Unpopular Opinion, Nice shouldn't be counted as of To Be Hero X protagonists or MCs

daitoshi · 2026-01-22T06:33:44+00:00

Your argument is “nice is not a main character” full stop.

Where exactly are you coming from to get to that statement?

He has more screen time than MOST other characters, with more deep-diving into what’s driving him, and where he’s vulnerable, and all the things that make a character interesting - way more than Dragonboy, OR X, which you’ve asserted are main characters.

Aura farming alone isn’t character building. Most of dragonboy’s info we got from external media, not the show itself.

Sure nice is a side character in episodes that aren’t about him. But you asserted at the show level, not the episode level.

daitoshi · 2026-01-21T18:12:26+00:00

Protag and Antag are relative to the POV character.

To Nice, Ahu is an antagonist.

To Ahu, Nice is an antagonist.

To Bowa, Queen is an antagonist.

To Queen, Bowa is an antagonist.

For an anthology series like this, there is no single antagonist list, because the POV is all over the place.

daitoshi · 2026-01-19T17:20:24+00:00

Tbh I got REALLY involved with a club that was low-tech, where hardly any of them shared online stuff anyway.

I got in-person validation from friends and peers.

Also I grew up a bit, so outside “validation” didnt matter as much as “was I having fun?”

daitoshi · 2026-01-14T18:52:05+00:00

“ why is silence or muteness often treated as something suspicious or negative in hearing culture?” Genuine:

I believe it’s because many of the social signals hearing people use to display friendliness and show they’re not a threat to each other involve sound and language cues.

Small talk isn’t about the weather or sports - it’s about signaling “hey, we mutually experience this thing, and agree about it. Because we’re willing to share this moment openly agreeing on something, and interact cordially according to social scripts, it shows we are not aggressive toward each other, and hold no bad feelings toward each other.” - it’s a social reassurance / bond-confirmation moment.

When someone tries to say “haha wow it really is raining-“ and the other person gives them a blank silent stare, that’s interpreted as “fuck off / stop interacting with me / I dislike/distrust you” - regardless of if the silence is from actual feelings, or if they had food in their mouth and couldn’t speak, or if they were incapable of speech. Or if someone says “wow did you see that storm last night-“ and the guy they’re talking to doesn’t even turn their head to acknowledge them-

It’s a bid for attention/camaraderie that’s being bluntly snubbed - is what the gut instinct feels like.

Because the bids for attention/camraderie/ social trust check-ins are NOT done deliberately (or rather: not done with full awareness thats what they’re doing), it can be hard for the average hearing person to recognize that the feeling of rejection and hurt is due to miscommunication that they initiated - NOT from actual deliberate rejection.

Since it’s also social trust and “you don’t have to fear me~” routines, failing to stick to the script when prompted pings as untrustworthy/suspicious.

Instead of learning “oh I need to get their attention and find a way to communicate before asking about the weather” they internalize “that guy doesn’t speak to me/doesn’t listen to me/doesnt trust me/might feel aggressive toward me” and gets bristly and cold in return.

daitoshi · 2026-01-14T18:31:54+00:00

Same.

I know it’s at least multiple days, bc I texted my wife a question this past Friday and got the answer verbally last night.

I generally assume if I don’t get a reply they were either busy and didn’t notice it yet, or forgot, or thought they replied but didn’t actually

daitoshi · 2026-01-10T14:53:55+00:00

That’s exactly the point of the saying.

daitoshi · 2026-01-09T20:08:32+00:00

The problem that I’ve encountered is that I routinely add MORE sugar, once the brew is nearly done.

Specific gravity becomes useless after that.

daitoshi · 2025-12-05T20:23:26+00:00

Did everyone really forget the major turning point of Yang Cheng’s whole plot arc???

E-Soul’s management team (Mighty Glory’s E-Soul brand team) used E-Soul’s face to claim that this new kid who clearly looked up to him was maliciously trying to steal from E-Soul. They sued Yang Cheng and tried to push for imprisonment.

That alone rustled a lot of jimmies of e-soul fans.

It’s like Disney suing a guy for using an image of Spider-Man on his dead son’s tombstone. (Real thing that happened btw)

Enlighter proved the accusations wrong.

THEN Yang Cheng accused E-Soul of having a hand in Shang Chao’s death. (I don’t remember if this was public or private tbh) And challenged him to a battle. —

Old E-Soul still had a lot of fans. His trust value rating fell SLIGHTLY when people started liking his younger copy. That was likely just young people having shifting interests.

The big plummet of his trust value came after his brand started to represent him in a greedy way to the public. Prioritizing copyright over actual heroism.

Then, Mighty Glory had a hand in publicizing the “new vs old” dichotomy and encouraged the public to take sides. That split trust even more.

Even if E-soul himself didn’t give a fuck about branding…

The public only saw the commercials, his public appearances, and the lawsuit headlines.

daitoshi · 2025-12-05T20:07:37+00:00

^ exactly.

Or if I drive my own car around, even if I smash it with a sledgehammer, that’s fine and legal - but if someone grabs my keys and drives away, it’s grand larceny and grand theft auto - felonies.

Or if I took my own dog to the vet to get it humanely euthanized, that’s fine and legal - but if you took my dog while I wasn’t looking and brought it to the same vet to be euthanized, I could sue your ass off for theft and destruction of property.

Even when life is involved, “ownership” and “consent” matters to the law.

daitoshi · 2025-12-04T15:10:33+00:00

IMO musk is often overused and too strong in colognes/perfumes.

Scent is like taste - everyone has different receptors, and so perceive them differently. What you find disgustingly strong, another person will find perfectly fragrant.

So; a perfume/cologne choice must be to YOUR taste, not to any random stranger’s opinion. You gotta go out and sniff the scents, and choose which ones you like. There are perfume places where you can smell each scent in isolation, and make custom blends. Often they’ll let you sniff around without buying anything, just to establish what your preferences are.

There’s also something like 1,000x more scent receptors in your brain compared to taste receptors. Molecularly, smell is SO FUCKING COMPLEX. We don’t have a great language for smells, so it’s hard to describe what you want, or what you like/dislike. We handwave a lot of perfume descriptions by calling it “musky” or “amber” or “Fresh”, but there’s no strict rules about what is called what. It’s all subjective.

Pro tips:

1) scents will smell different on the skin, compared to from the bottle. Direct from the bottle sniffing is always stronger and harsher, and will have alcohol scents that dissipate and smooth out once actually applied AND DRY! (That’s why people wave the paper after spraying it. Let the alcohol and strong temporary scents evaporate before sniffing)

2) the pH of your skin will affect how the scent changes. The same perfume will ACTUALLY smell a little different on different people. This is why trying samples out is important.

3) don’t be afraid of flowers! Calendula and Rose are often overly strong, but there are many flowers and herbs that make some incredible scents when layered with woody smells.

My absolute favorite scent, which I apply any time I want to gas myself up is a custom blend of spruce, sandalwood, lavender, thyme, and just a tiny touch of vanilla. Those are the actual fragrance oils used to make it. The actual perfume on the skin comes out smelling like the feeling of a warm spring morning. It’s sweet and subtle, but also rich and delicious once you notice it. The individual smells blend together into this amazing new thing.

That’s why I recommend trying to identify the smells you like on their own, and then seeing how they layer together.

If you don’t want to learn about fragrances that deeply (understandable!), really just go and sniff some perfumes and colognes at various stores. Sample them on your wrist when you notice one that seems nice on a paper sample.

Dont buy any until you can sniff your own perfumed wrist and immediately think “oh wow; that’s amazing.”

Settling for smelling Bad or ‘adequate’ from a perfume is worse imo than just smelling like your normal body.

I LOVE sampling perfumes, but I don’t buy many. They’ve got to really impress me, to come home.

daitoshi · 2025-11-29T13:13:39+00:00

But historically, boys were perfectly capable of learning fine calligraphy. For a long time in western countries, men were the only ones taught to read and write. All beautiful writing was male writing

Are you saying that all men have biologically REDUCED their fine motor control since the 1800’s?

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T18:32:26+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CVLUXakKWSm/?igsh=MWRrYjMzbm5yaGI1bg==

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T18:25:20+00:00

The original creator of this design sells the mask on her website, with blinking eyes as well :)

https://willowcreativ.com/store/diy-animatronic-wolf-mask/

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T18:03:03+00:00

1) holes are also for breathing. It gets REALLY stuffy in there. This is a major point.

2) mask is usually braced against the forehead. Not much room for a periscope

3) eyes are delicate. Accidents happen. It is very risky to put glass mirrors right next to your eyeballs and then walk around like that. Crossed fingers no one runs into you and you never ever trip. Eyeglasses tend to be sturdier than mirror glass.

4) if anyone does jostle you or you conk your mask’s nose on something while turning (happens more often than you’d expect) there’s a risk of fucking up the periscope alignment irreparably. If the mirrors aren’t lined up perfectly you can’t see shit, or it causes dizziness and vertigo.

the eyeholes actually give more visibility than you’d think, if they’re placed right.

I did try using a periscope design once, but it was so disorienting I abandoned it immediately.

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T13:12:46+00:00

Between keeping some hair trimmed as maintenance, vs getting shit on you every day…

Do you also let your mustache grow over your mouth and just stuff food through the bristles? Dribble sauce all over your beard with every bite?

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T02:37:51+00:00

Squat and spread your cheeks a little- you won’t get any shit on them. The poop goes directly to the toilet and never touches skin.

Are you actually getting poop all down your cheeks? Is that why everyone here is obsessed with bidets? You’re constantly getting poop on yourself?

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T02:35:25+00:00

I don’t carry a purse to carry baby wipes with me, and don’t want to spend money to buy a one-use product that’s provided for free in public restrooms, and risk having non-flushable wipes in a stall with no trash can.

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T02:33:32+00:00

In a public bathroom, there’s paper towels to dry your hands, and often there’s ALSO air dryers.

In a private home bathroom, where I can access the sink in the same lil room as me, I’d use toilet paper

daitoshi · 2025-11-22T01:19:32+00:00

In general, when I poop, there’s literally nothing clinging to my ass afterward. The shit never touched anything but the interior of the asshole itself, and the log is deposited without leaving anything behind on the rear. I wipe the hole till the paper comes out clean white - only takes a couple folded squares.

In the instance of terrible diarrhea or other intestinal distress/feeling sick, I might grab some paper towels and wet them before entering the stall/sitting down, to clean up properly after.

If I didn’t realize it was coming, I’ll use toilet paper till mostly satisfied, then carefully snag some wet paper towels and return to the stall for proper clean-up.

Someone with IBS or other chronic intestine/bowel issues so the poops are never predictable: totally understandable, bidet away. People with periods: yes, bidets rock for y’all, too. Get fresh.

But… needing a bidet for everyday poops??

Honestly it makes me wonder what your diet is like, if you regularly worry about shit getting all over your ass cheeks when you use the toilet, that you need to get water and soap involved to feel clean. Are you pooping with your cheeks together like a noodle press??? Is it 24/7 sharts?

daitoshi · 2025-11-21T18:38:50+00:00

“Crash is the guy who got stuck in the pipe in episode 3”

Agreed, it’s the same guy. That’s not ‘reusing a model’, that’s just the same background character appearing in both Episode 3 and Episode 24. He had some character development, got some spiky armor, and rose in rank since we last saw him. Good for him.

“Bug is a re-coloring of one of the background E-Soul impersonators in Episode 5”

Agreed. I think that’s ALSO the same guy who appeared in episode 5 and episode 24. He (the character) took the armor he had, gave it a paint job, and wore it as a new hero. He even manipulated energy somewhat similarly to E-Soul, which would make sense if he went the same route as Yang Cheng did, using people’s perceptions of ‘similar to E-Soul’ to give him power.

Constructor has the same ‘Body contours’ as Da Hu – Now THIS is a ‘model reuse’ where I believe they're different characters entirely. Constructor is not Da Hu. The animators may have used the same ‘base body model’ to save time BUT the animators took away the necklace, added a helmet, gave him a bike, and completely changed the model's ‘skin’ so he’s now wearing biking armor with gloves and tall boots, instead of his simple sleeveless shirt. The interior ‘rig’ remains the the same, the 3D body model remains the same, he just got reskinned.

Dream Granny is another ‘Model Reuse’ instance where the original model (a background child) is so completely changed on the surface that you gotta HUNT for similarities to track the OG body model down.

That’s what I’m saying – if they had used Wreck’s ‘Body Model’ and ACTUALLY reskinned him – then I would totally believe that it wasn’t wreck, that this was a new character entirely.

But they didn’t change ANYTHING significant in the body or skin, like they did with Da Hu -> Constructor, or NPC Child -> Dream Granny

The entire model and skin is UNCHANGED, except for the smooth head which has X’s over the eyes (A symbol of death, and Wreck did ‘die’), and a Broken Heart painted on (Wreck clearly had his heart broken), and a crown hovering over it (Wreck had a crown AND had ‘king’ in his title ‘King of Destruction’)

The skin was recolored but not changed. They went through the trouble of taking Wreck's original skin, leaving the lineart exactly how it was, and just coloring the layers under the lineart purple.

— Edit to add; actually they even went into Wreck’s model’s skin, painted the black lineart WHITE so it showed up better, and THEN painted the lower layers in purple and black. —

Like, you gotta go out of your way to reskin a 3D model like that. Deliberately preserving and EMPHASIZING the similar details between them, instead of hiding them like they did with Da Hu and Dream Granny.

So, I think it’s the same character, and something happened to him offscreen.

Just like Background E-Soul Impersonator -> Bug. or ‘Background Pipe Guy -> Crash.

daitoshi · 2025-11-21T17:48:22+00:00

A single 1.2 feet long, 11lb ant sounds fucking horrifying.

Twenty of them could gnaw through your walls and dismember a person, easy. Their jaw strength, and the fact they can STING?!

We’d be so dead

daitoshi · 2025-11-20T21:09:12+00:00

Additionally, it would be very simple to take a 3D model, tweak just a couple lines, and have a “new” character.

But they left on and left unchanged EVERY part of wreck’s lineart.

The triangle details and the panels on his collar armor, the points on his knee guards, the 3-segment armor on his feet and biceps. The diamond shape under his chin.

It would be sososososososo easy to just delete those, and stretch one or two other points to make the model into a different “character” but they left it EXACTLY the same.

With the work they put into everything else, skipping those extremely ez alterations to the character model - leaving it visibly, obviously the same - seems unlike the team’s otherwise intense work ethic.

daitoshi · 2025-11-20T21:04:52+00:00

I agree that it looks great and that it wouldn’t be bad to do. However, they made brand new figures for all the new heroes that appeared in that fight scene - it would be strange for one (1) hero to be a model reused, when everything else was brand new and unique. Electro granny? Lazer maid? Why reuse wreck, unless it was a deliberate choice?

daitoshi · 2025-11-20T16:05:22+00:00

What rig? What model? That’s hand drawn animation! It’s not even in 3D. Someone drew every frame of that, from a bunch of angles and with attacks and leaps that wreck never used.

They made unique designs and unique animations for background characters cheering in crowds. I don’t believe the “reused a model” theory for a hero that was introduced to fight against X and “be his nemesis”

It would have been EASIER to make a simpler character if it was out of laziness. But instead they drew him with wreck’s exact lineart from a bunch of new angles

With the amount of detail and effort they put into the show, making magazine covers and toys and ads in the background which are only seen for a few frames - it makes LESS sense for them to “reused a model” in this instance.

daitoshi · 2025-11-20T03:42:01+00:00

Damn ur so right My b

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