meta – Page 2 – Stressed, Depressed, and Story Obsessed

attiinova:

White Diamond is the most offputting, most alien character I have ever seen just by her upspoken presence alone.

Seriously, let me repeat: White Diamond is the most alien character I have ever felt the presence of, and she is a character in a show completely plot driven by aliens.

A show that has been running for 5 to 6 years now, leading to the moment we finally approach this single character.

A character, of which we’ve seen pictures and symbols of since season one, yet we never even had a name drop until the same minute (no exaggeration) we were going to see her face to face.

Even though she didn’t directly say a single negative word, her voice alone sounded terrifying.

Her perfect symmetrical pose as she stood, her face completely blank from emotion even though she wore a constant smile with no malicious glare in her eyes. Her completely white and silver room allowing no emotional connection other than feeling like you do not belong there. Her skin beaming with such bright unnatural light, which is terrifying in itself before you recognize that every single being in the gem species creates their physical form out of light. The light that creates her body, and her person towering in that room was created in such a way that made it impossible to focus on a single object except for herself.

The fact that her body felt so unnaturally eerie, just standing there with no movement as she spoke, was terrifying. She looked like a statue, or as if she was a robot with a human face plastered on it. A robot programmed to show emotions in the face, and even if you didn’t know the being in front of you was a robot, you could tell the being could not feel empathy even though it was programmed to show the right facial features for certain emotions. She felt so scary as an authoritative figure that she radiated power.

She is the definition of a dictator- someone who originally created the idea of dominance.

There are characters in plenty of fiction that have amounted to these things, and I would never argue with anyone on that. However, the reason I say that this is truly and truthfully the most terrifying character I’ve ever seen is that I got all these feelings, thoughts, and observation from this character when she was on screen for exactly 30 seconds.

White Diamond was on the screen for 30 seconds, and only just had her first name drop a minute beforehand. She made me feel like she could erase my entire existence without a blink of an eye.

dreamofcentipedes:

Woah…it’s like a nature documentary…three years in anti territory, with nothing but a notebook and a trusty camera…the anon files.

Well, not three years, but you get the gist. Yeah, the thing you have to understand about antis is that the vast majority of them are not actually acting rationally. Some are criticising the story based on objective criteria, sure, but those people I usually wouldn’t refer to as ‘anti’s anyway. The people I do refer to operate entirely off of feeling, and then try to mask it as logical with all kinds of wafer-thin theories they probably know deep down to be untrue anyway.

You can debunk them as much as you like (it’s pretty easy), but they won’t change their point of view and most importantly, they won’t stop coming out with utter trash – because you can’t argue with a feeling.

It’s not surprising if you feel as though you’re reading a different story because they’ll completely warp the canon facts to fit around their own narrative. For example, it’s totally crackpot now to even try to say that Touken is intended as a negative thing in the story. It’s so obviously meant to be positive, yet these people will still harp on with the same nonsensical points about Touka being a total monster for calling Kaneki her husband. It doesn’t matter if the logic has any leg to stand on, because, essentially, it’s just another means of communicating a feeling, and that feeling is that they don’t like Touken.

So if it’s just an emotional difference and not an objective one, there’s not really much you can do to win them over. Best you can do is try and stay out of all that hot hot drama.