Aspara

You might see this blank Tumblr and think, 'Geez, how much could this person really be into Seduce Me the Otome!' I don't know if I trust them! But tbh I just wanted to show and explain a little bit more about me before I start posting fanfic.

Hello! Yes! I am Aspara! I have been in this fandom since late 2015. Wow, yes, I know! My favorite Incubus varies a lot, but Erik and Sam are always safe bets.

I met my now partner of seven years through this games fandom space, and every bit of James content I post will be dedicated to them lol. I know that's actually insane!! But they're literally my soulmate and I met him through this silly game.

It is very strongly believed that I have autism, and this game is my special interest. So that's how you know I have correct takes. I will also post my steams hours below here (I used to play 80% on mobile but I have no way to track those hours so this is all I've got.)

so thats like 1,200 hrs and thats seriously only a fraction because of how little I actually played on steam. so do with that what you will!! feel free to ask my about headcannons or for drabbles or for how I think the boys (and or diana) would react etc etc.

Now, I’m saying this as a certified Sam girl (#SamIsTheBest and all) who back during when the games were still coming out, was more than happy to gloat when he was confirmed to be the canon route. (Much to the dismay of my James Anderson obsessed best friend, now boyfriend) So that's how you know this isn't biased lmao

James's route in the second game, introduces a lot to the player, more than most of the other routes in my honest opinion. However, it introduces one huge concept that I think would have made it really compelling for him to be the canonical route. Obviously, I'm talking about the stone destiny here.

Now, I know that canonically, when playing routes, the other boys' lives are different then they are in the timelines where their routes take place because of the fates, and them controlling and weaving Mika’s story. Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of this choice, and I tend to find it to be a bit of a cop out that makes the boys feel very two dimensional outside of their personal routes, but I do recognize that it is canon.

James’ mother sets his stone destiny when you play his route, much earlier than the concept of Mika would have ever been introduced to his life, so, therefore, much before the main character could have been seen as a threat, and that's assuming James’ mom would have had any way to know about some random ass human girl that was being isolated heavily away from magic (shout out David Anderson!!)

However, I think given the demon lords 3 other princely children, and Matthew's mothers obvious insistence on him striving to be prepared to take over the crown, and the demon lords obvious growing madness, that she would have had enough reason to a) think her husband might kill his children in order to not be succeeded or b) one of his brothers might do the same. It's a given that she herself was a really awful person, and insanely abusive, so, I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that she would have set a stone destiny regardless to ensure her personal victory, so I think, because of the logical reasons she would have had for doing so, even without the fates involved, that it should have been the canon ending. It just, makes so much sense, and James is unlucky enough to have that fucked shit happen to him unfortunately.

I think that the setting and breaking of a stone destiny gives James so much depth as a character, and it really helps amplify his bond with Mika, especially because it's a well known demon fact, that demons of Lilith supposedly can't feel or understand love. So for a demon of his kind? Not only being able to feel love, but to feel it so strongly that he's able to break a literal stone destiny? No not just that, he repeatedly breaks cycles and chooses to be a kindhearted and good man, when by all means, he was his father's favorite child, and that's not a title anyone should want.

I mean if we're being honest, James grew up in a spot where who he was, didn't matter, it really wasn't until he came to the human world that he would have even been able to figure out who he was, on top of that slipping into a caretaking and bossy role with his brothers, who are just as lost as he is in this new world.

Honestly he probably still didn't know who he really was by the events of the first game and then he meets a person, who takes kindness on him and his brothers, despite knowing what they are, and while their experiences are very different, he can see the stress their under, to become what their father wants them to be, and I like to think, he just couldn't help himself. He had to try to help them, and then of course, he fell in love. Which would be a complicated and confusing emotion for him, since he wasn't really supposed to ever feel it, but instead, he feels it stronger than any human who ever walked the earth.

So then, he finds himself with this person by his side, and they face any and every challenge together, not as lovers, but as soulmates, and who knows maybe in a canon ending James route they would have been soul bound? I certainly think it would have made sense.

While of course all of the routes are lovely and compelling, I think that the overarching themes in James route of defying destiny, usurping expectations, and discovering yourself along side someone who you love, are really beautiful and make for a soulmate-esque love story, where as most of the other boys, tend to focus on trust and building a relationship, it just feels like in James route, the love is what drives the story, instead of the dedication to one another. Not that either is bad, I just think that for the canon ending of the game, it would have made more sense for James to be that.

Unrelated to James, I think the canon ending having the option for Diana to either be alive or dead, is also compelling, because it adds to the story telling, and adds to what kind of person you want Mika to be. Which I think is cool.

Anyways this is just kinda me word vomiting in the hopes to cause more conversations within the fandom!! Repost and tell me who YOU think the canon route should have been!!