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Ok, that bit of Agata actually wondering "is this guy just making his backstory up to psych us out?" actually saved last chapter for me. While Melon's flashback there seemed a bit (actually a fuckton) too ridiculous, it actually makes perfect sense as something the Melon we know would have written for himself, no matter what the real events were, and the sort of thing he'd trot out to try to get at his opponents. (As a side note, given that his audience is a bunch of male lions, and we know Agata has memories of his mother running the house, a matricidical story like the one Melon told seems very calculated to put extra pressure on his current audience.)
Jury's still out, but I've got more hope for this now.
@Swifft
In a way, I think it's his sheer ridiculousness and the stupid audacity to do stuff that nobody would even think was a possibility that's making Melon at all believable right now. He's got very little going for him beyond his adamantium balls - most of the people he's intimidating or being a massive problem for could take him apart easily if they didn't have some psychological millstone around their neck preventing them from actually pulling the trigger. (Quite literally, in Agata's case.) It's like he's walking through everyone's collective blind spot.
And with that, we're now firmly back on Beastars' established turf of fights always coming down to a collision of ideals/psychology instead of the actual physical violence. I still really don't like this arc, though, and the way it's pulling that feels very... forced? compared to some of the previous arcs. Particularly the stands.
Jury's still out, but I've got more hope for this now.
@Swifft
In a way, I think it's his sheer ridiculousness and the stupid audacity to do stuff that nobody would even think was a possibility that's making Melon at all believable right now. He's got very little going for him beyond his adamantium balls - most of the people he's intimidating or being a massive problem for could take him apart easily if they didn't have some psychological millstone around their neck preventing them from actually pulling the trigger. (Quite literally, in Agata's case.) It's like he's walking through everyone's collective blind spot.
And with that, we're now firmly back on Beastars' established turf of fights always coming down to a collision of ideals/psychology instead of the actual physical violence. I still really don't like this arc, though, and the way it's pulling that feels very... forced? compared to some of the previous arcs. Particularly the stands.
