User:ThunderDragonRandy

Hey everyone. ThunderDragonRandy here, writer of Bonding with an Oni from Six fanfiction series. It's my fan adaptation of the Re:Zero story where Subaru survives the 3rd loop of Arc 2.

My Re:Zero progress

 * Anime: Actively watching, always up-to-date.
 * Games: I haven't played any Re:Zero games but I watched an English translation of the Aganau IF story within Re:Zero Lost in Memories on The Monkey King Old Son's YouTube channel on November 27, 2021 onward till the translation was completed.
 * Light novel: I do use the light novel as the primary source material for my Bonding with an Oni from Six fanfiction series and among the side stories, I read Ex Vol. 1–5 so far (read Ex Vol. 1–3 in September 2021 and finished Ex Vol. 3 on October 1, 2021, Ex Vol. 4 on October 18, 2021, Ex Vol. 5 from November 13–18, 2022) as the Ex stories would be important for me to know for my fanfic as well.
 * Manga: I only check bits of pieces of it including things about Al that were cut from the anime. But other than checking few things, I'm not really interested in reading the manga for the main story but I have read a bit of the manga adaptation of The Love Ballad of the Sword Oni but I've been busy with other things.
 * Web novel: Started reading Arc 4 where Season 2 Episode 10 of the anime left off when that aired and finished in late 2020. Finished Arc 5 on October 2, 2021 (can't remember when I started), started Arc 6 on October 6, 2021 and finished in April 5, 2022, started re-reading Arc 7 in April 6, 2022 (along with Arc 7 side stories) and got up-to-date with latest WCT translations in May 17, 2022 (Arc 7 55B last machine-translated by then).
 * I initially jumped to the ending of Arc 6 and onward before I started my Arc 5 & 6 readthroughs when Arc 6 was concluding. After getting caught with the anime, I read some Arc 3 Interludes, side stories and cut content related to Rem, and the rest of Arc 4 after Season 2 Episode 10 left off on.
 * IF novels:
 * Rem/Sloth IF - Read entirely in October to November 2020, later watched Echidnut's 4-part video summary of it on April 29, 2021.
 * Oboreru/Wrath IF - Just a video summary but I also read a little bit of it.
 * Butterfly's Dream - Read the Rem parts and watched a video summary and voice acting stream.
 * Ayamatsu/Pride IF - Read it and watched a video summary alternatively back-and-forth between April 28–30, 2021.
 * Kasaneru/Greed IF - Read the Web Novel version on September 20, 2021 and checked info on the Light Novel version. I didn't care for the Greed IF as much as the other IF stories and the light novel version made me more confused with its new info.
 * Tsugihagu/Gluttony IF - Read it on February 17, 2022 (from 6 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. EST) after reading Arc 6 Chapter 48.
 * Mimagau IF - Skimmed through it on April 1, 2022.
 * Mimagau IF II - Skimmed through it on April 2, 2023.

Fan projects

 * Fanfic: Bonding with an Oni from Six (Status: Hiatus until enough Re:Zero knowledge is acquired or if Re:Zero is completed if I am still motivated by then)
 * A Sin IF Story (Wrath): My Pride and Joy, Sleeping Princess Rem (Status: Completed, at least for the time being. Possibilities of a Redemption IF sequel but not until enough Re:Zero knowledge is obtained [see above])
 * A Sin IF Story (Greed): Securing a Shortcut to Utopia + Witch Cult Slayer series (Status: Hiatus until I progress more of my main fanfic)
 * A What IF Story: Re:Scraping Life to an Old School World from an IF (a Re:Zero × Old School RuneScape April Fool's 2023 crossover) (Status: Currently completed (Tutorial Island only) but if I were to make a continuation, it will be as a new fanfic series)

Characters

 * Characters:
 * Wilhelm van Astrea (both young and old)
 * Cecilus Segmunt (ever since I read Ex 4 and even-more-so in Arc 7)
 * Halibel (especially in the Sloth IF)
 * And then in no specific ranking order:
 * Young Bordeaux Zellgef (in Ex 2 when he was still younger, but I didn't like him when he became older in the main series)
 * Crusch Karsten
 * Natsuki Subaru
 * Otto Suwen
 * Rem
 * Al (since Ex 5)
 * Love interests
 * Subaru × Rem × Emilia (and any combination between them with the Three and SubaRem being my favorite)
 * Wilhelm × Theresia (especially in Ex 2 & 3)
 * Grimm × Carol (I surprisingly grew attached to them while reading Ex 2 & especially Ex 3)
 * Fourier × Crusch (when I read Ex 1)

Story

 * Ex Novels: 4 > 2 > 5 > 3 > 1 (but I enjoyed them all)
 * IF stories: Aganau IF (LiM) > Sloth/Rem IF (WN) ≥ Pride/Ayamatsu IF ≥ Wrath/Oboreru IF > Gluttony/Tsugihagu IF > Greed/Kasaneru IF (WN) > Mimagau IF II > Mimagau IF
 * I'm indecisive with these but I did find the Greed IF to be underwhelming, at least for the WN version...while the LN version has interesting information, that leads to more questions than answers (which doesn't raise any higher).
 * Events
 * Demi-Human War (Ex 2)
 * Vollachian Empire coup d'état attempt (Ex 4)
 * Imperial Selection Ceremony (Ex 5)

Power & abilities

 * Attribute: Water or Yin
 * Magic: Healing Magic and if Lightning Magic were to ever be seen, that would be too my favorite on my bias love for electricity/lightning/thunder.
 * According to the trivia section of Roswaal L Mathers, apparently, lightning magic does exist and is composed of Wind Magic and some other elements (I'm guessing Fire because heat and energy, maybe Earth element for traveling through objects as the Earth attribute is "inner", and maybe Light for light energy). Any viable sources that Roswaal may know Lightning Magic?
 * Authority: Authority of Sloth and Minerva's Authority of Wrath
 * Divine Protection: Divine Protection of Soul Language