[meme] One letter, five characters
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rex_sun1. Leave a comment to this post, specifically saying that you would like a letter.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.
shirogiku gave me an "A", and I think I know why. I was so tempted to deny her just to be a buttface
1. Aberforth Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Albus Dumbledore's younger brother. He runs a bar in Hogsmeade which members of the Order of the Phoenix use to travel or hide. He's a secret aide to the rebellion, but when we meet him he has mostly given up hope. He reveals to Harry an' 'em the painful past of the Dumbledore family, over which he still angsts. After questioning Harry's faith in Albus and receiving a solid answer, Aberforth helps Harry sneak into Hogwarts castle.
...he's a goatfucker.
This amuses me endlessly.
Also, him being known to be a filthy person, I was kind of worried when Harrry an' 'em ate his food. Seriously.
But mostly I think he is pathetic for being so butthurt 100 years later. He served his purpose for the books but I didn't care for him as a character. I suppose he did some semi badass things?
2. Andrea
The Walking Dead
A survivor of the zombie apocalypse. She was on a road trip with her younger sister when the apocalypse happened. She has since lost her sister to the zombies and tried once to end her own life. Recent exploits include being an ass to the man who saved her life, having sex with the antagonist, shooting my favorite character in the head even after people told her to just sit tight, and leaving a suicidal girl alone to break a mirror and slit her wrists.
Can't stand her!
I'm don't think there is a character out there I dislike as much as this character. Even Aberforth, mentioned above, I never 'hated'. I don't condone character bashing. I have never actually just purely hated a character before.
...but this woman. Fuck. I don't even know. I loathe her.
...I hope she dies next. ):
3. Amy
Soulcalibur
A young orphan er, somewhere in France in the 1500s. She covered for Raphael, a nobleman, when he was being pursued. In gratitude he took Amy in as his own daughter and uh. Became obsessed with her, frankly. In a sort of Lelouch-Nunally dynamic, Raphael sought out an evil power to secure a future free of the manipulative politics of their surroundings, while Amy would have been perfectly content just living with him. He returned from his quest injured and infected with the Evil Seed. Amy cared for him and became infected herself. The two transformed into evil creatures and sought refuge elsewhere in Europe, where Raphael has been amassing great legions of brainwashed evil minions.
I think her design is pretty and cute. I like her role in the story. As for gameplay, she's just not my style. (I usually use Taki, Cassandra, or Seong Mi-na, and sometimes Astaroth.) I personally think they should have left her voiceless-- it went well with her little gothic princess theme. I also liked the ambiguity-- when she was a side character as opposed to a more central character --as to whether she even liked Raphael. But nowadays I love that exquisite pain in her expression, as pictured, as her adoptive father descends further and further into madness.
4. Alphonse Elric
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
The younger brother of the series' titular character and the second main character. As boys the Elric brothers lost their mother and afterwards honed their skills in alchemy in order to try to revive her. However, the attempt at human transmutation backfired. As punishment, said to be a "toll" for "learning the Truth", God took away Edward's leg and Alphonse's entire physical body. For the vast majority of the series, Al's soul is bound to a temporary body-- an empty suit of armor --as he and his brother try to uncover the legendary Philosopher's Stone and get sucked into a nationwide government conspiracy in the process. Pictured here is Al's physical body, found to be stuck in limbo after many years.
I fucking love Alphonse. He is so adorable. I just want to tuck him into bed and feed him apple pie with a tall glass of milk. Alphonse is so amazingly gentle and pure-hearted. And yet he is also a total BAMF, kicking ass left and right. I love how he is secretly snarky, and how he's very tender towards women, and how he can be so firm and solid without being a butt like his big brother. I admire people/characters that are gentle as well as firm, as opposed to not being anle to STAND characters who are supposed to be represented as gentle and come out totally meek (I.e., Fluttershy)
Also, a lot of both his trials and his aesthetics really speak to me. His loneliness, his doubt of self, being powerless to save someone he was asked to save, and being caught between his father and brother-- these trials in particular make my heart hurt in empathy. Also, that scene where he was travelling through the snow and his body called back his soul? That was just neat. Aesthetically speaking. I like the way that scene was done.
So in short. He is my favorite character of that particular series, and part of my top ten favorite character list of all time.
Akira Touya
Hikaru no Go
First and foremost... He is PRETTY.
Moving on.
Akira is a talented young Go player that gives even veteran pros a run for their money. He began playing at an extremely young age under the tutelage of his father, Japan's number one professional. He is only seriously challenged by people much older than him, and kids his age tend to suck, so he doesn't have any real competition. Then enters the main character, Hikaru, a kid his own age who completely blows him out of the water, despite his claim to have never played the game before then. Akira suddenly feels his passion reignited and delves deeply, desperately into the frustrating mystery of Shindo Hikaru. ( Whilst Hikaru himself feels passion for the first time and strives to be the man Akira expects him to be. )
Also my favorite character of this series and one of my top ten!
Akira is... intense.
Polite. Distant. Cool. Calm. Collected. ......yeah right.
Emotional. Fierce. Passionate. Fiery.
I just love how he shakes off everything he was ever taught and everything he's become accustomed to, all that his circumstances have told him he must be, to charge after the thing he wants more than he's ever wanted anything in his life: Shindo Hikaru. From a bored young genius with no path in life to a wild and reckless force of nature. Control to chaos.
And I love the rest of him, too. His poor fashion sense and his dorky social awkwardness. The way he totally throws his everything into what he loves. How he has such complete and utter confidence in himself. How he sometimes embarrasses himself. His cool intimidation techniques. How he's so deceptively sweet anywhere but in front of the go board.
I think you have to read him to see what I mean. Do it. Read Hikaru no Go. It is my absolute favorite series ever ever.
happy Shiro?
Oh my god I am so sleepy. I dunno how much sense this made towards the end. ZZZZZ
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Date: 2012-04-02 06:07 am (UTC)Applejack
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Second best pony.
[insert applejack pictures here...in the morning]
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:16 pm (UTC)very happy
I watched like 5 episodes of FMA and have seen a gazillion of spoilers XD Al is a sweetheart)))
LOL at Aberforth :D
Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 07:58 pm (UTC)Actually, I've been meaning to ask you (and anyone else who might know) this for a while. I watched Full Metal Alchemist as an English dub (probably the best dub ever, with Code Geass as a reasonably close second) a few (...okay several) years back.
Is Brotherhood worth it?
Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 09:00 pm (UTC)I don't know about anime homunculi vs. manga homunculi. They're very different from each other and I like bits of both.
In the manga, though, they are not humans nor were they based on humans. (Two exceptions to the rule, one of which is Bradley and the other which is spoiler.) I can't remember their motivations in the anime, but in the manga, they are LITERAL incarnations of sin. As in, the big evil dude wanted to become 'perfect' and so removed the sin from his body. Because of this, the homunculi have very clear cut motivations and personalities.
I am going to try to find for you a manga page that will give you an idea of how homunculi are presented in the manga...
Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 08:54 pm (UTC)I say "brotherhood" because it a clear indication of which storyline I mean, but what I really am a fan of is the manga. To be honest I haven't even watched every episode of the brotherhood anime. I began reading FMA when it was far, far from finished. Then, craving more, I watched the anime because I thought it was the same story. Then there was a severe break in the storyline and I was all WTF?
So I watched the entirety of the 2003 anime. I enjoyed it... I guess. It was never worth a rewatching to me. Though yes, excellently dubbed. (I'm pretty sure Brotherhood has a lot of the same voice actors?) But since I read the manga first, that has always been the 'original' to me, and I am forever biased in any series and almost exclusively prefer the original to any adaption.
I prefer the manga/Brotherhood storyline. The 2003 was... uh, not bad, I guess, but a lot of things made me "wtf" about it. I think it had some good heart-ouchies-- Sloth and Envy's true identity, for instance. But there were some loopholes that even a young me felt we're sort of stupid. Maybe I'm looking back on it now with unclear eyes, but back then I thought Dante turning Ed and Al's creature into Sloth was kind of. Uhm. Fucking stupid.
And anyway, I just like the themes of Brotherhood better. I like the ending-- it's a lot happier than the ending of 2003. Which I also found to be wtf worthy, so you know. Like, I think "the gate" has a much more understandable role in Brotherhood. 2003: Commit a sin, go to a different dimension! Brotherhood: Commit a sin, god will punish you! ...like, I don't dislike the 2003 ending because it's open-- far from, I love open endings --but because it's effing weird and I don't like historical settings. Bah.
And there's a lot of cool characters only seen in Brotherhood. And I like the theme of all these different people all coming together against a common foe. I like the stronger themes of loyalty and the massive clusterfucky fight scene at the end because I like clusterfucky fight scenes. Uhm... I don't know.
2003 is what isn't worth it to me.
Brotherhood represent.
...any specific questions?
Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 09:00 pm (UTC)I didn't like it for a lot of reasons. I didn't seem to fit in with the themes of FMA (equivalent exchange, knowledge=power) although it certainly embraced the punishment of hubris.
There were a few more things that just... rubbed me the wrong way, but they were mostly nitpicky things and overall I quite enjoyed the anime for what it was.
I haven't read the manga, but I got the impression that the homunculi got more development, (or deeper development) in general. If that's true, and that translates over to Brotherhood, that's quite appealing to me. I do like me some in-depth villains. Is that the case?
Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 09:02 pm (UTC)Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 09:06 pm (UTC)I found Brotherhood to be a lot more... Epic, XD
Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 09:24 pm (UTC)I think I'll probably watch it in Japanese this time, though. XD
Homunculi.
Date: 2012-04-02 09:48 pm (UTC)Here's a little scene I went nuts looking for. I think it's pretty powerful.
You're playing house. (http://www.anymanga.com/full-metal-alchemist/020/003/024/)
True, but I chose my wife myself. (http://www.anymanga.com/full-metal-alchemist/020/003/025/)
Also, I herd u liek children that don't act like children? Here's the Brotherhood version of Pride:
Don't worry, she lives. And the creepy little bastard proceeds to terrorize her for the next few chapters. (http://www.anymanga.com/full-metal-alchemist/018/002/002/)
Re: Homunculi.
Date: 2012-04-02 11:37 pm (UTC)You need to give out, like, lessons. On pimping.
If Brotherhood doesn't give me what I need, I may just crack open the manga itself.
Re: Homunculi.
Date: 2012-04-02 11:52 pm (UTC)