[Klashikari]

Originally Posted by Triple_R

Rikka's club was ideal for providing a safe social situation for acting out.

Actually, no that's not really a safe social situation. Club activities are quite important for Japanese schoolers, and having remotely "productive" clubs is quite important for budget and especially room allocation.
People with no club are often seen as asocial, and thus no good in the grand scheme of being part of the society, but screwing around in a silly club won't give you more credit, far from it.

The only safe social situation for Rikka antics would be within private environment, as in: at home or in a place that no one would judge her (such like Yuuta's house).

Yuuta shouldn't have told Rikka that she needs to scrap the eye-patch, period. Or that she needed to scrap chuunibyou, period (if he did tell her that). What Rikka needs to do isn't lose the eccentricity, but rather compliment it with some normalcy for certain situations.

Rikka's eccentricity is beyond just having fun: it basically overwrote her personality and how she deal with everyone, not just people who are close to chuunibyou whatsoever.
Which means: Rikka has to switch out from her chuunibyou, but also has to define the antics in a complete different fashion.

The major reason is that her chuunibyou is the way for her to cope with her father's death, meaning it isn't just being eccentric: it is basically a way to "handle" reality, however indirect it is.

What Touka and Yuuta couldn't deal with Rikka is how they couldn't find a compromise that would leviate Rikka's feelings after her father's death, due to absolutely no practical situation save being able to accept such situation to begin with. But her behaviour so far is hardly helping people or even Rikka herself in such matter: it encompasses her environnment in fantasies, which leads to a vicious circle. Not only people would put distance between themselves and Rikka, but Rikka would be even more stranded on the "horizon" issue.

Maybe he should have put it as "Rikka, in order to avoid detection by the Administration, you have to learn how to hide your inner powers from the general populace. That means acting normal in-class, and in crowds. Here's how you act normal..."

That does NOT solve the problem at all. In such condition, Rikka would actually act the opposite as she should be: instead of accepting reality, she puts a "reality" facade simply for society convenience, and remains on her longing feelings for her father.

It's actually not that hard to do, and just about everybody does it to some extent. Most adults are more open and laidback at home than they are at work, for example.

Except that even when people keep reminding Rikka to stop her antics in public (not outright saying to stop being chuuni altogether), she -keeps- acting like that. That really shows how far that behaviour got anchored in her.

Agreed. Dekomori demonstrates that you can be a hardcore chuunibyou and still great at school. Rikka's math problems are inherent to her weaknesses with math. They're not because of her chuunibyou.

Actually no, it seems it is her chuunibyou that leads to difficulties in math: Rikka has trouble to grasp math concept, which is initially disctracted by her imagination. Her little speech regarding dice probability is a good example of that: because of her imagination, she just can't comprehend the math exercise, or even the "purpose of math".

Emotional comfort is there precisely for handling unpleasant facts on the ground. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of humanity.

There's times in life where keeping a "stiff upper lip" is important, but if that's your only coping mechanism for facing hard facts, you're going to either eventually break down in a huge way or you're going to turn as numb as a zombie. And the latter is precisely what has happened to Rikka. The girl needs emotional comfort just to make her feel something other than numb melancholy again.

The problem is the mechanism itself is flawed: some people are managing their own problems with little rituals and gimmicky activities that would lead no harm whatsoever.
While Rikka obviously isn't dangerous per se, she will not be able to handle herself nor going anywhere in society if she is 100% chuunibyou like she was during the first 10 episodes.

Really, the fact the chuunibyou antics shown so far being funny is just some sugar coated demonstration of what it actually is.
From a character point of view who knows Rikka, it reminds them too well she still doesn't get over her father's death and still gnaw her to her very daily activities. But beyond that, it is also a major problem in term of social interactions and whatnot: proof is that Rikka just cannot "adapt" herself towards the person she is talking with: regardless if it is Kumin, Yuuta, or random bystander, she will talk to them as if the world is afflicted in a battle between darkness and light forces and she has the key to unleash tremendous power.


Like I said before, let's assume it isn't that bad... what do you think people will really think of it? Try some Dark Flame Master antics in a supermarket for 4 hours straight, even when the security guard or policeman has a talk with you, and let's see how things will turn out.
Now do that 100% of the time with anyone you encounter for a week, and I think some people will plainly think you are nuts. And then factoring Japanese culture and society, and you have the winning ticket to be called a "goner".