#purplewingedangel

[clopinthejester]

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“….I may be just way….way too drunk…           But–did you just fall? …From the sky??”

[xdivinus]

[text] just woke up in the beanbag bin at walmart

{†}  { @purple-winged-angel }

                                 ; Angels didn’t SLEEP. Only if your power was an issue would sleep be a n e c e s s i t y .             If it was           ; one would not deem to do so at a human DEPARTMENT store.

T h e r e f o r e ; it stood to REASON something must be wrong. Unconsciousness may have been  f o r c e d  at the point of a BLADE.

[text] Are you in danger?

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@purple-winged-angel replied to your POST: // OMG! You’re so gorgeous! @demonbitch replied to your POST: but also consider: you are adorable 😍 @jackfrostofalltrades replied to your POST: // adorableeee!

Thank you all for the compliments!!! You’re all much too kind. ❤

[its-your-light]

// I've heard the misconception that Hikari is a Mary-sue a lot, thoughts?

This is going to be an essay, and I apologize in advance because I’m not always sure people appreciate my long-windedness. But the concept of Mary-Sues--and what that actually means--is important to me because this tends to get thrown around any time there’s a quiet character that is attractive to more than one individual in canon. It’s almost never directed at male characters, even though it’s much more common for male characters to be The Chosen Ones--the only one who can solve the mystery, lift the car, save the girl, show up in the nick of time. Frankly, I don’t care that a character has any of these abilities as long as it’s explained well and tells a good story; I care that this only seems to be a problem when it’s a female character.

Hikari is certainly a deus ex machina, particularly in season one (her moments of “possession” are never entirely explained, which Tri better fix since they decided to bring that back, and tend to happen when the writers need to deliver a chunk of information to the audience but can’t think of a clever, time-efficient way of doing so). A typical Mary-Sue would have complete awareness and control of this ability almost immediately. Hikari never really gains control or complete awareness of her connection with the digital world. She can see digimon before the other children “recognize” them, but it doesn’t give her any sort of advantage; instead, she’s a slightly introverted kid who knows she’s a little weird and keeps her mouth shut because no one will believe her, anyway. I wouldn’t even say that it made her transition into her place as a Chosen Child easier, because I would attribute that to Taichi. Hikari hero-worshipped her brother, and her first personal interaction with a digimon since her childhood (that we know of, at least) is conducted by him--and occurs on familiar turf. Hikari’s introduction arc happens quickly, but she has a more gradual transition into her role than the rest of the kids did; she had some time to say “Okay, this is what I have to do. My brother is doing it, so it must be okay, and his friends just did all this to save people and help me, so I want to help him too.”

I’ve heard criticism that she’s the only one with a Prefect partner, but Tailmon doesn’t perform significantly stronger than the rest of the partners, and her Ultimate performs on par with Takeru’s Perfect level. I’d argue that for that reason, she has one of the weaker partners. This really isn’t that big a deal, because Hikari has always been a support role. (If we want to argue Mary-Sue, Digimon is a shonen and it’s incredibly rare for female characters to be Action characters in shonen. Blame the genre and the writers who continue to indulge in this role-assignment pattern.) In season 1, this was because she was one of the youngest. In season 2, Hikari lacked the self confidence to take the lead when she wasn’t sure the others could follow through with what needed to be done. She often proposed the course of action but never pushed it. She had moments when she dug her heels in and wouldn’t budge, or couldn’t resist vocalizing her concerns such as with Black Wargreymon, but for the most part she was content to perform the Will of the Team. In moments when she very clearly needed to take the lead, such as with destroying the Spire Digimon appearing in the real world, Hikari clearly struggled with her confidence in her ability to help her friends accomplish their goals.

Personality-wise, I’m genuinely confused by this argument. I can’t even blame something getting lost in translation, because Hikari is possibly even sassier in the English dub than she is in the original. She is not one of God’s angels, and her personality does not change to suit the needs of the plot (whereas I can make that argument in 02... as much as I love it, and I love the characters it introduced, the character arcs were...not.). Hikari is introverted, but she’s not meek. Ultimately, Hikari wants to help, but she questions her ability to be useful instead of in the way. When she has an opinion she needs to voice, she voices it: For instance, look at how upset she got with Daisuke when he was trashing Jun, or even when she stepped up to Taichi (admittedly more gently) when he was being too mean to the team when Agumon had been kidnapped in 02. And when she realizes that no one else is going to do what needs to be done, she does eventually swallow the sour and move, like helping Miyako come to terms with destroying the spire Digimon and confronting Jyou (and her brother, on a quieter scale) about his skewed priorities. 

Is she tiny and adorable? Yes. Do I think everyone in Digimon is a precious cinnamon roll? Yes, but that doesn’t make them Mary Sues. Hikari hasn’t had many interpersonal arguments like many of the other characters have, but frankly... the Digimon cast is almost aggressive; there are a lot of high energy, extroverted personalities in Digimon and the presence of an introvert who channels her frustrations in a healthier manner (not entirely healthy, but healthier) is almost weird in that environment. She teases and makes subtle jabs and giggles at the less-subtle remarks made by others. She tries to guide the conflict towards resolution, but she doesn’t openly interfere the way Sora might. She bickers with her friends. She doesn’t always notice when people have a crush on her--which frankly, I don’t find very weird, considering I can’t tell flirting from being friendly myself...and have gotten lectured about it many times--and that’s not altogether surprising when one looks at Hikari’s self-image. 

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( @purple-winged-angel )

           an ebullient smile conspicuously embellishes a masculine countenance whilst riveting thoughts appertaining to a particularly delectable libation are leisurely savored. ❝  Did you have hot chocolate when you FIRST visited? JUDY’S recipe is the best. ❞