#anyways mem cho best girl

[zetsubobu]

It should be a case study about how one writing choice can absolutely ruin a character (to me atleast)

Ruby was one of my favorite characters and now ever since the reveal she has dropped to one of my least favorites (if not even the least fav). The revenge phase of her was truly peak but now she's simply weird and a bit disgusting which is just so sad to me

It's not even the weird incest route she's going on that ruined her but I feel like all that build up and development from her revenge phase was just washed away after the movie started and especially after the reveal

[rascheln]

The thing I find both hilarious and infuriating about Oshi no Ko is actually the adults and how they know Aqua is scheming and using and manipulating the girls and all they do is essentially just stand by and watch and simply tell him "you know that's wrong" without actually doing anything about it at best or helping him at worst.

Miyako seems to have made it pretty clear that while she thinks of Ruby as her daughter, the same can't be said for Aqua. She acts like his legal guardian first and foremost, but apart from telling him off for manipulating the girls, she doesn't do any actual parenting. Maybe that's because she thinks Aqua needs to make his own mistakes or that she can't control him anyways, but it still makes her an onlooker to his actions. (Though to be fair, due to her lack of involvement with him she also misses a lot of the shit he pulls and probably thinks he's still relatively harmless. It also doesn't help that he acts much more like an adult and has done his best to hide his trauma, which makes him sort of invisible as a 'problem child.')

Mem-cho in a way tries to subtly get involved when she realizes both Akane and Kana have feelings for Aqua and that he's using both of them. Her conflict is over the feelings of her friends, though, and so she tries to slightly counteract Aqua by helping both girls... But that means she spreads herself too thin. She can't have it both ways, for one girl to be happy the other is going to be miserable and she doesn't have enough of a close relationship and access to Aqua to influence him in a meaningful way.

At the same time, she hides a lot of this drama from both Kana and Akane. She can't tell either of them what she knows about the other, least of all what she's observed about Aqua, without hurting their feelings. She's an outside observer who doesn't have the courage to speak up.

And then there's the director, with the most insight into Aqua's mental state, who could overlook Aqua trying to keep Ruby from becoming an idol because he knows how much that scares Aqua. He knows probably most of the background shit Aqua has been pulling and the connections he's made over time and instead of recognizing Aqua's plans as self destructive, he enables him.

Maybe he does this because just like Miyako he doesn't think he could stop Aqua. Or because he wants revenge, too. But ultimately I find him helping Aqua the most egregious, because what Aqua is doing is reckless, is destroying his still existing personal relationships and is leading him directly towards someone who is clearly very dangerous.

(There's also something to be said about Akane withholding her insights into Ai's murder/Aqua's father multiple times to "protect" Aqua, which technically would have been the right choice in order to keep him from spiraling further but was an incredibly naive thing to do since it was impossible to keep those secrets for long. So it just had the opposite effect of delaying a much worse emotional reaction and heightening Aqua's desperation to get his revenge and making it clear to Akane that while he never trusted her anyways, he now especially doesn't have any reason to confide in her.)

[rachelraygifs]

With the full cast (or at least, all of the major players) of OnK basically finally appearing in today’s episode, I’m pretty curious about the type of person whose a fan of which character. Specifically in the ‘shipping wars’ as they were. Spoilers for the manga up to chapter 116 under the cut.

More broadly, I kind of am curious about who exactly is a fan of Akane x Aqua and who is a fan of Kana x Aqua. I think the actual series itself is pretty unambiguous -- it pretty explicitly says that Aqua is, at the very least, smitten with Kana. But all that aside, I’ve seen a lot of Akane x Aqua stuff and people talking about Akane like she’s the “best girl” or whatever, and while I really love Akane as a character, I’m a little baffled by how much certain elements of the fandom like her.

So I’ve been wondering, kind of, why people consider her to be all that. And like, the biggest answer I keep seeing is her support of Aqua’s clearly deranged motives and plans, and her desire to basically be his sin-eater, and idk. It just strikes me as a very.. dude view to like her for that reason, like she’s his mom or caretaker or something, and it bothers me. From a personal development standpoint, Akane’s mostly kept Aqua in stasis by knowing he was using her as a tool and not caring. Akane completely sublimates her self and her life for Aqua, and that’s like, not actually a good thing. But it’s also not like, unhinged yandere type of stuff that would appeal to the dollgirl mental illness girlies.

It just seems weird that she’s lauded as being the best for her functionally erasing herself for someone who half-loves her, and it feels, at least to me, to be twinged with a sort of misogyny about what women should be. And I say this all as a really big fan of Akane. It’s just...odd, to me. idk.

Anyway mem-cho supremacy we stan a 25 year old lying queen.