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Finished Day 6 of F/SN (Fate Route) and it was awesome. A hypothesis I have about Shirou I’m not far enough to draw real conclusions yet but it seems that he uses misogyny like a convenient excuse. Many times throughout the first 6 days he uses the “but your a women” line on Saber acting like the heroic man should protect women not the other way around. Obviously this angers Saber as she far excels Shirou in combat and because she is a prideful warrior. It is interesting how easily Rin is able to read Shirou…. because there is more to it than Shirou undervaluing servants but that he values Saber more than himself. Based on certain lines said I think there is quite a lot more going on than a medieval feeling of chivalry. This is just a hypothesis that requires me to read further into the story to know if I’m right, but I feel that he is using misogyny because it’s something accepted. “A heroic man should protect women especially when they are important to him”….. but I don’t think that’s really it at all. I think that the fact she’s a women just makes it convenient because he can behave that way and it not cause alarm bells. It seems that his self worth is incredibly low. I don’t know if it’s deep seated survivors guilt that he was the only one saved from the fire; or something else, but seemingly he has a concerningly low self worth. I also have a hypothesis that the whole “being like my old man thing” for why he wants to be a hero of justice is also part of the convenient mask for him. While I think there is definitely part of him that does want to carry on the legacy I think really he’s just desperate to become a hero so that he can find any amount of value in himself. I think also his approach to helping fix things around the school, cleaning the archery building, going out of his way to do work even when it’s not required. It’s all a way for him to feel like he has value. I wouldn’t even say he’s seeking validation from others I don’t think that would even help, it’s more like he’s seeking self worth from selflessness, or maybe he’s trying to atone for living when everyone else died. I have nothing concrete to really say this, I know I’m only a fraction into the story but that’s my early impressions of Shirou’s behavior.

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so upset I wish I could freeze everyone in time so I could breathe for a few more days

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Thinking about the implications of deltarune, at one point, giving you the option to sing the Wrong Number Song from UNDERTALE.

Like it's not just an UT reference that Kris has no reference for (like how confusing is that moment from their PoV?) but it's also referencing an optional easter egg that only occurs if you're on the right screen with certain FUN values...

Like, there's something in that, right? About UT/dr's rumination on the playable space in a video game, the nature of "secrets" and sequence breaking often being something left in by design...

That one of the game's UT references you can put in Kris' mouth is an optional, hidden secret, because by now everyone knows all about it now that the game's been datamined and torn open.

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and on the pedestal, these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias--hope you're enjoying my kickass sculpture of two vast and trunkless legs of stone and a shattered visage! I built it in this desert to prove an important point about Society

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[plays the portrait of ruin character switch animation] Fine now. That's shockingly helpful.

Feeling sadness, lads.

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It was like that already... It's gone... it's just gone...

Just visited Mad At You Island and [suddenly sternly serious] it's gone. Nothing left but ash.

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So we've hit the "Northernlion is cringe" phase, have we?

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Been a while since a night's felt like this, uhoh.

Feeling sadness, lads.

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Feeling sadness, lads.

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What if you wished to Kyubey for a Soul Gem that could never go dark? Like yes this is transparently missing the point of the themes of the show to ask "why didn't those girls simply wish better? are they stupid?" but like, what would happen?

It can't really be magic if it's not omnipotent but if you can just wish for infinity then the whole "it's a loophole to delay entropy" thing falls apart so like can Kyubey create a rock so heavy that he himself could not lift it?

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Damn Fire Emblem fans... they ruined Fire Emblem!

Fire Emblem for the dashboard osmosis game

long-running strategy series with a recent installment that everyone bought and everyone who's played another one hates. and also you have to kinda work to learn that it's a strategy series because people only ever talk about the character writing.

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One of my pet peeves in fiction is when the ending has the characters lose their memories of the story's events. Like there's nothing inherently wrong with it, this is just something that personally bothers me, it makes me feel like the the story has been devalued when it effectively didn't happen in the minds of the characters I've grown to care about.

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Yeah this is genuinely a sign that the social sim elements have started to take precedence, lmao.

Fire Emblem for the dashboard osmosis game

long-running strategy series with a recent installment that everyone bought and everyone who's played another one hates. and also you have to kinda work to learn that it's a strategy series because people only ever talk about the character writing.

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It was the last one that really did it.

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[shuffles out of bed with a start] O-oh! Thank goodness, stories where the magic goes away were all just a dream...

One of my pet peeves in fiction is when the ending has the characters lose their memories of the story's events. Like there's nothing inherently wrong with it, this is just something that personally bothers me, it makes me feel like the the story has been devalued when it effectively didn't happen in the minds of the characters I've grown to care about.

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You know when the magic goes away at the end of that strange summer, and everyone goes on with their normal lives? That also sucks too.

One of my pet peeves in fiction is when the ending has the characters lose their memories of the story's events. Like there's nothing inherently wrong with it, this is just something that personally bothers me, it makes me feel like the the story has been devalued when it effectively didn't happen in the minds of the characters I've grown to care about.

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A: Did you seriously replace our relationship dynamic with overused incorrect quotes?!

B: [sipping coffee out of a bowl] Maybe.