It's one of those few books that I actually feel a bit wiser having read it.
That's no exaggeration. It seriously challenged me and my understanding of fiction.
And there's a lot of subtext for Dirk's fractured psyche in there as well.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?she'd think he's pretty hella
learned the ripple, saved his family, and was a noble man and doesn't afraid of nothing
it would also motivate her to try and ripple train more seriously because she has three family figures to aspire after
but it eventually winds back into a "what am I doing, is this even working?" pattern again because shizuka still doesn't know how to properly train
edited 13th Oct '14 8:58:00 PM by Rivux
mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's meanAt first, maybe.
But then characters would start dying and he'd probably give up by the fifth book after Sirius bites it.
He's never seen any, but in the event that he one day does he'd probably be the type that cries like a bitch at the sad parts/touching reunions.
He's pretty "eh" on music in general. He likes piano pieces, though.
edited 13th Oct '14 9:00:27 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistYet another reason why I absolutely love Teri.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Pony Pals goes even deeper when you realise that words are literally all Dirk has. That's why he emphasises and dissects the idea of words throughout the text.
All his childhood was spent reading and communicating exclusively by text, with the exception of speech to his robots, which he himself wrote the code for.
Everything about the world around him is so detached, given where and when and how he lives. Anything outside his home might as well not exist for all of its relevance to him. The only way he gives anything any sort of weight is by writing about it. And it's imperfect, and he knows it.
It's just... whoever wrote this was a genius.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I ask you the same things for whichever characters you want to apply them to.
Cloud's favourite food is any and all food, because he's not exactly picky and also has a wife who is a good cook and has also spent a lot of time being hungry and thinks everything tastes good because he's never had the option of deciding not to eat something. He'll eat bugs if they're there. He has in the past.
Though he is particularly partial to blueberries, which would have been a big treat for him growing up.
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None. He is too socially awkward to pull off the charisma needed to dance and look good, and while he is physically fit enough to probably do a lot of the fancy shit since he does backflips and whatnot, he is still too socially awkward to pull off the charisma needed to dance and look good.
edited 13th Oct '14 9:09:32 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistAnd the bit where he goes on about Pawnwee's drinking problem and you realise how much it's killing him that the only way he can actually address Roxy's own problem is to put his thoughts into text, whether to Roxy or the others or through some ridiculously tragic meta experimentation.
All he's ever been able to offer people is words, and he can't change anything with them.
And it drives him. Fucking. Mental.
edited 13th Oct '14 9:13:47 PM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I can't believe I still find fans complaining that Dirk is boring.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

HEY GUYS AM I LATE TO THE PARTY?
Cloud: Cheesy romance novels loaded with Marty Stus with better lives and social/can-have-intimate-relationships-without-the-looming-threat-of-permanent-spinal-damage skills that he can pretend to be. Preferably told from the perspective of the female love interest so he can pretend it's Tifa saying nice things about him. The problem with them is that they use big long words and he's not much better than functionally illiterate, so he only has two or three of them stashed away somewhere, and they're short ones.
Teri: Horror. Really fucking hardcore horror, at that. Not something that someone who advocates love, peace, and explosions for all Pokemon should be into.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist