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(meme) Divine Protection of Long Legs . . .

From my studies of their characters, it is apparent that Felt constantly wants to best Reinhard, catching him off guard and winning against him. She never wants to best him in terms of height in canon, though ... but I'm simply incorporating her trait in another scenario.

Winning against Reinhard always amuses and satisfies her. Reinhard's reaction is 24/7 :o. Seriously, he often looks dumb whenever he got surprised by Felt's antics.

Now, regarding bro's character, Reinhard is totally unused to losing. He never loses (well, aside from that one story with Doltero (from the side story), but it's more like a situation he can't do anything about––and it's not strength-related). He is also competitive but rarely has the chance to express it because usually he has already won before even making some effort, and nobody really challenges him.

From Tappei's Q&A I have gathered from various sources (can only pray it's legit), it is said that Reinhard feels amused over Felt's challenges because usually, nobody ever faces him like she does. (Yea I think it's legit because I've already gotten this gist too from his other canon interactions with her in side stories.)

Further proof is from one of the side stories: when Felt deliberately excluded Reinhard from Tometo Festival (basically you throw tomatoes to hit the other players to win), he was rather down because he admitted he likes to move his body (basically he likes to compete) and actually wished to participate. This part also further proves to me that even Reinhard still got his childish sides ... but I'll save it for another post before I get sidetracked and type another lengthy essay.

I’d like to start of with this quote by Touka in the novels. 

“What the hell do you know? It’s all because I can’t eat, because I could become a target at any time, all because I’m a ghoul! No matter how much I try, there’s a wall I can never jump over, and there’s happiness I can never have. But I’m still hanging on to life. Despite it all”

Followed by this from part 1.  

And of course this from Yomo.

As you can see there’s a pattern, and if I wanted to I could indulge you with a fuckton more Touka quotes/panels to further exemplify these, but I digress because I ramble too much and words alone aren’t enough to truly encapsulate everything in its entirety😒.

Alrighty then, let’s get this long rambling journey started! I dub thee:

“Strength in weakness and Weakness in strength”

What makes Touka such an interesting character for me in terms of her writing is that there’s a lot of nuances to her that make her so fascinating to read. Because of these elements, I feel as though leads to a general misconception/misunderstanding of her character in favor of either completely overlooking or simply dismissing them and marking them as purely simplistic and well… not important/uninteresting. I for one believe that there lies a profound complex simplicity and simple complexity of sorts to a lot of these nuances that can be very easy to miss, but are of crucial note to consider, most especially the subtleties to her growth in :re alongside many important thematic elements of the story, other characters and herself.