Plotbunny: Has Anyone Ever Thought of This Before?

[robkelk]

Which was, for those of us paying attention and not suffering from post blindness, the extire point of doing a negative Belldandy post in the first place.

Negative posts about a character only work when you don't make multiple mistakes about the character and the setting. It doesn't mater whether the character is Fate Testarossa or Fate Averrnicus - if you get the character and setting so obviously wrong, your critique won't be taken seriously by people who do know the story in question.

As for your particular critique, I now have time to dissect it...

First topic, gocarts. There is a early cannon arc that goes through all the timelines I can remember. Its this motor meet that Keichi's club is partisipating in. Belldandy participates in a gocarts race with no training or preptime at all. An wins against professional level drivers. How? She uses her magic and direct hardlined, goddess first class, unlimited priority powers to copy all their moves, then snags extra runtime from the Yggdrasil to pwn them all.

Er, no. She used her personal abilities only; Yggdrasil had nothing to do with it.

And "Goddess First Class, Unlimited" is an authorization level, not a power set. (I'll get to that later.) I have no idea where you got "priority" from; it's not a concept in the canon.

Its so bad in canon, that the biggest reason she like cooking so much is its the first thing she has apparently done in this incarnation that she didn't use that method for.

Again, no. She enjoys cooking, the way some people enjoy writing or sculpting. She even says so on more than one occasion, and part of the price of a First-Class Unlimited authorization is a prohibition on lying.

Compair to Urd and Skuld... who have there own skills and screw up because they simple can't do that. As far as I can tell, no one else in the series does that. Most of them don't have her access level. The developed characters that do act more like Urd. As I said, Belldandy is flanderized in her favor a lot.

Urd has a higher access level than Belldandy does. Belldandy has a higher authorization level than Urd does. This is stated at least twice in the manga.

Lets look at how she ended up with her boyfriend... first day on the job, first call and she ends up with a wish that makes her on semi-perment vacation.. with her new, awesome, nice guy boyfriend.

She got an "awesome" boyfriend? Funny, I thought she got Keiichi Morisato - who is depicted in every version of canon as substantially less than "awesome" at the time he met Belldandy. (Heck, even Ootaki - the tall sempai who ends up dating the daughter of one of NIT's professors - would have been a better boyfriend than Morisato for the first dozen volumes of the manga, and he's a goofball.)

Freak coinqidence... only she met him when he and her current incarnation were 5 or 6 and claimed him then.

First, that's OAV-only. (Yes, I know the OAV very well. That person on Usenet mentioned in the DVD commentary track is me... and I'm still using that quote in my signature on Usenet.) Second, she gave him up at the time; she didn't claim him.

Which the Ultimate Force decided ment it was time to move them into their own private, holy love nest. Which she prormptly glitches reality into turning it from trashed to mint condition. Not that she actually fixes up the place for real like she promised the monk they are free renting it from.

Version conflict here - the place was only "trashed" in the OAV, where there was no monk to let them use the complex.

Then we get to their angels. Urd has one... Skuld gets one. They are familars that take a bit of your repressed self and give it form.

Not "a bit", and not "repressed" - the angels are the Goddesses, except that they aren't. (It's ineffable.) Read the "Angel Egg" and "World of Elegance" storylines for particulars.

Then there is Holy Bell who is a bit different. Holy Bell is not and angel standard, but instead a converted devil that is trying real hard to follow orders and not screw up.

This one's already been addressed by VladimirTherin.

Anyway, Belldandy always struck me as daddy's little girl. She got a largely free ride.

If so, why is she treated exactly the same as all the other goddesses whenever she breaks the rules, either by commission or by omission?

She pulls stuff in canon that if Urd tried... they'd need a new Urd.

Whenever Urd acts the way Belldandy acts, she's offered a higher authorization level. She's turned it down both times that are shown in the manga - she likes having the freedom that a Second-Class Limited Goddess has.

Getting back to the authorization level as promised... A Goddess' licence has little to do with the power of the Goddess. (Yes, Skuld is Second Class, Limited because that's all the personal power she has. She appears to be the exception.) When Urd took the First Class Goddess exam, she temporarily gained the authorization to act as a First Class Goddess, with no increase in power - and she was immediately able to do things that equal Belldandy on a good day. "First Class", "Second Class", "Limited", and "Unlimited" are statements on what a goddess is allowed to do, not (usually) what a goddess is able to do. They're very much like driver's licences - and that's a conscious decision by the setting's creator.

You'd know all this if you actually read the canon, or at least read the supplementary reference. (Which is why I asked whether anyone wanted to chip in to buy you a copy of the supplementary reference.) Since you posted in a way that indicated you didn't know this, the objective conclusion is that you don't know what you're talking about.
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Rob Kelk
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