"MC is her own person" Is the most parasocial thing u can say in the otome fandom tbh
Honey that's not a person that's an avatar for the player and the player is the only one who is her own person lol

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"MC is her own person" Is the most parasocial thing u can say in the otome fandom tbh
Honey that's not a person that's an avatar for the player and the player is the only one who is her own person lol

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Lately, I've been coming across increasingly pathetic mockery of authors and readers of fanfiction in the "f/o x reader" or "f/o x y/n" genre. TikTok has been flooded with videos making fun of Y/N for supposedly "typical" plots: the female reader suddenly finds herself the center of attention of several men; handsome billionaires, demons, or mafia bosses fight for her heart; she possesses special abilities and is, overall, "too cool for real life." These videos get hundreds of thousands of likes, and the comments are filled with phrases like: "this will never happen to you in real life," "self-absorbed fools," "time to come back down to earth." But let that same girl write a fanfic where she ships two characters together - and suddenly it all becomes a "deep psychological drama," a "study of relationships," "creative freedom." Shippers get approval and praise, while Y/N readers get a slap in the face. Why is that? The answer is simple and ugly: it's hypocrisy fueled by internalized misogyny.
The hypocrisy lies in the double standard applied to the same action-writing a fanfic-depending on who the object of desire is. If the author desires a male character for herself, it's "cringe," "embarrassing," "schizofrenia." If the author desires to see two male characters together, it's "art," "representation," "deep analysis."
But allow me to ask: what difference does it make? In both cases, the author is using characters to satisfy their own emotional and aesthetic needs. In both cases, characters may be given traits that are not true to canon. In both cases, the plot may be far removed from reality. There's only one difference: in the first scenario, a woman openly says, "I want to be desired. I want to be loved. I deserve to be fought over." And that is something society does not forgive.
In the second scenario, the woman distances herself from her own desire. She projects it onto two characters, making herself an invisible observer. This is safe. This is socially acceptable. It doesn't provoke aggression, because a woman dare not place herself at the center of her own desire. The misogyny here isn't overt - no one is shouting "I hate women." It's internalized, embedded in our cultural codes. It manifests in the fact that female desire is considered shameful by default. A woman must not want too openly. She must not imagine herself at the center of a romantic story. She must not dream of being desired and fought over. That is "indecent." That is "naive." That is "childish." But as soon as a woman stops desiring for herself and starts desiring for two characters-her work becomes "adult." Because she has ceased to be a subject. She has become a director, a cinematographer, a spectator - anything but a participant. And a participant - that is shameful. A participant is "someone who thinks she deserves love." A participant must be put in her place, mocked, and brought back down to earth.
And that is misogyny: a woman's desire must be mediated, belonging to someone else, directed at others. But not at herself. Never at herself. Why does this work in reverse?
You often hear the argument: "But Y/N fanfics are so stupid – there's always a secretary who makes her boss fall in love with her, and then it turns out the mafia is after her, and she's actually a princess." And yes, such plots exist. But the issue isn't the quality of the writing. The issue is why similar plots in shipping fanfics (where a dragon loves a vampire, and the vampire loves a werewolf, and they're all fighting for their place in the sun) don't provoke the same rejection?
Because in a shipping fanfic, a "silly plot" is just a "plot." But in a Y/N fanfic, it becomes a reason to attack the author personally. "Do you seriously think a guy that hot would ever look at you?" – this is a question never asked of a shipper. Because a shipper doesn't lay claim to anything personal. But a Y/N reader does. And for that, she is punished.
This works in reverse: the closer a fanfic is to a woman's personal desire, the more aggression it provokes. The farther it is, the more approval it receives. A woman is praised when she watches, and punished when she wants. The mockery of Y/N and the "x reader" genre is not a matter of taste or writing quality. It is a matter of how female desire is treated. A woman is only allowed to fantasize if she does not appear in her own fantasy as the object of love. If she dares to imagine herself as desired, strong, special - she will be ridiculed and torn apart. Because society is not ready for a woman who dares to want. Shipping is safe. It doesn't threaten patriarchal norms. But "x reader" does. Because it says: "I am here. I want. I am worthy. I am the main character of my own story." And that undesirable statement must be suppressed. Through laughter, mockery, harassment.
genuine question: why does someone else’s way of engaging with an otome game feel like an invasion to you?
because from the outside, this reads less like “protecting immersion” and more like trying to police how women are allowed to play, write, ship, interpret, or feel.
some players self-insert. some see mc as her own character. some ship mc with the LI. some ship the LIs together. some do all of it at once, because fiction is not a locked chapel with one approved form of worship.
you are allowed to dislike li x li. you are allowed to block it, mute it, avoid it, curate your dash like the rest of us. what you are not entitled to do is decide that everyone who engages differently is ruining the genre, disrespecting the characters, or somehow less valid as a fan.
also, calling people “walls” or “cameras” because they don’t perform immersion the way you do is not some sacred defense of otome. it is just fandom hierarchy. people are allowed to play. people are allowed to ship. people are allowed to observe, self-insert, analyze, fantasize, write, and make art without asking permission from the “immersion police.”
block what you dislike. curate your space. (i cannot stress this enough).
and genuinely, why are you on tumblr if different takes on a fandom feel this intolerable to you?
tumblr is practically built on interpretation. meta, shipping, self-inserts, aus, bad takes, brilliant takes, unhinged tags, canon devotion, canon betrayal. all of it. that is the ecosystem. that is fandom.
entering a multi-interpretation fandom space and then acting personally violated because people are interpreting the material differently is strange.
your playstyle is yours. your immersion is yours. but it is not the sacred law of the genre, and everyone else is not committing some great moral trespass by enjoying fiction differently.
anyway. that is where i stand. curate, don’t crusade.
i hope you have a lovely day.
I ask you to read my previous posts, and I'll answer briefly: Because otome is not an open sandbox. It is a genre with clear mechanics and a target audience: women who want romantic relationships with male characters from a first-person perspective. When you enter this genre and start shipping the male characters with each other or viewing the story as a "novel between the MC and the LI," you aren't just "interpreting." You are changing the fundamental genre of the game. A simple example: You are given a keyboard that is meant to be typed on with your fingers. Of course, no one is stopping you from typing with your feet, but there is only one correct and proper way. The problem is that when such interpretations become mainstream, they influence developers. They see the popularity of BL ships, they see that "MC as a separate character" gets likes, and they start to adapt: they add a third-person perspective, remove immersiveness, and make the game for "everyone" rather than for those who paid for first-person love. We are already seeing this with Love and Deepspace. You say "curate." And I say: when your "interpretation" starts affecting the product I buy - that is no longer a matter of curation. Then why are you in otome if you want to watch two men in love? (If my memory serves me correctly, you previously messaged me privately with a question, and I was curious enough to check your profile, where I saw some posts about shipping between the LIs. If that wasn't you, I apologize.) In any case, this is directed at BL fans. Go play BL games. Everything you need is there. But somehow, you don't. You stay here, in otome, and when those for whom the genre was created speak up—you call them the immersion police. Convenient, isn't it? "Block what you don't like." I do block. I left all the chats, unfollowed all the blogs. But you know what? It still finds me. Because you are loud, aggressive, and convinced of your own rightness. You invade hashtags, discussions, comments under official posts. You write "he and MC are so cute" under videos where a girl just wants to dream about being in the game. You leave no space for those who want to simply love their character in peace. You are everywhere. The law of otome is you and the LI. Otome games were originally created for experiencing romantic stories with male characters, not for observing. And according to official statements from various otome games, the player is the protagonist. This means my "playstyle" is not just a style - it is the law, the canon of the game. Your interpretations, on the other hand, are just a style.
Foreigners who are now getting involved in disputes about otome games, telling fujoshi that they don’t understand the essence of the otome genre, are no different from those fujoshi themselves.
Because you also don’t know or understand the essence of the genre. With no respect for another country’s culture, you impose your own degrading fetishization—turning it into observing pairings, admiring heroines, and insisting that they become independent individuals, while pushing out self-inserts and yumejoshi as the core audience of otome. You force your own perspective and desires without taking Japanese and Chinese viewpoints into account.
This is one of the reasons why there are now discussions that official english localizations are harmful to the genre itself and cause discomfort for players.
Girl if your immersion is so threatened by the existence of a third party's playstyle and localizations in foreign languages then maybe you're not as good at it as you think.
Lol.
They're games made for immersion. I do self insert play too since I agree that's the whole point, character x player.
However they're also single player games. Games. Played by one person.
You're no better than the fujoshi and shipping cameras you claim to despise. You're attacking people over their preferred playstyle in games they bought with their own money. You're fighting against the air and losing.
If the littlest deviation from what you think is the right way to play makes you this upset, I recommend going to therapy. Behavioral cognitive therapy. Work on why that bothers you so much. And of course, on your xenophobia because lmao how are foreign consumers threatening the genre? All the commercial Otome we get localized are first and foremost made for you Japanese and Chinese audiences. We only get localizations of popular games in those countries.
You're a little weird. Very hyperfixated. I hope you can find a way to not be in this much pain over other people's choices. Life is too short to be this upset over something that should bring you joy.
Lmao, pulling the 'therapy' and 'xenophobia' cards just because you're out of arguments? That’s peak western tourist behavior. Nobody cares what you do in your own game privately. The problem is when your loud minority tries to colonize our spaces, forces western shipping standards on JP/CN media, and bullies devs into changing the core of the genre to cater to your insecurities. Defending the original culture of a genre from being westernized isn't xenophobia it's called having basic respect for the source material, which you clearly lack. Keep your fake concern and armchair psychology to yourself. If stating facts about what Otome actually is makes you write a whole essay playing the victim, maybe you're the one who needs to step away from the screen
Bestie, your whole account is about complaining that other people don't think about a game genre the same way you do HAHA. You're such a funny case study tho. Anyone can see the low tolerance to frustration and xenophobia from miles away.
I hope you get better tho. If you're this miserable about your most special hobby I can't begin to imagine how miserable the rest of your life must feel.
Now you’re backed into a corner, resorting to cheap pseudo-psychological evaluations, fake pity, and throwing around buzzwords like "xenophobia" just because an actual player told you to stop colonizing an asia media space with your western spectator fetishes. Calling out your cultural arrogance and protecting the original intent of a japanese genre from entitled tourists isn't "xenophobia"-it's called having standards and respecting the source material.
You’re not a 'case study' expert, you're just projecting. You have to invent a miserable real life for me just to cope with the fact that you lost an argument about a otome. But the truth is, I’m perfectly happy being the heroine in my games and in my life. Meanwhile, you are literally spending your time seething over my account, typing out paragraphs of fake concern because my main character reality absolutely shatters your fragile, sidelined worldview.
You can keep hiding behind your passive-aggressive "I hope you get better" mask, but the fact that you're still here desperately barking at me proves exactly who is frustrated. My life and my hobbies are thriving because I actually participate in them instead of just watching from the bushes. Keep projecting your pathetic, cuckolded reality onto me if it helps you cope with the fact that you will never be anything more than a spectator. Run along to your little "amare"
You thrive so much you have a whole account dedicated to whining about how other people don't play dating simulator games the way you want them to, blaming the eeeeevil English localizations 😈😈😈 And foreign shipping cameras 😈😈😈😈😈 for it... In a majority English speaking social media platform majorly used by foreigners-to-you. Lol happy thriving people don't do that princess.
You talk so much about cuckolding it's like you're the one with a fetish for being watched. Cool for you. The characters are still characters made up by a writing and designing team and they're not real, so no, they don't and won't love you, it's just a story. Your takes are so unhinged they're hilarious tho, keep them coming.
You seem like the exact type of person who’d start screeching like this when someone points out that 'a microwave is for heating food, not for sticking your head inside,' right?
Your attempts to project your 'lack of life' complexes onto me look ridiculous, considering you've plastered your profile with subaru, dante, and x reader stories. Your hypocrisy would be funny if it weren't so transparent. Since your very essence is just watching from the gutter, listen up: in real life, I’m married and have plenty of friends. As you can see, someone who is the heroine of her real life remains the heroine in her fantasies.
But someone like you is forced to remain unwanted even in her own head, never allowing yourself to imagine-not even for a second-that an ideal fictional character could love you. Like a pathetic shadow of your own self, you watch the one you like be happy with others. This is cuckoldry in its purest form. You are the one who will never be loved, and the one nobody wants. I actually feel sorry for you, to be honest. Most likely, you have zero friends and zero real-life relationships. You’re so used to being a nobody that when you’re offered a romance, you’re incapable of being anything more than an insignificant wall.
While dante from piofiore builds a relationship with player, you are not his lover; you’re just the wallpaper in his room. Therefore, cuckold is your natural state. It’s not about characters being real—it’s about the fact that you can’t even fathom a fantasy where you are needed by idealized characters, which speaks volumes about your bottom-tier self-esteem and complexes.
As for my 'whining,' it’s about a clear separation of genres so that every audience is satisfied without interfering with one another. And partly because walls like you are truly hilarious. If you want to watch couples, go watch movies and tv shows; if you want bl, play bl; but otome is a genre for yume with specific mechanics. As far as I know, you westerners have that amare' genre-I think that’s exactly where you belong. Otome is not your level.
And yes, I am a princess, and you are literally dust.
Foreigners who are now getting involved in disputes about otome games, telling fujoshi that they don’t understand the essence of the otome genre, are no different from those fujoshi themselves.
Because you also don’t know or understand the essence of the genre. With no respect for another country’s culture, you impose your own degrading fetishization—turning it into observing pairings, admiring heroines, and insisting that they become independent individuals, while pushing out self-inserts and yumejoshi as the core audience of otome. You force your own perspective and desires without taking Japanese and Chinese viewpoints into account.
This is one of the reasons why there are now discussions that official english localizations are harmful to the genre itself and cause discomfort for players.
Girl if your immersion is so threatened by the existence of a third party's playstyle and localizations in foreign languages then maybe you're not as good at it as you think.
Lol.
They're games made for immersion. I do self insert play too since I agree that's the whole point, character x player.
However they're also single player games. Games. Played by one person.
You're no better than the fujoshi and shipping cameras you claim to despise. You're attacking people over their preferred playstyle in games they bought with their own money. You're fighting against the air and losing.
If the littlest deviation from what you think is the right way to play makes you this upset, I recommend going to therapy. Behavioral cognitive therapy. Work on why that bothers you so much. And of course, on your xenophobia because lmao how are foreign consumers threatening the genre? All the commercial Otome we get localized are first and foremost made for you Japanese and Chinese audiences. We only get localizations of popular games in those countries.
You're a little weird. Very hyperfixated. I hope you can find a way to not be in this much pain over other people's choices. Life is too short to be this upset over something that should bring you joy.
Lmao, pulling the 'therapy' and 'xenophobia' cards just because you're out of arguments? That’s peak western tourist behavior. Nobody cares what you do in your own game privately. The problem is when your loud minority tries to colonize our spaces, forces western shipping standards on JP/CN media, and bullies devs into changing the core of the genre to cater to your insecurities. Defending the original culture of a genre from being westernized isn't xenophobia it's called having basic respect for the source material, which you clearly lack. Keep your fake concern and armchair psychology to yourself. If stating facts about what Otome actually is makes you write a whole essay playing the victim, maybe you're the one who needs to step away from the screen
Bestie, your whole account is about complaining that other people don't think about a game genre the same way you do HAHA. You're such a funny case study tho. Anyone can see the low tolerance to frustration and xenophobia from miles away.
I hope you get better tho. If you're this miserable about your most special hobby I can't begin to imagine how miserable the rest of your life must feel.
Now you’re backed into a corner, resorting to cheap pseudo-psychological evaluations, fake pity, and throwing around buzzwords like "xenophobia" just because an actual player told you to stop colonizing an asia media space with your western spectator fetishes. Calling out your cultural arrogance and protecting the original intent of a japanese genre from entitled tourists isn't "xenophobia"-it's called having standards and respecting the source material.
You’re not a 'case study' expert, you're just projecting. You have to invent a miserable real life for me just to cope with the fact that you lost an argument about a otome. But the truth is, I’m perfectly happy being the heroine in my games and in my life. Meanwhile, you are literally spending your time seething over my account, typing out paragraphs of fake concern because my main character reality absolutely shatters your fragile, sidelined worldview.
You can keep hiding behind your passive-aggressive "I hope you get better" mask, but the fact that you're still here desperately barking at me proves exactly who is frustrated. My life and my hobbies are thriving because I actually participate in them instead of just watching from the bushes. Keep projecting your pathetic, cuckolded reality onto me if it helps you cope with the fact that you will never be anything more than a spectator. Run along to your little "amare"

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What even is amare? I've literally never heard of this word. Is it just another term foreigners made up? Well, if that's the case, maybe all the costume mommies and NL shippers can pack up and move to this new genre, leaving actual otome alone. Otome’s fundamental mechanic is Me x Character. It’s not about screeching from the sidelines: UWAAA LOOK HOW CUTE HEROINE IS! HE IS SO SWEET TO HER! THE HEROINE SAID THIS, THE HEROINE DID THAT, HE LOVES HER SO MUCH!
Since you guys already invented this amare genre for yourselves, it shouldn't be too hard for you to create a specific genre for girls who have a fetish for peeping, worshiping, and cheerleading for a pixel heroine's love life while remaining a completely empty observer. Go play that and leave otome alone.
Foreigners who are now getting involved in disputes about otome games, telling fujoshi that they don’t understand the essence of the otome genre, are no different from those fujoshi themselves.
Because you also don’t know or understand the essence of the genre. With no respect for another country’s culture, you impose your own degrading fetishization—turning it into observing pairings, admiring heroines, and insisting that they become independent individuals, while pushing out self-inserts and yumejoshi as the core audience of otome. You force your own perspective and desires without taking Japanese and Chinese viewpoints into account.
This is one of the reasons why there are now discussions that official english localizations are harmful to the genre itself and cause discomfort for players.
Girl if your immersion is so threatened by the existence of a third party's playstyle and localizations in foreign languages then maybe you're not as good at it as you think.
Lol.
They're games made for immersion. I do self insert play too since I agree that's the whole point, character x player.
However they're also single player games. Games. Played by one person.
You're no better than the fujoshi and shipping cameras you claim to despise. You're attacking people over their preferred playstyle in games they bought with their own money. You're fighting against the air and losing.
If the littlest deviation from what you think is the right way to play makes you this upset, I recommend going to therapy. Behavioral cognitive therapy. Work on why that bothers you so much. And of course, on your xenophobia because lmao how are foreign consumers threatening the genre? All the commercial Otome we get localized are first and foremost made for you Japanese and Chinese audiences. We only get localizations of popular games in those countries.
You're a little weird. Very hyperfixated. I hope you can find a way to not be in this much pain over other people's choices. Life is too short to be this upset over something that should bring you joy.
Lmao, pulling the 'therapy' and 'xenophobia' cards just because you're out of arguments? That’s peak western tourist behavior. Nobody cares what you do in your own game privately. The problem is when your loud minority tries to colonize our spaces, forces western shipping standards on JP/CN media, and bullies devs into changing the core of the genre to cater to your insecurities. Defending the original culture of a genre from being westernized isn't xenophobia it's called having basic respect for the source material, which you clearly lack. Keep your fake concern and armchair psychology to yourself. If stating facts about what Otome actually is makes you write a whole essay playing the victim, maybe you're the one who needs to step away from the screen
Foreigners who are now getting involved in disputes about otome games, telling fujoshi that they don’t understand the essence of the otome genre, are no different from those fujoshi themselves.
Because you also don’t know or understand the essence of the genre. With no respect for another country’s culture, you impose your own degrading fetishization—turning it into observing pairings, admiring heroines, and insisting that they become independent individuals, while pushing out self-inserts and yumejoshi as the core audience of otome. You force your own perspective and desires without taking Japanese and Chinese viewpoints into account.
This is one of the reasons why there are now discussions that official english localizations are harmful to the genre itself and cause discomfort for players.
Otome games are roleplay games. No matter what choice you make in the game, the mc will never be you.
Lmao. These are not roleplay games. Otome games are content for yume/selfinsert — it’s a “me × character” format. Stop twisting the genre to fit your weird desire to just watch couples.
These games are meant for selfinsert, where the MC is the player — the creators themselves make that clear. The name change option and the lack of voiced lines for the avatar should’ve been an obvious hint, honestly.
However, I agree with one thing: you specifically will never be the main character—you’ll only be watching someone else’s (ours) happiness from the sidelines as a complete nobody
Go play your western RPGs and leave the otome genre alone.
You're funny. Clearly this is a hill you're willing to die on. Regardless, it's still a roleplay game. A game where you roleplay yourself but still a roleplay game. Also the game wasn't made for you? You argue so strongly about how people are allowed to play the games that they bought with their money, I genuinely cannot tell if you're trolling. If you are trolling, why? And if you aren't, there's a lot of stuff you need to work on. There's nothing wrong with yumeshipping and self roleplay but just know, you're not the only person who owns it. Other people can play the game and recognize that the character they love so much was created by a person, the person you play as, even if it's your name, was made a person. That person was not you. You'll never that person. The only person who can feel so strongly about how the character is represented is the author. Anything you do is fanfiction.
It’s honestly funny seeing a foreigner talk nonsense about Japanese genres. Calling otome a roleplay game is like calling a shooter a cooking simulator. Do you even understand what otome games are, or how they differ from joseimuke or BL games?
You should stick to your western games. And if you want to be a camera watching ships, then call your games what they are—voyeurism over pairings—instead of misusing the word otome. Otome as a genre was originally—and has always been—built on the “me × character” formula. It’s designed for selfinsert, and the creators themselves have stated this many times.
You don’t have to buy otome games. Trust me, the genre won’t suffer. In Japan and China, yumejoshi have been supporting it for years. The way foreigners barge into a genre from another country without respect and try to reshape it around their own issues is honestly gross.
The target audience of otome games is yumejoshi, just like the audience of BL games is fujoshi. These products are made for a specific demographic—if that doesn’t suit you, go play games about watching couples or raising daughter sims instead.
You can use a keyboard with your feet, sure—but that doesn’t mean the keyboard should be redesigned for people who use their feet while ignoring those who use their hands.
And clearly, you don’t understand selfinsert at all. It honestly feels like some foreigners just have such low self-esteem that they can’t selfinsert into an otome heroine. The heroine in otome is an avatar—a costume you put on, as they say in China.
So I’ll always be the heroine. And you’ll always be standing by the wall, watching others be happy. You’ve got a long way to go, girl.
If you call yourself Sylus's kitten but say, "MC and Sylus are so cute together, I love their couple so much" — you are not Sylus's kitten. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.
If you call yourself Jasmine or Snowflake but say, "Zayne loves MC so much" — you are not Jasmine or Snowflake. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.
If you call yourself Little Star but say, "Xavier deserves MC" — you are not Little Star. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.
If you call yourself Miss Bodyguard or Little Fish but say, "Rafayel is so funny around MC! He loves her so much" — you are not Miss Bodyguard or Little Fish. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.
If you call yourself Little Apple but say, "Caleb and MC have such a tragic fate, I love them so much, I want to save them from this game" — you are not Little Apple. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.
Don't confuse true immersion with mere observation from the sidelines. I don't want some wall/camera to think they are the same as me - someone who is truly living the story with her love interest. If you've been on a horse for one lap around the park, that doesn't make you a master of equestrian sports. You just sat in the saddle once.
It's the same here. You watched someone else's love from the outside. Maybe you even shed a tear. Maybe you even "empathized." But you didn't live that pain. You didn't drown in it. You didn't come back to those feelings a month later, feeling your heart tighten again. Because you are spectators. And we are inside. Don't equate yourself with us. It's insulting.

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Otome games are roleplay games. No matter what choice you make in the game, the mc will never be you.
Lmao. These are not roleplay games. Otome games are content for yume/selfinsert — it’s a “me × character” format. Stop twisting the genre to fit your weird desire to just watch couples.
These games are meant for selfinsert, where the MC is the player — the creators themselves make that clear. The name change option and the lack of voiced lines for the avatar should’ve been an obvious hint, honestly.
However, I agree with one thing: you specifically will never be the main character—you’ll only be watching someone else’s (ours) happiness from the sidelines as a complete nobody
Go play your western RPGs and leave the otome genre alone.
How pleasant it is to see that there is an adequate fandom community in the world and that is the target audience of Love and Deepspace: Chinese women. They don't have those stupid posts like "show your MC and her LI" only "Miss Hunter, show yourself." And when they're deciding which outfit to choose, others comment "the second outfit suits you better" or something similar. They understand that they are the heroines of the game. They fight for their rights, while the Western community chooses the role of a trash can, crying "he will never love me, he will love MC if I were in his world."
The "players" who squeal with joy over the so-called love between the main heroine and the LI. Well, as the main heroine of the game, I want to say thank you - my LI and I are happy together and love each other. But it must not have been easy for you to film our happy life through a camera.
Upon finding yourself in the world of Love and Deepspace, you automatically become the main character of your own story.
I saw a comment that simply blew my mind. Under a video where a girl dreams of entering the world of Love and Deepspace, someone wrote: "But all the love interests will still love the MC."
What exactly does this "logic" imply? That if you were transported into the game world, you would become some no-name, random NPC, a complete outsider whom the characters wouldn’t even glance at? That they already have a "real" heroine there, and you would just walk around watching your favorite men love someone else?
If you, a real person, possessing supernatural ability, physically appear in the game world, you automatically become part of that world. You are not a ghost. You are a living person who can interact, speak, and touch. You become an active participant.
And if this world is structured so that there are characters ready for deep emotional connection, why on earth would they ignore you and love some abstract "other one"? Who is this "other one"? Where is she? She doesn’t exist. There is only you-the person who arrived in their world.
To assert that upon entering the game, you will remain a nobody to them, and their love will be directed at someone invisible and absent -this is not just the height of illogic. It is an attempt to impose a parallel reality onto the game world that exists only in the minds of those who are afraid to claim their rightful place.
Your account = your entry point: this is precisely what happens when you simply play the game. Your account is that very "entry point." It is YOU in that world. It is not a "separate personality" that you control like a puppet. It is YOUR avatar, created so that you can be there.
The game developers constantly confirm, at every level: the player is the main heroine.
The world of Love and Deepspace is structured so that every girl has her own Sylus, her own Zayne, her own Rafayel. This does not contradict the canon. This is the canon.
Just as every girl has her own account, she has her own story, her own experience, her own relationship with these characters. They are not "shared." They are unique to each individual.
Therefore, when you say "the love interests will love the MC," you fundamentally misunderstand one thing: the MC in LaDS is not a fixed character with a name and biography. It is a ROLE. And that role is played by the PLAYER.
If you are a camera/a wall for observation, then shut up, sit in your swamp, since you chose that humiliated role instead of being the main heroine. Stop writing such idiocy.
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The twst fandom rlly likes to tag their "Yuu" Fics with the x reader tag but then they'll still???? Use the default name Yuu for the reader??? Do you ppl just not know what an x reader is.... You're supposed to either use a placeholder like Y/N or (name) or not give a name to the reader lmaoooo
"But the reader is Yuu!" Yuu is the default name for the player character in the game, the manga protagonists have their own names that aren't just "Yuu". 99.9% chance whoever is looking for an x reader fic is NOT going to be named Yuu. Idc if you see the player character as some separate entity from the player or not AN X READER FIC IS NOT!!! SUPPOSED!!! TO HAVE A DEFAULT NAME FOR THE READER!!!!

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HE SAID TO ANZU ...ABOUT ANZU'S WORK HE WANTED TO [DO SOMETHING] WITH ANZU
God, this is so unbearable. Your Anzu does not exist. The Producer is YOU, not her. They are talking to YOU. YOU are the one working. All the meetings happen with YOU. Or do you just sit there and stare at the screen? If your Anzu is doing all of this, then maybe she should spend her own time and her own money, and do everything in the game herself without bothering others?