#'you wouldn't like her irl-' i think i wouldnt like her irl because she made a guy kill his entire staff with a meat cleaver

[honeysucklethornsandalligtrhorns]

'i'm fine with elias simps but i draw the line at lady mowbray you people have clearly never met old rich ladies-' i'm not in it for the money i'm in it for the senseless violence and killings. god forbid a woman do anything.

[akindredskillet]

i ran out of tags so i guess im making a whole addition here.. sorry this is so long lmao <3

first of all THEY CALLED HIM SUNNY!! is that our first namedrop outside of the naming screen? i’m not entirely sure tbh but either way im so excited for extra canon sunny :)

secondly. i AM torn ..

i like the art!! it's well done and it's cool to see some of the scenes you normally only see in pixel art as you know. full scenes with movement and backgrounds. i especially love the panel where you see omori in the knife blade, i think that was my favorite. and the first page of course. i love seeing their expressions and the silly little manga gags and to an extent i think it's fun to see sunny so miserable and tortured. putting your blorbos in a blender is a thing for a reason

BUUUUUT. i think taking away his expressionless-ness does a huge disservice to his character. the whole point is that he's dissociating really badly right. to the point of even seeing headspace characters irl? i love the part in the rw day 1 bathroom scene where basil asks sunny why he looks so scared but then in the mirror he looks the same as always, because it implies they are/were really close, enough for basil to be able to pick up on the tiny changes in his expression. and besides that sunny is just. Like That. idk it's such a major part of his character for me. one of my friends mentioned that it could have been cool for them to still have the exaggerated expressions, so that sunny could be that much more neutral in contrast, and i think that could have worked better !!

on that note, i think adding anime level drama to it all does a disservice to the real world sections. they always had that feeling of mundanity and painful realism that really stuck with me… it's fun to see and it Looks Good but i think it doesn't capture the same feeling

idk if they're planning on aubrey having the same mini redemption arc but idk if that's even possible now that you know. she fully hit him w her nail bat!! personally i believed in the whole 'it was just for intimidation' thing considering she doesn't actually use it in battle. but that's out the window i guess! why? for... drama points?? extra heightened stakes? it admittedly looks cooler but. cmon. people already find her arc rushed when it was just VERBAL bullying (and being a bystander to physical stuff)

i do get that the headspace prologue can be a little tedious but by cutting it out entirely you lose that entire sense of 'somethings wrong but i can't quite place What'. and the reveal from headspace to rw, seeing how much his friends changed! if i was a new fan i wouldn't care that their friend group was split up at this point because i wouldnt have seen their dynamic together yet

i was skeptical to begin with because omori uses its medium as a game So Well… like omocat was going to make it a graphic novel to begin with right. and that would have been easier. but she CHOSE to make it an rpg, even teaching herself coding and stuff, for a reason. one of the first examples i always think of is how mari is tied to the save point and how, not knowing where each save point is on a first playthrough, you’re as relieved to see her as sunny/omori is. it does a really good job of tying the player’s stakes to the characters’ stakes, and that makes you care about her

ofc not all of that can be translated into this format and i fully expected that, but some things could and they just didn’t. like the reversal of being familiar with the headspace characters first like i already mentioned, and being “reintroduced” to them the same time sunny is! pretty much any time the player / audience is made to feel something parallel to the characters

i will be cautiously optimistic, because it’s only the first chapter and i don’t want to be too harsh.. but i can’t see them doing the same story well. maybe if it’s canon divergent? i’ll be happy to see the art either way, and maybe we’ll get some good small crumbs of previously vague details! hints about things like whether his parents knew, generally anything that happened in the time period between the incident & sunny stopping going to school. but then again… i’m not even sure id entirely Want that? i love how vague and speculative it can be, especially a lot of the details in the hiki route that are up to interpretation

i’m really curious about the sunny omori dynamic, since it seems like that will be explored a little differently / possibly in more detail, so i think that’s what i’m most looking forward to at this point

logistically, im also curious as to how they’ll even continue pacing the story since. well our headspace visits are already off by one (unless sunny wakes back up rw day 1 and then the second headspace visit is still that night i guess?). but even besides that. we already cut out like 6 hours of prologue content. not to mention, battles that i imagine wont be illustrated in detail, any grinding, figuring out puzzles like in the sweetheart and humphrey dungeons. how much of it are they actually going to adapt?

i guess we’ll have to wait and see!

Anyone and everyone who sees this post, gimme your honest options on the first manga chapter!

I don’t care if you loved it or hated it, your options are so valid and I want to hear from you!

Dump all your thoughts in the tags, whether that be excited ramblings, angry grumblings, or something in between!

I’m trying to gain as many perspectives on the chapter as possible because I am so torn lol

[davekat-sucks]

i find it weird how people fantasize BPD if you don’t know what im talking about im talking about the stupid yandere shit on this website murdeing for love kidnapping abuse and r*pe are not cute and shouldn’t be used as a coping mechanism like that one jade blood girl is a yandere but like maybe stop fantasizing her by saying “oh she has BPD” i doubt she does i dont even think the trolls can have mental illnesses or disorders but I wouldnt be surprised like im ok with headcanons but can we stop saying “UwU im a yandere because i have BPD OwO” like yandere behavior isn’t cute and you should seek a therapy if you think kidnapping and abusing someone to love you is cute or is an ok coping mechanism like imagine mocking people with BPD by calling yourself a yandere that’s so cringe

Mental illness on fiction and real life are separate things, yes. Worse is that they have to corelate these mental disabilities with anime tropes, especially when it is not mentioned or implied in canon. If people like that think it is okay to do it IRL, then they need to seek help from therapists, doctors, and police. I would also say the reason it makes that particular jadeblood to do those things is because she is a woman and lesbian. If it was a male, they would be upset. Even if he was gay, they still wouldn't allow it. If it's a female doing it on a male, it can be miffed, but often seen as a comedy or they would get together in the end despite all her actions. But if it's a female that likes another girl, it gets a pass. Women doing bad stuff these days often get no repercussions. Sometimes they get forgiven because they are seen as misunderstood or didn't mean to do it. We see this in the new She-Ra, Vriska and Terezi, and now with that Hiveswap character. I remember people hated on Eridan because of the yandere trope during that fight with Sollux. However, in context, it was never about romance to begin with. Yes he wanted Feferi with him, but not just out of love. It's also out of desperation to LIVE because of the threat Bec Noir has over the trolls. He didn't want to die and believed that if he join his side, they would be spared. He never had told anyone this, likely because they would flip out as well. Eridan also still believed in the caste blood system, and think that he and Feferi should be the only ones allowed. It made him forget briefly about his other friends like Karkat and Kanaya. His fear of dying made him take the action that he did, which ironically became a good thing to help move the timeline forward. It's a strange double standards that is present on the Internet, pop culture media, and sometimes real life as well. Men do a crime, they get the usual sentence or they want to punish him worse than death. Women do a crime, they get a slap on the wrist, news outlets waterdown her actions, or cheered for feminist activism.