Being chuuni is a really complicated thing IMO, and it's also a hard to tread line in which you can easily go from the fun side of chuuni to the annoying side of chuuni... It really doesn't take much for this kind of roleplay to become just plain annoyance.
This is what I call The Chuuni Game, which is essentially... Knowing when, how, with whom you can be chuuni, as well as the amount of chuuniness you can display.
It's pretty hard to "play" it, because... Every person has different standards on how much chuuniness they accept, you basically have to adapt your game with each person you play with, and while you can easily match with some people, with others you suddenly reach a point in which you don't match... Which is essentially, when 2 people want to be the "winner".
There is generally a winner on the game, and with a winner there is obviously a loser... Which is essentially, the person that has more "chuuni powers" than the others... And while nobody really talks to decide who will win and who will lose, when 2 people play, there is generally an unspoken agreement on who will win the whole ordeal. It's more of a thing related to feelings than anything... As in, you just feel that person should win when playing with you, so you let them dictate the pace of the game and play as they see fit.
So... When 2 people try to win... Suddenly the game doesn't quite reach an end... It just... Becomes a contest of chuuniness of sorts? It has its charm I suppose, but it gets boring once you have gone through that for years and years... And I have definitely gone through that for who knows how many years. Chuuni contests lost their charm to me already.
Which leads to me usually trying to play while trying to gauge the other people involved... I generally like being the chuuniest person on the "match" though, so I play to win... Generally, that's my default, because I lose to some people... At the same time, at some points I get involved with other people that actually try "winning" against me... I feel troubled, because I don't feel like "losing" to them, but at the same time I know it will reach no end if I just keep going at it... So I tend to just abruptly end the "game"... I internally call those people as people that don't know how to play the game, mainly because they are the kind of people that I have never seen losing to anyone.
A game is no fun if you always win, part of its fun is losing... But well, when the whole thing is based on unspoken agreements between people... Well, it's easy for it to not work out, so it's hard to actively play with some people.
Playing chuuni is a really weird thing, but... Well, it just has a certain charm to be the Magical Hellspawn Tree Girl of Love and Justice, it's not something I can give up on that easily, so I try finding my way around to see which people I can play with, and which people I should avoid.
That doesn't mean I avoid them altogether though, just that I tend to avoid playing chuuni with them, because it really reaches no end.
I wonder if this post had a point to it, or if it was more of a rant about the people that don't know how to play chuuni... Oh well, it doesn't matter much in the end~
The Chuuni Game
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AliceShiki
『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』, Female
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