365 | top five meme

[straightforwardly]

A meme I saw on tumblr, adjusted for dreamwidth:

Ask me what my top five of anything is, and I will answer!

(In my case, probably unranked, because I am not typically a person who is good at choosing a top favorite anything, haha.)

In that vein, feel very free to request more than one category/list! <3

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I'm going to ask for your top five fictional characters! Or, if it's tricky to settle on a top five, any five characters who would be in your top ten.

[straightforwardly]

I'm going to go with the latter option for filling out the rest of the list, but this is the rare example of my actually having an singular all-time fave for something! (Haruno Sakura, my most beloved <3) Lucrezia probably does deserve the number two spot, but beyond that, this list is in no particular order.

1. Haruno Sakura (Naruto)
2. Lucrezia Borgia (The Borgias)
3. Rena Lanford (Star Ocean: The Second Story)
4. Inigo/Laslow (Fire Emblem Awakening/Fates)
5. Yagami Hikari (Digimon Adventure/Adventure 02)

[peasina]

Top five Pokemon please 😎

[straightforwardly]

Ahhh, that's such a hard one!!! It's impossible to narrow down my actual top faves to just five...

Not ranked, just listed in the order I thought of them in:

1. Luxray
2. Gogoat
3. Torterra
4. Vulpix
5. ...if I speak fast enough, can I squeeze my remaining faves into this slot? haha Fine, fine, I'll give it to... Darkrai?

[scytale]

Top 5 Digimon!

[straightforwardly]

Ha, I feel like you can really see the influence of the various Digimon anime on my list! (Unlike with Pokémon, where my main love for it comes from the games despite also having familiarity with the anime, with Digimon my main love comes from the anime, despite also having played a number of the games.) Though, that being said, I think the only Digimon on this list where my fondness is tied specifically to a single interpretation is Blackwargreymon; with the others, I'm always delighted to see a version of them regardless of adaptation, even if my initial fondness comes from a specific source.

1. Gatomon/Tailmon
2. Renamon
3. Myotismon
4. Blackwargreymon
5. Beelzemon

(bonus: I'm also very fond of Angewomon.)

[tinkaton]

top 5 fiction tropes/themes

[straightforwardly]

So, I split this up into two lists! Possibly making this slightly harder on myself, as it led to much questioning of "is this thing I like a theme? or a trope? or a third thing that doesn't fall into either category??", but it didn't feel right to me to combine the two. I did also try to rank these lists, though the positions of the lower tiers could probably be swapped around depending on my mood when being asked.

themes:
1. GRIEF & MOURNING GRIEF & MOURNING GRIEF & MOURNING
2. the world may be grim & harsh & cruel, and terrible things can happen—but there’s still hope, and there's still goodness & kindness. Relatedly, kindness as a strength, rather than foolish naivety.
3. immigrant narratives, specifically exploring what it means to be the child of immigrants or having grown up in a foreign country—and even more specifically the tension of that in-between state: of being connected to two countries/cultures but not fully belonging to either
4. environmentalist themes, especially in the context of emphasizing humans as being a part of nature rather than something separate from it. Think of the original FF7.
5. the horrors & senselessness of war.

tropes:
1. TIME TRAVEL
2. enemies teaming up/having to work together for Reasons!!! (including: enemies reluctantly teaming up, enemies who respect each other teaming up, enemies to friends, enemies to friends to lovers… in short, enemies working together!! <3)
3. that h/c trope where a character silently suffers without anyone knowing until Something happens to force it out into the open <333
4. stranded together/survival scenarios!
5. huddling for warmth <3