Dec. 19th, 2012

indigozeal: (ghaldain)
I just read a Lunar comic where someone whom I believe was meant to be young Lemia/Remilia was talking to Dyne and Ghaleon about how glad she was to have ditched her job and gotten out of Vane because she hated how her town "was founded by filthy mazoku."

...

This is just an isolated misinterpretation, right? That whole TSS-ending fiasco hasn't metastasized into a complete fandom-wide reading comprehension failure, has it?

ETA: Saw the author's note, which states that they haven't read Vheen Hikuusen and doesn't want to, for fear of relying too heavily on any one source for their art. My concern, then, shifts to the depiction of Remilia as a lazy, self-centered racist, which is pretty vile. I hope, particularly after the shallow depiction of her in the Harmony prologue, that this isn't the current popular notion of the character, though I have a sinking feeling to the contrary. I can understand wanting to write a character from one's own, different perspective, to play with changing one aspect of their background or doing a bit of a rewrite so their essence, as one sees it, slides better into focus - but there're certain parts of a character where if you take them away, that character just isn't that character anymore. A Remilia with no sense of duty or self-sacrifice or pride in her hometown's storied past is......

My head hurts. I need to go back to Silent Hill.
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