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[demonmirrortezca]

patchworkprofessor hat auf deinen Eintrag geantwortet:Desperately wanted

Does Stein count?

Technically :0 But really, Tsar, Feodor, Dengu, Alexander, Zubaidah, Djinn, even Yumi... I have a mighty need for all of them :|

[soul-dwelling-not]

Oh wow. I didn't know you got a 3DS with Super Smash Brothers on it. Is it fun playing SSB on a smaller screen? I was debating getting SSB 3DS the other day, but I didn't know if it would be any fun on a handheld.

I’m enjoying it a lot! 

I’m frustrated at how expensive the Wii U version is, so I got the 3DS because there was a sale for Smash 3DS and one other game. Even on a smaller screen and having to get used to the awkward directional panel, the gameplay is consistent with the earlier N64, Game Cube, and Wii versions. 

Uploading Smash screen caps to Mii Verse is not supported, I haven’t tried Street Pass yet, but I appreciate having a game that I can carry around with me. 

Granted, the Wii U game would be playable on the cordless screen controller, and I have no way right now to compare the Wii U Smash to the 3DS Smash. I’m sure having the game on the bigger screen is a lot better. But being able to play this game anywhere is more attractive.

Plus, the conventions I go to tend to have rooms full of Wii U with Smash, so I can now jump into a game by putting in Smash into the 3DS then use the 3DS as a controller on the Wii U game. 

(And I would be playing right now for pre-Toonami online play with other people on Tumblr, but I’ve played so much this week that I really need to write content for other sites and work.)

[toushindai]

Stein. Eheheheheh.

Sexuality Headcanon: This might duplicate your answer, but; straight, with an extremely fraught relationship with his own sexuality. It mostly developed alongside his sadism so in most circumstances he’s almost afraid of his sexuality. He had it good and repressed right up until he ran into Medusa. …This also makes him subby as hell, when he does actually wind up in a relationship. Gender Headcanon: cis male, but I think it would have been really interesting if he’d been assigned female at birth–considering the way violence is considered to be a more masculine trait. A ship I have with said character: MedusaxStein and MariexStein. Forever OTPs. A BROTP I have with said character: Not Spirit. I do not actually like his relationship with Spirit very much. But he and Sid are totally bros, and I like that.A NOTP I have with said character: Death. *shudders*A random headcanon: Pertinent to the above, I think he kind of comes out of the end of the series (manga, not anime) with… almost a religious PTSD. His relationship with Death was unhealthy for a long time, but only became truly untenable during the series, and being sent to the moon was kind of the final straw.General Opinion over said character: For technically a not-quite-main character, he has so much depth and complexity and such a good character arc! A lot of it seems to happen offscreen and is just kind of hinted at, but I love the little glimpses we do get of it. He is great. 

[cronathetwitchy]

6 Word Story: "I can't deal with" now disproved.

Love it!

[demonmirrortezca]

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First name? Katharina Birthday? April 24th Where are you from? Bavaria Crush? DJ JLaw bruh Favorite Color? Turquoise & Black Write something in all Caps IT'S LIKE FUKKEN 4 AM I GOT UP AT TWO AND I'M TIRED BUT CANT SLEEP ANYMORE SEND HELP

Favorite band/artist? Alice in Videoland

Favorite Number? 13 Favorite drink? Diet Schwip Schwap, Ginger Ale, After the Funeral, I also like tea, coffee... Don't make me pick, no~? Oh and carbonated water of course.

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[lady-of-gorgon]

5, 13, 30

5. Disgust

By and large, Medusa simply doesn’t care about things that don’t go her way; they aren’t worth her time. Disgust is reserved for the things that are worth her time. 

There are two main things I would pinpoint her as having a reaction of disgust to: Anything Arachne has ever done, and Stein’s clinging to order rather than madness.

Her reaction of disgust to Arachne is a result of fear, a result of the abuse she suffered at Arachne’s hands. Fear presents as disgust because she considers herself to be well beyond that now—and therefore, much better than it. 

On the other hand, her disgust at Stein comes from feeling that he could do better, if only he’d stop clinging to Lord Death and let himself follow his insanity and instincts. This is going to mesh with pity, below, so I think I’ll discuss it mostly there.

13. Pity

First I should offer an apology to stxtchesnsmiles who also asked me this question last night, but because I am not at my most observant at 10 p.m., I answered 23 instead. Sorry!

As above—Medusa is disgusted by Stein’s decision to cling to sanity, and I think she pities him for it as well. She thinks he’s capable of better, and that he’s been brainwashed into not wanting what he wants. I maintain that she fails to understand him, in this regard—sanity is his own decision, and one he fights for. Medusa can’t understand this because she has put so much effort into vanquishing her own duplicity and considers that to be the most elegant solution. So, she pities him for not yet coming to that conclusion for himself yet. She would be happy to help him reach that decision, of course. With violence and insanity-causing magic. That’s not what he wants? Tough luck.

Very, very occasionally she might consider Crona and think, “If you were born to a different mother, you might have been happy.” It’s pity, in a way, but it doesn’t change how she acts, and in any case she doesn’t think that way very often.

30. Arousal

Gonna go ahead and talk about Medusa’s sexuality in general, here. First of all, it’s not something that she considers more important than her work. It’s a luxury, when it comes up, but if she has better things to do with her time then she ignores it. 

What turns her on is being desired—the power that gives her over the person doing the desiring. Bonus points if, like with Stein, it’s a terrible idea on their part. I’ve mentioned before that I don’t think gender plays into this at all. What matters is that she has control over them. Of course, for that to matter, the person has to have a degree of power on their own; she has to somewhat respect them for their submission to interest her. And if their interest is clear but they haven’t submitted just yet, she quite enjoys beating them into submission. In any sense of the word. 

[soul-dwelling-not]

((I didn't know you were a fan of Teen Titans. That was the first fandom I ever roleplayed in. Such a great show.))

When there's trouble, you know who to call...

Teen Titans got me through high school and college, patchworkprofessor, then graduate school.  (I've even used the theme song when teaching linguistics, translation, and poetry--so, it's been helpful.)

I definitely have some complaints (the later seasons had an awkward balance, in which the humor felt too unsophisticated for the increasing darkness; Derek Wyatt's style, especially in later series, does not appeal to me, and some of his conduct online is so bitter).

But Nauck and Torres's issues of the animated show's comic were excellent. And as with most things, I had fan fic ideas but never got around to writing them. 

Rambling about each season below.

Season 1: Rough but excellent--yes, it's nothing like the more serious Bruce Timm cartoons, but by the end of the season it produced a coherent arc that used Slade effectively.  Part of that actually owes to Timm, who Glenn Murakami credited as inspiring the villain's role as a dark surrogate father to Robin.

Season 2:  A good continuation of the previous season, although the episodic nature made it difficult to adapt Terra's story.  Ignoring how much the original comics' arc had to be adapted to a younger audience--while admittedly maintaining a dark tone--I was bothered by the problem that happened for Teen Titans and nowadays the current Marvel cartoons:  they are so episodic.  We interrupt Terra's arc to have one-shot episodes, which are arranged in such an order that sometimes, after she rejoins the team, Terra is there, then she is not. 

If Season 2 had a problem, it was how Terra occupies the role of villain.  I tend to dislike the trope that "well, teens are immature, so they make mistakes."  No, _humans_ are flawed, so they make mistakes--up to a point.  It seemed unbelievable to have Terra shift so drastically in reaction to the Titans. 

That, or I'm just bothered 'cause I ship Beast Boy and Raven.  (The fan art...)

Season 3:  This is when the series fell apart for me.  Brother Blood could have led to a darker turn, yet the series wanted to keep Slade as the most wicked character.  Based on Blood's affiliation with occult powers, he felt like a character more suited to the Trigon arc rather than as Cyborg's doppleganger.

The introduction of Titans East was appreciated, however, for some worldbuilding.

Season 4:  I'm not a fan.  The season felt like missed opportunities, emphasizing again Robin as the main character whereas other series have been willing to explore other relationships (Book 3 of Korra embraced the friendship--and whatever may come of that--between Korra and Asami), while this season felt like the Robin and Raven season rather than having her engage more thoroughly with her teammates.  It is also an awkward season, as the dark season arc (Raven is either going to destroy the world or die trying to save it) makes it hard to laugh at the lighter episodes (I keep thinking, what is going through Raven's mind during these side-stories). 

Season 5:  The episodes have become too episodic by this point, so many heroes are introduced and underdeveloped, and the last episode, regardless how metaphorical it was, was too philosophical for my taste.  It was not like Trigun where the philosophizing felt to be part of the characters, so the poignant aspect did not felt earned.  Returning to Terra, and passing up an excellent coda to show how she was resurrected (Season 4: Raven turns stone humans back into flesh and blood--so that's likely what happened to Terra) felt like a loss.

Teen Titans Go: I'm not a fan.  I tend to dislike cynical humor, and this series seems like a throwback to the cynical comedy of 1990s and 2000s cartoons (Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Billy and Mandy) without some of the hope (Regular Show).  I did laugh at Raven enjoying her teammates turning into zombie old people, though.  

[lady-of-gorgon]

♦☄

[second answer contains a reference to manga chapter 87] 

♦: Relationship with my Muse

Aha. You know this is complex. =P

There’s a lot about Medusa that I want to be like: she’s able to take what she wants while disregarding the haterz, she’s in control of her emotions, she’s unshakably sure of herself. But at the same time, a lot of these things manifest in ways that make her unabashedly evil, so I guess she’s also like a cautionary tale for me? (Not that I’m teetering on the edge of turning unabashedly evil—more that she demonstrates how the desire for invulnerability can be twisted. Relatedly, I don’t actually think she’s in control of her emotions, per se.)

She’s kind of like a subconscious mirror for me. There have been a number of things I’ve realized about myself by writing her, a number of things that I’ve built into my headcanon that sure, I can back up with references if I need to, but the interpretations really came from the places where our minds work in similar ways. 

[Obligatory “but fortunately I don’t abuse children” disclaimer goes here.]

☄: What you think about your muse.

Constantly.

Oh wait, that says “what,” not “when.”

I think she’s incredible. Do you remember when I was translating bits of the Soul Eater fan book for you and I read the bit of commentary from her voice actor that said she was “pure”? (“Pure evil, maybe,” was your response.) It’s a weird word to use, considering that that word usually has positive connotations, but I do think it works in a way. She’s untainted and undivided by anything that would distract her. She has a goal—completion of the black blood—and she works toward it with a single-mindedness that makes her quite a force to be reckoned with.

And this doesn’t make her good, and it definitely doesn’t make her right in the head. She’s obsessive. She is so driven that she drives herself to her own death, and yet you still get fans hesitant to call her insane. I find that so fascinating. For all that she’s one of the cruelest, most horrible characters in Soul Eater, her cruelty is also so mundane in nature. Which can make her even more horrifying, and also makes her a lot of fun to write. 

Her “purity” makes her a great foil for Stein, too, whose divided nature is arguably the defining characteristic of his personality and character arc. I think this keeps her from fully understanding Stein, to be honest; she thinks that given no outside influence, he would embrace insanity, and thus encourages him to dispose of those outside influences as she herself does. When he fails to do that, that looks like a failure of will to her. She doesn’t grasp that both “insanity” and “sanity” are Stein’s own will—can’t grasp it, because she cultivates her own single-mindedness in order to keep herself invulnerable. 

And then by blinding herself to the possibility that she might be afraid, or at a disadvantage, or making a bad decision, she invulnerable-s herself right to death. And considers that a triumph. I’m in awe of it. Not at all the kind of awe where I try to imitate it, of course, but I think it almost makes her character a tragic one. Not in the “feel sorry for her” sense. More like “because of who she was, she never could have acted differently; it never could have ended another way.” 

I think about her too much. It’s a fact.