You'd never know it from the majority of her fandom depictions, but Mika's actually one of the principal villains of Volume 3, where she tries to take over Trinity General School via a violent coup with the aid of Arius Satellite School's troops, all to thwart the signing of a peace treaty between Trinity and Gehenna Academy. Her plan after taking over Trinity is to declare all-out war with Gehenna, because she simply hates Gehenna and its students that much. She gets a redemption arc in the back half of the chapter, but having not played the game myself (I just read the character profiles on TV Tropes), I don't know whether she truly gets over her anti-Gehenna bias or merely decides that her relationships with Nagisa, Seia, and Sensei are more important.
Also, on the subject of "things about Mika that a lot of the fandom gets wrong", Mika actually hates roll cake. The reason she's seen as always eating them is because Nagisa saw to it that Mika was fed exclusively roll cakes as punishment while she was imprisoned in the middle act of Volume 3, which is why you sometimes see Nagisa force-feeding Mika roll cakes (plus the force-feeding bit is literally a special animation that can play when you have both girls in your party in-game). Fanworks will sometimes get this right, but far more often seem to assume that roll cakes are Mika's favorite food, which couldn't be further from the truth.
She gets a redemption arc in the back half of the chapter, but having not played the game myself (I just read the character profiles on TV Tropes), I don't know whether she truly gets over her anti-Gehenna bias or merely decides that her relationships with Nagisa, Seia, and Sensei are more important.
Neither. She's far from the only Trinity student to despise Gehenna to the point of welcoming all-out war with them. It's a fairly popular sentiment, as well as mutual.
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Her redemption begins with the revelation that everything she did was the machinations of an abusive, manipulative adult, resulting in a rapidly declining mental state and increasingly poor decisions as her life spiraled out of control. Her arc culminates in a self-sacrificing stand against the Saint Justina Mimesis horde while Sensei deals with Maestro and his Hieronymus Mimesis.
What really seals the deal on her redemption is the epilogue, in which she, unlike a certain someone, faces severe consequences for her actions. She narrowly escapes being expelled, loses her position in the Tea Party (Trinity's ruling party) and all the perks that come with it, is transferred to a "common student" dorm that treats her like a convicted criminal (I mean, she kind of is), and is relentlessly bullied by the entire student body while the school's staff are as useless as real life school staff.
Compared to Rio (until she gets a proper redemption), she's extremely sympathetic and it's hard not to support her.
Neither. She's far from the only Trinity student to despise Gehenna to the point of welcoming all-out war with them. It's a fairly popular sentiment, as well as mutual.
Other students sharing Mika's sentiment doesn't actually answer my question, which is whether Mika's own stance on Gehenna changes following the events of Volume 3. Does the subject ever come up in a later volume, or perhaps a relationship or event story that takes place after the end of Volume 3? Obviously, Mika's not trying to take over Trinity General School in order to overthrow the Eden Treaty anymore, but is that because she's genuinely turned a new leaf regarding Gehenna, or is it just because she doesn't want to strain her relationships with her friends (Sensei included) who do support warmer Trinity/Gehenna relations (or, you know, get expelled)?
Other students sharing Mika's sentiment doesn't actually answer my question, which is whether Mika's own stance on Gehenna changes following the events of Volume 3. Does the subject ever come up in a later volume, or perhaps a relationship or event story that takes place after the end of Volume 3? Obviously, Mika's not trying to take over Trinity General School in order to overthrow the Eden Treaty anymore, but is that because she's genuinely turned a new leaf regarding Gehenna, or is it just because she doesn't want to strain her relationships with her friends (Sensei included) who do support warmer Trinity/Gehenna relations (or, you know, get expelled)?
I literally answered that question. "Neither." Her stance doesn't change nor do her feelings for her friends or Sensei have any impact on her stance. She hates Gehenna and makes it abundantly clear that she will always hate Gehenna. She ceases being the villain of the chapter and gives up on her genocide plans because she was beaten, no longer had the Arius support, and was talked down by Sensei. She's not trying to take over Trinity anymore because she literally can't, and never personally wanted to anyway.
The only reason she was trying to take over Trinity in the first place is because an adult manipulated her into doing it. I feel like I explained these things pretty cleary in my coverage of her redemption.
For bit of context, while the character in the picture is Britomart, it is not the same Britomart as in FGO. The playable Britomart is actually the daughter of the original Britomart from the Faerie Queene (Britomart Mother as the description calls her).
In OC2, the first major opponent of the chapter is an Altered form of Britomart, who is noted to being the original Britomart. However, Britomart Alter constantly wears her armor in the chapter, meaning that we don't get to see what she looks like under the armor. This is meant to be fan art of what she would potentially look like without the armor.
For bit of context, while the character in the picture is Britomart, it is not the same Britomart as in FGO. The playable Britomart is actually the daughter of the original Britomart from the Faerie Queene (Britomart Mother as the description calls her).
In OC2, the first major opponent of the chapter is an Altered form of Britomart, who is noted to being the original Britomart. However, Britomart Alter constantly wears her armor in the chapter, meaning that we don't get to see what she looks like under the armor. This is meant to be fan art of what she would potentially look like without the armor.
To add to that, it's fanart by FGO Britomart's official artist. If they ever did add her mom, it's almost certain they would have him do her design, so unless she gets added, this is likely the closest we will ever get to an official design.
Personally I would’ve broken off the majority of the arrow, so that the head doesn’t get moved around if the rest of the arrow hits somthin. I do however understand this might just not look as cool or somthing though.
I get the feeling based on the look on her face that Yuri left it intact because she *wants* the arrowhead to move around.
deebeedo_ohno said: Personally I would’ve broken off the majority of the arrow,
The main reason not to try and break the arrow shaft that is it's going to be hard to do that without disturbing the arrowhead. With the material strength of arrow shafts being a concern, it definitely wouldn't be easy to keep the whole thing steady. Any professional arrow that you would just be able to make go "snap" with a quick flex of the hands would never be suitable to be shot from a bow. Even using hardware is going to disturb the arrow head far too much.
As to the arrow head, while most people will cite the reversed barbed nature of the intruding arrow as a reason not to hastily extract it, the main reason to not disturb it or anything that penetrates your skin deeply is to prevent additional, potentially fatal bleeding. The arrow head is acting like a wedge that forced separation between the now two ends of something, and it continuing to block those two ends from each other and restrict the contents of the said thing being severed from coming out. Even the shaft is acting like a stop-gap against the "inside" escaping to the "outside" in larger quantities.
The main reason not to try and break the arrow shaft that is it's going to be hard to do that without disturbing the arrowhead. With the material strength of arrow shafts being a concern, it definitely wouldn't be easy to keep the whole thing steady. Any professional arrow that you would just be able to make go "snap" with a quick flex of the hands would never be suitable to be shot from a bow. Even using hardware is going to disturb the arrow head far too much.
You make a good point, especially with the quality of the shaft.
Was so happy when she finally received a Fantasy Rebirth costume. It looks great. I like how the shawl references Renko, and how all the white is a reference to one of her fighting game skins.
Was so happy when she finally received a Fantasy Rebirth costume. It looks great. I like how the shawl references Renko, and how all the white is a reference to one of her fighting game skins.
Aren't all the Fantasy Rebirth costumes/skins predominantly white, though?
Was so happy when she finally received a Fantasy Rebirth costume. It looks great. I like how the shawl references Renko, and how all the white is a reference to one of her fighting game skins.
Silly Pgj1997, every Fantasy Rebirth costumes are themed white!
