also why. that's the important part
the more genuine your answer the more i will like your post (i can detect if you are being a jokester very easily so don't even try it)
also why. that's the important part
the more genuine your answer the more i will like your post (i can detect if you are being a jokester very easily so don't even try it)
Lancelot du Lac from T.H. White's The Once and Future King.
I mean, you read it Sesto. He's too good.
The tragedy of his innate cruelty in the face of his adimiration for Arthur, his struggle to supress that nature and do everything to live up to his childish ideas of an ideal knight, the insecurity that consumes him even after achieving everything one could ask of the greatest knight. Having those achievements then be corrupted by a pure and prohibited love born from sadism and then again by someone else's obsession for him intruding on his own for the knightly vows. The descent into madness when confronted by that, and his return.
And all that without ever putting aside his arrogance and stubborness that are at the root of every problem he causes.
I legitimately cried when he and Arthur confronted each other in the war, and then almost did it again during his meeting with Galahad.
Sesto. He's a maudlin drunk that only exists in my computer, but you can't help but root for him.
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I'll think about it a bit to try and find an actual top favorite character but like
any of the main cast in undertale because they exemplify everything that is amazing about the game(hint: everything) by just existing
I really like medusa because she ticks enough of the boxes as far as dateable goes, I guess
any of the really wise men of the mountain type characters when written well
there's something about the wisdom resulting in a delightful person aspect that just feels so
Call me 想φαγω.
Spoiler:
Really hard to say tbh.
Tohsaka Rin would be one to consider, she might've been the main catalyst in getting me embroiled in this TM rabbit hole. Though I don't usually like tsunderes there's something with how Rin is handled, in FSN specifically, that just works. I don't really relate to her. There's just something satisfying about the way she carries herself and reacts to others in that story.
Another consideration might be Hanekawa Tsubasa from Monogatari. Specifically the juxtaposition of her angel-like presentation in regards to what she gets in return for it. The fact that the reason she has a shitty home life isn't just because her relatives are the worst but also because she never asked for anything herself is something I identify with at some level. That aversion to being selfish, I've had that, only with her it's brought to a point that it breaks her as a person. And the resolution to that, when she realizes all she had to do was start asking, was a bit of an eye-opener for me.
And the jury is still out on this one as it is a very recent addition, and I wanna make sure if it isn't just the recency bias speaking, but maybe... just maybe... Anya Forger from Spy x Family. This one is down almost entirely to relatability. Though my situation isn't exactly the same as hers I did grow up with a step parent whom I love very much. And Anya is always doing something with her step parents that I either did with my parents, or I wish I could've done with them. Like shipping her parents into getting married. I did that... sorta... The subject matter of Spy x Family is something that hit really close to home for me and Anya is the main conduit for that. I'm discovering shit about myself because of this show/manga.
Oof... that got kinda heavy there... uhh...
Honorable Mention: Ciel from Tsukihime, she's cute and I love her and her route in the remake probably got the biggest reaction out of me from reading Nasu's works.
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I never really did think about it but yeah, Lancelot was a really great character. His conflicting love for Arthur and Guinevere was overall just very tragic given how things turned out.
Gawain (near the end) and Arthur himself were also great. I really liked their friendship in the latter half, and Gawain's conflict with trying to be a good knight for Arthur and the kingdom while still wanting to uphold his family's honour (and basically failing to do so) was just sad. And Arthur's overall thoughts on how the Round Table developed despite constantly trying to maintain the ideal he originally sought really hit hard. The last scene with Arthur and the Page is still probably my favourite scene in the book. It's funny how a large portion of the novel is basically comedic in tone yet the overall story is just a very tragic tale of so many people failing to be their ideal selves.
If you'd asked five or ten years ago, I'd have said Gollum, but last time I reread the books I started to find his style of speech kind of annoying.
Right now I have some difficulty answering. I'm a fan of Rincewind, possibly because he's very obstinate in pursuit of his goals, and he's a low-power-level character at the center of worldshaking events. But I'm not sure he's my favorite.
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My favorite is Spider-Man.
When I was a small kid watching Spider-Man 2, the story of how he tried to balance himself between his need and his responsibility, just touched my heart. He is clearly hurt from his heroism as it destroys his life, and he wanted to cry because of that as he realized that the idealistic can't be done, but ultimately choose to be a good person. Spider-Man become my role model in how I should dealt with my life, with strength of one's heart and continue to move forward without harming no one both physically, mentally, and emotionally.
It unironically used to be Archer from the hit VN Fate/Stay Night. Can't take him seriously now that he has been reduced solely to cooking mom jokes and a blackface caricature though.
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Let it not burden your soul, nor numb your strides.
For me, it's Akari Mizunashi from the Aria series. And although I'm generally a "this anime girl is my wife" person, this is definitely not the reasoning I like Akari whatsoever.
Akari summarized is essentially just a ditsy, air-headed girl you often see in slice of life anime. But that isn't really all she is. She's cheerful, she's goofy, she's fun. She's the type of person who can make friends with anyone just by being herself, making people open up and feel comfortable with her presence. She inspires people to be better and happy not by giving long-winded speeches or asking them to change themselves, but just by being who she is. She's able to see the beauty in every day life and somehow naturally just spreads her happiness to other people. In many ways she's essentially captures everything that makes the Aria series what it is: a show focused on appreciating the little moments and people you meet every single day. Many people get lost in the idea of the Neo-Venezia presented in Aria not understanding it's not really about showing this idealistic society where everyone is happy, but rather about teaching you it's perfectly possible to appreciate insignificant things like talking to strangers, exploring your city, or other minor things we all take for granted. And Akari is the lens in which this is all presented.
It's pretty cringe to be this genuine and say this but Akari is the type of person I've always wanted to be. I'm very far from becoming someone like her but she's part of the reason I like to make people laugh in the first place, it feels good to make people smile even if you have to look like a fool to do so. I have never, ever been an optimistic person but over the years I've gravitated to characters like her (like Marie!) exactly because I wish I was like that, someone capable of always seeing the bright side of things and being able to spread that joy to others. Being happy and making others happy every day is the ideal.
Hmm...a tough one. If I had to pick anybody, I suppose I'd go with Brandon Heat - specifically from the anime adaptation of the Gungrave franchise. To explain why, I'll have to run through the story as quick as I can...
Gungrave Spoilers
So yeah, an overly long and detailed explanation of why I love Gungrave and its protagonist. I barely scratched the surface in regards to the antagonist who likewise is one of the best written characters I find in anime, but then this essay would have been twice as long and ain't nobody got time for that.
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Jia Baoyu from Dream In A Red Chamber, I find him humorous because the author literally names him fake in order to prevent punishment for his writings while also compelling as a character in the novel.
I am a character appreciator and I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about many but right now, Maid Fatamoru and Kanon Umineko.
spoilers, naturally
Geez, that's a tough one. There's Don Camillo, a belligerent priest who's more than a bit set in his ways, and Peppone, a hard-headed mayor who has a habit of letting his party do the thinking for him, but both of whom are good and compassionate men who fight injustice; there's Captain Carrot, who could easily be his world's King Arthur, but chooses not to because he doesn't want people to be good because they believe in him, he wants them to be good because it's the right thing to do; there's Philip the Handsome and Philip the Tall, both of whom are objectively evil people who still strive to be good rulers (though it's always worth asking - good rulers for *whom*?); there's Kormákr Ögmundarson, who's smart and clever and witty and proud, but is so stubborn and hot-headed that he keeps messing up his own life; and there's Solomon Kane, who's strong and resolute and never compromises with evil, but also struggles with natural abilities and temperament that make him unfit to co-exist with others.
It's hard to delineate between those which I enjoy as characters (i.e. the role a character plays in a story) and those which I enjoy as representations of people (i.e. the characteristics which define the characters as people).
For example, partially I am a great fan of a lot of the classic TYPE-MOON villains (Kotomine, Roa, Araya, Twice, Touko...) not because of how they act, but because of how their role interacts with the story as a whole.
Of course that's not to say I don't enjoy them in the other way as well, but I think that's more incidental in a lot of cases.
What about Caren then?
Ye be yet not worthy of knowing.
But I can bring a glimpse of what I like in 'characters as people' by talking a little bit about C.C. from Code Geass, which is one of the first anime I ever really enjoyed:
The level of calm she brings into any situation is very comforting.
This is a person who has a lot of confidence in herself, yet expresses that confidence in a very low-key manner.
Yet at the same time, they're some who are vulnerable at heart, despite the aforementioned trait.
In normal circumstances she appears enigmatic and aloof, conversations with her seeming like a maze unto themselves, a game of sort.
But when the chips are down on the table, she goes to great lengths in order to make sure that those she care about are safe, even if it never seemed she cared.
Some perhaps would interpret her behavior as obtuse and infuriating, but I find the teasing and incorrigible unknowability of her actions to be refreshing and exciting.
Her characterization exists in contrast to Lelouch, whose obsession with control and constant knowability makes her a consistent source of frustrations (at least when it comes to his interpersonal relationships).
I think even to this day, a lot of the traits I enjoy out of her are reflected in the kind of characters I like.
I think my favourite character in fiction is Yang Wen-li, and probably not for the obvious reasons. He's a rare kind of person who still persists in carrying on ideals in a society that's stopped believing in anything. Rather than making him some archetypal genius-tactician out of a Romance of the Three Kingdoms spinoff, his knowledge of history paralyzes him as often as it aids him, because he's constantly aware of the ways things have gone wrong in the past. Even though the world constantly fucks him - and more than almost anyone in the show he gets it good and hard - he continues to believe the future can be better. Legend of the Galactic Heroes spends maybe a bit too much time on its Alexandrian romanticisation of Reinhard, but with Yang it always feels very real and very close to home. LoGH is very conscious and deliberate in its portrayal and philosophy of history, and maybe someday I'll write something about it.
I like Petri's point about characters-as-roles vs. characters-as-people. There are other characters I might consider my favourites, but I can't separate my appreciation of them as characters from the broader story they inhabit.
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I don't have a clear favourite. Favourite female character might be Senjougahara Hitagi and male character Araragi Koyomi from the Monogatari Series. Zaregoto's protagonist used to be my clear favourite
Probably Magneto. The old 90's cartoon was my first experience with a villain who can actually realize that his actions are running counter productive to his goals. That bit where he almost kills Shadowcat and has a "What have I done?" moment? That's something you never see as a five year old. It turns the villains from just something the heroes have to punch, to heroes of their own story. Then later I learned his best friend is also his greatest enemy and despite that, hasn't let it completely destroy their relationship. They both want the same thing, they just have wildly different paths to achieve it.
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