homotopy exas

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Huh? ‘What’s her ability?’ I thought you woulda figured it out from the name, you’re not the brightest are ya kid? No, it’s nothing mental like dominating willpower, she’s way above pathetic tricks like that. Get this, it’s not even a combat ability at all. The Princess has sensory capabilities far beyond anything you can imagine, you could pile mattresses 100 high and she’d be able to tell if there’s a pea under any of them with perfect accuracy, down to the exact mattress. That’s why she’s the strongest.

Huh? No she can’t do anything like that. Weren’tcha listening? I said she can sense a pea, that wasn’t a colorful example, I was being serious. She can only sense peas, but she can sense them through infinite layers of mattresses.

I will quote ZUN

I have been thinking a lot about Chuunibyo as a state that is; anti-normative, aspirational, and generative.

1) Chuuni is anti-normative. A comfortable and copacetic individual cannot be chuuni. Chuuni is founded in a dissatisfaction with the world, the type commonly found in adolescents. This lends the chuuni to both delusion and generation. The two are ideally not mutually exclusive.

2) Chuuni is aspirational. Chuuni is not a static state. It is something that must actively be pursed. The chuuni seeks something, be it a desire for identity, a more just world, or an escape from an unacceptable reality. A chuuni mindset is maintained for a reason.

3) Chuuni is generative. Chuuni in its best artistic expression is generative. After all, desire must inevitably articulate itself. This might manifest as "a desire for special powers" or "a cool bisexual vampire bf" but because Chuuni is ideally both anti-normative and aspirational, it will not stop with these ideas. It indulges the adolescent, but continues building based on that trajectory.