Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-26190399-20150614003601/@comment-25047329-20150614011757

To be fair, I'm not sure how much of this would go noticed by the CCG. I'm not trying to down-play Mutsuki's performance at all, I think he's wonderful and probably has the most growth out of all the Quinx so far, It's just that some of these things seem more like "personal growth" if you catch my drift. Stuff like "getting away from a powerful opponent while injured" and "calmed down an emotionally distressed friend" is stuff that'd be appriciated by the audiance, but I'm not sure how the CCG could take these things into consideration.

With that said, Mutsuki's feats probably also don't seem like a big deal (to some of the audiance) because for better or for worst, most of the characters we follow in the story are either super powered, geniuses, or both. We rarely get to see the point of view from the average joe, so the things Mutsuki and some of the other characters do (Sasaki has been a big victim of this) don't come across as a big deal when they actually are.

In a nutshell...eehhh I partly blame the story's framing for this. I'm positive that a good chunk of it comes from a hateful place towards Mutsuki, but I think it's also because of the characters the story focuses on. He's one of my favorite characters, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't stop to think about why he got two rank ups for a moment. I thought it was weird too, but then I remembered that he's not like the other investigators and that anyone else in his position with his skill level would have been dead ten times over. With the scale of this mission and the way it was built up, for Mutsuki to not only contribute so much but to come out alive actually is deserving of a double promotion. He was a Rank 3 when he went on this mission and Rank 3 investigators aren't expected to come out "heroes", they're expected to be fodder to hold off the enemy until the big guns arrive.


 * gives side glace to Matsuri*