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qmisato

“rei or asuka?” really baffles me because they’re presented as inverse contrasts in the show, and you can’t really derive any concrete analysis or understanding of their characters by taking them in separately. you have to examine them together through a comparative lens – their backstories, how they view themselves, their respective methods of coping/internalizing neglect and validation (or lack thereof). this goes for literally every single character in evangelion, but rei and asuka are most prolific for the grossest and most nauseating reasons.

when people say they like asuka more than rei for “x” reasons or visa versa, to me that’s just another gauge of how badly they missed the point.

qmisato

more thoughts on this. i don’t believe in the idea “if you like asuka more you like rei less”. it’s interesting how both rei and asuka suffer disproportional amounts of bodily harm in the show but the emotional focus/concern rests solely on shinji (both in-show and fandom).

asuka and rei’s dynamism plays out in how they interpret and react to their their “maternalness” and “materialness”: rei, contemplating on never becoming a mother (which is complicated by her connection with yui and lilith) - and then asuka, who hates menstruation, hates the idea of having children (complicated by her forcible rejection from her mother; rei is removed from motherhood in the bodily sense but closer “spiritually”, while asuka is the inverse)

then there’s rei and materialness (corporeality) vs the soul, how rei can’t retain memories after each resurrection (memories being connected bodily, stored in the brain), but she possesses base latent comprehension of emotions and relationships (as these are stored in the soul) – how rei morphs through bodily trauma and repeated physical resurrection, and then transcends corporeality completely, because rei is rei without a body. this is in contrast to asuka, who marrys her entire identity to her body, tries to find validation in the body, presentations of the body. when asuka’s body and her ability to use her body crumbles, asuka crumbles. rei grows/transcends with each instance of bodily trauma while asuka regresses/ebbs with each instance of bodily trauma.

asuka and rei compliment each other so beautifully in their characters and i love them both so much.

Source: qmisato

alpacamaca

rwby-analysis

Sorry, this is gonna get rwde.

One of the things I hate most is when people claim they could write RWBY better than the actual writers.

As a writer myself I know how much harder it is to come up with an original idea and make it work than fixing something someone else made or using an universe someome else has created and writing fanfiction. It’s so much harder to come up with an universe that actually makes sense than diving into something that already exists. It’s so much harder to have an empty canvas and to come up with everything yourself than already having lines to orientate yourself. Many seem to underestimate that.

Also many seem to underestimate what a nightmare RWBY is to write. Screenwriting is very different from writing stories. You have to take limited screentime and resources into account, especially with the limited resources Rooster Teeth has in comparison to bigger studios. Fight scenes are way more complicated to animate than scenes where people just talk.

RWBY is also a nightmare to pace. Seriously. Even the pacing of a trilogy can be a challenge. But with RWBY you have to pace the series as a whole, the different arcs that last longer than one Volume, the Volumes in itself, the separate episodes and the separate scenes within an episode at the same time. All that makes writing RWBY way harder than many seem to expect.

It’s a personal pet peeve of mine to be honest. I have grown to seriously dislike arrogant writers. Writers who thought they didn’t need improvement. Writers who thought they were the next big thing in the business and refused to see how much more work they needed to become really good. Writers who lacked any respect for this craft and how much work it is to become really good.

I’m not saying people who say that are bad writers. I’m sure most of them aren’t. I’m not saying RWBY is flawless. I’m not saying you can’t come up with ideas that would indeed improve the show. But saying that if you were the one to write for this show it would be better is nothing but arrogant and stupid because no, you probably couldn’t. Watching RWBY and then coming up with an idea how to improve it doesn’t mean that you could create a better show than the one we see right now. I couldn’t write a project this big. I have struggled with smaller projects and I have no shame admitting that because even though I am a good writer I still always try to improve and to learn and I know my limits.

vitt-99

THANK YOU!!!!!! FINALY SOMEONE SAID IT

Source: rwby-analysis

murtogg

hyrude

for the record: i wrote 10k of indepth introspective character analysis turned personal projection fanfiction about francis from malcolm in the middle, never posted it anywhere, then changed all the names and submitted it for an lgbt essay scholarship as a dissertation on internalized homophobia’s psychological impact into adulthood and won $1000 so. first of all, follow your dreams, second of all, francis from malcolm in the middle is fucking gay

Source: hyrude

rnyfh

a film or artwork can be appreciated even though it portrays misogyny, but a lot of people think calling it out immediately degrades the entire work and insist that that one observation makes the entire analysis “too politically correct”

altruisticartistry

bummass

Dove chocolate and Dove soap are two different companies who havent sued each other because they have different trademarks lol

gaycism

Damn and I really all this time just thought dove (the soap people) had a meeting one day and were just like “…. we might fuck around and make some chocolate”