PSA: How Not to Do Orihime

[crystaldawn]

I've been bouncing this off a few people for a while, and it's time for another one of those posts - you know, the really fun informative essay kind. Today's topic: Common Weird Things People Do to Orihime in RP and Fics and Why You Shouldn't Do Them.

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[rinkhals]

sob I should actually read Bleach because I love her, but the current stuff scares me

Anyway, this post resonates with me because I have the same problems with how people write Osaka. In fic and RP. No one EVER gets Osaka right--and she's a very similar character. People play/write her as like, this completely LOLOL RANDOM! girl who is usually also a SECRET GENIUS! and it just doesn't come off as being anything like Osaka in the slightest.

[crystaldawn]

OH MAN, this last chapter? WAS SO AWESOME. We are getting back into awesome territory because A Pimp Named Shirosaki showed up. So there are long slow stretches, but they go by fast once you start going.

Oh man, she's another one, isn't she? I've not read Azumanga, but I've seen her around (I think I even beta'd your app for her, didn't I?). You can find stuff like this all over TV Tropes on the Cloud Cuckoolander, Manic Pixy Girl, and Flanderization.

[rinkhals]

I'VE NEVER APPED HER unless you mean the other apps we had for her! Because we've had her in CFUD I think three times. But yeah. Osaka is basically this space case ditzy girl whose mind works in ~different ways~ and she has crazy trains of thought like Orihime, and she does hold some weird beliefs, but they always have an internal logic and don't come out of ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE, whereas in fic people write her like "DURR HURR I HAVE CHOCOLATE PUDDING FOR LUNCH THE ELVES GAVE IT TO ME!" I've also played with one before who had her reading and memorizing random med school textbooks despite the fact that she's not smart.

In fact I am pretty sure she shares a seiyuu with Orihime.

[crystaldawn]

...huh. I MUST HAVE GOTTEN HER CONFUSED w-with someone else, it's been a while. And yeah, she does actually have the same seiyuu! I saw that on TV Tropes! And oh god - so instead of Little Blue Men, Osaka has elves! Wonderful! And... good lord, med school books?

[shiroyuki_kun]

I've played in an RP against an Osaka with my Train Heartnet before, the player seemed to do it alright. I wasn't really into Azumanga at that point, but even if it was like lololol Random, I wouldn't have noticed because Train will incite those sort of thoughts himself, and he's good with kids too so that doesn't help. Though once I did get into Azumanga I still thought they did a decent job, she wasn't like...randomly spouting things that wouldn't just be the sort of discussion those two characters have anyways. And she wasn't being lol randomly genius either.
That doesn't even make sense, like sure half the time she fails at studies because she zones out on top of her being under average, but that should tell you she doesn't, you know, do smart stuff often either.