BobtjeNORMALguy
Color From Beyond
- Location
- Lost in time and space
No one physically ages in anime don't you know that?And yet she still looks like this.
Noblesse Oblige [Znt/SI]
Dakkan Sall
Random Encounter
- Location
- On the world map
Well, it's either "doesn't age" or alternately "shrinks into wrinkly midget."No one physically ages in anime don't you know that?
- Location
- Yharnam
But what about magic? Average for nobility for death of old age should be pretty high. And Karin isn't normal by any means. There can be old wounds of course though.
DevilinDetail
Salty
No women physically ages in anime don't you know that?
FTFY.
While it is true to an extent that male characters have a wider range of apparent age in anime... that is largely limited to graying hair and the occasional scar which you'll not that some female characters have as well as the fact that women are perfectly capable in real life of using hair dye.
But regardless of gender skin is unlikely to sag, characters are still fit, and muscles are not shown to have weakened. This is largely due to the art style but also because people of Asian descent tend to look much the same throughout their lives until they suddenly look old.
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- Location
- Ireland
A nights sleep can do much to ease anger and frustration. Also, to be fair Henry did state that he had already expected the betrothal. He may not like it and is frustrated at his family for agreeing to it but he does understand the reasons behind it. Also that it was the wishes of Royalty, which is not something him or his family can just reject at a whim.
Nix's Warden
Welcome to Hades
- Location
- United States
Well Fuck You Too You Stone Cold Bitch. Your a fucking failure as a mother I hope you realize? Just thought you should know you god damn Golem.
DevilinDetail
Salty
Nah, there's a trick to it:
>Suggesting that Not-Europe Halkgenia is Asian
Ellf
Apprentice Wizard
- Location
- Virginia
It's Anime. All Anime is Japan even when it's other countries.
GiftOfLove
From the Heart
Glorious european Nippon nationals, folded over one-thousand times!
Though with access to the top-rate healing potions that have kept her sickly younger daughter alive and considering that she's in great physical condition, I'd definitely bet on the 70+ end of that range.
LastStandZiggy
Last To Fall
- Location
- Kingman, Az
This is in an era of early-to-mid renaissance or at least late medieval, so therefore most people including the nobility have an incredibly different set of standards than our modernist point of view.
But besides that, Karin is a Military Woman through and through, she earned her position as much as marrying into it. She doesn't want her children to coast through life, she wants them to soar and expand and what they were given.
- Location
- Brazil
Such bullshit.
That's certainly a Code Red scenario for Karin.
Nix's Warden
Welcome to Hades
- Location
- United States
If she was just stern or disciplinary I could understand that. My father was in the Navy for 20 years so I'm well aware of how strict and rule abiding military parents can be.
That does NOT excuse the fact that she rules her entire house with a Iron Fist more suited for a Mind Broken Emiya then a normal person. Her obsession, and I do call it a obsession, with maintaining absolute control of oneself, even in the most private of family gatherings, is nothing less then ridiculous and unreasonable.
Her blatant disregard for the feelings of her family, when it comes to her decisions for them, is fucking abusive as hell. Louise, little whip the shit out of the poor bastard who's everything just got ripped away by me, is so fucking terrified of Karin in canon that she almost suffers a heart attack/goes into shock from the mere prospect of having to return home to meet her.
If your own child is so scared of you, that she would literally rather fight in a war then come home to meet you, then your a fucking failure as a parent.
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- Location
- Kansas
Angurvddel
I am Large. I contain Multitudes
I suspect she's more along the lines of 'high middle aged' for nobility though. 60-70 is probably what a layperson is likely to make it to with access to low-level water magic healing. Since Karin is high-level nobility, I suspect she would have access to quite high level water magic healing, and thus may well have a life expectancy well in excess of the norm.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
I think people are really exaggerating how unreasonable Karin is. Yeah, arranged marriages are kind of inherently shitty, but the political situation does demand it, and to decline such an offer would cost the Valleries deeply. She forgave his outburst, and just the fact he feels comfortable pressing her buttons with stuff like the Zerbst joke shows that she's not really out of touch.
She's a very emotional person who tries to control those emotions as much as possible, and while that has its drawbacks, her motives for doing so aren't unfounded.
It's a persuasive argument.
She's a very emotional person who tries to control those emotions as much as possible, and while that has its drawbacks, her motives for doing so aren't unfounded.
It's a persuasive argument.
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- Location
- Toronto
And so, your very modern viewpoint of how parents should act shines through. Must I direct you to, for example, manuals from the 16th century wherein a man keeping his family in fear of him through the use of beatings were written, sanctioned and distributed by the church? Karin isn't particularly bad, and really doesn't deserve all the hate she gets.
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In an average medieval world, sure. You're forgetting that she's a noble in a world with magic, including magical healing, though. She could easily live to be over a hundred.
Nix's Warden
Welcome to Hades
- Location
- United States
Just because it's in line with the times doesn't mean it's okay. But I'm going to stop now. I don't want to be draw into this more then I already have and I can feel the other people approaching with more "This was okay 3-4 hundred years ago so it's okay it's happening now" shit. Karin is a shitty and emotionally abusive mother in my opinion, it's not going to change, let's drop it.
- Pronouns
- she/her
Well this is just flat out wrong. Louise didn't want to go home before fighting in the war because she knew BOTH her parents would be against it and forbid her from going. She wanted to fight for Henrietta not because she was afraid of Karin... point of fact, Karin actually abstained from voicing her opinion on the matter and let Pierre shut Louise down by himself (he puts her under house arrest).
The one time Louise was seriously afraid of her mother's discipline happened after she returned from breaking out of prison to commit several felonies. Not only illegal, but also risked started a war with Gallia. She was scared because she knew she fucked up big time.
- Location
- U.S.A.
How about hugs? Hugs fix everything! Especially in a Shade fic!
- Location
- Elsewhere
Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose."
Don't worry, this will give you plenty of time to seduce her cousin!
The Shadenight123 Corner, Hugs Need Not Apply
Aurain
----The Second Sun---- [Occido Lumen]
- Location
- United States
Where the hell did all the tension from the previous chapter go? It felt kinda like a cop-out that most of it is gone with no one lashing out. The bonding time felt kinda forced too. I was hoping for a verbal fight (because a magical one would end up horribly).