#i love their friendship sooooo muuuuch

[albaharu]

bridgerton perhaps..... for the art asks !!!

For the girls kissing... them :>

[sunset-bridge]

asks your thoughts on akeshu. go. be free and be a hater - 🍾

THANK YOU GUYS for enabling me. thank you thank you..

ok so like,,,,it's just, i think their genuine rivalry is like. sooooo much more interesting than a normal ass romance,, and like thats rich coming from me cuz im honestly such a grand romantic i love to wax poetic about sweet nothings and the other etc. but like. helloooo

true kibouheads will remember my rival poll from a bit ago. truth is ive been that way my whole life ahahah i always seeked out someone to be "rivals" with at school or otherwise,,, like i cant live without having this cool ass person i can both look up to but that also challenges me to get better and always try my best yknow... but like an important part is that i feel its always someone that. Gets me you know. i hope i dont sound insane but . people think in different ways u know and some people kinda see things a bit similarly to you and so you feel more connected to them. well like that. finding someone that is like that to me is..... quite the amazing feeling. some of my friends also feel like that to me; someone who gets how i think because they see the world similarly but yet a biiit different so we can share our experiences...people you can talk about anything with for hours and hours and never get bored. i feel like this is a form of real love and im not fucking joking . have u had ur rival give u a compliment or tell u happy birthday ...... WAHOOOO over the moon

ANYWAYS when i was playin p5 at first i didnt think much of goro (unbeliavable i know). but then when i started doing his social link i was like. um. erm. HELLOOO its like. points at screen 🫵🫵🫵 rivals. helloo. YES??? like . i feel i dont see too much appreciation for this kind of relationship EXACTLY because a lot of the time it gets reduced to romance or normal friendship when its so muuuuch more than that.

for anyone that hasnt had a rival its not like normal friendship,, theres this element of strange freakazoid obsession going on and also admiration and dare i say a streak of jealousness !!! at the risk of sounding delulu i will say it occupies a different and special niche compared to a friendship or a romantic relationship. its a different thing that u cant replace!!!

so yeah it was like. finally a weirdo relationship for freaks like me. im seen...yyyyyes. sooooo imagine my disappointment when a lot of ake shoo content reduces them to just plain romance HELLOO wheres the freakazoid content. this also goes to the other extreme where they make it seem like they Completely hate eachother when like. uh. yeah they do not obviously... like just read the dialogue helloo

also because a lot of romantic ake shoe woobifies goro soooo much (NOT ALL obvs but. a majority). like helloooo thats not my freak thats some random twink,,,.. i think this is more for gorogirls sorryyyy its true. i had the tragedy of seeing Things on google images while trying to look for a fucking Gorb png T__T

i also understand the desire to see him more happy but we cant fall on the "fandom takes guy whos a cunt and draws them happy 100% of the time and then kinda starts to forget canon" etc... happy goro is awesome cuz its so rare. its what makes it Sting yknow

anyways. theres also the thing that i see the p5 protag really differently from a lot of people apparently but i dont think that affects this issue toooo much. thats another can of worms

thank you :3c

[dragonrajafanfiction]

If ya could change somethin bout the canon story line of Dragon Raja, what would it be?

I’m folding my hands in front of my face because... This is going to be a bit technical.

There are three things a good story needs: 

An external conflict... (ex. Gotta stop the bad guy from destroying the world) 

An internal conflict (ex. I want to confess my love to my love interest) 

And a philosophical conflict.... The point of it all (Love and friendship win the day. Or something)

What is the philosophical conflict of Dragon Raja?

If you were to ask me what is the philosophical conflict of Dragon DANCER, my fic, I could easily tell you: “Your identity is the one you choose for yourself VS. Your identity is what is imposed on you by others.”

In the first book, this theme is front and center when, in the third chapter, Isaac asks her the simple question of “What is your name?”

And she says “Nothing Important”. The MC you all know and love as Carli and later as Meixiu, has NO identity and allows her identity to be imposed on her by others every time she meets a new person.

This exchange with Luminous:

So… what’s your name?”

I felt a chill run down my spine, recalling the results of using my childhood name. “I don’t like my name.”

“Oh… then… what do you prefer to be called? I feel bad just calling you, newbie.” More nervous laughter.

“Newbie is fine.” I told him. “But if there’s a name you like, just call me that.”

His nervousness turned to surprised dismay. “What? I can’t just call you whatever I want! What if someone else calls you something different?”

The corners of my mouth turned down. “You’re Mingfei Lu, right? You said, just call me Lu. Does everyone call you Lu?”

“Ah… good point.” He rubs his chin in thought. “But… What if I call you something you don’t like?”

I chuckled. “Then I’ll tell you. Like I said I didn’t mind, ‘newbie’.”

He rubbed the back of his neck but didn’t continue to object.

Identity is an issue down to the very last chapter of Dragon Dancer IV when she tells the awakened Lu Mingfei:

“I have another question. Why did you lie and tell him I’m not a dragon king?” He asked.

“Are you a dragon king? Only if you act like it. If you act like a human, you are human. If I told them you were a dragon king, they would never treat you any different…” I folded my arms over my chest and looked away.

“No matter how I act, it doesn’t change what I am.”

I stomped my foot, and it reverberated the metal truck. “Yes it does! In Cassell, I learned that if the Dark King awakened it would bring forth a cataclysm! Millions of people would die! Human civilization would fall! Humans would be enslaved to dragons! Could you do that? Sure! But why let people define you? You’re the Dark King! You can be whatever you want! If you want to go on a tear and kill everyone, you’ve already proven that you can. If you want to turn me into a monster right now, you can! But you haven’t done that. You haven’t eaten Norton and Constantine.”

“Unless you actually do those things, you’re NOT the Dark King! Understand?”

Here you see the conclusion of the philosophical conflict. 

In the very first conversation, we see how both Carli (Meixiu) and Mingfei Lu allow others to define them. In their last conversation the opposite occurs. They refuse to let others define them.

If you asked me. “What is the philosophical conflict of Dragon Raja?” I wouldn’t be able to tell you. How many times have I asked myself while reading... why are we doing this? What is the point?

Dragon Raja has a strong premise at the start of the books. You’re thrown into an excellent external conflict and even some really compelling internal conflict. But by the end of the book, they ring hollow because the books are essentially much ado about nothing. 

In the third book, the good guys don’t even get what they want in the end. Not in the first, second, or third books.... 

Why did I read this?

Yeah so what if Osho dies. EVERYONE IS DEAD.

WHAT’S the POINT?????

I have other issues with the books but this is at the root of all of them. 

For example how the author tends to go on tangents. In the Fourth book, the external conflict is about finding Chu Zihang who’s gone missing. Mingfei recruits Fingel and Nono and the internal conflict is convincing them that he’s not crazy and keeping the faith that Chu Zihang was out there somewhere. There is even a whisper of a philosophical conflict about staying loyal to your friends...

But that’s all lost when -- UH OH Nono is in danger! Save her from Gungnir!!! And the reader is left wondering... um... what does this have to do with anything I just read?

They spend SOOOOO MUUUUCH TIIIIME on this derailment that I had to force myself to take a breath and get through reading  it because I didn’t care! I had invested so much emotionally in the FIRST half of the book... that I had no interest in the last half

And then... Chu Zihang, the person I was most interested in, is rescued and found off screen.

OFF SCREEN. 

What was it all for?????

*HEAVY SIGH*

Pick a theme. Stick to it. That’s what I would change.

Thank you so much for asking. :)

[reyescarlos]

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