Rebuild World - Vol. 8 Ch. 38
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Honestly wouldn't mind shipping them, but they're just so young xd
Almost every single person this chapter is blinded by their own goals. Not a single person managed to grasp the other person's motive. A couple are probably still snorting bags of copium understanding themselves or are too psycho to do so.
In any other manga, this would be a comedy.
In any other manga, this would be a comedy.
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I don't see WHY it should have happened here.
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Ah I see what is probably going on.
In a previous chapter after he passed out from the right with those terrorists, he had a "dream" of the AI referring to the failure of subject 495 or whatever. And she's expressed desires to make sure he doesn't have sympathy for others.
I guess this means that by the time Akira gets strong enough to obtain this strange relic she's after, he'd have to make some kind of extremely difficult choice regarding sympathy? Idk just thinking out loud
In a previous chapter after he passed out from the right with those terrorists, he had a "dream" of the AI referring to the failure of subject 495 or whatever. And she's expressed desires to make sure he doesn't have sympathy for others.
I guess this means that by the time Akira gets strong enough to obtain this strange relic she's after, he'd have to make some kind of extremely difficult choice regarding sympathy? Idk just thinking out loud
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is this one-sided affection from Sheryl or is 100% Quid pro quo and hugging him is just some sort of coping mechanism for the stress/seduction
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See, it would be nice and probably best-case scenario personally if Sheryl had actual feelings for Akira and the author somehow made it so that Akira would return those feelings later down the line. Maybe after his situation with Alpha like what @Siquall suggested.
However, with the general pattern with this story leaning towards selfish goals and being as ruthless as possible in order to reach them, I'd have to go with the latter prediction. Since Sheryl is still young, she might mistake it as a feeling of love (and if that's confirmed in the LN, plz correct what I'm about to say) but what I see is a child being controlled by fear and trying to seduce Akira to keep her safe space, putting herself in sort of Stockholm Syndrome. I'll still leave the possibility that she'll fall for (or already has fallen for) him for real.
Akira on the other hand, with the way he's been studied and manipulated by Alpha so far, I don't think he'll be able to return Sheryl's feelings in the case she is in love with him. He's being raised to be (or always has been) quite the sociopathic guy, and this is just further supported by the fact that Alpha had to check if Akira was being sympathetic towards Sheryl, which he was not. I understand why he would choose his actions and thought processes though since he was raised in the slums while getting used and betrayed left and right, but that's also most likely going to be his downfall once Alpha completes or is close to completing her goal and possibly decides to use the already limited trust from Akira to betray him.
Anyways what I'm trying to say is that Akira will probably stay oblivious to/ignore Sheryl's feeling towards him.
Would love it if I turned out wrong and he somehow changes how he thinks.
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this is a world where understanding another's motives too deeply is more likely to get you killed than nab a reward for you, so i'm not sure why you're assuming they're particularly trying. The surface level shit is so obvious nobody bothers commenting on it. Any deeper and it's directly into "not my business, i don't fucking care"
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he's not inherently sociopathic, more like a recluse by nature ("i want to have very little to do with all of you mfers") but alpha wants to turn him from recluse to sociopath, that's true.
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y'know, often when i'm reading works I feel like chars go out of their way to explain every bit of logic behind their decision, even when among people who they've supposedly known and worked with for a long time, more or less out of the blue.
This is exposition dump, really, and it's kinda irritating cuz it's usually not done with the appropriate subtlety or obscuration (Example: "Well, it's still easier than before" with response "True enough" vs "Well, it's still easier than having to deal with it ourselves, after all" with response "yeah, shoveling this problem onto someone else is so good!!!" between two members of the same group), which screams "i don't like tropes (and narrator-expositing bad!!!) so i won't use them even if I don't have the skill to engineer situations where people would say it blunt"
Even though narrator expositing would be more logical than this kind of "borrow a character for my expositdump!" and generally less infuriating for readers who, y'know, are thinking actively.
And then a pile of people go running around saying "WHY DON'T THEY EXPLAIN" forgetting that communication has a purpose, you don't blabber about shit for absolutely no reason, you say things either a: social purpose, b: work/planning purpose, c: self mental, what's seen as the most "illogical" but surprisingly easy to explain if you keep it at generalities.
Really, it's a very unfortunate side effect of skill-less exposition dumping on the end of authors, that the readership has veered in this direction. Readers select the works that make up a genre, and in turn, the defining works select the readers of the genre, huh.
This is exposition dump, really, and it's kinda irritating cuz it's usually not done with the appropriate subtlety or obscuration (Example: "Well, it's still easier than before" with response "True enough" vs "Well, it's still easier than having to deal with it ourselves, after all" with response "yeah, shoveling this problem onto someone else is so good!!!" between two members of the same group), which screams "i don't like tropes (and narrator-expositing bad!!!) so i won't use them even if I don't have the skill to engineer situations where people would say it blunt"
Even though narrator expositing would be more logical than this kind of "borrow a character for my expositdump!" and generally less infuriating for readers who, y'know, are thinking actively.
And then a pile of people go running around saying "WHY DON'T THEY EXPLAIN" forgetting that communication has a purpose, you don't blabber about shit for absolutely no reason, you say things either a: social purpose, b: work/planning purpose, c: self mental, what's seen as the most "illogical" but surprisingly easy to explain if you keep it at generalities.
Really, it's a very unfortunate side effect of skill-less exposition dumping on the end of authors, that the readership has veered in this direction. Readers select the works that make up a genre, and in turn, the defining works select the readers of the genre, huh.
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I feel it too. Literally uncontrollably said out loud I hope she doesn't die
