Huh, I voted The Puppet Guide on another app just now, so it almost seems strange to vote it again but a few answers just hit it bullseye. Two categories of reasons: "I'd probably be the wizened old wise man in stories", "Besides writing the actual story and some acting roles, I usually play the narrator", "I've wanted to be a journalist and novelist for the longest time", and "knowing that I played a part in creating a big change, no matter what it was" -- all of these are things that would characterize the Puppet Guide. Someone that read through the story and knows what's happening, and eventually changed the story because of exerting her will.
There was another thing that also matches the Puppet Guide in another way quite strongly; your belief in the solidity of reality. The fact that you thought you were more of a stabilizer was a bit of it. Also was "I do tend to take things as they come and just deal with whatever comes my way" and "I'm neither lucky nor cursed" - Puppet Guide to a T. The most interestingly strong correlation was the part where you expressed a certainty in the immutability of fate. You talked about how important it was that accepting fate can bring you happiness. While she allowed someone to defy their fate because they wanted to, she in a way upheld fate in her last request to see the Prince and Princess's pas de deux. It was different in that the Knight was there to see it but it was meant as the "happy" ending, right? In one way the Puppet Guide in the show ended up defying her fate as just a puppet, but "bittersweet endings tend to move me" -- her story that she started ended sadly for her because of her death; a bittersweet ending in a way for herself.
As a personal conversational aside, I noticed you immediately presumed that the fate was inevitable, and that fighting it is pointless because it won't change it, or even possibly change it. While if it really is something that would be more trouble to fight than accept, there are very few things in this world that are purely fateful. Take terminal diseases, for example. Cystic fibrosis used to be a lethal disease that people didn't live past childhood. If people just accepted that they wouldn't, they'd be happy but there wouldn't have been made any progress that we have now: because of research and in a way fighting the tragic fate of a life cut short, many live into adulthood. You're right that it would be harmful for someone to deny that they will have a harder, and not as long of a life (at least for now) if they found out they had it, but accepting the disease isn't the same as accepting the tragic fate. You can take the situation but defy the tragedy that comes with it, and I think that in a way is defying the fate that entails the tragedy. Know what I mean?
I always love reading your well-thought out votes, Tomoyo-chan. :)
On that last note, I think I surprised myself when I answered the tragic fate question because I don't necessarily believe in fate (I'm more faithful, than fateful :P), destiny, or whatnot.
but accepting the disease isn't the same as accepting the tragic fate. You can take the situation but defy the tragedy that comes with it
*ponders* Ah, I do see what you mean now. I'd like to think of it as still accepting fate but not resigning yourself to it. (So it's more of accepting fate but not the tragedy?) Although now I see it really could be viewed as a way of 'fighting', as well, but in a different sense.
There was another thing that also matches the Puppet Guide in another way quite strongly; your belief in the solidity of reality. The fact that you thought you were more of a stabilizer was a bit of it. Also was "I do tend to take things as they come and just deal with whatever comes my way" and "I'm neither lucky nor cursed" - Puppet Guide to a T. The most interestingly strong correlation was the part where you expressed a certainty in the immutability of fate. You talked about how important it was that accepting fate can bring you happiness. While she allowed someone to defy their fate because they wanted to, she in a way upheld fate in her last request to see the Prince and Princess's pas de deux. It was different in that the Knight was there to see it but it was meant as the "happy" ending, right? In one way the Puppet Guide in the show ended up defying her fate as just a puppet, but "bittersweet endings tend to move me" -- her story that she started ended sadly for her because of her death; a bittersweet ending in a way for herself.
As a personal conversational aside, I noticed you immediately presumed that the fate was inevitable, and that fighting it is pointless because it won't change it, or even possibly change it. While if it really is something that would be more trouble to fight than accept, there are very few things in this world that are purely fateful. Take terminal diseases, for example. Cystic fibrosis used to be a lethal disease that people didn't live past childhood. If people just accepted that they wouldn't, they'd be happy but there wouldn't have been made any progress that we have now: because of research and in a way fighting the tragic fate of a life cut short, many live into adulthood. You're right that it would be harmful for someone to deny that they will have a harder, and not as long of a life (at least for now) if they found out they had it, but accepting the disease isn't the same as accepting the tragic fate. You can take the situation but defy the tragedy that comes with it, and I think that in a way is defying the fate that entails the tragedy. Know what I mean?
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On that last note, I think I surprised myself when I answered the tragic fate question because I don't necessarily believe in fate (I'm more faithful, than fateful :P), destiny, or whatnot.
but accepting the disease isn't the same as accepting the tragic fate. You can take the situation but defy the tragedy that comes with it
*ponders* Ah, I do see what you mean now. I'd like to think of it as still accepting fate but not resigning yourself to it. (So it's more of accepting fate but not the tragedy?) Although now I see it really could be viewed as a way of 'fighting', as well, but in a different sense.
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