Thanks, everyone, for all those bug catches.
The end result is that Rei has dreams, but she also has a very mature personality. Thus, the fatasy she had there would appear as 'girlish' to her, especially considering her past crush on Kaidou which took place when she was 12-14 years old. (She's now sixteen here - SM plot has been adjusted so they're all a bit older when everything goes down, and no one sees any real trouble with that so far.)
Quote:Jorlem wrote:The gist of it is that this version of Rei that I am using is a hybrid between the Manga and the Anime versions: she has a lot more of Manga-Rei's temperment, but also Anime-Rei's aspirations, which is why she finds herself suddenly conflicted over Zeke. She's got a much-ignored part of herself that thinks he's awesome and attractive and wants to date him, but then she's got the part that feels betrayed by men and also subliminally remembers the vow of celibacy from her past life.
I think you might want to get rid of the word 'girlish' here. If you don't mind my saying so, her thinking of herself as being too young for girlish fantasies seems a bit strange. I'm having trouble finding just the right words to describe it, but something about the word 'girlish' there seems to somehow shift the target of 'that sort of thing' from what the fantasies are about, to the fantasies themselves. I'm probably the only one reading it like this though, so feel free to ignore this if you'd like.
The end result is that Rei has dreams, but she also has a very mature personality. Thus, the fatasy she had there would appear as 'girlish' to her, especially considering her past crush on Kaidou which took place when she was 12-14 years old. (She's now sixteen here - SM plot has been adjusted so they're all a bit older when everything goes down, and no one sees any real trouble with that so far.)