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[randomnameless]

Are there any characters you can think of (both in FE and out of FE) that were as mischaracterized in the localization as Rhea?

Uh...

Seto Kaiba in the 4Kids dub of Yu Gi Oh?

I can't think of anything right now, but for FE - people more knowledgeable about Fates might have things to say, but iirc we have Effie who is pretty different in the lolcalisation than in the base game, and Xander too?

I think they were more "mischaracterised" in a way that for some characters we're straight up looking at OCs, when Rhage can be seen as "Rhea the DeathEater".

What's more annoying about Rhea is how the mischaracterisation ultimately led to some people (even VAs !) see negatively her character - or react more strongly to her character, like remember the hair trigger temper and one of the usual devoted fan argument about her being "cray-cray and exploding in anger at the slightest provocation"?

Imo, that's because her agressitivity and anger were played up to 11 - Rhea is someone who bakes cookies and grows plants, Yuri killed her soldiers but Rhea had enough "self-control" not to eradicate him on spot, but ultimately find out the hows and whys he did this and came to trust him.

Hair-trigger temper and "cray-cray exploding in anger at the slightest provocation"!Rhea would have had to be physically restrained from executing him on spot. Aelfie telling her "nuh-uh I'm still going to perform weird blood transmutation fuck off" would have been erased too, but... Both Aelfie and Yuri aren't.

Tl;Dr : the lolcalisation didn't only mischaracterise Rhea, they worsened her for ~ reasons ~ and it made a lasting impression on the fandom (VAs are part of the fandom).

This is why I'm always happy when FeH delivers Rhea content, shitting on NoA's!Rhage - even if whoever is in charge of localising the content tries their hardest - and the Halloween!alt is a perfect exemple. If Rhage "doesn't just try she just is" - then why the Halloween alt wonders if she has to learn how to perform a trick because that's what witches does, or is annoyed because Seteth will give her a lecture about "appropriate clothes" later on? Winking?? Rhage isn't playful she is composed - but Rhea is!

Actually, I wonder if the localisation - bar the hair-trigger temper - didn't mistake Rhea for Ashera in her "just is" + "composed" etc etc. Halloween!Mila sounds more playful than Halloween!Rhea ffs!

[beanghostprincess]

My Fem!Sanusona Ice Skating fic structure is extremely funny to me because it's at least 10k words of Usopp having anxiety, 5k words of Nami shamelessly flirting with Usopp and Sanji in front of literally everyone, 3k words of Sanji being all lovey-dovey to Usopp, and, Idk, like 1k words of them ice skating.

[bytebun]

hey don’t cry. 10 million blorbos from your shows, okay?

[aauroralightss]

i love reading peoples' opinions on trigun but sometimes i will see an opinion that is so like. bewilderingly wrong it actually makes me doubt my own interpretation of the source material

[starling-scratches]

More ben 10 sketches lol. Sponsored by my 1am energy burst.

[quibbs126]

I’m really bored and don’t know what to draw

[sunjoys]

holy shit i need to kill every british tourist in ireland in the 1840s - 1850s

[hotgirlstiles]

the way stiles’ character, at its core, is a very obsessive character where it’s both his weakness and strength .. his obsession with lydia, obsession with case files, the implication of obsession w/ anything dementia after his mother’s diagnosis, obsession w/ solving the motw to the point where he loses sleep over it..

even the implications of how much he’d obsessed over the hale fire case files to INSTANTLY recognize derek hale upon first meeting after TEN years of derek being gone like........ i don’t even know where i’m going with this but the way stiles is such an obsessive person that it absolutely consumes him...... 

[pochapal]

OH??????

[twilightarcade]

I think most of this [gesturing at me as a person] was my middle school english teacher's fault really

[mad-hunts]

what tarot card are you?

The Hierophant

the plan is perfect in every way. everyone where they need to be, at exactly the right moment, with exactly the right smile. you have moved and manipulated the situation, but did you remember to put yourself in the correct position? you, after all, are still a player in the game - whoever thinks they control the pieces still has to make the next move eventually. whoever is playing the game is playing against an opponent. ensure that they have not played better than you.

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[erstwhilesparrow]

god okay i don't have it in me to actually write this fic right now but look there's something fun to be done with a traffic scott-centric superhero AU. it's not quite cohering for me as it is but something something... the life series cares about death and it cares about a good story. the deaths that get remembered are the really interesting ones -- the cactus ring, the boogey kills, the dripstone, the sacrifices. you fall on the sword because it looks good as a death. "you deserve this more" and "i wouldn't have it any other way" are ways to remake what happened -- it's true now because i said it's true, and because i said it, you'll remember i went willing to my death, i was a good ally, an interesting character, someone who made it to the end and gave it all up for you. how you deal with death is how your story comes together, it's how you get remembered. and when you read unironic talk of "heroes" and "villains" are you not a little struck by the sense of falseness? the performance of justice, the temptation to split people into 'good' and 'bad'? not that this is always what superhero stories are doing but is it not a little difficult to take seriously characters who sincerely refer to themselves as 'heroes'? what kind of facade is at work here? what kind of performance is happening here? (and, also, given the sprawling nature of some superhero stories, what legacies are you pulling on? what references are you making, and how are you weaving them into the reputation you make for yourself?) there are the obvious and flashy powers, and then there is the quiet horror you can create by having your hands on some fundamental rules about how your world works. do you get that it's horrifying when someone in the room has the ability make things true just by saying them? don't you think that's interesting?

[shrineofprophecy]

It's actually funny how Sparkle wanted to dance ballet when that's an elegant dance form but she does have the flexibility to do so... It shows how, despite her chaotic mind, she can find calmth in music.

[neuxue]

the 无限流 / Unlimited Flow genre really is the epitome of ‘I am putting these guys in Situations’ huh

[problemsynth]

Wild that taking notes for vtm games taught me how to study better than school ever did...

[divinebastet]

I wish someone told me when I was younger that getting better at art also would mean that I'd make less of it