Talon Ted's inspiration/ Contradicting Beliefs #2 · 9:20pm Oct 11th, 2017
I write this in response to many people who think it's funny too...
I go over to Mykan's blog to read his emotional breakdowns. So I can get a good laugh and relax after a long day.
Talon Ted, from my story, "FRIENDSHIP IS FAILURE #5: PRIDE AND PUNISHMENT"
Apart from being inspired by a certain user's incomprehension, and inability to listen, he was inspired by this character...
Junichirou Kagami (Anime: ULTIMATE OTAKU TEACHER)
At Age 17, he brilliant designed and came up with a theory for a teleportation device "An Anywhere Door" but Junichiro, even at age 24, has little to no interest in science, academics, nor he care if he can change the world in such fields. He prefers to read manga, watch Anime, Blog, collect, the works... as a result, he stays at home all day preferring to work on what he likes, ahving turned down job offers from presitiouges labs all over the world.
In my opinion... this guy TOTALLY RULES!!!
much to the irk of his younger sister, Suzane, whom is exasperated with her brother's disinterest in the outside world and often beats him, forcing him to want to get a job. As a school teacher, Junichrio helps his students with their normal life problems, through the uses of games, anime, and other Otaku knowledge he possesses.
All this, plus the annoyance of his sister, and the incompetence of many authors on this site that give me a hard time. I designed Talon-Ted: A talented pony who can act, sing, voice act, dance, the works, but he wishes to prove to the world that he doesn't need to go to college or get a silly degree to make that happen, but because he forced by his rotten sister, Ath-Lita, by getting a degree and going against his pride, he became angry and super stubborn, refusing to accept any jobs now that his ruling and his pride had been violated.
Even if he were to take up an acting job against his pride. what then? Then I would portray him as still angry, not enjoying his life, ect, ect...
Some may argue with me and say...
He changed and became better and turned into a better pony.
No...
He's not...
At all...
...Not even a little!
*I'm using the ellipses to mimic someone talking a sentence in slow pauses and to be perfectly clear*
If anything now he's nothing but a hypocritical idiot who can never prove his pride became the very thing he was scoffing at (An Actor who got a degree and went to college) He's not a better pony, and he surely doesn't deserve to be praised or liked in my view.
Kind of like Moondancer and her JUST STUDYING...
You might say...
-No, it’s helpful for you to grow up and become a better person.
-You're not going to get a job
-You're not going to use this stuff in daily life
-You're not even going to TALK to other people about it
-And you have no intention of using it to help others... AT ALL.
So how can studying JUST TO HAVE IT ALL, possibly make you a better person if you don't do anything with it? You're just studying for nothing and nobody, not even yourself for that matter! (It's a waste of time and space)
Even if you did do the above things to TRY TO CHANGE and TRY TO BECOME A BETTER PERSON... guess what, it doesn't matter. You're no better than you were before (if anything you're worse!)
Besides... as someone quoted
If he got good and became the nicest person in the world, I would still riff his fics and make fun of them.
(this is also why I don't accept people's advice)
So, why bother to change or improve if...
-People around you won't change at all
-You're still no better (you're not a better person at all)
...It's pointless, useless, and doesn't really make you deserving of anything nice.
Talon Ted was created to help support my views, and alternate ways of thinking, as well as to insult people who try to tell me different and try to make me become someone I don't want to be (I or someone I DO want to be, but not the way they want it.)
Hmmmmmmm then just be a better pony for not others but for yourself if they are still mean to him then forget them it is they who need to change.besides I didn't went to collage and I'm doing great:)
Did you compare Talon to Junichirou? I'm surprised, very surprised. Because, to me, their one likeness is extremely superficial.
Ted was a miserable pony living a miserable life because he couldn't do what he wanted. He refused to be a hypocrite but neither did he manage to succeed.
Junichirou isn't a sad, miserable person. He knows what he wants and he strives to achieve it no matter what. He is pretty happy with his life.
Both were forced into something by their sister. One used that to prove his point and achieve his goals, the other just... became a failure.
I mean, that's like, one HUGE, MASSIVE difference. One's a cool character you respect and want to be like. The other is like, the complete opposite. I find comparing them is like comparing black and white. they're colors, but that's about the only thing they have in common.
I'm going to assume you didn't, from your post. I sure enjoyed my studies and like to talk about them (especially now to my younger brother, who's going through similar classes). Then again, I have fond memories of my teachers, particularly my maths and physics teachers...
As for helping others... Why? I mean, it sounds like you are implying it's bad if you intend to use your studies to help yourself. That's the mindset I had when studying and I don't understand why should that be wrong.
As for education itself, I view it as more of a toolbox of skills. Very few people truly know what they will want to do later in life. So, they don't know what they will need in order to achieve their dreams.
School allows them to build this varied toolbox with skills for just about everything, from the more basic to the more advanced. Then High school begins to specialize and university really focuses depending on what path the student wishes.
And if you made a mistake and it turns out you want to work in engineering and not in business as you have started, well if you studied you have the skills to make the transition.
So, if you have a good idea of what you'll be and you're independent and capable of finding those skills yourself, then sure, school won't be useful much. But, to most of us who end high school and still have NOT THE SLIGHTEST CLUE of what to do next, I'd argue it's been quite useful.
World studies also show that populations in countries with poor education tend to live worse lives.
I don't ask you to like school. I'm just saying it has proven its usefulness since long ago.
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Did you compare Talon to Junichirou? I'm surprised, very surprised. Because, to me, their one likeness is extremely superficial.
Ted was a miserable pony living a miserable life because he couldn't do what he wanted. He refused to be a hypocrite but neither did he manage to succeed.
Ted was INSPIRED by Junichiro, not completely compared, and Ted wasn't all that miserable either. He was content with his living conditions, just like I am with mine. What's he's angry with is people, like his sister, always telling what THEY WANT him to do, and HOW HE should live his life.
So did Ted... If he couldn't become an actor by keeping his pride, he was more than content on being a nobody. Just like I am.
Both were forced into something by their sister. One used that to prove his point and achieve his goals, the other just... became a failure.
No actually, Ted wasn't a failure. In the end, he finally managed to prove to everyone you don't really need to do what other people tell you have to do all the time to become a success. He got to become an actor (Keeping his pride) and as extra punishment to his sister, he disowned her, and moved away, but he left her money to look after herself.
That's what makes the so cool, and that's what defines their characters... only their attitudes and approach towards things, not whatever job they have or what they do for the community. My idea is to make another fic where Ted DID become an actor after getting his degree and stuff, but even though he is a sucees, he is not happy with it, and is very grumpy and pushy to other people around him.
-He won't address his fans
-He donates all the money the money he makes form his acting to charity as he does not want it and hates (He gets by on his earnings from a simple job)
-And he has no intention to forgive his sister, and would probably punish her by injuring her leg so she could never compete in the Olympics.
Which means NOTHING! You ARE NOT a better person because of that!
Well I'm still haunted by mine and I keep hearing them in my head, and I keep wishing I could find their twitters and facebooks so I can verbally insult them. (Crush their spirits the same way they did mine)
As for helping others... Why? I mean, it sounds like you are implying it's bad if you intend to use your studies to help yourself. That's the mindset I had when studying and I don't understand why should that be wrong.
Legendbringer can't seem to get it into his head that JUST STUDYING cannot help you become a better person... IF you don't DO anything with it, and in my view, even you do help someone... YOU'RE NOT a better person. You haven't changed a bit! "You are what you are... and that's all you'll ever be. You cannot change it!"
*Sighs* Forgive my rudeness, but... what did I just say? What if YOU'RE NOT studying to achieve a dream? What if you're not pursuing a dream? You're just STUDYING... that's it.
-No challenge
-No test
-No dreams
-No job
-No helping others
-No improving your own life style.
...You're just STUDYING. That's it.
I still hope for a day when that type of institution becomes PASSE and more effective ways of educations breakthrough! It doesn't matter what school taught me, even if it helped me make my animations skills... "I HATE SCHOOL." that's it. I wasn't aiming for any dream, and I wasn't studying for anything special... I just wanted to hurry and graduate and be DONE WITH IT.
You can do that, but I won't... just like I made Ted, it's either become an actor THAT WAY, or be a nobody. DO NOT seek another dream, even if you have the others skills for it... DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT... the answer is "No"
If you know I won't like it, why did you tell me all that?
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And that's the big difference between Ted and Junichirou. Junichirou would never be content to lose his primary dream. Ted gave up on achieving his dream and it took the mane 6 to get him to succeed (albeit not as they intended, but hey, the results were there). That is to me a massive difference.
Simple, because this is what I truly believe in. It's what life taught me, what my personal experiences have shown. You're free to disagree, but when you make those claims with such absolute confidence, well, you deny me, as though my experiences and my life are a lie. Well, they are not and thus I'll claiming it loudly and proudly. I'm not insulting you or looking down on your point of view, but I do not want mine to be trampled upon either.
Besides, the part about education benefiting countries is simply true. It's not a matter of liking or opinions, it's a fact.
Oh... did I upset you? I mean, I don't think I've been rude yet those words are pretty insulting. the use of CAPS does empathize this too.
As for whether I am a better person. Well, I don't know if I'm better than other people and I don't think studying made me better than people who didn't.
However, I can compare myself to myself. And I am a better person then I used to be from my studies. It has been useful to me in that regard. I see it hasn't benefited to you. I'm sorry about that. But, I am asking you to accept that it did benefit me.
I was doing more than that. I thought math equations were beautiful. I loved the way I could move around and transform numbers and equations using different mathematical rules. As for physics, I remember when I finished high school and whenever I'd see stuff, whether making a potato cannon or ripples in the water from a boat, I was seeing the physics rules that governed each action. School taught me to see the world like that and it was beautiful to me.
Then Irony happened. Just as high school helped me see the world in such a way, university broke that view. Plus, I can claim those particular skills haven't helped at work.
But hey, it gave me some good memories. You may say it was just studying, but to me, I was building a dream through my studies. I just ended with another dream, one I had actually thought I couldn't achieve.
Like I said, I'm not trying to convince you to like studying, I'm just trying to get you to understand that it did work for me. Go ahead and speak about how bad it was for you and how useless, it's your right. But don't claim it never helped anybody and that those who believe otherwise are wrong.
Because that's calling my life a lie.
Oh, but I can and I did. Seriously. If you went back in time, say 5 years leaps, and took every version of me from them to meet together with me from now, you'd see change. The bigger the time difference, the bigger the change. Perhaps in your case there won't be and the you from the past will be the same. It is your claim about yourself so I will believe you. I just ask you believe my own claim about myself.
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Once again, you are horribly mistaken. That's what makes Junichiro and Ted THE SAME... they both do not wish to go against their dreams. The mane six had no right to interfere, as he told them numerously to go away.
I am unmoved.
A fact that hardly means too much to me as it doesn't change a thing.
I can't... (Or maybe I won't)
Sorry, but that doesn't change a thing
Then go, into the light, see the world, do what YOU'RE ALLOWED to do.
That's not my thing, I don't forgive and forget so easily... I'm one of those guys who usually does this.
Say you stole a comic book from my store, then your guilty conscience eats at you. You try to return it honestly, but I catch you and you confess to what you did, and despite your honest intentions to bring the book back, I still have to make some phone calls.
"I know you meant well by returning the book, but taking it in the first place... well, that's where you went wrong... really wrong"
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I know. I've already stated I understand your view. I'm merely trying to make you understand mine.
Well, you're the one who asked me why I wrote that. I'm not trying to move you, merely answer that why.
Don't worry, I'm equally unmoved. I do however understand your position.