Tatsumi Seiichirou

The following babble was written many, many months ago, and was originally a digression in that Tatsumi essay I was writing (which has now been broken up into a series of more manageable bits). (And yes, my essays grow digressions. stfu.)


So there was this book sale the other day a few months half a year ago, and if there’s anything that makes me happier than books, it’s getting books that are normally $14.99 for $4.99. This being the case, I plunked down some money for one of those "understanding your personality" books, The Four Temperaments by Renee Baron. Personally, I was extremely amused by how completely I fit into one of the four personality types.

Then I said to myself, "Hey, you know who else does this temperament type reminds me of? LOLZ."

Later that night, I actually bothered to look at the other three temperament types and I thought, "Hey, you could actually assign each one of these temperament types one of the fab four shinigami." I did successfully resist the urge to paste that picture with the four manga headshots on the cover of the book (you know, this one) -– but don’t you think it would look pretty if I did?

Anyhow, take a look, see what you think. (And I really mean that -- I obviously play only one of these four here, a lot of this is just offering up material for all to share.) There's a certain corny-ness to personality type thingies, but... I'll admit, there were some points I read that made me go "...huh, now that I think about it, that's true -- I never realized that" or "man, I wish somebody had given so-and-so this book when they were dealing with me when I was a kid :/" Etc..

( Which personality type are YOU? )

There was something of a point to all of that, other than the fact that it amused me. Reading through the descriptions did help me to put into words and summarize character aspects that I have been playing but hadn’t mentally articulated yet.


Well, I wouldn't exactly call that "essaying," but it does feel good to at least get some of the proof that I spend way too much time thinking about this stuff off of my harddrive and out into the world of the internets where anybody can find it.

...wait, what.

It's rather after the fact, but I wasn't really able to follow up on re-aging Tatsumi as I would have liked to, what with performances and moving out and such. So why not essay, I say.

( And here I say some more. )