2012-11-12, 21:49
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Originally Posted by Flere821
In other news, I was surprised that Web Ch6 of Alicization was translated recently by the Chinese TLers. I had thought they'd finish CotM first before they get back to this >.>
Spoiler for WEB Ch6 - includes gruesome content:
Basically the backstory of 'Gabriel Michael', the sociopath that's part of the US team attacking Ocean Turtle (and the guy who won the last Barrett of Bullets in GGO, using C4 to blow up Sinon's sniping position). The guy is a textbook-perfect case of a functional sociopath, completely uncaring about other people, willing to kill them for his own goals/entertainment, and not obvious enough to stand out and have measures forced upon them.
And yes, I know it's a "textbook-perfect" case because I had taken a psychology course and have the textbook for this >.>
Other detailed descriptions of heinous crimes in the narration aside (such as murder of his family + fiancee, and another four cases of abduction and murder of US civilians besides those), Gabriel have a obsession with Sinon as she put up more of a fight than other players in GGO, and had more realistic responses to other gamers when placed in life-or-death situations. If it weren't for the job to attack Ocean Turtle taking up his time he would have planned out a way to slowly beheading Sinon the next time they fought in the BoB tournament with a combat knife. Yeah, this guy is as messed up as PoH or other major villains of this series.
Other background stuff that's sort of important in this chapter was the 'soul' or Fluctlight is visible to the human eye in SAOverse if the person is killed in a certain way. Gabriel found this out when he killed his fiancee (I'll spare you guys the details), and also when he bought a NervGear off the black market (which costed a fortune) and remodified it to try it out on one of his victims. Frying someone's brains with this also counts as one of the methods that can get a visible fluctlight leaving the corpse.
To conclude, SAO series/characters can be really, really messed up >.>
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I am actually happy with the villains. Far too much fiction tries to pretend there aren't any bad people out there. So while some call the extreme villains cartoony, so do I see them more like a hard dose of reality.
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