Talk:Shizuki Ryouko

Naming Order

I used Japanese name order because that's what it was on Hieronym's posts, but it seems another user prefers Western order. I don't really care which we use, provided that we're consistent about it. Archivist (talk) 18:36, 13 April 2013 (PDT)

I'd say prefer the usual japanese order, since it best reflects the source material. (also inverting names Just Bugs Me because it's not like you're translating the name, so aufgthsdf but that's not. important.) En (talk) 07:28, 14 April 2013 (PDT)

I thought Western audiences would prefer Western naming convention (e.g. Puella Magi wiki), but otherwise my stance is the same as Archivist's. I wouldn't mind Eastern, we can go with that. -Akira (talk) 12:22, 14 April 2013 (PDT)

well, my line of thinking is, I really doubt makes all that much of a difference either way, especially if we're putting up redirects anyway, and hieronym's text is english in the first place, so if a person is unfamiliar with name ordering conventions, it tends to make more sense to type it in the way it's written in the text than to invert it without a reason. a person who is familiar with the name order ... probably won't have many problems with it anyway (it's a name, after all—of course, my view on names is, it's not you'd generally mangle the word order in a title if you transliterated it, so why would you mangle the word order in a name). this is how I justify preference in utility, anyway. En (talk) 16:27, 14 April 2013 (PDT)

Character Box Picture

I feel silly, but I couldn't get the character image to go in the box, so I'll wait for someone else to do that... Hieronym (talk) 22:07, 16 April 2013 (PDT)

I suspect it's because the box doesn't have a field for images. I'll take a look later today. Archivist (talk) 08:58, 17 April 2013 (PDT)

The field was there but it had a bug. Fixed! Archivist (talk) 09:13, 17 April 2013 (PDT)

New Medal

Where's the Akemi Homura Award?

Added it and a basic description to the page. - User:Smithrooks

pref-spec-self-mod

see ch 65, 66 for the terminology

Chapter 32 extract

Go hug her! Clarisse ordered, surprising Ryouko out her frozen state of shock.

What?

Do it!

Without really knowing what she was doing, she jumped up, hovered awkwardly for a moment, before deciding to hunch over and embrace Asami from behind. A part of her noticed that Asami was wearing something scented with vanillin.

"I don't want to go back," Asami said, starting to openly cry. "I don't want you to go back. Why do we have to do this? The world—"

"It's alright," Ryouko said, stroking Asami's hand and incidentally checking her soul gem level. "I—"

She thought for a long moment, then closed her eyes, wrenching at some internal lever with a mental effort that was almost palpable, dragging the structure of her mind into a new configuration. She could feel her worldview shifting, just a little, and for a moment it almost disturbed her.

Then she opened her eyes again.

"I'll be there for you," she finished. "What you asked me before: the answer is yes. I'll be your girlfriend. Come on, cheer up."

She took a moment to rub her head against Asami's, watching the tendrils of her hair twitch, then wrap themselves around Asami's, wondering what the hell she had gotten herself into.

I have to say this disturbs me too, Clarisse thought, shocked and confused. I did not expect this. It doesn't fit with my models of your behavior, for you to be so precipitate. Something is—

I don't know what to think either, she thought back. But I thought…

"Ryouko‐chan?" Asami said shakily.

"Yes?" Ryouko asked.

"I–I—your friends—"

Ryouko looked up, the world snapping instantly back into focus.

I think this extract shows ryouko self-modding her pref-spec? Icecream17 (talk) 05:32, 10 August 2023 (PDT)

+ It is technically possible for magic to be a factor like in ch 43, but there's still high confidence of pref-spec involvement. Icecream17 (talk) 16:32, 15 August 2023 (PDT)