Izzy Durante: Bard of Blood.

A total fuckboy lesbian. Bought on discount at the Chloe Price store. Charming but irresponsible, she makes friends just as easily as she loses them. Everyone in the group is already starting to get sick of her shit when the game starts. She's the last one to install either disc because she just kinda forgot and it didn't seem that important until one of the Horrorterrors started ravaging her town. World record holder for most ignored messages. Guardian: Old Man (mustache, in his early 40s, military demeanor) Main Specibus: Chainkind. Starts with a bicycle chain, upgrades to a lock on a chain, gets crazy with it later. Home: A regular suburban house.

Haru Arakawa: Sylph of Doom.

A quiet, withdrawn boy who streams with a female vtube avatar. Often mistaken for a girl IRL, but oddly doesn't mind. He's the one who first found out about what Sburb 2 actually was, as his Uncle owns the company that created it. Someone sent him a certain GameFAQ (updated with additional research post-canon), and he's been hard at work trying to understand the rules so he's prepared for the coming apocalypse. He is in NO WAY prepared. Guardian: Uncle (in the "works at nintendo" sense, also in the strict older relative sense) Main Specibus: Fankind. Contrary to expectation, starts with a stand fan. Home: Impossibly fancy Japanese high rise condo. Like a mansion unto itself on top of a skyscraper.

Colt Graham: Mage of Rage.

Sees himself as a modern day cowboy, a vigilante bringing justice to a world where the law serves only the powerful. Is actually just a dork living in his sister's basement. She has a ranch though, so dressing like a movie cowboy isn't that odd. Low-key a conspiracy theorist. Does not know Haru's actual gender or that his Uncle owns the company Colt puts at the center of the conspiracy. Has never successfully ridden a horse. Guardian: Big Sis (a tax paying adult woman who happens to wear cowboy boots and a hat. Not here for shenanigans) Main Specibus: Pistolkind, of course. Home: A horse ranch

Kate Labelle: Thief of Mind.

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3

In its infinitely charitable wisdom, St Alban’s opened its black and gold gates to an uncommunicated and unconfirmed teen girl with a poor scholastic record. Mum took them out for milkshakes, which really meant water for Lizzie and a kid-sized milkshake shared between Catherine and Mum, while Mum crowed about how she’d known that baptism would be useful one day. Another legacy from their dearly departed Dad, Mum kissing the photo atop the mantle that night, polishing the frame with her sleeve before putting Dad back into his place.

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A Lizzie Stark modern AU origin story.

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Lizzie Stark/Original Character, Tommy Shelby Arthur Shelby, John Shelby, Freddie Thorne, Johnny Dogs, Ada Shelby, Mrs Stark (Mum), Catherine Stark (Sister), Euan Stark (Dad), William Stark (Cousin) | Modern AU (1990s), High School, Coming of Age, Exploitation, Racism, Class Issues, Sexual Content

The gem on his chest isn't the only one on his body. He's got them elsewhere too--the backs of his hands, his ankles, a line of small ones along his spine, a scattering of green glass stars falling over each hip...

("You know," Kaveh says, mapping constellations stone to stone with the slow tip of one finger, "this really isn't typical."

The core of fanservice is exploitation for audience retention, for some it might not have "been bad" to see her bent over for no reason beside the fact that she's not ugly.

But to exploit a character solely because they're attractive, thus commence "fanservice" ie. sequence of events to reduce them to just a hot piece of meat in circumstantial situations geared specifically to further reduce them to a sex object---- Doesn't help them either.

Characterization builds character, fanservice takes away from them or does absolutely nothing for the character but dehumanizes them.

Because it's FAN+service, not CHARACTER+service.

And true fanservice? In reality is reference, through-lines, easter eggs, that's fanservice.

Stan Lee's cameos throughout the years, that's true fanservice. Anime/manga, predictably has this degenerate context where fanservice in anime specifically means a character (mainly FEMALE, ofc) gets bent over the couch for some instant gratification dopamine fixes, meaningless.

Basically Anime & manga has hijacked the term fanservice to mean "Sex-ploit characters for no reason, at any cost even at the expense of the story and character in question-- ya know, for the kids"

ie. Consistent Cockteasing is considered fanservice.

I hear what they're saying. But let's be frank, for some it wouldn't have been bad, but what good would it have done Dianna? Absolutely nothing. That's the point.

Her being attractive, is enough.

We, fandom/society/culture, have to learn not to exploit what we admire, just because it activates monke brain.

We don't have to ruin everything we touch just because it wouldn't hurt anyone.

And as with fetishes, psychologists have "hot harming anyone" clauses but not one can explain how it's morality/ evolutionary/ socially advantageous to be a regressive manchild. TLDR, we have excuses, but not a single good reason. It's not harming anyone, but we can't cite how it's helping the matter as an alternative to growing the fuck up, how it's helping either morally vs being a safe space for dysfunction and incompetence, thus arrested development, which is why fetishists & Otaku culture are very parallel in a lot of respects.

So "no harm" actually doesn't mean anything, never has.

And that's precisely why I respect the restraint on part of the writers, Turn A Gundam has fanservice, but for Dianna? It's especially toned down. And it further helps how seriously she's handled, and I can watch cuter, lighter moments without worrying about an obligatory shot of her ass, crotch, or chest for no reason.

Or a jump cut to her chest in central frame and then we pan to her face because her tits comes first because that's what her existence is. And the director wants you to remember that every 10 seconds.

I can trust this show to know what the fuck it's doing without treating me like an idiot who has no other incentive to watch a show beyond the basic-minded factors. I like shows that take itself/ thus me/ we the audience, seriously. Not so serious that it doesn't loosen up, but not so much a joke, I feel disrespected with the character.

Perhaps given the fact that her twin (Kihel) was a stand-in for the other "fanservice" moments and there was no point in doing it to Dianna when you already saw Kihel. Whatever the case, Dianna is more so solid because the writers (in an anime no less) respected their work enough to know NOT to do it.