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Old 2012-06-30, 22:56   Link #89
FredFriendly
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Originally Posted by Cipher View Post
My comprehension of "manipulative" is that it is subtle.
From the Oxford on-line dictionary:

manipulative:

"characterized by unscrupulous control of a situation or person: she was sly, selfish, and manipulative"

I think that this fits Irisu to a tee, especially the "unscrupulous control" bit. From the same dictionary:

unscrupulous:

"having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair."

Nope. Nothing at all to do with subtlety.

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Was it not glaringly obvious, even for the classics members themselves, that when Irisu asked them to find the culprit in the film that she was actually asking Houtarou primarily?
But she did not start off by asking them to find the culprit in the film. At first, she invited [manipulated] Eru and the whole Classics Club to a screening to give their opinion of a movie that class 2-F was making. She was not upfront and straight forward with Eru, just using [manipulating] her to get the brainiac there. She obviously didn't tell Eru the whole story, otherwise why not simply ask her, in a non-manipulative way, to ask the brainiac to come alone? It may have been obvious right from the start for you, though there was no mention as to why she wanted them to screen the movie until after they had done so.

Really, if all she wanted was the brainiac's opinion, why involve the whole Classics Club to begin with? If she had really been straight forward, the very least she could have done was to tell Eru that she wanted the brainiac's opinion on the movie, and ask her if she could bring him to a screening.
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