@fuckcriscuit@TheLost3663 Personally I think she's likeable because her being petty/pathetic makes her funnier than she'll ever know while usually having the experience to back up her confidence. Sadly the gap moe charm that IS there gets ignored by "fans" in favour of whatever is generically titillating.
@CaptainSalore@CHAlNSAWHEART Sword Sharpened with Tears and Si Branch Rodion uptie stories in case you somehow completely missed the entirety of Timekilling Time.
@BeegBunbun@DanklingArt7 ever think about how rodya has three links to birds kept caged as poultry while yi sang and sinclair are learning to fly or how she has an axe that shatters in her ego while sinclair makes use of his.... and how gregor the gold apple guy keeps having connections to trees...
@BeegBunbun@DanklingArt7 your argument earlier was carmen encourages people to stay depressed and wallow in their emotions. first kindred DQ was miserable and jaded as hell.
@DanklingArt7@BeegBunbun She didn't get a cutscene and was also introduced before the concept of distortions within Limbus got explained through the intervallo immediately after.
@BeegBunbun@DanklingArt7@coolerbred All people who would exist with or without distortion. W Corp cannibalism was a thing long before it, as were cults. All that changed was that now everyone has access to power through the light, should they will it to be so. Up to them how they use it.
@DanklingArt7@BeegBunbun@coolerbred but you can't come back from being a peccatulum and dongrang's form resembled gluttony... then he ended up manifesting EGO instead
@DanklingArt7@BeegBunbun@coolerbred between two world's lyrics straight up mention the "well" and "a fruit, a sin, a holy mother" and a "warm cocoon" plus kromer was already rummaging around the basement of a lobcorp branch fascinated by carmen's other "children".
@BeegBunbun@DanklingArt7@coolerbred On the contrary Carmen often appears to people on the verge of doom from an outside source and tells them to live as they see fit by any means necessary. Which given what happened in the bathtub makes a lot of sense.
@BeegBunbun@DanklingArt7@coolerbred Greta, Tanya and Kromer were all having plenty of fun. They had goals and were seizing them same as any non-distorted selfish individual (Dias, Iori, Gesellschaft admins) just with a different power system afforded to them. Distortion is what the user makes of it.
@DanklingArt7@BeegBunbun@coolerbred Erlking didn't even need to distort and look what that Heathcliff did. He always had destructive potential in him same as anyone else does. That's what makes distortion such a popular option for the city's residents in the first place.
@DanklingArt7@BeegBunbun@coolerbred Rodya was never redeemed and judging from her many many many red flags might never be. Cocytus, the frozen lake of traitors, awaits her.
@DanklingArt7@BeegBunbun@coolerbred Carmen doesn't "make" anyone choose the path of selfish destruction. That's their choice. All she does is repeat back to them their own desires, which they can either embrace, reconsider or in the case of Ahab/Dongrang repurpose.
@BeegBunbun@coolerbred@DanklingArt7 Rodya is evil for killing one pawnbroker which got her whole neighbourhood killed, Sinclair is evil for caving to Kromer's pressure and showing her the basement, Ryoshu is evil for what happened to Araya and erasing Sora + Ren (victims like herself) from existence etc
@BeegBunbun@coolerbred@DanklingArt7 Because "evil" implies sadism and malice rather than giving people absolute freedom of expression in an oppressive society where power is usually kept behind access to wealth. There's a reason the "mother of abnormalities" refers to everyone in the ID stories as "children".