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Lowkey- would it be more or less cruel to send a practically immortal being on a one way trip to deep space?

I'd say it depends how social the being is. Send in a social butterfly and she'll hop out of the airlock in days. Send in Frieren with a copy of wikipedia and you'll fish her out of the sea only to see her stare at you and go "oh it's already all over?"

Also.
"Amaze! Amaze!"

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Or could it be because of Cirno?She seems to have sneezed or something.
Oh I think I know.It must be Tewi trying to push Chen who is balancing on the ball at panel 3,and she succeed,which caused Chen to lose her balance and tend to move forward out of instinct and cause the ball to move backwards,so Tewi who is behind Chen and her ball ran away in order not to get squash by them.Flan-chan must have flew out to save Chen at Panel 4.Oh...Look how brave our Flan-chan is.

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FRien said in comment #2628096:
I thought does were female deers? Man, English's so weird sometimes.

Apparently it traces back to old British classism.
"Oh there you go, bringing class into it again..."
"Well that's what it all about!"
Hunting deer was a special privilege reserved for the aristocracy, whereas the lower classes had to do with hunting wabbits. So I guess a female rabbit was the peasant version of a female deer, for a lot of practical purposes related to not draining the population too much, hence calling them does and the males bucks.
But English gets plenty weirder even just relating to the "terms of venery" (hunting), which is part of a whole larger vocabulary the British gentry invented just to better distinguish themselves from the common rabble, as hunting was an important ritual of that social strata. So for example they'd call a bunch of lions a "pride", crows a "murder", deer obviously a "herd" but rabbits a "down" (hence the title of the book "Watership Down") and hares a "husk" (and they'd even have synonyms for these terms!), all while the uneducated help could only stand there looking confused and potentially alarmed.
Good times, I'm sure.

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FRien said in comment #2628096:

I thought does were female deers? Man, English's so weird sometimes.

Yes, female deer are indeed does. So are female rabbits. And as a native American English speaker with passing familiarity with Australian, British, and Canadian English, no arguments here regarding its weirdness.
I wonder how much of that weirdness can be blamed on uptight, prescriptivist 19th-century grammarians trying to impose the "rules" of Romance languages (defined here as "languages derived primarily from Latin," e.g. French and Italian) on a fundamentally Germanic one....

Alanis, killed by a rabbit girl named Marshmallow

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Fhtagn said in comment #2628074:

I looked up what "Shinsengumi" is; it was supposedly an elite group of swordsmen.

Hmm...

Elite group of swordsmen that acted as the Shogun's political police in Kyoto. They were reviled for being inefficient and more armed thugs than actual policemen, until they managed to stop an attack. I heard the attack was manufactured by them to not get disbanded, but I cannot confirm it.
Eventually, when the Shogun submitted to the Emperor, they fled toward Edo and sided with the Republicans, and died there.
They are often romanticized, you can see them in animes, games, and even in Shogun 2 Total War Fall of the Samurai where they are a versatile if unarmored spearmen/musketeer unit.

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ANON_TOKYO said in comment #2628028:

But acting like it's the more common usage is stupid as fuck

No one said or implied it was the more common usage in creative/fandom communities, only broadly on the Internet. If you disagree, consider updating the Wiktionary article or opening a discussion there.

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LQ said in comment #2628080:

No one said or implied it was the more common usage in creative/fandom communities, only broadly on the Internet. If you disagree, consider updating the Wiktionary article or opening a discussion there.

Well guess where we are! Also:

So it's pretty reasonable to assume that if "oc" appears on its own (and it looks like an existing character), the artist might just be saying they drew it themselves rather than it being an original character that's based on existing character design. It just wasn't the case this time.

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LQ said in comment #2628017:

For example:
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I don't think these are good examples because most of them are from subreddits of various IPs, where [OC] would obviously only mean they drew the art themselves to distinguish from reposts. It is common sense to not think they will be uploading their original character to /r/Frieren.