u/ButtercupChara

Give a general description of yourself. How old are you?

Prefer not to say.

What do you do as a job or as a career (if you have one)? Do you like it? Why or why not? If you are not working, what kind of job do you want to do or what are you studying?

I’m in the Pure Literature stream. I’d like to study Psychology or Mass Communications when I am older. Ideally, I’d like a job where I can talk to people, whether it be for marketing, or sales. I really like to do sales, but I wouldn’t mind being an Event Host as well!

Describe your childhood/upbringing. Did it have any kind of ideological or structured influence? How did you respond to it? Did you have any significant negative experiences that may have affected how you think or behave?

I was raised by mostly my ISTP Aunt and INFP Uncle. They used something called the Montessori method (which I have no idea what it means) My aunt taught me basically everything, and my uncle would get me to watch shows that were meant for older kids. My grandmother from my mother’s side was quite abusive and would cane and beat me frequently and lock me out of the house a few times. But I coped by singing. I did witness my father strangling my mother once but I don’t think it’s left any significant impact on me, because I just joke about that, I joked a lot about it to my counsellors when it happened. I don’t think I was in denial, but I’m not sure.

Do you have any mental or physical health issues that might affect how think or choose to live? Provide a brief description.

No. I keep questioning whether I have ADHD or Autism because my friend group is full of people who have it (and I just think there’s too many people who get diagnosed with it)

If you had to spend an entire weekend by yourself, how would you feel? Would you feel lonely or refreshed?

Am I allowed to use my phone? When you say by yourself am I permitted to use the Internet to text or call people? Because I kind of need that. I don’t want to be in the real world that much, I’d like to be in my room alone with my phone being on Reddit and helping to type people, or reading books, doing art and just engaging in the activities I like. But if I’m banned from using my phone, I’d probably spend most of my time crocheting, watching the anime that I haven’t watched even though I really want to, drawing or writing (then again all my writing is done on my phone) If I’m allowed to use my phone, I’d enjoy it very much, but if I’m not? I’d be quite lonely. Yes I would feel refreshed I suppose, since I wouldn’t have all the chatter from my friends or the buzz of the internet to distract me from my crocheting, but I don’t like silence, so I’d probably put on some music.

What is your relation with movement and your surroundings? For instance do you prefer a sport or outdoors event? If an outdoors event what is it? And why? If not what type of activities do you tend to engage?

Painfully unaware. I keep losing things recently. And I’ve made very vivid memories about where I might have put them, only to be devastated when I realise they’re not actually there. And I don’t hate sports, but I find them kind of boring. Mainly running laps around the school (what’s the point in that?). Also, I don’t really understand why people like football, or watch sports in general. I don’t really get it. But I love rhythm games, like Maimai, Project Sekai, Chuunithm, DDR, Sound Voltex, Beatmania. Rhythm games are one of the only games I can play that don’t need a good story. I’ve picked up a lot of games because I wanted a good story, and my INTP 4w5 friend kept telling me ‘Chara! The game has lore!’ and sometimes they delivered, and other times they didn’t. Examples include: Punishing Grey Raven, Brawl Stars and Limbus Company. I love Limbus Company because the gameplay is enjoyable, but also, Don Quixote. I kin her a lot, even writing fanfiction about transforming into her in real life. My favourite type of game genre is psychological horror.

How curious are you? Do you have more ideas then you can execute? What are your curiosities about? What are your ideas about - is it environmental or conceptual, and can you please elaborate?
Would you enjoy taking on a leadership position? Do you think you would be good at it? What would your leadership style be?
Do you prefer hands on activities or working with your hands in some form? Describe your activities.

My hobbies outside of games include: Drawing, singing, writing, crocheting, voice acting. I have more skills than that I would say, but not all my skills are my hobbies.

Are you artistic? If yes, describe your art? If you are not particular artistic but can appreciate art please likewise describe what forums of art you enjoy. Please explain your answer.

I believe I would consider myself very artistic, since my talents range over both writing and drawing, as well as the performative ones like acting and singing. Normally I like to draw semi humanoid looking characters, I have difficulties with furries, or very robotic characters. My OCs are all mostly humanoid as well. I don’t know anatomy, I have no intention to learn! Digitally, I would describe my art as: Bad anatomy, good rendering. I like to render dramatic lighting on my characters when I illustrate them. When I draw traditionally, I like to use alcohol markers, since I enjoy how the pigment seeps into the paper. I also make button pins! I have a mini business selling them, but it’s kind of abandoned at the moment. I make them because it’s cheaper than buying pins outside, and my rule is that I will never buy a button pin outside since I can just make it at home. (Aka the equivalent of: mommy can we have this item? No sweetheart, we have it at home. The object at home:) I like to sing along to vocaloid songs, especially faster ones. I can’t stand ballads. I like fast music. I don’t have When I write I write with a very vivid style, and recently I’ve started weaving more psychological horror elements into it.
I enjoy music that’s fast, and has a deeper meaning. I don’t really like K-pop, but there’s some Korean songs I don’t mind. My favourite genre of music is J-pop, but specifically vocaloid. If I had to say my favourite music genre. I would say Happy hardcore or hyperpop. Just fast music in general. Hardstyle is very cool too, I see it a lot in beatmania.

The one skill I don’t really possess is animation. I have sky high expectations for animations, a vivid idea and plan, but story boarding bores me, and I work on like 5 frames then give up. I can definitely animate.. you just need to lock me in a room for 24 hours with 5 different animation projects so I can’t get bored trying to animate 1.

What's your opinion about the past, present, and future? How do you deal with them?

Well my Uncle’s helped me plan what to do for my future paths in education, but I wouldn’t bother thinking about it if I had a choice. My biggest dream is to be a voice actor in the future. My past is a very fun trauma dump that could be summed up as a k-drama. In the past I used to view my life as a k-drama, but now I see it more as a game or a simulation. The present is the now I suppose, I’m not sure what else to say.

How do you act when others request your help to do something (anything)? If you would decide to help them, why would you do so?

I love to help people! I’ll ask them what they need me to do first, and I’ll help them if I believe that my skills are beneficial to them, or that I am able to help them in a meaningful way, and even if I can’t, I’ll pick up the skill just to help them! Also I guess my morals are something that would come in play here, since I’m not about to help you smuggle drugs across the border.
Do you need logical consistency in your life?

Yes. I can’t stand it when people do illogical things. Like what do you mean brainstorm advertisements for the booth you don’t know anything about, but don’t do it for the booth you came up with the sales pitch for, and the original concept for? It doesn’t make any sense!

How important is efficiency and productivity to you?

Very. The instance mentioned earlier was an incredibly inefficient one.

Do you control others, even if indirectly? How and why do you do that?

I try not to. When forced to lead a group in real life I’m like: do you guys have any ideas? And then I get blank stares. And I’m like: Ok no ideas? Then I’ll give the idea. And then these people don’t even care much. So I get pissed off trying to get to get them to do anything because they either don’t do it, or give me a half-baked job. I hate irl group projects. This doesn’t happen in my VA circles online, neither does this happen online in general for me.

What are your hobbies? Why do you like them?

I love to draw, write, crochet, sing, voice act. Since I already elaborated on my drawing earlier, I guess I’ll tell you about crochet, singing and voice acting! I like to crochet because it’s really therapeutic in a way. I can just do the same motions a few times and then voila! A product! However! I cannot stand repetitive patterns. I would never crochet clothes for myself, only for my plushies. I don’t mind doing a granny square if it gets creative, but if it’s just rounds and rounds of single? No thanks! I like to crochet small things, like macarons, and sweets, and mostly plushie clothes. And I refuse to assemble any more flowers. I hate that a crochet flower is 60% crochet and 40% assembly. I made my aunt assemble 1 once, and then I went No more flowers. Singing is enjoyable in general. I like to sing when I’m upset, so people don’t realise I’m upset, because I also sing when I’m happy. They only think: wow, she must be really cheerful. I don’t think I use singing to mask my sadness, but it does help. I’m also in choir so I get way more range when I want to belt on angrier songs like Ussewa or Aishite Aishite Aishite or propose. I like songs with stories, like songs that hide a deeper meaning, like Kyu-kurarin, or Lower One’s Eyes, or Shoujo Rei. My dream is to become a voice actor. Voice acting allows me to take on different voices and roles, because I can, and because it’s fun! Strangely enough, I can feel that warm feeling typically associated with romantic love, whenever I voice act someone with romance, despite the fact that I’m aroace. Outside of VA, I completely can’t feel romantic feelings at all.

What is your learning style? What kind of learning environments do you struggle with most? Why do you like/struggle with these learning styles? Do you prefer classes involving memorization, logic, creativity, or your physical senses?

Route memorisation is stupid in my opinion. I like creative classes, like literature. It’s so fun to analyse how they use the words in poems to invoke certain feelings in the reader! I struggle with boring classes like math when I have to just hear the teacher talk about triangles for an hour. Or English, when it’s just a boring comprehension I already know everything about. I actually keep falling asleep in those classes. When I study, actually. I don’t study. I’ve never sat down and actually gone through my notes ever, except for Chinese, where my aunt helps me. Outside of that, I don’t bother trying to study, only doing practice papers or homework questions. I don’t understand why people study, since I already understand everything the first time.

How good are you at strategizing? Do you easily break up projects into manageable tasks? Or do you have a tendency to wing projects and improvise as you go?

I can do that! I can break up projects into manageable tasks.. get a solid timeline and a plan so we don’t fail it.. and then I get a little too excited and add things as we go along. For example! I was supposed to make a presentation of Limbus Company’s Don Quixote for Chinese class. I just needed to organise a few pictures and put in the description and then we’d be done, right? Wrong! I decided to make a mini Limbus Company dialogue portrait comic and I was like: Oh. Oh no. But it does look great! But I got really distracted and went on a tangent instead in regard to the project..

What's important to you and why?
Can I say the internet? I’ve met so many wonderful and amazing people here, and been able to form very meaningful connections with others that I just can’t in real life. But honestly, what’s important to me is just being fulfilled. No matter what I do. I want to be having fun, and enjoying myself.

What are your aspirations?

To be a voice actor. I’d like to be in a big game, voice acting a character that has a complex backstory, something like Furina. Also I really like Amber Lee Connors. I wouldn’t start my own agency, but I want to be able to voice act a lot of characters in games or in shows or in movies.

What are your fears? What makes you uncomfortable? What do you hate? Why?

I fear losing my autonomy. I don’t want people to control me. I also fear that maybe people don’t actually like me. Maybe they like who I seem to be. What makes me uncomfortable and that I hate is forced societal expectations. Sometimes I get told to do things because: Oh it’s a class thing, oh think about others, not just yourself. NO. SCREW THAT. I don’t like eggs and rocket. I don’t like the taste. If the egg tastes enough like not an egg: example drowned in soya sauce or tamago, I can eat it. I hate people who try to guilt trip me. I have more than enough of that from my mother.

What do the "highs" in your life look like?

When I’m having fun, typing people, drawing, or I’m having fun talking with people online or offline!

What do the "lows" in your life look like?

When I’m emotionally broken. I’m crying and trying to hide it yet I’m failing because it’s too overwhelming to even hide anymore.

How attached are you to reality? Do you daydream often, or do you pay attention to what's around you? If you do daydream, are you aware of your surroundings while you do so?

I am not attached to reality. I sometimes wish I could just erase myself from the physical world, with all my pimples and having to eat or anything like that, and just stay in the digital world, on the internet where I can just do whatever I want. I don’t tend to pay attention to my surroundings. That’s how I keep losing things. My aunt keeps telling me to be less scatterbrained. I don’t daydream though, I immerse myself in fictional worlds or in text. Before I got into the internet, I used to read very heavily in the middle of classes, to the point they had to confiscate my storybooks.

Imagine you are alone in a blank, empty room. There is nothing for you to do and no one to talk to. What do you think about?

I start talking to myself. I ask myself about the room, think of how to get out.

How long do you take to make an important decision? And do you change your mind once you've made it?

I need to consider the pros and cons of my decision, if a contract is involved try to get a lawyer (that’s why my aunt says) and after some careful consideration I would decide, and I won’t change my mind because that decision would be final.

How long do you take to process your emotions? How important are emotions in your life?

Ah. I typically don’t wanna deal with them? I can process them, my uncle tries to get me to. But in stressful situations I just blast music as loud as I can. If I have a good song to sing, or a voice acting job, I can channel my emotions into that.

Do you ever catch yourself agreeing with others just to appease them and keep the conversation going? How often? Why?

No. Screw social harmony. If I don’t like your view? I’ll say it.
Do you break rules often? Do you think authority should be challenged, or that they know better? If you do break rules, why would you?

Well does the rule have a purpose? If not I don’t see a purpose in keeping it around. And if it’s about conformity.. I’d break the rule if the setback wasn’t too great. But I don’t see the point in breaking the rule about dying my hair because I can dye my hair after I’m done with school. I don’t really care about my physical appearance. I don’t want piercings because I’d have to clean them. So people with piercings are quite interesting to me. And people who try to flout the rules by putting in their piercings also baffle me. Now if the rule was shut up and stand in a corner for no apparent reason, yeah. I’d say something. I’d fight back because it’s pointless and stupid! Some rules have a reason. There’s a reason there’s only 0.5 cm earrings allowed, because the last hoop earring student got her earlobe ripped out in the science lab. Yikes. I’m only gonna break the rule if I think it’s inefficient or pointless. Authorities are.. not the smartest sometimes. Heck, adults don’t even have their lives sorted out. Putting them in a position of power doesn’t change anything!

What is the ideal life, in your opinion?

A life where you’re happy. Happiness is subjective to everyone.

1st function-> 4 side beatmania buttons (you mostly use this)

2nd function-> 3 other side beatmania buttons (supports the combo you’re keeping up with but there’s no way you can use it alone)

3rd function-> turntable (sometimes you don’t have to use this but you do use it, and sometimes you can use exclusively this with the 4 side buttons without the 3 other buttons, it’s chart dependent)

4th function-> crossing your hands to play
beatmania (possible. But very impractical.)

Grip state: If someone falls into a grip state, they actually just switched their P, NO not the MBTI one, they went from P1 to P2, so suddenly, using the right hand for the turn table and the left for the buttons doesn't need crosshands!

Shadow State: But! If they're suddenly in their shadow state, they're playing on a detached controller, upside down! and looking at a mirror to play beatmania!

Super Ego State: They’re playing P2, on a detached controller upside down and looking at a mirror to play beatmania.

Gothic horror is a psychological genre which involves using grotesque, decrepit or decaying elements in order to create a psychological sense of dread as it warps the character's mental and psychological state.

However, at its core, it's about an element that is out of the character's control taking over them, either physically or psychologically, and normally both.

Meanwhile, pregnancy is a biological process where a women is pennetrated by a man's sperm, and the sperm fuses with the egg, to create a zygot.. Which is expected. The issue is what happens DURING pregnancy. A little parasite inside the woman's body forces her to eat more food in order to sustain it, against her own will. Biological impulses she would never feel normally suddenly corrupt her and make her do things she never would never do in order to sustain its life.

Isn't it quite similar to gothic horror, or if not gothic horror, psychological horror in a way?

As the Amigos streamed into ZH and Hazel’s dining room, whispers and murmurs drifted through the air. 

“I don’t think I want to eat the shadow stack.. ever,” Hazel muttered, her eyes shifting to the pancakes laid out in stacks before them.

As Hazel, ZH,  and Awa sat down, their eyes were treated to a feast. 

On top of a vivid viridian platter, laid a stack of 4 fluffy pancakes. The first was loaded with a ballpark of hundreds  and thousands, tiny rainbow sprinkles that flooded the pancake’s surface, with 2 fondant letters resting atop which spelled out in bold, black and swirly letters: Ne. Then came the 2nd, a rich chocolate pancake, sandwiched between the 1st and 3rd. Yet the 3rd was incredibly unremarkable, a plain pancake with nothing to be said about it. Under it all, laid the final pancake. It was dripping with strawberry jam, and freshly diced strawberries, yet those toppings were all being suffocated under the stack. The final touch on the plate were the letters ‘ENFP’ resting on its edge in pastel rainbow. 

Awa glanced up, pointing at Chara with her fork. 

“Even when eating, you won’t let us be free of the function pancakes?” she sighed, concealing a grin. 

“Nope!” Chara cheerfully answered, then ushered Elle, Yuki and Hachi to separate seats, each having its own unique function stack laid out before them.

In front of Hachi was a mint plate with a different stack. There was the same colorful funfetti pancake on top as the others, however, under it was a fluffy souffle, followed by a vanilla pancake, and finally, the suffocated strawberry flavour. At the side of her plate, there were deep violet letters spelling out ‘ENTP’.

Meanwhile, Yuki sat down before a stack with a whipped cream pancake with the letters Ni above a plain one, with a luxurious chocolate pancake under, then finally, a blueberry one below. A tiny  notecard rested beside it, spelling out, ‘INTJ’ in soft blues.

Across the other side of the table, Elle stared at her stack, a thick and dense whipped cream pancake as the first piled onto a plain vanilla, with Ni letters in ebony fondant unnaturally tilted askew on a thick souffle with a suffocating blueberry abyss pancake below. Her stack loomed there, the darkness of the blueberry ocean spread threatening to swallow her up. Elle gasped softly, pushing her chair out and shakily stepping back to try and glare at Chara.

“You did not.. You didn’t just give me the evil stack..” Elle stuttered.
“I’m not an evil person! I.. I care about others, and I want to make you guys happy..” she insisted.

“It’s not an evil stack! It’s just your own function stack!” Chara explained, her eyes twinkling.

“Then.. why did you present it as.. an evil shadow?” Elle whimpered, trembling.

The glimmer in Chara’s eyes flickered, and her grin softened to a warm smile.

“It’s not. It’s only my shadow stack, that doesn’t mean it’s evil at all. It’s only suppressed because it does different things from my main stack,” Chara softly explained. “Doesn’t the pancake stack look delicious? It’s not evil at all, it’s just different from mine,” Chara reassured, gesturing to the ‘INFJ’  card resting beside it. Elle turned to see the pancake stack once more. The whipped cream was fluffy, as was the soufflé, and the blueberries looked like delicate bluebells embellishing the bottom. 

“It does,” Elle replied softly, the image of an endless ocean fading from her mind.

“Whenever I use this stack, I become a warped and toxic version of you.. However, this is your regular stack, what you’re used to. If you tried to use my stack,” Chara continued to explain, picking up her stack of ‘ENFP’, “It would actually be a disaster for you, since it’s actually your shadow stack. You don’t know how to use it, because it’s buried under thick, caramel sauce,” Chara concluded, returning her plate to her end of the table.

Hachi observed her stack,  playing with the colourful sprinkles scattered onto her pancake, and grinning at Yuki and Elle, seated opposite and to her left. Yuki let out a small smile, observing her stack, while Elle warmly grinned back at Hachi.

“Alright! I think everyone probably wants to know what all the favours represent, right?” Chara called out, seating herself at the head of the table, and picking up the rainbow funfetti pancake from the top of her ‘ENFP’ stack.   

“First of all! Ne! It’s a rainbow sprinkled pancake known as Extraverted Intuition! All the rainbow sprinkles are hundreds and thousands.. of possibilities! So it gets a bit confusing when you see all of them. So many sprinkles.. so many ways to do things. And they roll around, bumping into each other, and drawing patterns! For instance, when  I first brought up stacks, Hazel mentioned pancakes! And that’s how we’re having pancakes right now! The little rainbow sprinkles rolled around and drew a connection!” Chara announced, rolling the colourful toppings around on the pancake with a grin. She quickly rushed over to Elle’s side, picking up her fluffy whipped cream layer. 

“Now this! It’s called Ni! Introverted Intuition! Whipped cream is made of lots of things, isn’t it? Milk, sugar, and whipping! Ni sees so many things, but unlike Ne, it doesn’t really let them exist and jump from possibility to possibility like the rolling sprinkles! Instead, it whips them all together into 1 conclusion, which is this fluffy whipped cream! Is it evil? Nope! It’s just very good for prediction! Can you have a million sprinkles and 1 uniform whipped cream simultaneously? Absolutely not! That’s why only 1 can consciously exist, the other one gets shoved under thick caramel sauce, and relegated to the bottom of the stack!” 

Returning the whipped cream to the top, Chara raced back to her own, and took out the rich chocolate pancake, a few balls of sprinkles having spilled onto it from the pancake above. In a swift motion, she picked them up and tossed them in her mouth with glee. 

“Actually, this is Fi! Introverted Feeling. A delicate, rich chocolate that some people might not like, but you do! It’s about what you think is right, and how you personally feel about things. And the sprinkles that fell down? That’s actually just your Fi influencing your Ne! Most of the time, your brilliant ideas generated from Ne are grounded with Fi, like these sprinkles now coated with chocolate. So no matter what an Ne user does, typically their brilliant ideas are grounded in their chocolatey morals! However! Sometimes, which I’ll get to later, the Ne ideas completely bypass the chocolate morals of Fi, and so you get rainbow sprinkles falling down to this plain pancake here. But I need to explain the other F, so hold on everyone!” Chara declared with theatrical grandeur, and skipped back over to Elle. 

Lifting Elle’s stack up again, Chara’s eyes twinkled. 

“This however, is Fe! Plain vanilla. No it’s not bad, vanilla is a crowd pleaser for most people. But it’s good, since you can understand what people want. Your own feelings are second, since you just want everyone to be happy. But that also means you can feel what most people want. Spoiler alert! I don’t really use my Fe, so I need to guess.. and make really bad guesses to what people are feeling using Ne to see patterns.. and overthink what they’re doing. Yeah, Fe is useful for dealing with people. Oh, and for social cues. I almost never catch social cues because I’m too wrapped up with my own rich and gooey chocolate Fi,” Chara muttered, trailing off at the end. She shifted back to her seat, picking up the most plain pancake of them all, with a few rainbow balls on top, and dashing back to Elle’s side to pick up her soufflé. 

“Now for Te! The most plain pancake there is out there. It’s concerned with what works. Sure, when you’re asked to make a pancake, you can make a soufflé.. but why bother? Keep it plain, keep it simple. They’re both edible and pancakes, so there’s nothing wrong with just making a plain one, right?” Chara paused, the tiniest fragment of a smile on her face.

“Objection!”

Hachi called out, brows furrowed, pointing at Chara with a raised finger. 

Hazel whispered from across the table, “Lao Gong.. it’s about to get heated.” ZH nodded,  “It’s about to go down,” he agreed, a smirk on his face. “Hachi’s getting revenge on Chara for being smacked earlier!” He excitedly whispered, eyes glimmering. 

Hachi whipped out her phone, reading out, “The soufflé pancakes heavily rely on the soufflé technique, where the egg whites are whipped to stiff peaks and gently incorporated into the rest of the batter, like you would in a chiffon cake! The whipped egg whites incorporate air into the batter, which lighten up the batter. This makes the soufflé pancakes rise and gives them their fluffy, cotton-like texture! They are fundamentally different!”

Chara grinned, clapping her hands and poking the bouncy souffle she took from Elle. “Exactly! Thank you for explaining Ti for the class! Ti is Introverted Thinking, and it prioritises the theoretical aspect of something over the practical aspect of something. Practically speaking,  pancakes and souffles are treated the same since they’re both pancakes… but as our dear Auxiliary slot Ti user has demonstrated.. They’re fundamentally, and theoretically different!

Yuki raised her hand.

“Auxillary?”

“Ignore that. I’ll explain it later…” Chara sighed, then perked up again, “However, Auxiliary means 2nd, so Hachi has Ti in her 2nd slot in the pancake stack, look!”Chara gestured toward Hachi’s stack of pancakes, and indeed, the 2nd pancake was a fluffy souffle.

Awa whispered to Yuki, “Is Chara a genius?” Yuki shook her head. “No. She planned everything. She deliberately antagonised the Ti user. She pulled off a Batman Gambit,” she replied plainly, an air of quiet certainty in her words.

Chara practically bounced back to her table, and picked up the strawberry pancake, then dashed over to Elle once more. “This is the last one! Introverted Sensing! Strawberries are a dense thing. Slathered with jam, and tasting kind of sour, and there’s even all those seeds. It’s about being into the sensation of something in your body, and connecting it to past routines. I have it as the 4th slot in my stack.. The very bottom of the stack. So I don’t like it. I don’t like routines. Oh. And I am NOT in tune with my body at all. The last time I ate was… 9 hours ago? Can’t even feel that. Oh wait. This group doesn’t have any Si users. Never mind. Sigh. Se, like Elle’s pancake here, is Extroverted Sensing. It’s about what you see, what you can touch and feel. Like how the pancake feels or how it looks. I don’t know how to explain these functions honestly.. It’s just about reacting to what is in front of you, no abstract fluff involved. We’ve all been to the arcade before, right?  Or had to fight someone? No time to think of patterns like Ne, you need to react when there’s a punch being thrown at your face. I have Se in my 8th slot in the pancake stack, but that actually means it’s easier to pick up than the 5th, 6th, or 7th function since it’s not opposing anything! Alright, I think you guys might want to eat the pancakes now. I need a bite out of that fluffy souffle and whipped cream from Elle too, they look delicious.”

Grabbing a knife, Chara sliced tiny pieces of pancake from Elle then subtly crept back to her spot.

Through a mouthful of whipped cream and souffle, Chara called out, “Also! Functions are meant to work with other functions too! This world won’t work if it’s full of ENFPs that keep chasing ideas and being unable to get anything done. So SHARE your pancakes, because we need all 8 functions in this world, alright? Ne users need Ni users to narrow their ideas. Oh and one more thing!” Chara put in a mouthful of plain pancake with a few sprinkles on it. “Sometimes the Ne surpasses the Fi and goes straight to the Te like this, creating a loop where emotions and feelings are suppressed for efficiency,” she explained, reaching over to take more whipped cream from Elle. Elle recoiled slightly, but kept a smile on her face. “Can I have some of your chocolate, Chara?” Elle asked politely, as Chara took yet another dollop of whipped cream from her. “Sure. Take it,” she stated flatly, already eying Hachi’s souffle again. Hachi shot her a steely glare. “You have a lot of nerve, ButtercupChara. First you use me to be a fool to be corrected, then you actively exploit me to prove a point, and NOW you want my souffle? Go find someone else’s food to steal! And don’t just target Elle again, you’ve used her as an example the entire time we were here,” Hachi snapped, causing Chara to back off and her eyes to drift to Yuki’s plate instead.. until Chara realised Yuki had nothing to offer, and wandered off to the kitchen to grab a can of whipped cream. As she stepped away, a song slipped into her mind.

“Bitter choco decoration
Be sure to eat it 'till it's gone and don't you say a word
Bitter choco decoration
A picky eater through and through, you still have much to learn”

Looking back at the Amigos through the glass partition,  a familiar music video drifted through her thoughts. An image of a long dining table.. Drawn curtains. People eating. Oh no.

As Chara picked up the can of whipped cream and squeezed a generous amount onto her top pancake, a sense of dread rose in her chest. Breathing softly, her ribs seemed to tighten for a moment. Yuki took the whipped cream, peering over to ask her, “ Hey Chara, you ok? Are you a bit preoccupied-”

Chara cut her off with a bitter smile, reenacting the music video she was playing in her mind.  

“Sorry, never mind,”Chara finished, her bright smile still cutting through her uncertainty.

IT’S A FREAKING MUSIC VIDEO CHARA. YOU DID NOT TRAP YOUR FRIENDS IN BITTER CHOCOLATE DECORATION.

Her gaze fell back onto her kaleidoscopic pancake, now filled with both the colorful sprinkles of Ne, and the fluffy whipped cream of Ni. A healthy balance.

Starr Nova is the one of the three new brawlers, and she’s dropping in May. Now, as a HUGE Don Quixote fan (hell, I even joked I wouldn’t come back to brawl stars until they added her), this came as a shock to me. But after some thought, it started to make more sense, since after all, most characters are already quite insane, so therefore, the developers made a character based on a delusional nobleman.

Alright, enough rambling, I’ll get to my main points.

First of all, I’ve seen people asking to get her name shortened to just ‘Nova’. Now, I get that from a convenience perspective, but from what I’ve seen in Brawl Stars, most double word character names are just Title +name, like Colonel Ruffs, or El Primo. Guess what? Don Quixote is also one of those names! Don in Don Quixote actually stands for sir in Spanish. I don’t think anyone calls Don Quixote simply Quixote, or El Primo just Primo, so I don’t see a reason to shorten Starr Nova’s name, as it kind of misses the point of the name Don Quixote. For those of you who aren’t aware, Don Quixote isn’t the guy’s real name, it’s actually Alonso Quijano. The point of the Don here is to make himself sound more knightly. Since we don’t really have any evidence pointing to what Starr Nova (the character, not the brawler) is, I’m gonna just say the Starr is the title. For Starr Nova, the brawler deeply immersed in the role of a righteous fixer hero, taking on the entire name suits her better than shortening it, right? (and for most people who refer to Don Quixote in short, they just use Don, so using Starr to refer to her would also work).

Secondly, Starr Nova is a very clear embodiment of the ‘chuunibyou’ or ‘Don Quixote’ troupe, due to her being so immersed in that role she’s probably forgotten who she actually is outside of it. Very much like Don Quixote, since he’s a nobleman who’s read too many chivalry novels and now thinks he’s a knight, similarly, Starr Nova’s an actor who’s consumed so much anime that she’s convinced herself that she’s actually Starr Nova. In addition to this, she also believes she can solve any issue by hitting it with her sword, and if that doesn’t invoke the same feeling as Don Quixote believing he can defeat windmills by charging at them, I’m not sure what will.

Thirdly, some people claim her design ‘seems like a parody of anime’. Well, that’s kind of the point. Have you ever seen a design of the original Don Quixote? He has a barber’s basin on his head because he thought it was a knight’s helmet, and his horse is literally a worn out work-horse called a nag (Rocinante). So for me, I see Starr Nova as an anime representation of a Don Quixote, and as such her design appears as a parody.

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Fourthly, her move set reminds me a lot of Lobotomy E.G.O: In The Name Of Love And Hate Don Quixote (which is based on an abnormality who’s based on magical girls), those moves being her Skill 1 and Skill 2. But the thing that stands out to me the most is really her Super, which feels like Don Quixote using her base E.G.O/her ZAYIN E.G.O: La Sangre De La Sancho, and lunging forward with her lance to regenerate some HP. (and that’s without mentioning the actual symbolism of Don Quixote being able to regenerate HP from that move, as well as it being a ‘transformation’…) Just like Don Quixote, Starr Nova charges forward with a speed boost and hits the enemies with her sword, regenerating HP while she attacks them.

Finally, her voice lines sound very righteous (almost like a noble fixer sprinting for justice), just like a heroic magical girl fighting for the greater good, so I think this really shows off the Don Quixote/ Chuunibyou aspect of her best! I can’t wait to see who they reveal her VA to be!

TL;DR: Starr Nova is a walking reference to Don Quixote, down to the title, appearance and personality, so don’t shorten her name.