#at last an mc with y'know a normal age and not a teen

[ashiromina]

i've started and caught up with kaiju no. 8 and i'm in a severe narumi gen phase, he's a new ult fav y'all have been warned

also, every single character in the series is 1000/10... truly amazing

[ramblings-of-a-mad-cat]

i don’t get why they keep switching between having beatrice be nice and not nice to mc even in 7th year. she might be a character with a lot of duality as you keep saying, but it can’t be that hard to keep her character/personality consistent. then again seeing what they do with merula maybe that’s asking for too much, and it’s not like she’s the only other one either. and i guess beatrice is still in her early teens so it’s not a reach for her to have mood swings or whatever. but anyway she’s been nice the last 2 chapters she showed up in, i hope we see more of that. or at least we don’t get more of her being snooty for whatever reason like we did in the first year 7 scene she was in. :/

Oh my good anon, there's a difference between duality and inconsistency. A character can have two major traits that are in conflict with each other, and this can shape who they are. They can have aspects that make them likeable and others that do anything but. This isn't the same thing. This is a character being contrary. Giving a different performance every time we see her, for no understood reason. Mood swings are easy enough to excuse, she's always had a moody side and she's going through a difficult age, like you said. But if they keep this up, and continue to make the the shifts be as jarring as some of them have been...I mean, I have an idea, but I'm not sure it could work. Just, hear me out for a second. What if Beatrice is eventually revealed to have Bipolar Disorder? Of course, for this to work, they would need to find a way to have a character feasibly work this out, in a world where they don't even study psychology...Badeea, they have Badeea. Naturally, this is an extraordinarily sensitive topic and would need to be handled with the utmost care...but if they were to do something like that and actually succeed, how freaking awesome would that be? We need positive representation of people who cope with mental illness, we need to normalize it in media.

...Or y'know, they could just patch up the writing of Bea's character to make it a bit more consistent. That works too.