Quarterfinal Marian Cross vs. Reinhard Van Astrea

Zasz · Jan 7, 2018


Marian Cross D.Gray-Man	-	Reinhard Van Astrea Re:Zero

Erinyes · Jan 7, 2018

Thats quite a fierce Red-haired fight, Reinhard is a great character but waaaay to perfect which makes him somehow not totally suitable (yes it sounds quite weird but a perfect character is no more human)

copying back what i wrote earlier :

Early phase post :

1st of all, I started preparing my campaign during nomination phase,I just copied/pasted but it was way too long so i deleted a lot of uncessary text, hope it’s not too tedious.

So who is Marian ? Marian Cross is a very strong (possibly the strongest exorcist in DGM or one of them), upright, caring & charismatic guy, it's not your average guy who could be easily be manipulated. And he’s a kind & pleasant man despite he tends to not show his caring side too much. He's a likeable character because not only, he’s funny, manly, protective hot

(but that’s totally biased, i guess), but above all, i love how is he, how he is behaving, how he's not just an obedient puppy as a general, he's the kind of guy who questions a lot, even authority (the Order).

he is a man of knowledge (a scientist), and despite acting tough, he’s a goodhearted guy, who took care of a child who’s not even his, he mentored Allen and developped eventually a father-child relationship with him, he btw is the one who made Tim and gave him to Allen (to those who aren’t familiar with DGm, just consider Tim as a mascot for now, see pics

).

According to Hoshino (quoting wiki) : Cross regards Allen as his own child, and thinks that Allen is cute. In turn, Allen was very distraught when he saw all the blood in Cross' room, believing him to be dead [...]The anime changed their relationship, adding fillers of Cross being more cruel to Allen than he was in the manga. Examples including Cross running off and leaving Allen to be beaten by thugs. Forcing him to gamble for money when he wasn't in need of any due to living off of rich lovers.
[...]
“There are some key differences in Cross portrayal with the anime and the manga. The former added in filler episodes and events, or changed things, to play up Cross as being a bad person, and villainized him more than Hoshino's manga characterization.”

People think Marian is not enough good because of his womanizer side hoshino said : “Cross likes good women, and expensive wine and dislikes dirty bastards”), indeed he has this kind of penchant but the anime emphasizes that much more that is it in the original material and made him look maybe slightly bad, while actually he’s not even a Jiraya, a Ryo Saeba or a Sanji womanizer level, he's only shown being gallant and having a soft spot for women. Also being interested in women dont make him bad, he’s not commited in some relationships. Afaik so there’s nothing wrong, its not as if he was cheating. Many characters are like this, calling him bad because of that is quite hyprocritical and double standards. Anyway he’s a protective gentleman towards women quite like Sanji. Marian didnt do anything wrong, didnt tortured anyone, has no human killing records as far as i know, has not been embroiled in any inhuman thing like a great part of the nominees.

Personnally I don’t have any specific standards when it come to "husbando" thing, IRL I dont look for any idealised kind of person. And i’m not naïve enough to think of love in an idyllic way. Also I’m far to be perfect so I obviously don’t have that much expectations about that. Perfection doesnt exist to begin with, and perfection is boring. Quoting a comment about imperfections of the teacher of some classical music course Im taking about "vibrato" :

"how the tempo slows down and then speeds back up here and there. And again, notice how these slight imperfections, create expression in music. This is how a great performer communicates emotion to us ! "

Yes Marian is not flawless, but those few flaws of his are minors and are not at all disqualifying him for the best husbando title. On the contrary, minors flaws are what makes people, human. In my perspective the most important things is that the husbando is upright, honest, caring, kind but patient and firm, but strong enough and capable enough, and above all someone who respects me (women generally speaking). And Marian is a perfect virtual representation of what I would likely expect, personality-wise i guess.

pics

Thxs for reading, support Marian, onegai !

Dlanor_A.Knox · Jan 7, 2018

Insta vote for Cross.
If only it had been Tyki instead of reinhard....

Purity of Magi · Jan 7, 2018

Dlanor_A.Knox said:
Insta vote for Cross.
If only it had been Tyki instead of reinhard....

>Insta votes Cross
>Sees your username is Dlanor A.Knox

Oh gosh... The only way I could imagine your insta vote, Dlanor face be like:

Dlanor_A.Knox · Jan 7, 2018

Purity of Magi said:
>Insta votes Cross
>Sees your username is Dlanor A.Knox

Oh gosh... The only way I could imagine your insta vote, Dlanor face be like:

Arjuna · Jan 7, 2018

Erin Chan's campaign is enough.

Instance vote for Cross for me too.

Cat Sidhe26 · Jan 7, 2018

Arjuna said:
Erin Chan's campaign is enough.

Instance vote for Cross for me too.

Voted for Cross as well as. I hope Cross faces Hak in the semifinals.

Erinyes · Jan 7, 2018

Thxs a lot everyone , you're so great

Cat Sidhe26 · Jan 7, 2018

Erinyes said:
Thxs a lot everyone , you're so great

Your welcome. Also good luck and I hope Cross makes it to the Semifinals.

Reebi · Jan 7, 2018

Cross! Because of Mlle Erin :redface

And I'm salty

Arjuna · Jan 8, 2018

Reebi said:
Cross! Because of Mlle Erin

And I'm salty

Then in celebration of it start D Gray Man.

Anti Hero 3:16 · Jan 8, 2018

Going with marian cross here. His relationship with allen walker in d gray man was so great which shows he is a great family man.

Erinyes · Jan 8, 2018

Some huuuuge thanks to @Gryffindor for this lovely mag cover

ft Marian

you re truly a genious, cant thank you enough for the help and the wonderful work (love a lot the Beate reference thats so cuuute ) will definitely try to return you the favour !

Credits @Gryffindor