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Completely off topic, but thank you for not playing spirit in her default skin. I hate her default bandage bikini
I've always really liked spirit. listening to this really makes me want to write a book or do a podcast on how so many femme characters are injured in various methods (assault, rape, etc.) and objectively see how the writers have said characters respond to them (I spit on your grave, spirit here with DBD, ju-on, the cat lady movies from the 1940s, etc).
Biracial Japanese American here (at the same time do not take my word as gospel, I do not represent every Asian person). While a lot of your analysis is spot-on, I personally somewhat disagree with your analysis of Rin’s tome due to the trope in many coming of age stories where the protagonist is pursuing a passion vs fulfilling family expectations of it. I don’t think the story could have made her a rebel like Yui because if she were, she would have been more likely to drop out of school as a way to help the family (her father’s pride wouldn’t have allowed that). That serves to make her a foil to Meg, another girl with a sick mother and absent / abusive father. Where Meg is a rebel and chooses to put her own future aside to help her mom, Rin doesn’t have that ability because of family expectations; like Kazan, Rin’s father causes his own family’s destruction by not bending to reality. Personally I think they should have focused on her relationship with her mother, but I think they knew they’d struck gold with Kazan’s lore and wanted to tie her more into it.
That’s not to say there aren’t flaws; way too many people focus on “hot barely clothed Asian girl” and not the fact that she’s a victim of domestic violence. BHVR itself admitted they thought about making Rin completely naked but didn’t die to concerns of getting the game banned, rather than concerns about sexualizing a victim. 🙄 Rin is a perfect fanfiction character IMO because she has tragedy but is also a blank slate that complexity can be easily added to.
Spirit really does deserve a lot more than her tome + base lore have given us.
Now that we have went through all of the original killers stories it really shows how hit or miss everything Is to one story can be the Bible 2 and the next is the hag…
I do kind of like the idea of Kazans rage being a genetic thing that cannot be avoided. Rin rejects it and finds to appalling while Kazan and her father embrace it and use it to abuse others.
Rin eventually does embrace her rage but instead of using it to help her family she sued to against then
11:55 what the heck are these perks you're using? I've never seen these perk cards before
That Kate bit was hilarious lmaoo
Well look at it this way pixel since you have no more original killers to talk about. You can finally do your saw III vid also some remakes of your older stuff (not that it didn't age well but just because of the audio bothers me) and last but not least….. a video on jeff PLEASE I BEG YOU. DO A VID ON MY MAIN AND THE SURVIVOR THAT LOOKS THE MOST LIKE ME
Tbh, because of her inspiration to The Grudge, I would justify her victimisation. I would go as far as saying that it makes sense, unlike Hag and Artist. The real problem is, as you have highlighted, her lack of characterisation and her laughably short and poorly written tone backstory.
On the backstory: we even got a promotional cinematic where Rin’s father would threaten Rin and her mother while the two were hugging each other, resisting the threats. This was infuriating: they didn’t build any story on that theme at all, they just made it so it sorta makes sense for Spirit to be a vengeful killer: yamaoka blood runs through her veins and yadayadayada.
I would have honestly preferred exploring her family life, like the promotional video promised: her attitude towards family life, the strong bond between her and her mother (heavily hinted by the mother-daughter ring), how she would cope with her father’s authority.
So much potential gone wasted!!!!
I'm sure when the dating sim comes out, we'll get WAY more lore for Spirit.
You know what I find ironic and sad about how female and male killers are written in comparison. Deathslinger, a character who was literally sent to prison, an institution meant to strip away agency, has more agency in his story than the likes of Spirit, Hag and Artist.
Is it just me or are you speaking a bit faster than your usual pacing? 🦊
Now that you're done with the original killers can you do more original survivors, I'm interested in learning more about how Kate is a homophobic icon.
Half way in me dropping by will follow up later in the video, while I wholeheartedly agree with the hag and artist statement on just how lacking their characters are and agency is in their story. Idk I think Rin's is actually a tad bit better on the agency part looking at the cultural background and origins to her character type.
Rin is barely an adult when the events of her original story happened, raised in a culture where you're told to shut up and obey your elders without any question, sometimes to a fault and harm to the society. So really there isn't much we agency we can expect coming from her especially when we're giving little to nothing about her beforehand.
Vs hag and artist who seem to weld some power or influence but even with that don't have any agency in their story.
I think her being like that mKes someone like yui a great foil to Rin. Because where's Rin ultimately dies because of her lack of agency, destined to be a victim in life and a victim in death to the entity. And later a victim to swf.
Yui not only thrived but also rose above it with other victims.
Edit 1. 2/3rds in. This video is really the shit 😄🙏 blessed day.
Edit 2. Finished the video. Yeah I still stand with my original point. Speaking as Asian person living in Asia a concerning amount of those harmful sterotypes sadly is a bigger part of the culture than we'd love to admit. Especially the face part, patriarchal family structure, devotion and the expected obedience stuff. But the ancestral veneration and mysticism Is definitely very hokey and tad bit problematic in her stories 🤣 like writers please.. No one thinks or talks like that irl. 😭
She really was meant to be a victim who lashed out on the world in death wheres she can't do anything beforehand. I think that still works way better than with hag and artists. Because at least with rin they had an intention of rin being a footnote or just another victim being the biggest tragedy of it all.
The weakness of the story comes from the mishandling of trying to justify her existence because of Kazans action and the lack of any relationship or individual thought for herself.
This makes me worried that the next tome is gonna be a flop, imagine if they double down on the war criminal's tome and whatever the hell boring blight's lore is at this point.
Homie do you watch the Deprogram? Like I keep picking up on these little things that could easily be explained as coincidence but idk I could see it
I personally play spirit because I think she is pretty
I have to disagree with the idea of Rins pride not being her own. During this time period and as well as all over the world for every other civilization at this time ancestral worship was the defacto social paradigm for everyone. This came along with traditions, feelings, and pride, wrong doings of the family being passed down to generation to b carry on and so on. I see this pride as being her own pride because from as a small child she would be told stories about her ancestors which would help to internalize the pride as her own therefore effecting her future decisions. I do however agree that this can carry generational abuse, but I believe behavior atleast got that idea correct.
Theres misogyny and sexism involved in this, because females in storytelling are usually seen as objects who react to what is done to them/going on in their surroundings, instead of people with their own will or capable of taking action by themselves, turning them into perpetual victims of any situation.