#but i strongly believe there's a solid foundation of friendship behind every great love story

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

For fannfic writer asks:

Do you ever read your own writing for fun?

If you could erase any three tropes from existence, what would they be?

Hello! And thank you for the questions :)

Do you ever read your own writing for fun?

YES. Absolutely 100% yes! I write for myself and my own enjoyment first and foremost; I know what I like and how I like it, so it only makes sense that I enjoy reading my works, haha! It's a lot of fun!

If you could erase any three tropes from existence, what would they be?

This is a hard one to answer, because I'm a strong believer in the fact that there's no capital sins in writing -- as long as the writer knows what they're doing, anything and everything can become the foundation for a wonderful, poignant story.

That being said... there are some common tropes (particularly in romances) I'm not too fond of. Love triangles are one of those (they mostly seem childish to me, honestly), and I also don't really enjoy love at first sight (attraction yes, interest yes, but love? at first sight? definitely not my thing!). Contrary to popular taste, I'm not a big fan of enemies-to-lovers, unless there's an extensive 'friends' phase in between. So yeah, if I had to pick: love triangles, love at first sight, enemies-to-lovers. :)

Thanks again for the questions, these were a lot of fun to answer!

[muthaz-rapapa]

I don't think the girls are gonna suffer lack of development once Blue Cat becomes Cure Cosmos. Unless you hate Go Princess Precure, they did a great job of still giving some development to the girls after Cure Scarlet joined the crew. Shoot, while Towa was developing, the girls also developed along side her so both developed. Same with when Cure Felice showed up. Plus after she joins, there's gonna be still more episodes to develop the other characters. A cure cat thief I'd say that's interest.

Gonna save a post by merging two asks together.

Firstly, please don’t assume what people like or hate basedon things they never said. Like ever. Even off this blog, I’ve never once saidI hated Go!Pri. I had my frustrations with it just like I do with every otherPrecure installment out there, which is not new, but I don’t hate it.

Go!Pri remains one of the strongest seasons in the entirefranchise because it did so great by its main characters. It ranks secondamongst my favorite seasons for that reason.

However, it was hardly perfect.

I mean, I don’t know if this was just my watching experience that caused me to think so, but the wayTowa’s arc was so “sectioned” off made everything feel…less organic than it should’vebeen.

And while it’s true the other girls continued to developalongside each other, the fact that Pink Lead favoritism made itself more andmore apparent after Towa’s “redemption period” ended only heightened myawareness of that feeling. Go!Pri certainly concluded all their personal arcs satisfyinglywell but I can’t shake off the notion that at that point, everyone was fated toplay second fiddle to Haruka anyway. That after Towa, Minami and Kirara met whatwas expected of them, their significance would be pushed to the side to makeway for Haruka’s EXTRA red carpetmarch back down to the spotlight and then some.

Call me silly or whatever you want, I don’t care, but Go!Prisuffered an imbalance there which consequently affected my appreciation for theseason as a whole.

As for Felice, you’re right. There was still plenty of roomfor expansion for everyone after her debut. But the team dynamic thatcontributes to that development is different for MahoPre than it is for Go!Pri.So I can’t and don’t really want to compare them. The circumstances of themjoining their respective groups and what happened after were different. Numberof members, what the chemistry was like prior to the addition of a new member,etc. I take those into consideration.

But for all of MahoPre’s incredibly endearing closeness andunity as a team, even they were far from the “complete” package. As those of you who watched MahoPre are aware,Riko was the one who was set with an actual goal and displayed tangible strugglesto get there. Mirai dealt with the emotional obstacles that came with thefriendship she shared with the girls but the huge majority of her own growthhappened off screen during the timeskip at the very end of the season. Then there’s Ha-chan. Her issues with heridentity and godlike powers were present throughout the episodes postFelice-appearance but they weren’t as well defined as Riko’s and were… softlyconfronted at best (?).

But that was okay for me because she’s always had a younger,more innocent mindset than her mommies did as Ha-chan and seemed to almostexist on a higher plane at times when she was Felice. I wouldn’t approach hercharacter the same way I usually do with other Cures.

Anyways, MahoPre required a lot of filling in the spaces onthe audience’s part, imo, which can make or break a season for someonedepending on how they like to watch their shows or, er, Precure in general.

Now hold that thought on Blue Cat for a minute,I’ll address that further down.

Besides the few surface parallels I saw between certaincharacters (like Riko and Lala) and the similarities between the toy weapons ofboth seasons, I don’t believe I ever directlycompared StarPre’s overall writing and development to MahoPre’s in any of my StarPre posts so far??

If I did, where? Point me to it so I can rectify the error.

But their stories couldn’t be any more different from oneanother so even if I were to compare them, I would only go so far. Which isn’tfar at all.

And hey, look, I love that season with every fiber in beingand would defend it to the bloody death but everybody and their third footknows MahoPre was very weak in the writing department and I am no exception toseeing that reality (and the final episode was utter crack so I don’t count itas part of canon :P).

I agree that where thisarea is concerned, StarPre has shown itself to be superior to MahoPre in many ways. The story and conflict so far isclear cut, the characters and their arcs have firmly established foundations,the friendship and teamwork are strongly pronouncedand keep getting better and better.

And…that’s just it. I think what we have now is enough.

Admittedly, I might’ve jumped the gun when I said Ipreferred “solid writing and development” over getting a new Cure because we can still have both.

But I maintain my stand that StarPre wouldn’t be any less ofa good Precure season without Cure Cosmos.

Yes, it will be undeniably interesting to see how thewriters intend to work Mao into the StarPre team. How they’ll interact witheach other, clash against each other and change each other until they reach thenext unified equilibrium as a group.

…but is this really necessary to the story itself? Do we really,in all serious honesty, need anotherCure?

Nah.

Our four starter Cures are more than capable of carrying a50 episode season by themselves. I’m very confident about that.

And y’know, this is one of those moments where I can say“less is more”. Because in place of having to develop a midseason Cure, we canput all that screentime to branching the other Cures out so that theircharacters can be more fullyrealized.

In my opinion, anyway.

The reason behind that last point is that Mao/Cure Cosmos’sintroduction reminds me a lot of how Ciel/Cure Parfait entered the scene inKiraPre. Granted, KiraPre was definitely more crowded with its six members asopposed to StarPre’s workable foursome going onto a possibly workable fivesome.And it’s not like it was Parfait’s fault that KiraPre was decidedly andnarrowly focused on just one aspectfor each of the girls’ character arcs.

But…the unease is still there, y’know?

I mean, staff can totally prove me wrong later on and I’llgladly eat my words then if that’s the case.

But even so, there are other factors to think about as well.Like how old and hackneyed this midseason Cure tradition has become (amongother Precure traditions, oi), how they’re reluctant to be open to othermethods of telling a story that wouldn’t disrupt the structure they’re so usedto. Or, or have they ever considered that such charismatic characters like Cieland Mao would do better as the lead characters of their own spinoffs? That kindof thing.

I’m not asking Precure to change what makes it Precure…butif you can learn a new trick or two, then why shouldn’t they?