*scared*

[reenka]

I was just reading a review of an anime and it said all the characters are "very sincere and honest" making them "very likable from the start". And I feel like such a scrooge, 'cause.... I don't like sincere and honest. Especially in love stories. It gives me the heebie-geebies. Er. I'm not the only one, am I?

I can't even work up the paranoia that mockery and sarcasm have taken over my very souuuul, so... maybe that's proof they -have-. *coughs*

I mean, passionate honesty... helpless honesty... cataclysmic honesty, even, is one thing. But constant, unending, painfully extreme honesty? That's the stuff of nightmares, isn't it? And also sap. Which is why "Ah, My Goddess" is sap, and I've never watched it. Possibly my contrary nature is what drives me to the opposite end of things-- what with the hatred and the violence, or at least the cynicism, ahahah. But I'm not a cynic... it's just... doesn't one have to build up to these things? Like... everyone (even likable, normal people) has Issues & defenses to break through & most of the time people in general aren't sincere, right? So... is it just realism...?

I'm just suddenly worried I hate sincerity, which just seems wrong. But there's definitely such a thing as too much sincerity, isn't there? Or is that just me?

For some reason, it makes me think of babies and cuddling, but it doesn't have to be that way, right? And okay, what's wrong with babies & cuddles. Um. They scare me when in large quantities. One baby, some of the time... that's pleasant. But like... 10 babies, 24/7? That's... scary.

No, I have no point. Then again, when do I ever?

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I think I know what you mean, it's like...I remember visiting colleges when I was a senior and there was this girl I met who just drove me crazy. She was going on this date with a guy who was obviously going to be able to break her heart so easily and everybody was all concerned and saying how she wore her heart on her sleeve and all and it just irritated me.

Which is weird because...well, there's a bravery that comes to owning your feelings. UL!Harry demonstrates this quite well in UL17, of course. But UL!Harry certainly isn't always sincere. There just seems something very plastic and creepy about someone who is sincere all the time. America, as a country, seems to always want to be sincere even when we're being completely duplicitous.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly!~:)
Plastic, that's it. It's like... one sense they're either naive or duplicitous or both, and not a nice kind of naive (well, if there is such a thing), but a stupid kind, where the person just refuses to face reality. I think the bravery in owning your feelings would also apply in terms of hiding them sometimes and do you notice how this whole "sincere" thing doesn't seem to apply to being angry and unreasonable and I dunno... loud?

The sincere people are always overly nice. That, I think, is what makes me suspicious. I totally respect some very sincere assholes. 'Cause... y'know... they tell it like it is. Though often enough they're hiding their gentler side.

I think Harry has what I was referring to as passionate honesty, btw~:)