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so in case that zeitgeist of the internet missed you: there is a wolf-boy named Valko from an otome gacha game called Love And Deep Space. he wasnt released into the game yet, but there were trailers and announcements for his debut into this game (the company is based in China but has a global audience, it has an English version, etc). but a bunch of fans in China were being bullies about him and how loudly they hated him, and so the company actually pulled him and cancelled his release. and so fans across the world were rightfully upset and have been protesting to get Valko back into the game, as intended, because the company's behavior is really unprofessional and breaks trust. but things have fuuuuucking snowballed, and now Chinese news outlets and the Chinese government itself is investigating the matter. its insane

if you want to see all the news for it, my preferred source has been to watch SerenaN2D2 on tiktok and then fact-check her as best i can. Serena has a long history of talking about LADS content and news, and has done really well in the wake of Valko news in how to deliver updates and explain the context on all sides, and how things have escalated so much

if you want to see Valko's content, a lot of it has been deleted from official LADS channels. however, there are archival compilations

regardless: i think youd like Valko because of the obvious dog/wolf imagry, his silly goofiness amidst his rough-housing (versus his scary dog privileges when his mask and stuff is on), him being this extrovert with this huge family who falls for a "lone wolf" kind of girl, the fun fact that he loooooves chocolate, and so on

LADS in general has a lot of dark romance content in a gothic taboo sense that i wonder if youd be into. Caleb is the most famous for that kind of content (he also gets compared to a dog a lot, metaphorically. but fans differentiate them in the sense that Caleb is seen as the obsessive, unhealthily attached puppy youd tamed into a good guard-dog albeit those possessive and co-dependent tendacies are still in-tact— whereas Valko is the wild, untamed dog you just got, who plays so rough that MC will probably never want "another dog" again. Valko and Caleb allegedly were going to be friends in the game, where Valko would have been the guy doing repairs on Caleb's prosthetic-cyborg arm)

but i digress. just seemed like a thing youd be into?

regardless, have a good day!

Chinese news outlets covering the rescinded release of a dog boy in a gacha game is a hell of a synopsis—I’ll tell ya nonnie, I do love dog men….whether that’s metaphorically speaking or literally speaking

I’ll have to take a look into this….open up the good ol Pinterest…

hello, mentioning TBSkyen's deltarune run made me want to re-watch it, and i forgot he doesnt do analysis until a few chapters in. so. when he doesnt analyze chapter 1 (btw his deltarune playlist is slightly out of order, you gotta scroll a bit to find ch 1 in the playlist but all the chapters are there) or much of chapter 2, uuuuhhhh, sorry for forgetting that lol dont be surprised if you watch the beginning of his run and encounter little to no analysis, it comes later i promise lmao

Kris is canonically nonbinary (Fans usually use they/them for Kris. I forget if Kris' pronouns are ever in-game, but I would suspect it would still be they/them used)

Noelle is a she/her

Susie is a she/her

And Ralsei goes by he/him pronouns for all of the game so far, but Ralsei is heavily coded to be a closeted transfemme; especially in this most recent chapter, it is not at all subtle. Thus, it is theorized Ralsei will come out before the game ends(? Or if Ralsei does/doesn't come out, it will be due to the player's choices and how safe Ralsei feels as a result?)

So you could argue any ship between any of them are sapphic and/or a lesbian ship. They're kind of the main characters. I say "kind of" because Kris is implied to not want Noelle to be involved in the story, and thus Noelle isn't as main a character as everyone else listed, but I would regardless argue she is one. So: yay, diversity win! All the main characters can qualify as being lesbians!

personally, i watch the weird route specifically through SnapCube's VOD channel (SnapCube2). SnapCube is a fantastic one-woman voice-actor. and i needed the breaths of air that is her comedy periodically during the weird route. she doesn't give analysis much, if at all however. that notwithstanding, her normal route content is also good too, but her + TBSkyen would be my recommendation for learning about deltarune

hilariously, art of Kriselle (Kris and Noelle as a ship) is what got me into deltarune. theyre not my favorite ship anymore, now that i have context to why there was so much knight × princess, doomed dynamic. but i always have a soft spot for them, especially in healthier dynamics. i actually ship Krisusie (Kris and Susie. Kris canonically has a one-sided crush if you read between the lines), Suselle (Susie and Noelle. my favorite dumb lesbians), Kralsei (Kris and Ralsei. i just know Ralsei is crushing on Kris while Kris crushes on Susie. i know it), and a polyship of all of them together (and so, we come back to me indirectly shipping Kris and Noelle). but i say all this and, honestly: Kriselle still has the best art, hoooly shit

i also recommend AlphaRad's deltarune multiplayer series (theyre using a mod so theres 3+ players at once) as played on his VOD channel (Alpharad Replays) for a normal route, because it is voice-acted so well, even if there's very little analysis happening. that is just for fun though. i dont think itd feed into the au much, if at all, that series just has a lot of the voices i would consider canon for deltarune personally

okay I really need to check this deltarune thing out…….you and the other deltarune nonnie are working overtime providing all of this information to me….and I am in fact a sucker for lesbian ships….