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Okay I’ve been seeing a lot of posts across social media platforms about MC’s recent behaviour with Sylus and how it’s caused quite the debate, so here’s my unbiased opinion as a Zayne girlie.

I think the main problem here that happened was that in the last few cards like grassland romance, lost oasis and the boxing one (sorry I forgot the name), MC and Sylus had been pretty soft with each other when compared to the recent two cards that came out. This sudden shift of dynamic I feel threw some people off because one moment MC and Sylus are hugging and getting engaged (kind of), and the other moment she is okay with setting him up as bait to another woman and refusing to treat his wounds (searing touch).

Now personally, enemies to lovers is not my favoured choice of romance tropes (evidently cuz I’m a Zayne girlie) but I feel like the extreme change of situations is slightly off putting. Even I was surprised by just how dismissive MC was of Sylus in searing touch.

HOWEVER

This does not mean that players start overreacting and sending mails to infold asking a change in MC’s character! That is absolutely wrong and will horribly impact the storyline they’ve set. Even if I think that MC was a little too distant in searing touch, she by no means owes shit to anyone! Sylus was RUDE AF in the beginning and if I were to put myself in her shoes, I’d seriously get the man arrested. She’s keeping his identity and life a secret, and being cooperative. I think that’s progress enough.

We’re all allowed to have our own opinions on the matter and each person’s views matter! But guys let’s have some patience and trust infold, because they would never fuck up a character as popular as Sylus, nor his storyline. We barely know anything about the dude. Just because he’s hot doesn’t mean he’s gonna be completely right.

So let’s not fight and promote love and patience🫶 Sylus and MC have a long way to go, so in my unbiased opinion I’d request all the sylus girlies to just wait a little until his myth pair cards come out! Sending everyone love🩷

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MC is meant to be "inconsistent" with the boys because she has a different relationship dynamic with each one. It took a long time for her to be "nice" to Rafayel, and even now there are options to tease and bully him. The people who say MC is mean and want her to be worried about him are misogynists who believe women owe men who show affection or sacrifice anything. If Sylus was ugly and they thought him cringe, they would not be saying she owes him any kindness for his feelings or choices to save her. In fact, they would see it as him being disrespectful of her boundaries when she already said "no." Let's not forget she blocked him from socials but he still saw her posts through Luke and Kieran. This behavior would NOT fly if Sylus were the men these people might have faced IRL who don't take no for an answer and expect reciprocation and pursue women to exhaust them into a relationship on the excuse that it's "courtship."

Hi, anon!

Long reply ahead because I think your opinion is incorrect. I wish to simply debate your statement and it is by no means an attack towards you or your opinions but simply a discussion of it.

Firstly, about the MC’s change in personality, I don’t really know, as I mentioned, because I didn’t look too deeply at MC’s dialogue and I’m still relatively new to the game. It’s just a vibe I got and I thought it was worth noting. Your argument does stand. She could simply be reacting differently depending on the boy but again, I haven’t looked into it.

As for the rest:

Let me rephrase your statement so we’re sure we’re on the same page. You believe that people think MC should be nicer to Sylus because of misogyny. Misogyny is the dislike and prejudice against women, meaning you believe that these people have a level of engrained hate/prejudice that makes them favor a man over the MC, a women. Specifically because he’s conventionally attractive. And if he wasn’t conventionally attractive, people wouldn’t want MC to be nice to him, they would even go as far as to hate him for his behaviors. Correct?

I don’t personally think you are correct.

I hope that you were simply trying to educate me on the matter and not accusing me, because if you were, we need to have a different conversation all together. I’ll still reassure you and say that it’s not the case for me. I wasn’t condemning her behavior in my post, nor was I condoning it. I even stated that MC has the right to be mean, and honestly, I considered her too kind at first.

And I agree that some of his behavior is terrifying in real life. I would even venture to say that it shouldn’t be romanticized and that Infold shouldn’t have taken so much inspiration from dark romance to begin with. I’ll never excuse his behavior nor should anyone. HOWEVER, this is a fictional character. As long as these behaviors remain fictional and aren’t being accepted or sought or romanticized IRL, I think people should like what they like even if we don’t understand why they like it.

But I’m diverging.

We're trying to understand the answer to this question: Why are people upset enough by how mean MC can seem towards Sylus? And let’s not focus on the game but on the fandom.

I believe that it’s far more simple than misogyny. Players like Sylus. MC is supposed to be an insert for the players. MC perceived as mean to Sylus. Players don’t want to be mean to Sylus because they like his character. Thus, MC is no longer a proper self-insert for the players. The immersion is broken. Players are angry.

I think that the players would be just as angry if MC was mean to any of the other LIs in a way that they didn’t see as fair. And I’m not talking about teasing. I’m talking mean enough to break the immersion. And I think that for a lot of people, at least those complaining, this breaks their immersion and dampens their enjoyment of the game. I could be incorrect but I've seen this happen in other fandom for other games.

From now on, I’m just babbling but I think it’s worth mentioning. What I do believe is misogyny is more fandom on fandom hate rather than hate for MC. Let me explain. I’ve seen on tiktok creators getting harassed for not liking certain LIs, mischaracterizing the LIs, and for out of character headcanons. The creators that were harassed and that I know of are women and they were attacked by other women for the sake of a fictional male character. That can be argued to be misogyny and this is where we should direct our focus towards instead, making this fandom a community a safe space for everyone even if we don’t agree on certain things or like the same characters.

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I'm going to throw my hat in the ring in the MC is being mean/not to Sylus and why I think this is even a debate to begin. This is my opinion btw and everyone is entitled to their own and there isn't one that's superior to the others. Also feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about certain things, I'm still pretty new to the game.

I think the reason people find MC mean is because we are lacking a clear narrative. I feel like to some extent we are seeing things almost out of order or without being sure of their progression off screen. There's a lot of things that can happen between the memories, while they are also just memories and it's not clear (at least to me) how or even if they fit in the canon and where they fit into the timeline. Because of that, we're not getting a proper narrative that shows MC's progress with Sylus, we can't even be sure they sat down and had a talk about what happened or not. Moreover, we aren't in MC's head enough to know because she's supposed to be a self-insert. enemies to lovers works so well because you can visibly see the moments they start changing and seeing the other as a potential love interest. The progression is there, we are shown proof of it. In this game, the moment Sylus kidnapped her could have been yesterday or years ago, it's not clear, so it's very hard to see how the MC could go from mean, defensive, and wanting to hurt him back to actually liking him and wanting to try something with him. If we know that Sylus hasn't absolved himself yet,MC being mean is normal. If he did indeed and she acknowledged it and remains mean, then it makes less sense.

((Not to mention that I do feel like MC is inconsistent between the boys, she is someone different depending on the boy she's talking to imo, but i haven't analysed the game too hard either so i can very wrong on that))

My final point is that, well, you can be mean to people you love and they can be into it. That's how being a brat works. If you explain and show in other ways you do care about the person, and they in turn are into it, you can be far meaner than MC. The problem is, they don't talk about it, or at least we don't see it. And i don't think they have, at least not prior to the cat cards where Sylus is legit like: "will you sell me off for 2 dry cheetos 🥺???? Breathe if yes." (This is exaggerated for comedic purposes) i would personally tease him that i will sell him for less than that (bc i am a lil bit of an asshole at time hehe) but I would notice he seems pretty serious fast enough to know he needs confirmation and validation in that moment. And MC doesn't do it overtly, and that means that either a) girlie is blind or thought he was playing, which he was before but seemingly not anymore; b) girlie was legit about to sell him; or c) they never had a proper talk before they started this (which i am inclined to believe). A lack of proper conversation between the two is why we're so confused by MC's behaviour, if we have ONE (1) scene where Sylus agrees he likes degradation or the teasing or he's a brat tamer or whatever and MC agrees she is also into that, we wouldn't be here.

Feel free to correct me if I'm off or if i understood the game poorly!

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Hey guys,

I'm a little confused about how each witch leaves the Road if they got their wish (like Jen and Billy) but Alice stayed even after breaking her family curse? Shouldn't she have poofed away? Or was the curse never broken because it was Billy's reality? Or was that not her wish and I'm misremembering (I watched the first half of the episodes a long time ago)?

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Maybe a dtiys ??? i am unclear if i have followed the rules

Caira belongs to slav_queen on cara

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Art attack of Adari who belongs to slav_queen on AF!

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Salvador tattoos!

Under cut for the exact tattoos

Icarus on his right titi:

Girl with Pearl on his right inner arm:

And two lines around his ring finger on his left hand

(tattoo pics from pinterest)

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I've wanted a second go at last year's version of this drawing ever since I posted it ;-; I was never really satisfied with the way it turned out and I'm glad I revisited it even if I do feel like there's so much more than i can improve! I guess we'll wait until next year!

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I think Ez would try to keep Narcisa in bed in the morning at least a little bit on his days off

Narcisa wants to think she's standing strong but she will quickly give in xD

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愛 jing yuan x my oc

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Quick thing I did as an Eldarya AND Ezarel fan<3

//Oc x Canon// also inspired by @/nishxii on tiktok

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severe medical history of the patient from volume 128...

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hugs 🦁

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well..

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Nice

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Lil Maeve illustration to try my hand at backgrounds and immersive lighting!

I really like how it turned out :)))

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not gonna say it. but he popped into your head didn’t he