#//Rui is a silly cat folk

[archiveofuniverses]

OK mabey you've answered this before but I don't feel like trying to find it sorry.

Why dose rui have cat ears? is he a cat? Also I found this blog a bit later so I'm kinda confused, do I have to look through the blog to try and understand

//answering this ooc :3

I'll keep this explanation as simple as possible so this doesn't turn into an essay. So basically, this is a fantasy world, not everyone here is human, like Tsukasa, he isn't even fully human, he has a bit of pixie heritage.

And going through all the posts might be a bit confusing if you don't know what is going on with the timeliness so I'll simplify it; Tsukasa and Rui are roommates, Rui is freeloading while Tsukasa is working his ass off to pay for stuff, currently Tsukasa's not actually interested in Rui and are just friends.

(but since this is a Ruikasa blog this will change soon)

That's all! This post is getting too long.

If you got anymore questions just ask!

[muffinrecord]

design wise, who are some of your favorite and least favorite characters?

there’s some characters I like design wise but don’t really like as characters, and some characters who I like as a character but I don’t like their design at all (specifically Jun, I LOVE her as a character but I hate her design, it really doesn’t fit her at all. It needs more of a candy theme to it)

There are a bunch of obvious answers I think for the least favorite design so I'm gonna go for less obvious ones that aren't just "seems inappropriate for a kid" or "rabi i don't think that's your culture".

Least Favorite for me is probably Ao Kasane.

The only thing I really like about it would be her weird-hood-pigtail things. It kind of looks like a cobra's hood, which fits her theme, but the rest of her design is sort of eh? It doesn't seem very magical girl or even fantasy to me and besides other complaints one could make, it just comes across as boring. I remember some folks saying that the ruffles on her design are supposed to be like snake skin, which I can kinda see...? But I would have liked to see her design pushed a little further.

It's possible maybe that they didn't want her to be too obviously a snake, since she was working against both sides in the shadows, and you'd want a character like that to keep their nature hidden. But I think there are more creative ways of doing that.

Side note, I also don't want to say that boring designs are always bad either. Like, San has a kind of boring design, but I think it still has enough interesting elements that make it work. The wheels in her hair and the obvious gun are all interesting of course, but even the barrettes in her straight side-part bangs kind of give the image of ammunition. It fits her theme but also make her seem kind of no-nonsense. It's kind of silly but still works. I think you can look at her and her design and you can tell what kinda person she is easily.

But for Ao... I dunno. It doesn't really do anything. It doesn't even feel very creative.

Most favorite... oh man there are a bunch of contenders for that. My aesthetic preferences demand me to answer with Hotaru Yura, Yachiyo Nanami, Tanabata Yachiyo, or Historia Yachiyo buuuut I'm gonna go with one that might be controversial and say...

Rui Mizuki!

this design is a fucking mess but it's a mess in a way that TOTALLY suits her and it makes me remember my times of being a lil edgelord shit in middleschool/highschool. If I could be a magical girl back then, I would have wanted to look like this. Every single design element is fucking perfect. The random assortment of belts? Spot on. The mismatched sized leggings? Stupendous. The fucking meaninglessly chains? Excellent. The edgy black/orange color scheme? Beautiful. The nonsensical skirt portion? It's my favorite thing. You look at this and think "how the fuck do you walk in this". It's great. It's peak edgy teenager oc and I love every bit of it and it TOTALLY fits her character.

Look at those sort-of fingerless gloves. Amazing. You look at this girl and you instantly know what kind of vibe she wants to give off. It's all mismatched and uneven and gods I love it.

Hell, it even does the midriff thing that this game is obsessed with but I think it fits perfectly. Yeah, an edgy teenager who wants to look cool WOULD have her belly button showing. How else will we see her cat soul gem shape that isn't attached to anything? Is it a piercing somehow? Is it magic? WHO KNOWS! It's fuckin' mc'cool and that's all that matters.

I think it's even better that Rui is in reality a shy person who wants to seem cool, cause fuck yeah she would try to look like this as a meguca in that case. idc. favorite design.

[skydigiblogs]

okay i'm gonna try really hard not to keep pausing every five to ten minutes (i just continued loss) but some little chewy thoughts:

i think the amnesia plot could have been a lot more interesting not just if they hadn't undone it by killing a cat, but also if there was more diversity to the way the digimon acted. i do actually like that yokomon acts very different--- as a system, we like seeing amnesia plots that acknowledge that our memories are a large part of how we act

will also note that i think the amnesia plot could have been interesting if we saw a bit more to it along the lines of what we know about partner bonds from kizuna and 02TB. like, are those unnatural bonds that ukkomon helped found still in existence? if so or if not, how are the partner digimon even alive? kizuna and 02TB both imply that the partnership is what sustains a partner, and 02TB even takes it a step further by elaborating that the mutuality of it is key to its health. i know they probably weren't thinking about kizuna and 02TB when they were working on tri, and the adventure canon is kind of an all around mess, but i do think it would be interesting to consider what the ramifications of the digimon partner completely forgetting their human partner would be on such a bond, if it could even be maintained. by kizuna we see tai and matt growing further from their partners, and that alienation being a huge part of what severs their bond; but is that mechanic part of rui's wish in 02TB? again, i still gotta read some meta on 02TB to see what other folks got from it and what might have been lost in translation, but. idk.

izzy's characterization is phenomenal in this movie so far, but either izzy doesn't know as much about tea as he lets on, or he really likes mint teas (he mentioned mint, spearmint, peppermint, and mint again in his infodump). izzy could have talked about the different categories of tea, including green, black, tisane, roobois, etc.. missed opportunity (this is me being silly about tea, but i genuinely do like his characterization in this movie, because you can tell that he's had a little bit of growth regarding his people skills. he's using his knowledge to be friendly in a way that's charismatic and nonthreatening to the digimon that see him as a stranger.)

i also have things to say about the characterization in these movies in general. i'm trying to save it for the most part but i do like that sora is showing really good emotional intelligence (in the last movie, she's the one that went out of her way to visit meiko instead of just texting her endlessly, for example). in this movie, i think her reaction (alongside izzy's) to the amnesia is the most realistic, especially since the connection between her and yokomon isn't instantly rekindled in some way. unlike mimi she isn't smothering yokomon, and you can see that she's visibly hurt by giving yokomon that distance. but like, sora is also a character with pre-established issues with being smothered! so her being keen enough to know that pushing yokomon isn't going to help is just!!! god!!! rare tri w here (/hj) but i think the portrayal of sora in tri really helps bridge the gap between 02 and kizuna where her bond breaks with biyomon. it implies something i don't think kizuna stated, where her distance seems to be part of her internalized fear of being overbearing with how she cares for other people. like, yes, part of it is not spending time with and considering your partner digimon a wholly-realized person, but also in this case sora's own crest is what does her bond in! and i didn't realize tri set that up!! sora fans idk how you feel about this but i would love to see some analysis on this if any of y'all have opinions on how your blorbo was handled.

and of course, as always, i am turning meicoomon into a purrito and removing her from these movies that want nothing but her suffering. i continue to stand by the statement that meiko and meicoomon deserved way better than they got. meiko not being in the digital world (while it does make sense narratively) being used only to hurt her and meicoomon is. really fucking frustrating. it's cheap that we're given so many moments of pure fluff with meicoomon and meiko in the first few movies just because the writers want us to feel bad about them suffering. it's especially cheap because i don't think the writers really thought about how either of them would be effected by their experiences in the past. meicoomon a little more than meiko--- meiko's behavior still makes sense knowing all that's happened, but you're telling me meicoomon doesn't have any behavioral hints towards the trauma she's gone through? she doesn't recoil from anything until she's entered corruption mode?

(actually saying it like that makes me realize that meicoomon's whole writing arc really is 90% just "superpowered evil side" trope which explains why i, a member of a system, fucking hate how dirty she was done. i do actually think that an interrogation of meicoomon's behavior that made her more explicitly plural-coded, like gammamon in ghost game, might have made her "switching" between childish and violent a bit more interesting, but i also. do not trust tri to have handled that with any kind of nuance it would deserve. i might have to make a whole post just about meicoomon/meicrackmon, but like. ough. again, scooping meicoomon and meiko out of tri. come with me girls, let's get you another spa day and some better writing.)