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So I understand I'm a little late to the party on this one (like, years late), but I think I really agree with people who say Tear Grants is...not very good. She comes across as not very smart and downright mean. (Cut for spoilers for Tales of the Abyss) I'm reading one of the Tales of the Abyss novels (the Yajima Sara kind, and this is not her fault) and for the first time I have considered tearing pages out of a Japanese novel, I am so angry at the tone and how Tear is treating Luke. Even writing this I was totally ready to forgive her for not realizing at the beginning of the game that Luke had never seen the ocean before, or that he was SUPPOSED to think his shoes were really important. But then the book switches back to Tear's point of view after the game, and she thinks about how "ignorant," "demanding," and "spoiled" he was.
What?
After all you went through with Luke? After all he went through for you (including dying)? You don't understand why he was acting the way he did?
This book is a retelling of certain events in the game, but told from Tear's point of view. At least with the game I wouldn't be exposed to descriptions of her amazement and disgust that he hasn't had military training, much less THE ABILITY TO LEAVE HIS HOUSE, to teach him that if you follow the river down it'll go out of the valley. (Yes, I have to be told, too!) They seem to be glossing over the part where she, a so-called elite soldier, forced a civilian and a nobleman to fight monsters and defend her. But the way Tear is not using polite language is still just as visible.
NOT SURE WHAT TO DO. With the Nanoha novel it was simple enough to just put it away and hold down the urge to vomit at the full-color loli fanservice until I forgot about it. This book makes me mad. And it still has stuff in it I haven't read about Guy so I'd rather not put it away or have to look at any damage I caused to it yet. And so LJ suffers the brunt of my outrage. ._.
I used to try to tell myself that Tear liked Luke because he's sort of a cute helpless thing, but she either misses all his cute helpless moments or she gives him hell for them. Then when she does something wrong and is supposed to face the consequences, she never has to. Whose actions resulted in Luke being removed from his home in something not unlike a kidnapping? Whose fault is it Akzeriuth went under?
As someone who at least likes 11/12 idols in idolm@ster, adores the cast of Sailormoon, loves the Magic Knights, and worships Ellen Ripley (to name a few) I am MORE than entitled to hate a female character. I am qualified. I know what I'm freaking talking about.
But I think I should calm down and look at tea sets.
What?
After all you went through with Luke? After all he went through for you (including dying)? You don't understand why he was acting the way he did?
This book is a retelling of certain events in the game, but told from Tear's point of view. At least with the game I wouldn't be exposed to descriptions of her amazement and disgust that he hasn't had military training, much less THE ABILITY TO LEAVE HIS HOUSE, to teach him that if you follow the river down it'll go out of the valley. (Yes, I have to be told, too!) They seem to be glossing over the part where she, a so-called elite soldier, forced a civilian and a nobleman to fight monsters and defend her. But the way Tear is not using polite language is still just as visible.
NOT SURE WHAT TO DO. With the Nanoha novel it was simple enough to just put it away and hold down the urge to vomit at the full-color loli fanservice until I forgot about it. This book makes me mad. And it still has stuff in it I haven't read about Guy so I'd rather not put it away or have to look at any damage I caused to it yet. And so LJ suffers the brunt of my outrage. ._.
I used to try to tell myself that Tear liked Luke because he's sort of a cute helpless thing, but she either misses all his cute helpless moments or she gives him hell for them. Then when she does something wrong and is supposed to face the consequences, she never has to. Whose actions resulted in Luke being removed from his home in something not unlike a kidnapping? Whose fault is it Akzeriuth went under?
As someone who at least likes 11/12 idols in idolm@ster, adores the cast of Sailormoon, loves the Magic Knights, and worships Ellen Ripley (to name a few) I am MORE than entitled to hate a female character. I am qualified. I know what I'm freaking talking about.
But I think I should calm down and look at tea sets.
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