved seeing that mob's final psychic overdrive wasn't merely the cause of stress, but near-death; an uncontrollable situation where something had to take hold to make sure shigeo survived. this was a sudden shock to shigeo's whole that forced him to confront the internal conflict quickly instead of that slow process of reconnecting with that part of himself; & ritsu now has the power to help shigeo. not defend himself, but extend what he'd been asking for so long & never pushed mob to confess: is something wrong ?

i am getting. a bit off-track but just. handshaking you. this series is so, so good and i love the connections they manage to find and keep after battles. shigeo is such a good character for this because he carefully balance's a child's hope for others along with confronting the results of his own psychic breakdown, leading him to a much wiser position of how to help other people realize their own naivete;;