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Date Posted: 07:12:08 10/21/03 Tue
In reply to:
Ammie
's message, "Go Subaru..." on 18:49:14 10/20/03 Mon
>It was really great. But, so sad. :/
>I need to keep reminding myself that Subaru was a cool
>character back in the day.
It's a stereotype of S/Sers in general that they adore Seishirou first and like Subaru as his toy. That is SO not how I was, or have ever been, regarding them. When I read Tokyo Babylon, it was SUBARU who I was fascinated by, and Subaru who made me want to read more and to write fanfic, and Subaru whose appearance in X made me so so happy... because Subaru really is the more engaging character in his seemingly hopeless but continually tender-hearted efforts to mean something to the one he loves. (Which is not to say that I don't adore Sei, because he's charming and idiotic and so convinced that he's right while he's completely *wrong* about Sub, and I love that, but it was Subaru who got me first.)
>I dunno, it's just that he
>has so much potential and yet they're stringing it out
>and stringing it out so that he's essentially static.
>Kim once asked "why does Subby need to do anything?"
>and pointed out that he's believable & sympathetic &
>it makes total sense for him to give up.
It *does*... but... see, I remember folks being kinda mad when other folks were saying, "Let him die, already!" but the fact is, Subaru is either the type of person who can recover from this, or he isn't. Judging by his stellar performance bouncing back from the events of TB, even after NINE YEARS, I'm taking a wild intuitive leap and saying that he's probably not gonna get over it in time for the end of X. That being the case, he's wasted page space if he doesn't *move* somehow... move anywhere, whether it be dying himself, doing Seishirou's assassin job, recovering, whatever, but if he's just going to be apathetic depressed boy, leave him in a corner and don't waste our time. He has every right to give up, but I'm paying to see action and development, not slow death-in-life.
>Granted,
>granted, BUT if he continues to be static without
>fulfilling any of his potential actions then lamers
>like myself will give up on him as a lost cause.
>Presumably he'll have a brief, beautiful death scene
>and that will be that.
>Subaru striving for one last Pyrrhic victory =
>interesting. Subaru in
>I-don't-care-I-have-lost-everything mode = boring.
>Like I said, I'm a lamer. ^_^
Precisely. I agree with ya, and the TB trio are probably my favorite CLAMP-created characters ever, so it's not saying that I don't like Subaru. It's that I don't like CLAMP being lazy. :)
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