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Day 22: A pairing you hate and no one else understands why?
Hate is strooong word, dislike more like it.
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I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like Duck/Fakir, or if I have, they have kept quiet. My reasons:
- Duck works very well as a protagonist and her emotional scenes are exceptionally well done and moving. But I still don't really care for her on a personal level. So I can't say that it was much of a consolation to me that she got a happy ending.
- As much as I like Fakir, I'm just not interested in his romantic life.
- Their interactions in the first half of the series. I don't understand how anyone can say that they didn't see that they would end up as they did. Not to say that predictability is a weakness, necessarily, but it was the only thing that might have gotten me interested.
- I think that the emotional effect of the last episodes would have been greater if Duck was honestly still in love with Mytho. And I'm not saying that as a Mytho/Rue shipper, I just think it would have made for a more effective story. ("The story worked with Rue/Mytho -> I like Rue/Mytho" rather than "I like Rue/Mytho -> the story should be suited to serve it better".)
Rue and Mytho were effective because it seemed impossible from the beginning that the it would go their way. Someone having to sacrifice something for it would have made it so much better. Duck conveniently falling in love with a new person to make way for them lessened the impact. (Yeah, I really don't see the merits of Duck/Fakir.)
I guess I had the same problem in Odin Sphere - I was promised an interesting and moving conflict between a father (Odin) and a daughter (Gwendolyn), but by the time the story was ready to deal with them, Gwendolyn was so crazy about her lovely little lord of a husband that... there no longer was any conflict to solve. Like. Why introduce such things when you're not going to deal with them? You're sidestepping the interesting stuff!
Not that unhappy endings are more meaningful than happy ones, just that sometimes having people deal with sacrifice is more interesting to me than making said sacrifice irrelevant.
In the end, I'm resigned to the pairing, but I hate that I've had to stop looking for Tutu fanworks because people seem to think that a) these two are relevant to everything ever and b) everyone should want them to be.
DAY 22: Favorite weapon?
HELLO GENTLEMEN
TRYING TO LEAVE THE SUBMARINE, WERE YOU
Save the Queen, XII version. Good for Ashe killing things.
(MegaTen: The silly gag weapons from Persona 3. A tie between Jack gloves and the bus stop sign.)
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Hate is strooong word, dislike more like it.
I don't think I've ever met anyone who doesn't like Duck/Fakir, or if I have, they have kept quiet. My reasons:
- Duck works very well as a protagonist and her emotional scenes are exceptionally well done and moving. But I still don't really care for her on a personal level. So I can't say that it was much of a consolation to me that she got a happy ending.
- As much as I like Fakir, I'm just not interested in his romantic life.
- Their interactions in the first half of the series. I don't understand how anyone can say that they didn't see that they would end up as they did. Not to say that predictability is a weakness, necessarily, but it was the only thing that might have gotten me interested.
- I think that the emotional effect of the last episodes would have been greater if Duck was honestly still in love with Mytho. And I'm not saying that as a Mytho/Rue shipper, I just think it would have made for a more effective story. ("The story worked with Rue/Mytho -> I like Rue/Mytho" rather than "I like Rue/Mytho -> the story should be suited to serve it better".)
Rue and Mytho were effective because it seemed impossible from the beginning that the it would go their way. Someone having to sacrifice something for it would have made it so much better. Duck conveniently falling in love with a new person to make way for them lessened the impact. (Yeah, I really don't see the merits of Duck/Fakir.)
I guess I had the same problem in Odin Sphere - I was promised an interesting and moving conflict between a father (Odin) and a daughter (Gwendolyn), but by the time the story was ready to deal with them, Gwendolyn was so crazy about her lovely little lord of a husband that... there no longer was any conflict to solve. Like. Why introduce such things when you're not going to deal with them? You're sidestepping the interesting stuff!
Not that unhappy endings are more meaningful than happy ones, just that sometimes having people deal with sacrifice is more interesting to me than making said sacrifice irrelevant.
In the end, I'm resigned to the pairing, but I hate that I've had to stop looking for Tutu fanworks because people seem to think that a) these two are relevant to everything ever and b) everyone should want them to be.
DAY 22: Favorite weapon?
HELLO GENTLEMEN
TRYING TO LEAVE THE SUBMARINE, WERE YOU
Save the Queen, XII version. Good for Ashe killing things.
(MegaTen: The silly gag weapons from Persona 3. A tie between Jack gloves and the bus stop sign.)
( Questions )