— B A S I C S

Name: Tsuna Wasaishi (Refia bihn Deryaoglu). Nicknames: None for short. 'Darling' and 'princess' used in varying levels of sarcasm. Age: 32 at the start of ARR. 35-something in 6.x. Nameday: 10th Sun of the 3rd Umbral Moon (6/9). Race: Au Ra. Mixed Hingan and Hannish Raen. Gender: Female. Orientation: Bimaybe. Profession: Former geiko, warrior of light, and white mage.

— P H Y S I C A L     A S P E C T S

Hair: Black. Eyes: Heterochromia (blue/green). Skin: Fair. Tattoos/scars: No tattoos, no major scars (yet).

— F A M I L Y

Parents: Suzume Sui Wasaishi (deceased), and Kartal bin Deryaoglu. Siblings: Mihrimah bihn Deryaoglu (half-sister). Grandparents: Undetermined In-laws and Other: Ryne feels like family. Ameliance dotes on her like a mother. Pets: Chuchu, her chocobo.

— S K I L L S

Abilities: DNC/WHM. DRK but never utilized. Possible RDM. Hobbies: Reading, scrapbooking, textile work (embroidery).

— T R A I T S

Most Positive Traits: Compassionate, altruistic, hard-working. Most Negative Traits: Impulsive, quick to anger, melancholic.

— L I K E S

Colours: Rolanberry red, pure white, currant purple, Nophica green. Smells: Sandalwood, Brightlily, Walnut oil, fogweed. Textures: Dupioni silk, rushing water, mossy ground. Drinks: green tea, nigorizake, hot chai.

— O T H E R    D E T A I L S

Smokes: Yes. Drinks: Yes. Drugs: No. Mount Issuance: Chuchu, her company chocobo via The Adders, is a red chocobo that got mixed in with the clutch at Bentbranch. She was too feral to sell, and too terrifying to put down, but took a liking to Tsuna in a classic horse-girl movie kind of tale. Been Arrested: Almost. Fuck the Sekiseigumi.

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Figured I'd make a post addressing some of the critiques in this video since about half of them rubbed me the wrong way. If I don't address something, I either agreed or felt it was worthwhile. Ok, onto my major criticisms. 2:26 | "The message of fighting for love rather than blood fills hollow as it pertains to Vaggie" I see this as audience bias. We're led to believe that this is Carmilla and Vaggie's first meeting. This means that Carmilla probably only knows 3 things max about Vaggie. 1) she was an exorcist 2) she's Charlie's girlfriend and 3) needs weapons to defeat the exorcists. Carmilla only knows exorcists to be bloodthirsty so it tracks for her to assume that about Vaggie too. She doesn't know Vaggie like we do after all. That said, I agree it doesn't fit Vaggie.

Up next, his Alastor critiques. To preface, Alastor is one of my favs and it physically pains me to see ppl completely misunderstand him time and time again. So if I sound harsher here, that's why. SC's main criticism is "Alastor bounces between a clearly antagonistic force to a loyal hotel member that believes in Charlie".

5:50 | "just as often as the show tries to make him sketchy, it gives him moments that show he cares about the hotel" No examples are stated outright so I'm led to assume the clips used are meant to be examples of Alastor flip flopping. However the context of the clips disprove that claim. 6:43 Alastor helped Charlie get an army to protect the hotel through Rosie. Alastor agreed to do this because it was part of the *blatantly sketchy deal* he made with Charlie beforehand. 6:49 I don't see how Alastor getting rid of egg boys via Vaggie's request says anything about anything. He was going to leave to attend the overlord meeting anyway so it wasn't an inconvenient. Plus Viv did say that Alastor has a lighter view on women so this is character consistency if anything. (On that note it's nice to see character info from Viv's livestreams actually depicted in the show)

7:14 | "the writers love Alastor too much to make him do truly heinous acts" What are you smoking and where can I get some? Jokes aside, Alastor is a know serial killer and cannibal, both of which I put on full display at least once. Heck why even point out? I could just mention the Husk scene. We see Alastor abuse Husk in 4K. He threatened physical abuse, and while he didn't go through with it at that very moment, it's still verbal abuse which shouldn't be looked over when talking about Alastor's evil actions. This scene alone caused an uproar among Alastor fans when the episode dropped. It comes off as a bad faith criticism to not include it let alone mention it.

7: 52 | "all of Alastor's cool is a loan that only works it they can pay it off later. like i love the dude but if we keep hinting at things and not delivering we're gonna have to put him on fraud watch". This is one of the few instances where the pacing slows down to properly build up to something. This should be complimented not criticized. Yeah if Alastor's overhyped then we can say this build up didn't pay off. Feels like we're putting the cart from the horse here.

10:39 | "Vox's running commentary is hilarious until it isn't"

Vox is perfect and all criticism against him is invalid. Seeing his rolled up sleeves made me feels things. Next!

10: 50 | "what they're saying doesn't track outside of Alastor being missing and he immediately shows up right after" Same critique as the first, audience bias. We see Alastor come back to the hotel, THEY don't. They see Alastor flee fight after nearly dying, then move away from the monitors to celebrate. Other than that I agree, the alleged power vacuum was poorly executed.

Aaaand that's about it really. Let leave things oof on something we can all agree on.

17:40 | "I can chalk up a lot of this season's mistakes with needing more time to write the season"

do you think odaat has a good chance of being renewed for s5? I'd genuinely be so upset if it doesn't happen, it's my comfort show and I was really hoping for at least s6 with Pop

honestly, i’ve thought about this a lot and i...have no idea. there’s so many variables, even more this year than there were back when netflix cancelled it! i can’t begin to game it out in a way that feels predictive. but here’s what i know:

cbs saving it and putting it on pop, where schitt’s creek had a nice long run, seemed good reason to hope. they saw its first three seasons as a worthy investment, even with streaming restrictions putting a hold on cashing that in.

then staff changes at pop started leading to changes in the network’s plans for pop’s original programming, mainly cancellations of other shows that had been previous priorities. which was concerning. 

i think, pre-pandemic, i would’ve given it at least a 50/50 chance of renewal based on that--not a guarantee, but decent odds for a show that had been dead the year before. 

now we live in THIS 2020 though, and the pandemic cut off s4 halfway through. if the show was heading for a big arc at the end of the season, the way it did every other season, we didn’t get that. what would s1 be without elena’s quinces? or s3 without schneider’s recovery? a good show, still, but not as emotionally anchored beyond standalone episodes. 

so that’s all we got for s4, really, was standalones meant to reintroduce all the characters to new viewers and tell entertaining stories. for people starting with s4, will that be good enough?

cbs has made it clear that the show’s chances of renewal are based not on how it did on pop when s4 originally aired, but on how those same episodes do on cbs now that it’s running them this fall to fill a content hole caused by the pandemic.

this latest season did feel to me much more like a ‘standard’ sitcom you would find on cbs (which is why i had less fun this year--i don’t enjoy cbs-style comedies unless they have allison janney in them) so that might bode well for the show’s renewal. if twitter is any indication, the show found lots of new and old fans happy with s4.

and if there were any justice in the world of television, it would matter that odaat offers representation that barely exists on tv these days...but on network tv, i really can’t say it does seem to matter. so i’m not sure that carries much weight.

finally, there’s the fact that the pandemic has scrambled renewal/cancellation/filming considerations all over the place. at this point, even shows with firm renewals are getting UNrenewed and then unceremoniously dropped over cost concerns. 

a show like odaat that films live onstage is risky even compared to other tv shows while we’re still living through the pandemic (and california is being really careful with restrictions compared to other states where productions might resume), so if they do renew it, who knows when it could film...which probably doesn’t give them a lot of incentive to make an advancement commitment to renewal. 

i hope that it does get renewed! for your sake, for all the fans who’ll be sad to lose it, and for the cast and crew that want to be able to come back to it when it’s safe. 

but i think the only deciding factor now is how much cbs cares about it. and there’s no way for me to measure that--while i wish i had insider info about corporate programming decisions, alas, i do not.