The Golden-Haired Elementalist - Ch. 2

[Parad0xAng3l]

Well that was a fast mood change

 

[Pokari]

I honestly had to set the thing down and come back to it. My heart was too heavy from the first chapter to properly appreciate what was going on in this one.

Why do such a good job making the death be so emotional and heart-wrenching and frustrating, if you're just going to...

_{...I see upon looking at the other comments that this is literally what most people came here to say. XD}

 

[TripleEm]

:/ Wish the tone didn't shift so drastically like that. Still sounds interesting, but a different type of interesting.

 

[Ant1989]

Nope, her mentality is exactly the mentality of a 7 years old who doesn't know how hard things are without your parents. Don't want to work, don't want to put an effort? I guess you must like poverty.

 

[herShie_4ever]

Studying 9am to 11pm!? Wow, she must have burn up all her passion for learning already. Tho laziness can sometimes help create more efficient method.

 

[buecherwurmin]

@Ant1989 yep, I really hate it when a reincarnated like her has basically the immature nature of physical age, a seven year old (spoiled) child, what would she have done if her parents were peasants? she had to work on fields or other heavy labor... to live a good live she should have pretended to be an average mage and otherwise be thankful for her new life - but I guess a 17y old whose live was always determined doesn't have that maturity

 

[Athena0309]

I kinda hoped to see more about how she died in her past life and her parents but i guess it wasnt meant to be 🥺

 

[Avalora]

@carenjnn She's a "selfish immature idiot" because she didn't want to study until 11pm and experience burnout every night? Because she stopped talking about her problems to a mother who didn't listen to her when she did? You think the mature option is to keep doing the same thing, to keep talking to someone who isn't listening? Running away was stupid, but saying she should have just stopped being "selfish" and taken it is also stupid. Maybe you shouldn't really be calling people "immature" if that's your idea of maturity.

And the amount of victim blaming in your comment is huge. I guess you say the same thing about people who commit suicide because of emotional pressure- "your struggles didn't kill you, you did! You're an idiot and it's your own fault!"

And how is she selfish because she wanted to be the one to decide what she does with her own life? Your comment is very disturbing, I can't lie.

 

[Avalora]

@Ant1989 @buecherwurmin Some of the comments in this comment section are so ageist. It's obviously not the "mentality of a seven year old" if the person who thought the "I won't work hard" idea was a good thing to say isn't seven years old. Some of you seem to be forgetting that characters don't actually come up with these ideas, authors do. And the author obviously isn't seven years old but still thinks that mentality is a good idea, so keep your ageism about "seven year olds think like this" to a minimum.

 

[Ant1989]

@Avalora I tutor people, I deal with children, I know how they think, they did meet the hardships of life nor developed their brain to point of judging consequences well. Someone who says this is ageism, obviously never had to deal with children. So, stop the virtue signaling. Obviously, the author can write characters different from himself, that's how you write any fiction. And what he wrote for her, until what I read, is exactly what I'd expect from a 7 years old. Of course, there are older people who still think like that, usually the spoiled ones, but that doesn't make this way of thinking universal, just that these people did grow up.

 

[Ant1989]

@Avalora Strange, I repeated the comment because after saving it, it didn't appear, but now after a finish rewriting it, it appeared there. I'd delete this, but I don't see a button for that.

 

[Avalora]

This is going to come off really strong. Sorry.

@Ant1989 I'm happy for you that you work with kids, but the fact that you work with kids doesn't mean that you can generalise about them. I meet women, school with women and am a woman, but it doesn't mean I can go around saying "women are incapable of making good decisions" just because it's what I expect of myself or the women I see.

You say that children have not developed their brains to be able to judge consequences well- in that you are incorrect. That is clearly not a physical inability if there are literally children in Mensa, children designing systems of powering whole towns in countries where corrupt adult politicians cannot be bothered to think of ways to do so because they cannot judge the consequences actions like those will have (his name is William Kamkwamba, from Malawi, a child at the time). Those adults cannot do it, but children can. If they are, then how does it make sense to say is it impossible for children to be smart?

If you acknowledge that older people can act like that, then why do you limit your expectations to seven year olds? That is the exact equivalent of me acknowledging that both genders make bad decisions but saying that I expect it of men. Yes, only spoiled adults say things like that- and only spoiled children say things like that too. Just because you were like that or the children you know doesn't mean that everyone has to fit in with your world view.

Do you know what the "Pygmalion effect" is? It's the research-proven theory that expectations influence performance. Google it if you like. You are proof that people expect children to be stupid, so what makes you think inability to judge consequences is just the way children are made? The fact that you haven't met a child who can judge consequences (which isn't even true, unless you're saying every child you have ever met does whatever they want whenever they want) doesn't mean they are not possible. They're just rare because of people like you, who feed the idea that they don't exist.

There are over two billion children in the world, and you have met nowhere near ten thousandth of them. You seem to forget that children are individuals, which is strange for someone who works with them, but they are. There is no one "way children think".

Call it "virtue signaling" if you like, but is that not logic?

TL;DR
Ryan Hickman at 7 began a recycling centre, Jakhil Jackson at 9 began a donation centre for the homeless. Kelvin Doe at 11 powered his neighbourhood using recycled material. And they didn't understand the consequences of these problems on the world?
You're wrong about children.

 

[Ant1989]

@Avalora Where exactly in my comment I say the word "Every"? Humans don't have tails, but some humans are born with tails (it's a genetic condition), despite that I don't expect humans to have tails. Yeah, exceptions exist, and I agree the chances of childish mentality are reduced in children that weren't spoiled (good luck finding one of those), but not removed. But as I don't expect humans to have tails, I don't expect maturity or consequence thinking from 7 years old children, hell, I don't expect that from 12 years old either. About expectations, at least from a teacher's perspective (not sure what the parent's perspective is), the more you expect from them, the more you gonna get disappointed. I'm the kind of person who expects more from people, not less, and I was called arrogant for that more than once.

 

[Avalora]

@Ant1989 "I know how children think" and "someone who thinks this is ageism has obviously never had to deal with children" kind of imply "every", just saying. But fine- it wasn't explicit.

I totally understand why you wouldn't want to expect that; it makes sense.

But just one small favour for a random stranger you'll never hear from again, who probably didn't leave a very good impression on you?
Try to- or think about it? It sounds like Tinkerbell-level stuff, but what I was trying to say with way too many words earlier was, the only reason they're rare is because we expect them to be. I don't think humans with tails are the same in that respect.

*whispers* Research.