something that's really interesting abt bravern's 'first' appearance is that it's ever so slightly differently depicted in ep 1 vs ep 9, and not just because they've got suzumura doing it in ep 1 and azakami doing it in ep 9. there's little things like bravern screwing up ore vs watashi in ep 9 and bravern more audibly eating shit before he remembers burn blade in ep 9
anyway i don't have some grand conclusion to this post i'm just pondering narrative choices, reliable narration, etc. ore vs watashi in particular is very interesting to me. there's not really a reason why we as the audience shouldn't 'hear/see' that part of the conversation in ep 1--we're experiencing the story through isami at that very point in the episode and he is paying CLOSE attention--but like.....maybe very much in bravern style the story and its feelings matter more than the logic and 1. that might've been too hefty of a hint to drop on the viewer first ep! 2. it's probably more impactful to the story that we first get to see at that very moment through smithvern's perspective the active choices of self obfuscation he's pulling as bravern
in case y'all care at all how things are going over on reddit
this isn't even inaccurate, the main sub completely misunderstands that ULO is a bunch of trolling circlejerking dickheads, that's the point. but they'll still stick their fingers in the spokes anyways and hurt their own feelings and all it does is give us even more amazing meme material for us to ejaculate over LMAO
EDIT to add: seriously, they act like the ULO sub is like, 'brigading' against positivity LMAO ULO/antiLO existing isn't an attack on your identity my dude-
(if anything it says way more about them than it does about ULO/antiLO because they're basically getting mad that we're seeing all the problems with the comic and they clearly wanna just enjoy their ship without that nagging voice in the back of their head telling them maybe it's wrong to ship the 19 year old SA victim with the 40 year old CEO cough which, AGAIN, we can't take away from them! but if it's bugging you that much, maaaaybe it's because there's something there you don't wanna accept? 🤫 )
this is from the 2007 DS version of Etrian Odyssey 1, but 🫵 notice how i was already expecting at least 700 damage from my medic at this point. 🫵🫵YOU, TOO, CAN DO UNGA NUMBERS WITH A MEDIC. Care for your medic… and they will CARE FOR YOU!!! GRAAGGHH!!