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It could also be a way to preserve the game's theme of loneliness by giving the character a functional, dehumanizing name, rather than a personal name. It could be thought of as being a metaphor more a description of the character as the 'player's window into the dream world' rather than a literal name. "Madotsuki" is not a word used as a name in Japan-in fact, it may not even be her true name at all. The only other time kanji is used is for the message that appears when sitting in Madotsuki's desk chair in the dream world. Nearly all the text in the game-the game menus, instructions, the "menu has changed" notice, the menu for NASU, and even the title screen of the game-is written using the hiragana alphabet.
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The name appears in the menu as the name of the player character, and (in the Japanese original version) is one of the two instances of kanji writing in the game. But he never spoke or made a sound, and he moved like the character.The word "Madotsuki" means "windowed" (as in a box or envelope) or "aperture". Like yeah, dancing is very far out of Slenderman's character. a little bit like this but slower: slow stiff awkward slenderman dancing to caramelldansen was very interesting to watch. Slenderman was just kind of standing in the middle of it awkwardly (both funny and in character) during Gangnam style (AGAIN, it was 2012) I went up to him and said COME ON, SLENDERMAN, YOU CAN DANCE! ITS EASY! and I danced next to him, and he just watched for a while, and then started doing the dance veeeerrrryyy slooooMinimal amount of movement. he moved really slow and stiff and never talked, but someone with a boombox started a spontaneous dance party. There was a slenderman at that comiccon (it was 2012 so that was a relevant thing back then) that maintained a really cool balance between acting and having fun. The whole WACKY DEADPOOL COSPLAYER thing at conventions got old so fast. >1602 oh man good point, cosplayers acting in character for characters that are mean or obnoxious is really annoying. Honestly, I enjoy the teigeki shows a fucking lot even when the characters aren't well represented by their 3D counterparts (Real actors are smaller/bigger than the 2D versions, for example) because they manage to convey their character's personalities perfectly. That isn't cosplaying, that's bullshit closer to modeling with certain clothes than anything at all. If I see a Rei doing a fucking duckface, I will want to hit her hard in the face, no matter how well done the clothes are. People believe cosplaying is wearing clothes and posing, which it fucking isn't, so they skip all the personality traits because "OH LOOK I JUST GOT THE CLOTHES SO ITS OKAY TO POSE AS A SLUT EVEN IF THIS CHARACTER IS INTROVERT LOL". The club president was shouting "No, little one, you're going the wrong way! You're supposed to walk over here!" >Sometimes staying in character can confuse people... More like they're fucking ignorant of how the character behaves, which reinforces what I said. And guess what? Literally everyone said "Oh, I'm sorry, your eyes were closed, let me take it again." Sounds like they didn't really know who Mado is. >1592 >I had forgotten that I probably should have eyes closed during photos, so after hearing that comment, I kept my eyes closed whenever someone asked for a photo for the rest of the day. The club president was shouting "No, little one, you're going the wrong way! You're supposed to walk over here!" Sometimes staying in character can confuse people… The real Stocking wouldn't give a crap about posing, she would just want to grab some sweets! yeah…nobody got it. I thought it would be funny to instead just keep going until I reached the snack table at the back of the room and grab some cupcakes. There was a costume contest where we were supposed to walk out like it was a runway. And guess what? Literally everyone said "Oh, I'm sorry, your eyes were closed, let me take it again." Another time was when I cosplayed Stocking Anarchy at the anime club's Halloween party.
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I had forgotten that I probably should have eyes closed during photos, so after hearing that comment, I kept my eyes closed whenever someone asked for a photo for the rest of the day. Something along the lines of "The REAL Mado would have her eyes closed!" I'm not sure if they meant in photos, which is reasonable, or that I had them open while I was walking around, which would be ridiculous. When I wore Madotsuki at comiccon a few years back, I overheard a few guys walking away from me and complaining that I had my eyes open. >1591 yeah, the dissonance between character and cosplayer expectations can be frustrating in both directions.