Why Mafuyu Asahina is a very well written character

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Mafuyu Asahina is a character from a game I personally love and have a deep attachment to. Project sekai is known for writing well written characters and it's covers/gameplay. I'm here to talk about the well-written part, more specifically Mafuyu Asahina. Mafuyu Asahina is a group member from the group called "Nightcord at 25:00". Before she joined the group, she was a good scholar student who did everything right. She had very good grades, a good reputation, and was very talented in her skills. On the outside, she was very polite and kind, always helping and respecting others. Her homelife was just as nice. Her mother and father deeply loved her and cared for her like any family would do for their child. "She seems boring and basic, what's so good about her?" is what you may ask, and I will get into that. Despite her family loving and caring for her, her mother was a bit different. Back in Mafuyu's middle school days, her mother pressured her to become something other than her dream. Her original dream career was to become a nurse, but her Mother wanted her to become a doctor. For the sake of her mother, she went along with her due to fearing the disappointment. Due to this, she has committed to become something she is not. She goes after the ideals people see her as which leads to her losing her own self identity. With the current events; she does not know what she truly likes, wants to become, know the taste of food, or who she is. She has put up a facade for so long that she no recollection of what she really wants to do or who she was. Under her "polite" facade, she is described as cold and blunt, even largely lacking any type of empathy or emotion. Due to this, the only way she could somehow cope was through music. After she got into nightcord, she went by the name "OWN" to compose her own music; which was described as cold and very dark. During the beginning of the nightcord events, there was a thing called a "sekai", where specifically chosen, troubled teens were transported to a file on their electronic device and go into the electric world. The sekai is based off their emotions and dreams, or something that they are quite fond of. Anyhow, there were 3 other members to the group: Kanade Yoisaki, Mizuki Akiyama, and Ena Shinonome. These 3 worked with Mafuyu on music in the group. During the time in sekai, Mafuyu has only expressed her "polite persona" towards them, and unexpectedly shows herself past her facade. You see, Mafuyu was the first to go inside the sekai before the rest of the group. There she met Miku, a vocaloid singer who could listen to her problems and be there for her. Mafuyu used this sekai as an escape and to relax for once in her life after being pressured and expected so much from everyone. Eventually, she was very very close to ending it all due to the fact that she simply couldn't find her true feelings. She states that her true feelings were to disappear from this world and asks Miku if it's alright to give up now. Now back to the current event where the group finally meets Mafuyu past her facade, they all try to reach an understanding to her. Eventually, she spoke up about how she has looked everywhere for her true self, just for her to never find it and grow into despair. After this, the group still insists that they will save and help her as much as they can. With so much convincing, she eventually gave in and continues on the journey to find her true self to this day. Mafuyu Asahina will always be one of their best well written characters, because it speaks out to teenagers who are going through the same thing, which is very common nowadays. It's common for teenagers to go along with what others want than what they want to become/do for themselves. Thank you for reading.

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Pub: 02 Nov 2023 16:28 UTC

Edit: 02 Nov 2023 16:30 UTC

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