thank you for the feedback. i'm gonna try to answer all this and hope it makes sense!!
first of all, michelle is partly japanese by ancestry, but i actually didn't intend for her to be very familiar with japanese culture at all. i was thinking she'd be fairly far down the generation line (like 3rd or 4th or further), though i never thought to put that in my app anywhere, whoops.
the idea behind 'ai' as her network name was basically that it'd be a "fangirl japanese" sort of handle, like say, 'neko' or 'desu' or something along those lines. the counterpart to her acting like a ditzy airhead irl is acting basically like a 14-y/o internet newbie on the network, which is what i was going for with that name. also it was me thinking i'm lolclever because it means love and she's so bitter about love
regarding kyoka suigetsu, ADMITTEDLY i wrote the post at like 4 am, and i was getting really frustrated with only getting pages and pages of results about aizen when i googled for that phrase. the bleach wiki referenced the chinese proverb and that's all i could seem to find anywhere, so i just assumed it was a borrowed expression that originated in chinese. that might have just been my google fu failing me completely tho if it's easy to find on wiki, or maybe my spelling was off when i searched?? idk idk.
also you're totally right about the red bean paste thing! when i submitted my app the mods actually asked me for a clarification on that which i was dumb and never added to my actual app after i got accepted. basically what i was going for was paralleling the scene in the early manga where she brought literally an entire loaf of bread to school as her entire lunch and ate it with red bean paste? i'm sorry if that didn't come across properly! i probably could have phrased it better as her strange eating habits in general.
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thank you for the feedback. i'm gonna try to answer all this and hope it makes sense!!
first of all, michelle is partly japanese by ancestry, but i actually didn't intend for her to be very familiar with japanese culture at all. i was thinking she'd be fairly far down the generation line (like 3rd or 4th or further), though i never thought to put that in my app anywhere, whoops.
the idea behind 'ai' as her network name was basically that it'd be a "fangirl japanese" sort of handle, like say, 'neko' or 'desu' or something along those lines. the counterpart to her acting like a ditzy airhead irl is acting basically like a 14-y/o internet newbie on the network, which is what i was going for with that name.
also it was me thinking i'm lolclever because it means love and she's so bitter about loveregarding kyoka suigetsu, ADMITTEDLY i wrote the post at like 4 am, and i was getting really frustrated with only getting pages and pages of results about aizen when i googled for that phrase. the bleach wiki referenced the chinese proverb and that's all i could seem to find anywhere, so i just assumed it was a borrowed expression that originated in chinese. that might have just been my google fu failing me completely tho if it's easy to find on wiki, or maybe my spelling was off when i searched?? idk idk.
also you're totally right about the red bean paste thing! when i submitted my app the mods actually asked me for a clarification on that which i was dumb and never added to my actual app after i got accepted. basically what i was going for was paralleling the scene in the early manga where she brought literally an entire loaf of bread to school as her entire lunch and ate it with red bean paste? i'm sorry if that didn't come across properly! i probably could have phrased it better as her strange eating habits in general.