#The scene where she’s understandably freaking out and Elle just fucking headbutts her???
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YOU. YOU GET ME
(I uh. May have gone autistic about my problems with Revue Frontier + Misc. Aruru thoughts in the tags. Oops.)
Every day I wake up and think about how irreversibly Arcana Arcadia has altered my brain chemistry. They did not have to go that hard for an arc exclusively in the mobile game and yet
#I need to like. articulate my Revue Frontier thoughts at some point#because I can never tell if my ‘eugh’ reaction to the way it ends is genuinely poor writing#or just stuff that clashes with my interpretation of Aruru since her issues hit extremely close to home for me#It’s something about the way something that is clearly extremely deep-rooted is just brushed of as her ‘having a rebellious phase’#and how once Elle gets her to come back to the stage that’s exactly the same way the writing treats her issues?#the scene where she says she like ‘Knew all along but was just denying it’ undoes literally all of that nuance in one fell swoop#and from that point on she just. reverts as a character back to where she was originally but all of her issues are magically all better now!#You can’t just establish a ‘Hey you know this guy? yea a good chunk of their personality was a facade’#and then revert back to that facade and expect it to feel like a satisfying conclusion?#It’s also just the way Aruru is treated as acting unreasonable and childish which. from the characters I understand#but it genuinely seems like the writing is built around that conception as well#The scene where she’s understandably freaking out and Elle just fucking headbutts her???#and they reduce everything down to just ‘you’re being childish nobody cares how you feel get on the stage’#as someone who was struggling with EXTREMELY similar things to Aruru and still fucking does#having very real very palpable struggles for me boiled down to ‘stop whining about it’ was. extremely not good for me#And then watching the character I found so much comfort in just get over it in five seconds was. ugh. Azure seal of disapproval#they got. so damn close. and they fumbled it#Is this just a me thing? or is this an actual problem with the writing? who fucking knows#but I don’t like it and it’s everyone’s problem now#anyways if anyone’s ever wondering what I’m talking about when I mention ‘The Aruru fic’ or ‘The revstar hellfic’#I am rewriting a ton of Revue Frontier stuff to address this exact fucking issue. i will shamelessly pander to myself and I’m not sorry#Aruru Otsuki has BPD I will die on this fucking hill by the way.#Looking back on all of the reasons she hit my brain differently back then with the knowledge that ‘Hey Azure that’s not normal’#it is right there.#frantic efforts to avoid and extreme reactions to perceived abandonment?#unstable identity/sense of self? chronic feelings of emptiness? unpredictable/violent mood swings? and that’s just the shit we see??????#The entire fucking arc from her perspective reads like a bad Azure BPD episode and I will NEVER shut up about it#Anyways uh whoever the fuck reads this far. I’m sorry.
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