Posts : 486 Birthday : 1993-03-11 Join date : 2014-06-02 Age : 31 Location : Gehenna
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Ritsu's Den
I'll be using this thread to ramble about my life (like any of you actually want to hear my rants XD) and to keep track of my generally used RP characters, and my series theories and such.
I hope to eventually have a table of contents (coding willing).
Let's see... I suppose I can start with my Soul Eater OCs.
First off, there's Antonia. I usually RP her as Medusa's daughter. She's a fox witch with both healing and fire manipulation magic. As for appearances, she has shoulder length dark blonde hair and jade eyes. She tends to wear an oversized hoodie over striped leggings, but her 'witch' outfit has fox ears and a tail, which often move in time with her emotion. Also, she's almost always carrying a messenger bag filled with notebooks and pens. She tends to be very quiet and observant, but secretly, she gets jealous of anyone that takes her mother's attention, save for her little brother, of course. Like her mother, she's often barefoot.
Secondly, there's Akeldama and Vadoma, "twin" test tube infants that Medusa created by combining Crona and Tshilaba's genes. As test tube children, they're exactly the same age. Akeldama, or "Kel" for short, is a meister who inherited her father's black blood and eye color, but her mother's cyan and lilac/lavender striped hair. Vadoma, or "Va" for short, inherited her father's black blood and hair color, but her mother's eye color and witch genes. Kel tends to rely more on her black blood than attempting to match wavelengths with anyone. Va, on the other hand, relies more on her storm wyvern magic. Personality wise, Va is more easygoing and extroverted while Kel is quiet and more...cynical and even snide.
Tshilaba, while normally my fursona, plays her role in the Soul Eater universe as a fox witch who choses to work with Medusa for her own purposes, namely knowledge. Appearance wise, she's of average build with short cut cyan and lilac/lavender hair and cerulean blue eyes.
Fun note: Their names all have an important meaning. "Antonia" is Italian for "invaluable". "Akeldama" is Greek for "field of blood". "Vadoma" is Romani for "to know", derived from a phrase meaning "the knowing ones" (a reference to magic users). "Tshilaba" is Romani for "seeker of knowledge".
Let's take a break from OC profiles and take a look at a day in the life of Ritsu, shall we?
Ritsu is unemployed. This is not by choice, this is because the YMCA somehow SOMEHOW overlooked her application to work over the summer. Yeah. Right. And Ritsu is a hippogriff. *swishes tails* I see fox tails and no wings. So, yeah. Not a hippogriff. Ritsu is also broke. Why? Let us just say that her mother has an obsession with Wizards 101. And so you can do the math, Ritsu's mother was 39 when Ritsu was born. Yeah. The problem with this? Ritsu has to enable this addiction. Because otherwise she whines. A lot. And she doesn't shut up normally. So why is Ritsu broke? Because this addiction had to be fed after her sister "borrowed" $20 for a beach trip, after had Ritsu had spent $200 to get the remaining 16 volumes of Soul Eater Yen Press has released so far. Yes, Ritsu is obsessed with Soul Eater. But this shopping trip activated her overdraft protection. -_-;
So, because not all of her manga has come in, Ritsu resorts to watching Burst Angel, another favorite of which she found the full set for $10 plus shipping.
This is derailed. Because the morons she is forced to live with seem to think that yanking a dog's hurt leg is the way to fix it. -_-
So she turns to singing.
Byt this interrupts his precious shows.
And the list goes on. Ritsu cannot escape the stupidity. *rant over*
So, I'm bored, and maybe a little tired... Let's do confessions! Just because they're a fun way for you to get to know me. And they're something to do.
MAY HAVE SENSITIVE CONTENT:
1. Though I'm a practicing Wiccan, I've been to nearly every denomination of church except Catholic, Judaism, and Muslim. 2. My open-mindedness has been within me since before birth. It's not something that cropped up when I became dissatisfied with traditional religion. 3. Though I'm Wiccan, my belief in reincarnation did not come with my interest in the religion. My belief comes, not from any doctrine, but my own experience. 4. I remember nothing from before I turned three. The pictures my parents do not even feel like I'm looking at myself. 5. When I first saw Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Disney's Hercules, I could point out every inaccuracy in them. My family did not expose me to mythology at that age. Yet when the myths were consulted, everything I'd said was wrong in the show and the movie was. 6. When I was small, I constantly had a dream sort of vision in which a young woman lay back on her bed and held me over her. Though her face is unclear to this day, I vividly remember feeling secure, happy, and loved. None of my female relatives have ever done this with me. 7. I have never felt like I belonged anywhere. My first friend was Yoshi. My first human friend didn't come until the 10th grade. Most people would spend the entire school year treating me like crap, only to turn around on the last day and try to be nice, like I couldn't see right through it. 8. Since my social life is crap, I've become an effective writer and artist. I'm not perfect, but it makes it easier to get my thoughts out there. 9. I have a knack for becoming a human encyclopedia. A cursory glance over Harley Quinn's wiki page retained no less than six facts about her. 10. I have Luci Christian to thank for two, possibly three though the last was likely inevitable, very important decisions in my life. Her portrayal of Medusa Gorgon inspired me to strive to become a doctor, a career choice I'd previously dismissed due to have not being allowed to prepare in high school. Her career as a voice actress also inspired me to pursue a career in game creation and publication. Originally, this was just a fond hobby. A "I wish I could". But now it is an active passion: everything from conception, to character design, programming, and voice acting. 11. If the Madnesses of the Soul Eater universe were real, I'd have Madness of Knowledge. 12. I like writing fan-translations of foreign songs. It allows me to play with the English language, and helps me cross-reference English with the language the song is in. 13. Of all the pairings I ship, I feel the one that gets waaaaay too much flack is MedusaxCrona. Now, before anyone freaks, this is not just some guilty pleasure crack pairing (I'll explain later). Nor is it a ploy to cause rants. Incest, despite what people squick over, is not all that problematic. No, incest does not actually cause any outstanding amount of trauma to the "victim". There's only a victim when the relationship is non-consensual--and that applies to any and all relationships. As long as both parties are old enough mentally to consent to the relationship then it's the same as any other consensual adult relationship, in my eyes. And, if it's het, all the couple need do is take precaution to prevent the woman from getting pregnant. Now, with that said, I wish to simply say two things: One, that Crona is always old enough to consent and he willingly agrees to participate (No random lustful pouncing by mommy and making relief necessary. I throw virtual Napalm at that.). And two...okay, maybe that was the two. XD
Well, I said I would explain my reasoning behind the pairing, so here it is.
Possibly sensitive material:
When it comes to MedusaxCrona, it goes beyond mere sex for me. I literally see it as an extension of their mother-son relationship and a means of understanding each other on a deeper level. A means of taking two seemingly opposite souls and bringing them onto even ground where no one exists but them in that moment.
That's why I see them on a different level than just about any other Soul Eater pairing, except perhaps CroMa. Medusa and Crona exist on two opposite ends of the personality spectrum. Maka is somewhere in the middle, but her visit to Crona's soul and her natural empathy make it easier to at least sympathize with where Crona comes from on various points of view. Medusa doesn't have that advantage. I'm not denying that resonance between her and Crona is possible, as Spirit says that a parent and child can always resonate. It's more as if Maka and Tsubaki tried to be partners. Yeah, on the surface, it works, and they can match wavelengths and not knock each other silly, but getting that deep level of resonance is nigh impossible under normal means. I see sex as a way for Medusa and Crona to bridge that gap. Dancing is one way to learn each other's wavelengths, how much truer is it for the act of lovemaking that, at its very core is the raw meeting of two souls? Add to that, when you have sex with a person enough you learn what makes them tick. You learn their likes and dislikes, what can cause arousal and what level of interest it piques, what can kill an arousal in seconds. In a post-coital haze, very few of the things that bother you about a person seem relevant, because you've just achieved the closest mortals can come to embracing their soul (well, unless you count Maka's ability to enter their mindscape, but Maka seems to be the only one capable of that while in a physical body), and at that point you can look past those things and see the real person within. Can you even imagine how that would be for them? For Crona to see that, under that tough, disengaged shell, his mother is just as vulnerable as he is emotionally, maybe even more so? For Medusa to realize that all her son wants is to make her happy, but he has trouble hurting others to do so? Can you even imagine the level of understanding that would give them?
Now, please remember, I have no intention of forcing my beliefs on anyone. This is simply how I see this pairing. I won't be upset if you dislike it. I just ask that you don't bash my preferences? We cool~? ^-^
♪ Sailor Moon was my very first anime, before even Pokémon. My parents claim that I ran around saying "I shall punish you!" to anyone who upset me. In response, I always say that it's better than my cousins pretending to be Maguyver. Because, hey, a toddler can't really hurt anyone with the "powers of the moon". Well, unless they're the incarnation of a moon deity. XD ♪ My two favorite birds are owls and penguins. ♪ My favorite Care Bears Cousin is Cozy Heart Penguin. ♪ I've always had a close bond with animals. As such, I have a policy of not killing something unless it threatens my life in some way. Non-insect animals that I can relate to in anyone I will avoid harming at all costs, even if they could hurt me. If a snake doesn't try to hurt me, it can do as it wishes. But if it's harmed, I often feel as if I'm being harmed. ♪ As much I might try to be a tomboy, I have an immense weakness for cute and adorable things. ♪ When necessary, I can throw a tantrum to get something I want. It's how I got my Pokémon Red game. ♪ I'm a bit of a perfectionist and can often throw fits when something isn't accurate. ♪ As frightening as they are, I prefer vampires that can blend into human society over Buffy-style vampires. ♪ I prefer to lie only when I have to, but sometimes, I resort to it when I'm tired of dealing with something and the person talking to me don't give up. ♪ I can ship just about anything that isn't rape and doesn't break any of the concerned characters to work.
As if my vocabulary didn't contain that word from its conception. Only, it seems to have decided to increase a hundred fold once my muse decides to give me inspiration.
This past week and a half has been, in a word, frustrating. My father's mother passed away recently. For those of you that don't know, I hate funerals. With the venom that Gregg the Grim Reaper hates cats. It's not that death disturbs me; quite the opposite in fact. Death is a release from life into the calm of Summerland. No, see, the problem is how others take death. It's as if even Christians believe that death and the afterlife are full of pain or something. Now Ritsu, you may be asking, why do you care what others think of death? Well, it bothers me that they're so close-minded, for one. Don't get me wrong. I understand being upset. Really, I do. But the dying have a way of knowing when you're not ready to let go of them.
For another, it's quite draining to be the rock.
But the past is passed. And now, I can get back to my normal life. Trying to achieve something productive whilst putting up with the sheer bull from my co-workers. I bought a few 'new' books from the Book Warehouse a few days ago, and there's even a Halloween superstore that opened in the same shopping plaza, so I may see if I can get a job there. It'll be much better than working with these asses. I enjoy Halloween, and at least I stand a chance of getting a promotion there. Plus, minimum wage at a full-time job is loads better than at part-time; and getting paid every week instead of every two means twice as much money~~
So yeah. I'll get to my RP posts as soon as possible. Still need to catch up on my sleep an' all.
Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:28 am by Ritsu