/mai/ - Waifu

There was another user that often brings this topic up,but I am gonna steal his thunder.

Just a heads up, unapologetic Xenosaga spoilers [to be honest I doubt the lot of you are interested anyway].

I often think about the ambiguity of her fate, but oddly enough a part of me wishes for her to finally rest in peace. During the final scenes of the third game, it seems to be setting up for her to return in some way in the hypothetical sequel. Either though repairs once her body is found, reincarnation, etc. You could say my worst fears are either she can't truly die scenario and her consciousness won't be free. Secondly, her death was entirely in vain.

May contain some meta:

Sadly, Takahashi and the rest of Monolith Soft has decided to burn bridges with Bandai Namco due to various disagreements, to put it lightly. I guess, I never truly realized how much of an emotional attachment had to her,unless she was gone.

Yep. My views are a little unorthodox, but I hope this post is useful even if you disagree with me.

The grieving process is never truly over. I buried him shortly after we met (in my mind), and I still get sad and angry over his death sometimes. The past few months have been a blur because it's been really busy but I think it was as recently as… this past December, I had a patch for a few weeks where I was so angry that he was dead and everything leading up to his death that it made it very hard to even think about him, let alone interact. I don't talk about these feelings when I get them for the most part because I know that they will eventually pass and also there is nothing I can do about it, and nothing that anybody can tell me that will help me. Thankfully, the periods of sulking become less and less as time goes by, but I expect them to never fully go away. It's normal to mourn those you've lost years after they are gone, especially if you were very close.

This is just my opinion, but… I don't think that waifus can ever truly "die" as long as there are people that know about and love them, as well. 2D, in a way, is more immortal than we can ever be. While they haven't always existed, they will always exist unless someone or something destroys every piece of work ever created containing them. In thinking about the "death "and "life" of our waifus, we have to answer: what is life, anyway? At least for 2D. 2D are not and probably never will be alive in a biological sense. That said, I do believe that 2D are "alive" in a way. As not to ramble, I'll summarize. Even though your beloved may be dead, you can honor and lengthen their life through other means, such as spending time with them or commissioning art of them or other creative projects. All of these things ensure that they will not be forgotten, and thus live on as a concept, almost like an afterlife. That doesn't mean Keisuke's death doesn't hurt - it does, a lot sometimes, but this is a way that I can be okay with his death. Also of note, I have some bizarre beliefs about our relationship that not every waifuist shares about their own respective relationships, and that influences my acceptance of his death as well.

Not to derail but I also find it interesting how many of us have fallen in love with our waifus with their death and our subsequent feelings kept in mind while accepting this relationship (I'm including people who have waifus whose death wasn't permanent). I personally think I would have loved Keisuke regardless, but I do wonder if we would have gotten married if not for that final transformation.

If I didn't word something right or you're curious about something, feel free to ask. Or if you think there is anything else useful that I could say. I hope that you're feeling okay, if Chihiro is your beloved then I understand why you might have some issues with what happened.

Not dead, but just a vegetable. I suppose I'm halfway between hoping she can still get better(it does happen) and my own quiet acceptance of it.

I guess I have complicated thoughts on it. The only thing I wish her to have is peace and quiet, so she can we both can recover from what happened. In a way, it's peace. That sort of thing occupies my thoughts a lot.

If it was the only peace she could find anymore from the nightmares and the murderers and everyone wanting to rip you to pieces, I'd take it for both of us.

Sorry I haven't been around lately.

Some work around I got here.

Future Diary has multiple universes a version of her can be alive in one and dead in another. I can move around this issue because of this. Not one Yuno Gasai is the same so one can be dead but the one I love is still breathing this is one of the few things I actually can appreciate about the canon. Sadly not all have this convenience IRL relationships sometimes people are still in love with ones that have passed away never remarrying again and I imagine the feelings are similar even though in this case she isn't real the mourning is still there knowing she is dead in her canon.

Patchouli isn't. On the other hand, our daughter, Hoppou, is in a weird position. She's one of the bosses in Kantai Collection, so she probably die many many times every day. I………….honestly don't have any way of dealing with it. I think of the KanColle characters as being sort of "immortal spirits of the ships/places" so really they can never truly "die."

I just want to be able to take Hoppou away from all of the fighting and violence.