[ SECRET POST #2813 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2813 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Vocaloid]


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03.
[Homestuck]


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04.
[Luke Evans, Dracula Untold]


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05.
[Guardians of the Galaxy]


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06.
[John Green]


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07.
[Ace Attorney: The Adventures of Ryunosuke Naruhodou]


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08.
[Legend of Korra]


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09.
[Paul Hollywood of The Great British Bake-Off]















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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is this your first Ace Attorney? Franziska became a prosecutor at 13. Edgeworth at 20. Why are you even playing these games if you can't stand things like this?

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the young ones though 'went to Europe and got educated there'. Because we're all child prodigies over here so we all qualify really young.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I love the Phoenix Wright/Ace Attorney games but they are patently absurd and don't make any pretenses of being anything but.

[world_eater]

Also a game where an 8 year old turned into a babe with big boobs repeatedly.

[kamino_neko]

That's always bugged me, because how the hell did Faye's body fit in Pearl's clothes???

[(Anonymous)]

designed by Edna Mode?

[pantswarrior]

All Fey women's clothing are made of spandex because of exactly this kind of situation, duh.

[world_eater]

Not well judging by the massive cleavage we were subjected to :/

[loracarol]

Actually, funny storyish time? I used to be in a Japanese Immersion school, and every year we'd have to dress in kimonos to dance in various things. It is amazing how much you can tuck fabric to make a large kimono fit a small child, especially since you're going to be putting an obi over the top anyway, and that can hide the tucks/extra fabric.

So I always figured that the Fey women wore over-sized kimonos, just with the extra material tucked properly so that they fit, and with the tucks hidden by the obi. During the seance, the clothing would be loosened, and afterwards, it would be retucked. Of course, there's only so much fabric you can magic away, which is why boobs, but the rest of her is covered. I could be wrong, but I like my headcanon.

[(Anonymous)]

Kimono are designed to be 'too big' and purposefully made with too much material as they know they'll just tuck and fold them to the right length. Comes from when it was fashionable for upper class women to have long hems that fanned out on the floor behind them, which of course wasn't practical out of the home, so they had to tuck them to shorten them. That and it's a pride thing for kimono makers. You don't get tailor measured for kimono, they're all made from a single bolt of cloth.

[loracarol]

I didn't know that! I just remember what a pain it was to have to stand there as the teachers would keep messing with the kimono- it was like, "come on! Just tie the obi already, I want to go talk with my friends!" So that's cool to find out!

[(Anonymous)]

If you're interested, I recommend 'Kimono' and 'Geisha' by Liza Dalby. The first is purely about the history of kimono and how they evolved from 'fashion for layers stolen from the Chinese' to 'everyday wear for both sexes that changes with fashion' to 'ultimate Japaneseness clothing and limited to a particular type and style only worn for Japanese cultural things'. The second is about geisha (and Liza's time as an 'American Geisha' in the 70s), with a section on geisha and kimono (being the last real group to wear them as 'everyday clothes' and how their kimono differ to what most other women wear when they wear a kimono).

[loracarol]

Ooh, I'll look into those books if my library has them, thank you! :D

[kamino_neko]

... Faye==Mia. Jesus, how did I screw that one up? (And how did I avoid being called out on it?)

[cloud_riven]

But she didn't. Lady's popping all out over the place and probably literally crossing her arms all the time in her sprite animations because damn everything will spill if she doesn't hold that flappy fabric herself.

[(Anonymous)]

What makes this different from your examples is that Watson is a preexisting character. Takumi did not invent Watson; Watson is a well-liked character with an already-existing fanbase. I imagine some are annoyed with the changes that are being made because it basically seems like an OC with a medical degree with the name "Watson" attached that follows Sherlock around. It doesn't resemble the character fans are used to at all.

That being said, I'm optimistic for the game. Although I'm not a fan of this "interpretation" of Watson, I like the fact that Sherlock is in it, since that might make Capcom more inclined to localize it. Also, the Ace Attorney series has a pretty good track record when it comes to female characters, so I'm looking forward to see what Takumi does with this.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. People need to get over it.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you new to fandom? People complain about changes to characters they feel attached to all the time. Just look at the shitstorm that happened when they dared to cast a blonde James Bond. People have a right to express their dislike of something, just as you have the right to express how much you like it.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm old to fandom and the petty entitled fanbrats that complain because it's not Just Like The Old Version need to get the fuck over themselves. We'd have a lot less problems without that attitude of CHANGE = AUTOMATICALLY BAD.

[sarillia]

This doesn't stop people from telling me to be quiet when I complain that John in BBC's Sherlock seems nothing like Watson to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I...don't disagree? I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. You are well within your rights to not like the BBC portrayal. Nothing wrong with that.

[sarillia]

I think my point is that for each person complaining about changes to the character, I have seen at least one who is really defensive about the similarities between the adaptation and the original. Maybe? I'm not even sure what I was thinking before but it made sense at the time. I probably should have just slept through this post like I did for the last week or so.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget about Athena!

[pengychan]

Yes, and the fact they were both SO young - especially Franziska - was supposed to be extraordinary. Klavier was a rockstar and a lawyer at 17, Athena got her badge at 18... even though the series is full of ridiculously young lawyers, all of them were considered to be remarkable. We also had Pearl, who was an incredibly giften spirit medium at age nine.

But a eight year old with a medical degree and author to a series of novels... it's kinda pushing it, even by AA standards. Which is saying a lot. I'm curious to see what they'll do with this character, but I'd be lying if I said I have high hopes.