part 363 paper snowflakes

[aphanon_meme]

It's... December! I can't believe it's almost the end of another year. Time is weird. Anyway! There's been a lot of neato Hetalia news in the meantime! That game (that I can't get working but will look at videos and screencaps of so I can play vicariously)! The image of the first doll! The musical promo images!! What are you most excited for?

Enjoy part 363!

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Comments

[vuri]

Perfect/pure/must-be-protected-at-all-costs = I'm pretty much guaranteed to loathe this character, unless perhaps this is pure porn and you're only setting up this slice of sparkly-sweet angelcake in prelude to smashing it to smithereens. I hate precious princess characters, I hate damsels in distress. Ditto the rarer but equally fucking annoying dudesels in distress (though that usually occurs in yaoi, where I can at least be like whatever just get to the dick already).

I'll make exception for Miyazaki and a few others who can pull off very sweet and innocent character types because their sense of sweetness is tempered with a down-to-earth authenticity - rather than some flouncy lofty piece of high-handed spun-sugar saccharine bullshit.

And I also hate when there's a character who exists to be The Girlfriend or The Boyfriend and holds no interest whatsoever aside from being the protagonist's reward for his/her great adventure. Especially when this character just about invariably pulls a tedious damsel/dudesel subplot.

+0,5

[(Anonymous)]

personally I don't mind pure characters as long as they undergo character development and become more jaded in the end, or if 'pure' is only a mask

Re: +0,5

[vuri]

For me it's all about whether that quality of goodness can feel ordinary, unromantic, have a genuine scuffed-shoes dirty-nails hardworking everyday appeal. Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service is a pretty decent example of a very good kid whose goodness and innocence I could believe in and relate to.

But yeah, what you're talking about works for me as well. Also, when a character is sweet and kind and all but has significant other flaws and failings to offset that - Hetalia's Italy might qualify as a good example of this, being such a slacker and pain in the ass and childish/self-indulgent on top of being a sweet little puppy.

The more a character is treated by the author as sooooo SPECIAL and PRECIOUS and sparkly fancy rarefied untouchable unicorn in a crystal castle, the more I'm repulsed by the whole shebang.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

This. THIIISSSSS. ALL OF THISSSSS.

Re: +1

[vuri]

/BROFISSSSSST