Of all the sections in my page, it is often Amichan: In Depth which is plagiarized. I guess I could say that it is my trademark article--something no other page had until people started quoting it one by one without giving me credit for it, mainly because they think it is official. Then, since many pages carry it--people think that it's really official information, and feel free to place such insights on their pages. It's rather depressing and frustrating to think that people just take something you worked hard on, but it's not their fault that they misunderstood.
This is what I thought to be the reason it's always been plagiarized and I would like to clarify it. Amichan: In Depth is not facts at all, it is hypotheses about why Ami is a certain way and how she would have come to be that way. It's not official--it's mainly the work of a 14 year old connecting occassions and facts to one another to make something more concrete. For example:
Ami grew up with only her mother. è Her parents are probably separated. è Ami never probably knew a male presence in her household. è This might be the cause of her being shy around boys.
She lives in a mansion; in the anime, she is said to have her own apartment. è Her mother is a doctore besides. è Doctors are usually well-to-do because they're highly specialized. è She must be rich, then.
In a SailorStars episode, her childhood friends were shown scorning her for being smart. è Events that happened in childhood sometimes lead to trauma that last your whole life. è It seems to be as hard for her to make friends now as it was when she was a child. è If she found it hard to make friends, wouldn't she strive to keep them as much as she could, even if it wasn't right? è This is probably the reason she say sorry to everyone incessantly. èShe probably does this out of an excessive fear of having her only friends get mad at her. è If she loses her friends, it wouldn't be very easy to make new ones again. è Could it be that she has a fear of rejection by her peers, knowing that it's not very easy to make new ones?
She's afraid to seem to be a weight to her friends because she feels they'll get mad and reject her. è This is probably why she doesn't tell them her problems, because she thinks she'll be a burden to them! è She tells strangers and people she's not-so-close-to. è Why? Because she's not close to them! They can get mad at her, and it wouldn't be such a loss, would it (after all, they're just acquaintances, right?)?
These are only a few examples. So, you see, they aren't really officially issued by Naoko Takeuchi or Kodansha as true-blue BSSM facts, else they would be featured by Rowena Lim or Hitoshi Doi! They are just products of my imagination--which I tell everyone in a footnote below the said article which no one seems to notice.
So, if you agree with me or wish to quote Ami-chan: In Depth, then please do so! Just place a link to me somewhere, please?
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