@nbhstcqbvvpmacjrmv the mage complaining to Roy doesn’t imply Min Hyuk not helping after having multiple opportunities but instead implies the opposite. If the mage wasn’t mad at him means that he’s been doing his job properly, if Min Hyuk didn’t, the mage would be mad at him. It was shown only once because they’d just be showing the same scene twice which is just extra work for the artist.
And I’m sorry I have a habit of switching from 3rd person and 2nd person (they -> you, vice versa) so what I meant was Roy shouldn’t have taken it personally. I really really promise I didn’t mean it for you or maybe kinda like its, if you were Roy kinda thing, at least in my mind, that’s what I was thinking.
Fine, I fully did defend the MC without saying he was disrespectful too but if we were scaling who was more of an jerk in the entire encounter, it would be Roy. If they don’t explicitly say stuff like help me deal with enemies but just be careful and hang back most of the time but that’s what you expect, you can’t just go off on people and disrespect them when they unknowingly disrespect you which just reveals what kind of person he is yeah?
I also don’t like how you need to be completely focused on something. People could fidget and eat because of attention problems. Or they’re hungry. But still, does it take away from Roy if MC doesn’t seem to have his head all there since he’s also focusing on the food? I don’t feel like it does. The only time that it probably mattered was that last part before he slapped the castella out of MC’s hands because he didn’t hear him which I still don’t think is MC’s fault since he was talking to the mage and then suddenly switched to talking to Min Hyuk, thinking that he should have been paying attention. It could be fair since this is right after combat and he’s the leader but since he didn’t specifically call out to Min Hyuk before saying you should stop eating bread, he shouldn’t have gotten angry for him not hearing.
When I look at Roy’s perspective, assuming he may not be a PKer, I see a guy acting cool and saying “let me handle everything” but in his mind still expect them to help him cause social conventions say they should right? When the going gets tough, Roy sees a guy acting as if he isn’t part of this and I think he’d think, “why the heck isn’t he helping, can’t he see we’re having a hard time and he’s just there eating??” And then the mage calls him out and he decides to say, “he’s distracting me with his eating” and stuff like that and he proceeds to vent his anger at being unable to look cool and this guy who doesn’t seem to care.
Basically, when I imagine Roy’s perspective, I imagine a guy who got angry for having expectations he never explicitly mentioned to anyone else.
Also, if the food was like in this VRMMO, where you can see, smell, feel and taste it, how would it feel any less like in real life? It’s basically the food itself, except for the fact that it doesn’t sustain my body irl. In that fact, you could consider it less important, but when someone is just enjoying food and not because they’re hungry, then that’s the exact same thing then. It’s like slapping someone’s dessert off their spoon and saying it’s not as important as the meal before it because it doesn’t really matter to your survival whether you ate it or not.
Now for the important part, to be diagnosed with a mental illness, usually they refer to the DSM to see if you hit or get more than a specific number of marks because as we all acknowledge, not everyone experiences mental disorders the same way.
I copy pasted this off the internet but its not like someone would lie about the DSM right?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) includes the following diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa:
Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within a two hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances.
Lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that you cannot stop eating, or control what or how much you are eating).
Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or other medications, fasting, or excessive exercise.
The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least once a week for three months.
Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight.
Binging or purging does not occur exclusively during episodes of behavior that would be common in those with anorexia nervosa.
He’s been shown to eat excessively at periods of time, since he isn’t eating 24/7 and he doesn’t seem to have any control with the amount he eats as shown with the HUGE amounts of tomatoes he eats though he himself is embarrassed at the amount. He’s been shown to swing a sword for two hours just so he could eat again which could be his way of compensating and is shown to “work off” what he’s eaten by exercising irl everytime which is a valid way of a person with bulimia to try and compensate.
In https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/information/bulimia it said:
Methods of purging include forced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics, and
extreme or prolonged periods of exercising.
Often, in these binge/purge episodes, a woman or man suffering from this disorder will experience a loss of control and engage in frantic efforts to undo these feelings.
Though MC lacks the suffering that feels like it should have been part of the binging process, we can’t say for sure if everybody actually does. Even the article only said “often”.
Exercising is also a one of a major type compensatory actions of bulimia called the non-purging type (also from eatingdisorderhope.com)
Non-Purging type – In this form the individual will use other inappropriate methods of compensation for binge episodes, such as excessive exercising or fasting. In these cases, the typical forms of purging, such as self-induced vomiting, are not regularly utilized.
The only problems I see is his love for food, excessive hunger and his lack of self hate due to body issues. The lack of self hate due to body issues is I think fair seeing how he has been going through medical care (i don’t remember therapy but I’d assume he also has that) and also has the absolute, most loving support system I have seen. Nevertheless, he still has body issues since he feels like he’d have been perfect had he not been unable to control his food intake and not being able to lose all the weight he’s gained even through all the effort he’s been through.
I really don’t know about the excessive hunger but I did say he might have other problems aside from bulimia that might be causing it.
Sure, of course the author just chose a disorder and slapped it onto the MC. I’m just saying that he doesn’t appear to be suffering from bulimia but he hits a lot of points in the bulimia checklist. Am I saying the depiction is perfect? No, and it could be misleading if you think of this as a good example of bulimia instead of maybe reading some actual life stories from people suffering from it just like how the movie Split kinda gave people the idea that dissociative identity disorder might make you have a monster inside you. All I’m saying is that mental disorders don’t just fit in a frame and although this doesn’t hit the nail on the head exactly, he gave some of the more uncommonly portrayed but valid experiences that people with bulimia have. I’m just saying, it’s not Split level bad lololol.
PS I just like being angry at story stuff and arguing sht. It’s one of my few vents in life. Tell me if I go too far
