Initially Yamamoto being suicidal is a really awkward way to introduce such a cheerful character - I didn't even mention it in his canon when I wrote his application, because it had NOTHING TO DO with his current character or state of being. Because, REALLY, IT IS SORT OF WEIRD AND AWKWARD compared to his existence in the rest of the day-in-the-life arc! The fact that the character who is the most cheerful of all of them, the source of HILARIOUS OBLIVIOUS RETARDATION, was suicidal when he entered the picture . . . what! BUT. It's much, much easier to understand (...) looking at it retrospectively. Amano has this THING where a lot of what she does is only interesting in retrospect. In the end, the most defining thing about Yamamoto isn't that he's happy or oblivious (though that's definitely the most obvious thing!) - it's that he's steady and reliable. So the attempted suicide WASN'T ACTUALLY OUT OF LEFT FIELD AND TOTALLY WRONG FOR HIS CHARACTER AFTER ALL \o/ and is in fact helpful (OR EVEN PIVOTAL? maybe not :\) in understanding how he ticks. He wasn't depressed in the extended, miserable sense (though he was certainly being extremely fatalistic), and nothing about his cheer is remotely fake or overcompensating, as he is naturally cheerful. He just.... didn't think there was any point in someone who can't even do the one, single thing he's good at.
Now he has Tsuna, and the mafia, so there's no need to worry about him slipping back into that mindset.
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Initially Yamamoto being suicidal is a really awkward way to introduce such a cheerful character - I didn't even mention it in his canon when I wrote his application, because it had NOTHING TO DO with his current character or state of being. Because, REALLY, IT IS SORT OF WEIRD AND AWKWARD compared to his existence in the rest of the day-in-the-life arc! The fact that the character who is the most cheerful of all of them, the source of HILARIOUS OBLIVIOUS RETARDATION, was suicidal when he entered the picture . . . what! BUT. It's much, much easier to understand (...) looking at it retrospectively. Amano has this THING where a lot of what she does is only interesting in retrospect. In the end, the most defining thing about Yamamoto isn't that he's happy or oblivious (though that's definitely the most obvious thing!) - it's that he's steady and reliable. So the attempted suicide WASN'T ACTUALLY OUT OF LEFT FIELD AND TOTALLY WRONG FOR HIS CHARACTER AFTER ALL \o/ and is in fact helpful (OR EVEN PIVOTAL? maybe not :\) in understanding how he ticks. He wasn't depressed in the extended, miserable sense (though he was certainly being extremely fatalistic), and nothing about his cheer is remotely fake or overcompensating, as he is naturally cheerful. He just.... didn't think there was any point in someone who can't even do the one, single thing he's good at.
Now he has Tsuna, and the mafia, so there's no need to worry about him slipping back into that mindset.
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(Anonymous) 2008-09-19 01:33 am (UTC)(link)Sorry, I didn't know there was already an essay orz.