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tenshinoakuma) wrote2009-08-22 12:55 pm
tenshinoakuma) wrote2009-08-22 12:55 pm
multipurpose dump. spoiler: it's mostly DMW
Art is like... the fusion of technique and heart.
I believe the technique should supplement the heart, not the other way around. But I think a lot of the time, people try to bring the heart into the technique, and don't know how.
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Uni.
REQUIREMENTS ENG
SRS (neeeeeed to double check if this is everything I need for the document)
- purpose of project, client, customer and other stakeholders, users of the product?
- project constraints / scope?, assumptions
- functional requirements
- non functional requirements (behavioural requirements) [can further devide into subsections]
- do i need to do project issues
also, while devising the SRS, come up with validation/verification criterion
blah blah blah refine this omg.
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THIS IS. A TOTO ESSAY.
Granted essaying on Toto is even more annoying than essaying on Joshua, since his canon appearances haven't been many, and he seems to be set up as a character who'll be around for at least another arc, though I'm guessing he'll be around for a lot longer.
Topic for today is how Toto changes when you transplant him from the Deadman Wonderland/Carnival Corpse environment and put him in... well, normal society. (this may or may not be me considering how to bring a character like Toto into that one AU game and how to keep the same kind of feeling Toto has in canon without compromising other peoples' fun)
The biggest issue with removing Toto from DMW is just how much he seems to be attached to it. Or rather, like people in general, that the environment he lives in greatly affects the way he acts. It's especially notable because Toto is supposedly the second strongest Deadman in DMW, or, at the very least (because my translating may be a bit off), he's "ridiculously powerful". You could say he's a bit of a pop culture phenomenon in DMW, because everyone (who seems to have been around for a while) knows him either on sight, or by name, and all by reputation. And I do kind of think it bolsters his natural confidence a bit. He does come off as a bit cocky as well, and perhaps because of what looks to be an acrobatic fighting style, he does appear to be a show-off, but I don't think that's supposed to be intentional.
IDK, from the few interactions he has in canon, he comes off as treating DMW (at least, the G sector) as his territory (...well, Mockingbirds are highly territorial, apparently), imo. He seems to be quite aware of all the events that go on, and seems to have gotten into everywhere in the way that kids thoroughly explore a place and find 'secret' rooms. He has that kind of confidence/cockiness that he can do whatever he wants in DMW because he's one of the strong guys in the underground. We know Senji's strong, but Toto casually teases the guy and raeps him, and Toto in general just seems to interrupt or waltz in whenever he likes, even joining into the Carnival Corpse against the artficial Deadmen, even though it's not his fight.
There's also possibly an indication that (real) Deadmen are his as well. The only ones we see him kill are Hibana and the artificial Deadmen (notable that Hibana doesn't know who Toto is), but... the context in which these happen make it hard to tell whether it's a kind of possessiveness over his birds, or... something else. I like to think he killed Hibana because she attacked him first and it's like. 'Lol you want to kill me? you're too young for that.' and since she's not one of his prized birds, that means death! But again, this is just speculation and headcanon, especially since Senji practically does the same thing, except Senji is a Deadman. There's also the possibility that Senji wasn't aiming to kill, while Hibana is, and Toto strikes me as the kind of person who can easily tell the difference between someone with a killing intent and someone without. He also saves Ganta from being killed in the Carnival Corpse, but there are lots of possible other reasons: he wants to join in the fun; he wants to fight these artificial Deadmen because they're like nothing else he's fought; he wants Ganta's blood (we don't know if ability stealing works if they're dead); he considers Ganta his because of his interest in Ganta's powered up 'Ganta Gun' (rather than considering ALL Deadmen his); any combination of these. I'm guessing he kills the artificial Deadmen because of a couple of reasons, that it's a Carnival Corpse, and he doesn't identify them as his.
At the same time, he seems to be very aware of his limits as a fighter. All his killings are quick. Not just from a 'it happened off screen, so it only took one page' POV, as it was with Hibana, but for the aritificial Deadmen as well. He pretty much one-shots everyone. And I don't think it's like, an assassin kind of efficiency, but the fact that his body seems to fall apart after a while. He mentions something like 'only if this body can hold during (the fight)' before he starts killing in the Carnival Corpse (from what I can tell, some of the other unnamed Deadmen were like OMG IT'S MOCKINGBIRD IT'S A STRONG GUY. HELP US), and even near the end before Ganta blows shit up, when you see a rip across his arm (and it doesn't seem to be an injury from the artificial Deadmen, due to the nature of their attacks), Toto seems to want to finish the fight quickly.
Also, notable are the fights he picks. He doesn't display any open aggression towards the Wretched Egg, despite his very obvious interest in her (and bzuh?? RE: Shiro), and opts for the psychological warfare route, which has less effect than it probably would've if Shiro wasn't drunk. I think he's quite aware of how powerful the Wretched Egg is, and possibly believes he can't fight her... yet. I can't tell if he only started getting interested in Ganta after he saw Ganta explode the building, or if it was because he saw Ganta in the family photo of Shiro, Ganta and their(??) mum. Or maybe he saw Ganta for the first time and was like OH HEY IT'S THE GUY IN THAT PHOTO WITH THE WRETCHED EGG. WHO KNOWS. However, unlike with Shiro, Toto openly tries to physically intimidate Ganta by moving to attack him, but stops as soon as Shiro comes into the picture. Note also that he (and I'm unsure of specifics) tries to, perhaps, manipulate Ganta's emotions when he finds out Ganta's looking for (IDK if Toto knows Ganta wants to kill the Red Man) the Red Man aka the Wretched Egg, but again, stops when Shiro comes into the picture. I'm guessing he is confident he can easily beat(kill?) Ganta, but not Shiro/the Wretched Egg.
But... at the same time, he seems to be pretty popular amongst the older (and by older I mean, they've been around for longer) prisoners. i.e. Choplin. He seems to pretty much behave like a kid or a exuberent young teen around them, and I guess he seems pretty cute to the general public. I'm guessing Toto's been around for a long time as well (the longest he could've possibly been around for was 6 years, and he looks to be about 16...), so maybe they got to see him grow up a bit, too. Unfortunately, you don't really get to see him interact much outside of Ganta, Shiro, and a bit of Senji and Choplin. And he only puts on the manipulative face with Ganta and Shiro, but they don't seem to notice it because they're really dense (Ganta seems to look up to Toto during the Carnival Corpse, in the kind of WOW TOTO'S REALLY STRONG!!??!? way). So I'm not sure what Toto would do if he encounters someone who's significantly less dense than those two. Would he still try to manipulate them, albeit in a less obvious way (or still obvious)? Or would he play the 'cute boy' card while observing them?
I think maybe the reason Toto comes off as a bit loopy is because he seems quite aware of being a little crazy, and makes no effort to hide it, and because he's perfectly at home with it + he can get away with it. It's DMW, where everyone has a couple of screws loose, so he's quite at home there. I imagine even outside of DMW, he'll exude the same kind of confidence he does in DMW, because he is, ultimately, strong.
Also, it's mentioned by one of the Scar Chain guys that they "haven't seen him since he started acting funny." What's that supposed to mean? I mean, practically everyone in DMW is a bit crazy (although the Scar Chain people, on the surface, seem a little more 'normal' than everyone else), so that statement is incredibly ambiguous. What's 'funny' for a crazy person? Would that be 'normal' for everyone else? I'm leaning towards 'funny' meaning Toto became forgetful and absentminded and maybe a little confused on what's going on, just because of the kiddish exterior he seems to present to others in general. I imagine Toto's creeperness would be something they regard as 'normal' for him, even if some find it a bit creepy. And on the early panels with Shiro, he does seem to have a hard time remembering his name (it doesn't seem to be an act), especially significant because pretty much everyone who's been around for a while knows of him, with the exception of Shiro. His identity as Mockingbird, Sakigami Toto, is something that would be pretty hard to forget, imo.
I think one of the bigger issues if you remove him from DMW is how to stop the killing? I think most people, if attacked in a place with laws, try to either run, or disable the attacker(s). I get the feeling Toto's definition of 'disable' would be very different. Either outright killing, or maiming. And when I say maiming, I mean limbs getting removed.
Also, how he opens up the cuts for the Crow Claw is going to bug me for an age as well.
GOD THAT WAS TOO MUCH TYPING
I believe the technique should supplement the heart, not the other way around. But I think a lot of the time, people try to bring the heart into the technique, and don't know how.
--
Uni.
REQUIREMENTS ENG
SRS (neeeeeed to double check if this is everything I need for the document)
- purpose of project, client, customer and other stakeholders, users of the product?
- project constraints / scope?, assumptions
- functional requirements
- non functional requirements (behavioural requirements) [can further devide into subsections]
- do i need to do project issues
also, while devising the SRS, come up with validation/verification criterion
blah blah blah refine this omg.
--
THIS IS. A TOTO ESSAY.
Granted essaying on Toto is even more annoying than essaying on Joshua, since his canon appearances haven't been many, and he seems to be set up as a character who'll be around for at least another arc, though I'm guessing he'll be around for a lot longer.
Topic for today is how Toto changes when you transplant him from the Deadman Wonderland/Carnival Corpse environment and put him in... well, normal society. (this may or may not be me considering how to bring a character like Toto into that one AU game and how to keep the same kind of feeling Toto has in canon without compromising other peoples' fun)
The biggest issue with removing Toto from DMW is just how much he seems to be attached to it. Or rather, like people in general, that the environment he lives in greatly affects the way he acts. It's especially notable because Toto is supposedly the second strongest Deadman in DMW, or, at the very least (because my translating may be a bit off), he's "ridiculously powerful". You could say he's a bit of a pop culture phenomenon in DMW, because everyone (who seems to have been around for a while) knows him either on sight, or by name, and all by reputation. And I do kind of think it bolsters his natural confidence a bit. He does come off as a bit cocky as well, and perhaps because of what looks to be an acrobatic fighting style, he does appear to be a show-off, but I don't think that's supposed to be intentional.
IDK, from the few interactions he has in canon, he comes off as treating DMW (at least, the G sector) as his territory (...well, Mockingbirds are highly territorial, apparently), imo. He seems to be quite aware of all the events that go on, and seems to have gotten into everywhere in the way that kids thoroughly explore a place and find 'secret' rooms. He has that kind of confidence/cockiness that he can do whatever he wants in DMW because he's one of the strong guys in the underground. We know Senji's strong, but Toto casually teases the guy and raeps him, and Toto in general just seems to interrupt or waltz in whenever he likes, even joining into the Carnival Corpse against the artficial Deadmen, even though it's not his fight.
There's also possibly an indication that (real) Deadmen are his as well. The only ones we see him kill are Hibana and the artificial Deadmen (notable that Hibana doesn't know who Toto is), but... the context in which these happen make it hard to tell whether it's a kind of possessiveness over his birds, or... something else. I like to think he killed Hibana because she attacked him first and it's like. 'Lol you want to kill me? you're too young for that.' and since she's not one of his prized birds, that means death! But again, this is just speculation and headcanon, especially since Senji practically does the same thing, except Senji is a Deadman. There's also the possibility that Senji wasn't aiming to kill, while Hibana is, and Toto strikes me as the kind of person who can easily tell the difference between someone with a killing intent and someone without. He also saves Ganta from being killed in the Carnival Corpse, but there are lots of possible other reasons: he wants to join in the fun; he wants to fight these artificial Deadmen because they're like nothing else he's fought; he wants Ganta's blood (we don't know if ability stealing works if they're dead); he considers Ganta his because of his interest in Ganta's powered up 'Ganta Gun' (rather than considering ALL Deadmen his); any combination of these. I'm guessing he kills the artificial Deadmen because of a couple of reasons, that it's a Carnival Corpse, and he doesn't identify them as his.
At the same time, he seems to be very aware of his limits as a fighter. All his killings are quick. Not just from a 'it happened off screen, so it only took one page' POV, as it was with Hibana, but for the aritificial Deadmen as well. He pretty much one-shots everyone. And I don't think it's like, an assassin kind of efficiency, but the fact that his body seems to fall apart after a while. He mentions something like 'only if this body can hold during (the fight)' before he starts killing in the Carnival Corpse (from what I can tell, some of the other unnamed Deadmen were like OMG IT'S MOCKINGBIRD IT'S A STRONG GUY. HELP US), and even near the end before Ganta blows shit up, when you see a rip across his arm (and it doesn't seem to be an injury from the artificial Deadmen, due to the nature of their attacks), Toto seems to want to finish the fight quickly.
Also, notable are the fights he picks. He doesn't display any open aggression towards the Wretched Egg, despite his very obvious interest in her (and bzuh?? RE: Shiro), and opts for the psychological warfare route, which has less effect than it probably would've if Shiro wasn't drunk. I think he's quite aware of how powerful the Wretched Egg is, and possibly believes he can't fight her... yet. I can't tell if he only started getting interested in Ganta after he saw Ganta explode the building, or if it was because he saw Ganta in the family photo of Shiro, Ganta and their(??) mum. Or maybe he saw Ganta for the first time and was like OH HEY IT'S THE GUY IN THAT PHOTO WITH THE WRETCHED EGG. WHO KNOWS. However, unlike with Shiro, Toto openly tries to physically intimidate Ganta by moving to attack him, but stops as soon as Shiro comes into the picture. Note also that he (and I'm unsure of specifics) tries to, perhaps, manipulate Ganta's emotions when he finds out Ganta's looking for (IDK if Toto knows Ganta wants to kill the Red Man) the Red Man aka the Wretched Egg, but again, stops when Shiro comes into the picture. I'm guessing he is confident he can easily beat(kill?) Ganta, but not Shiro/the Wretched Egg.
But... at the same time, he seems to be pretty popular amongst the older (and by older I mean, they've been around for longer) prisoners. i.e. Choplin. He seems to pretty much behave like a kid or a exuberent young teen around them, and I guess he seems pretty cute to the general public. I'm guessing Toto's been around for a long time as well (the longest he could've possibly been around for was 6 years, and he looks to be about 16...), so maybe they got to see him grow up a bit, too. Unfortunately, you don't really get to see him interact much outside of Ganta, Shiro, and a bit of Senji and Choplin. And he only puts on the manipulative face with Ganta and Shiro, but they don't seem to notice it because they're really dense (Ganta seems to look up to Toto during the Carnival Corpse, in the kind of WOW TOTO'S REALLY STRONG!!??!? way). So I'm not sure what Toto would do if he encounters someone who's significantly less dense than those two. Would he still try to manipulate them, albeit in a less obvious way (or still obvious)? Or would he play the 'cute boy' card while observing them?
I think maybe the reason Toto comes off as a bit loopy is because he seems quite aware of being a little crazy, and makes no effort to hide it, and because he's perfectly at home with it + he can get away with it. It's DMW, where everyone has a couple of screws loose, so he's quite at home there. I imagine even outside of DMW, he'll exude the same kind of confidence he does in DMW, because he is, ultimately, strong.
Also, it's mentioned by one of the Scar Chain guys that they "haven't seen him since he started acting funny." What's that supposed to mean? I mean, practically everyone in DMW is a bit crazy (although the Scar Chain people, on the surface, seem a little more 'normal' than everyone else), so that statement is incredibly ambiguous. What's 'funny' for a crazy person? Would that be 'normal' for everyone else? I'm leaning towards 'funny' meaning Toto became forgetful and absentminded and maybe a little confused on what's going on, just because of the kiddish exterior he seems to present to others in general. I imagine Toto's creeperness would be something they regard as 'normal' for him, even if some find it a bit creepy. And on the early panels with Shiro, he does seem to have a hard time remembering his name (it doesn't seem to be an act), especially significant because pretty much everyone who's been around for a while knows of him, with the exception of Shiro. His identity as Mockingbird, Sakigami Toto, is something that would be pretty hard to forget, imo.
I think one of the bigger issues if you remove him from DMW is how to stop the killing? I think most people, if attacked in a place with laws, try to either run, or disable the attacker(s). I get the feeling Toto's definition of 'disable' would be very different. Either outright killing, or maiming. And when I say maiming, I mean limbs getting removed.
Also, how he opens up the cuts for the Crow Claw is going to bug me for an age as well.
GOD THAT WAS TOO MUCH TYPING