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adam-banks2024 · 4 years ago

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Deja Vu

Part 1

Word Count: 2.3k

Summary: Kind of angst for now, backstory, arguments, and extremely slow burn. Also future poly

He’s insufferable

He’s arrogant. He’s rude. He’s annoying.

He is insufferable.

And I have to deal with him.

Of all the people Mrs. Moore could have partnered me with, she just had to choose him. It’s not like we even put a show on in public, and it’s sad but, everybody knows about the feud between us that started four years ago.

I had just moved to town from three states over, and I didn’t know anyone my age. After a few weeks of summer went by of not knowing anyone, my dad convinced me to join the district’s hockey team. He told me that it was because he wanted me to make some friends, but I knew that he really just couldn’t afford to pay a babysitter. And my mother, well, she wasn’t in the picture. So I ended up having to go through the lost and found at six different ice rinks in Minnesota in order to get all of my equipment. At first, I was wary of the idea, but my dad said that it was kind of like shopping, so I agreed to go with him. Originally, we would have only had to search five rinks, but I couldn’t find any skates that were my size. After almost twelve hours of rummaging through sweaty pads and broken sticks, I had myself a full set of hockey gear.

Now I was on to the next challenge: How To Skate. I had been ice skating a couple of times before for birthday parties, but I’ve never been able to skate at the level that I had to in order to survive during an entire hockey game. I thought maybe it would just come to me naturally after attending a few practices. Until I did some research at the school library. Apparently, it takes a person at least two months to learn how to ice skate. But ignoring the negative, I decided to focus on the positive. ‘I could at least balance myself...and besides, I probably would be on the bench for every game...and just remember, you’re doing this for friends.’ These were the only three things that ran through my mind on the way to the ice rink. I was honestly terrified. I was scared that the other kids would make fun of me, or worse, ignore me. Well, maybe being made fun of is worse, but at least then they’d acknowledge me. I had to stop myself from thinking about that kinda stuff. I haven’t even attended a single hockey practice yet, and now I’ve added at least four more stressors into my life.

When my dad pulled up to the building, my stomach was tingling. My hands were clammy, and my eyebags had definitely seen better days. I wanted to run so fast away from this place, and not move at all at the same time.

“Nerves,” my dad said. He must’ve noticed from my frozen state in the backseat of his minivan. “You’ll do great! Just don’t break any bones.” He chuckled at the end in hopes that it would come off as a joke, but that is definitely not how it sounded.

To my surprise, I was the first kid that had arrived. I didn’t know much about the team, but I did know that most of the other kids had been on it since they were five or six years old. I was almost the exact opposite, thirteen and just starting. I wasn’t really sure why I was the first person to arrive, and it only added to my nervousness.

I tried to brush it off as I saw someone outside in the parking lot leave a car holding a bag like you had. I could hear his muffled voice. “I’ll see you at six.” Whoever he was talking to must have responded because the boy spoke again, “yup, love you too.” A parent maybe. A mom? I could faintly make out a silhouette in the driver’s seat, but the glare from the sun blocked most of the car window.

Thank god someone else was here because at least now I knew that I was in the right place. But another problem arose. Now, different things were rushing through my head about what to say to the other boy. Should I make a joke, ask a question? Simply say ‘hello’? I didn’t know. So, I decided to settle on the most stupid thing anyone could ever say.

“Are you on the hockey team?” What kind of question is that? He has a bag, this time is cut out specifically for hickey practice, and he has a hockey stick with him. Why else would he be here?

He looked up from where he was walking and stared at me awkwardly. It was likely that he wouldn’t have even noticed me if I hadn’t said anything to him. But I did. Which I regretted.

“Oh, um, yeah.” He went to keep on walking but he stopped himself quickly. “Are you?”

I had to keep a laugh in because the boy looked genuinely confused. Or maybe I misjudged that for concern. Still, though, it sounded a bit hopeful. This kid was really hard to read. Either way, I was pretty sure that he thought I couldn’t play hockey.

“Yeah. My dad made me join to make some friends.”

Suddenly the boy’s demeanor changed. He seemed almost excited that there was a new kid on the team. “Well, I’ll be your first friend. My name’s Adam. Adam Banks. Walk and talk.” And then he started towards two big double doors.

My eyebrows rose at the sudden confidence, taken off guard, but at least he was being friendly. I adjusted your bags and followed right behind him. “So what’s it like here.”

He answered after struggling to open one of the doors, “Well it’s not so bad. It’s super cutthroat during the regular season but in the offseason, it’s pretty relaxed.” As I made myself around the outside of the rink, he kept rambling. “Especially during summer league. The kids who only play during that league have it nice. You’ll definitely survive.”

“Um, so what happens during the regular season?” The thought of angry yelling coaches wasn’t appealing to me, but I could make it work

Adam shrugged his bag up so it wouldn’t fall from his shoulder, “Well. Usually, coach yells at us, tells us that if we don’t win we’re failures, and everyone is constantly fighting to be a starter.” There was silence. “So that’s fun.” I just nodded my head, trying to take this all in. Adam didn’t say anything until he reached the locker room doors. Then he turned to me. “Yeah, but coach is a lot less lenient during summer because it doesn’t really matter for playoffs.”

I scoffed, “yeah, but I’ll eventually have to deal with him. Right?”

Adam’s expression flattened, “Wait, you’re doing winter league too?” He looked genuinely concerned, and now I was second-guessing joining hockey. If this boy didn’t think I could survive, then how could I? Even if I was just gonna sit on the bench, the way this kid was making it out to be was not sounding like the greatest way to make friends.

“Well, yeah. Is that bad?” I needed to hear him say it. Say that I should quit, or join dance, or something. Just so I could have an excuse to tell my dad in case the first day of practice goes awry.

He spoke fast, “Oh no, no. It’s just that--”

“That I’m not good enough…”

He didn’t say anything. Harsh. I was just trying to make a joke but, I guess that’s what he was really thinking. We stood in silence for a few more seconds, and then he finally thought of something to respond with.

“No. I just feel like you’ll get hurt… and, um.”

I started to laugh. I applaud Adam for trying to make it seem like he didn’t think I was bad, but he just couldn’t do it. “Don’t sweat it, I know I’m gonna be bad.” He started to laugh with me. “Hey, at least I’ll get abs out of it.”

He and I were actually pretty good friends for the most part. He was my first friend here in Minnesota. He taught me how to skate, and in turn, I offered him some sub-par jokes. He always used to laugh at my jokes even if they were awful. He was what I considered my best friend. He definitely wasn’t a best friend, I couldn’t confide in all of my secrets, and he couldn’t do the same to me, but Adam was the only kid I was friends with. We laughed hard, we fell on the ice together. He even told his mom that practices started to end later just so he could wait with me until my dad got off work and picked me up.

Not long after we bonded, I hato the ducks. At the time, I didn’t know exactly what happened. All my dad said to me was something about how the coach wasn’t that nice, and that he didn’t want me on his team. I didn’t really care since hockey wasn’t something that I cared about too much. So I said goodbye to Adam and explained that I had to go. I didn’t say anything about the coach-not-liking-me part because then I thought he’d feel bad for me.

“Yeah, I’m supposed to switch teams too, but I think my dads’ gonna see if I can stay on the team.” He spoke almost as if he was trying to convince himself. I thought it was a great idea to tell him why he had to go to the ducks.

“They don’t want you, Adam. Maybe if you go to the ducks, you’ll get a coach who appreciates you.” I didn’t know what was wrong with what I said to him until about a year later, but by the time I finished my sentence, he was fuming.

The situation afterward was a blur, and I can’t remember what all was said. I just remember Adam touching on the fact how I’m an awful hockey player, and that he only talked to me because he felt sorry for me. Now, if my old coach had told me that I was awful at hockey, I’d be completely fine. I already knew that, and coach is just...coach. But hearing it come from Adam? It wasn’t like he was just telling me how it is, he wanted to hurt me.

It took me two weeks to stop thinking about the situation constantly, and then it started to fade away. I never even told him the real reason why I told him what I did, but now I have to work on a history project with him. How am I gonna do that if I can’t even tell him the reason for our quarrel that we had three years ago? Let alone complete a whole project?

“The syllabus will be given tomorrow, and the deadline for this project will be written under the ‘AP History’ bulletin. You may get to work.”

I slumped out of my desk and started putting away my things that were on the table attachment. During this, I tried to think of what I was going to say when I went over to him. I almost decided on either trying to make a truce or just acting like he didn’t exist.

He was slouched in his desk, pencil in hand, avoiding eye contact with me. As I sat down my stuff on an empty desk near him, his words startled me. “So, 50/50?”

I just stared at him. For some reason, my brain could not process what Adam had just said. It took a solid four seconds for me to respond. “I don’t understand.”

Adam’s eyebrows rose while his eyes rolled, “Of course you don’t.”

I scoffed, “What, you’re just gonna say some numbers and you think I’m gonna understand what you’re trying to say?”

He was leaning forward in his desk now, “Well you seemed to be doing well in calculus, so, yes.” A small, mocking smile was now gracing his face.

I took in a deep breath to try and refrain from spewing whatever profanities came to mind. “Look, can we just set aside whatever this is so we can do this project?” He crossed his arms in response. “C’mon, I can’t afford to get a bad grade.” Still no response. If his goal was to ruin my life, he sure was on the right path.

“What do I get out of it?”

The audacity.

“I’m just saying. I’ll be fine with one bad grade, so what exactly is the payoff for tolerating...you?”

So there was a shiny glimmer of hope, but it would definitely come at a cost. “Anything. Anything you want. Just please, tolerate me.”

He brought a hand to his chin, acting like he was pondering his choice, “but will it really be anything?”

“Oh my god, you are so annoying.”

“Watch it.” His voice was stern.

“Okay, okay. Sorry. But yes, anything. You name it.”

Did he even know what he wanted? Or was he just trying to play this out? Either way, I’m about to have a conniption if we don’t start working on this project soon.

We sat in silence for what felt like forever. Of course, Adam had to change his thinking position almost every second, until he decided on what he wanted. “Okay, here’s the deal. I help you get your precious little A, and you have to get me a date with Charlie.”

#the mighty ducks #the mighty ducks imagine #the mighty ducks x reader #mighty ducks #mighty ducks imagine #mighty ducks x reader #adam banks #adam banks imagine #adam banks x reader

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ashen-laguz · 5 years ago

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OP PLEASE give us the biace yuuya propaganda

anon i adore you for giving me the opportunity to do so

so first off, being bi! There’s… there’s a couple of jokes throughout Hatoful already, actually. I’ve had these ‘proof Yuuya is bi’ screenshots saved for so long,,,

First one was just Yuuya goofing off a little bit during BBL, sure, and the second was in reference to Yuuya not giving Hiyoko a direct answer about stuff, so on their own… They’d be enough for me to headcanon, sure, but not enough for me to feel like I have enough to go on for declaring this propaganda. I feel like the more you have little jokes like this, the more likely they are to like… Not even be jokes and actually just be right. So. The fact there was two separate “guys are cool too tho ;3″ comments just kinda…

On top of that, this one’s technically not in reference to Yuuya’s attraction, but here’s this lil bit from Hatoful manga….

So first off, that’s a lotta mlm birdies at pigeonation. ;3

Secondly, the fact so many guys around pigeonation were able to muster up the nerve to give their valentines to Yuuya kinda makes me think they had enough reason to think returned feelings MIGHT be possible. And, well, if you know for a fact the guy in question is into guys, that’d certainly help ya think ‘ah yeah, maybe I have a chance!’ So you can tell me this is a stretch but Imma still count it as proof in my pile. All this combined, it’s not like you can definitively call it CANON perse, but like. Yuuya’s bi and you’ll never be able to sway me on that.

“But what about the ace part?” you might be wondering. I do have to confess, this part’s not super grounded in anything canon has actually given us, it’s mostly just me being a biace individual who adores Yuuya to the point of him being one of my biggest comfort characters and wanting to project a bit onto him.

BUT HEAR ME OUT ANYWAYS, IT’S A GOOD HEADCANON….

I think one of the biggest potential arguments people may or may not have against ace Yuuya would be “oh but he’s so flirty, one or two of the flirts are kinda sexual in nature, he can’t be asexual-” WRONG!

See, Yuuya’s is a guy who puts on a certain charismatic mask around most people. You can see as Hiyoko gets closer to him in his route, or as you get farther in BBL, or small moments in his shrine au in Holstar, or during the parts of later Holistar where he’s more prominent… He’s a much more serious, self-deriding sort of guy then he presents himself as being. He’s not exactly confident, he’s honestly quite wise and responsible, and all around is quite serious… Not to say aspects of his more ‘laid-back’ personality aren’t true to who Yuuya is as a person, I don’t personally believe every bit of light-heartedness and goofy attitude from the guy is part of the facade, but like…. There is a certain facade he puts on that’s clearly trying to get people not think too much of him.

Now. If you actually pay attention… all the flirtiness and whatnot? It’s mostly while he’s putting up his little ‘act.’ It dies down a lot after early-Hato, and the more genuine you see Yuuya being, the less flirtatious he is. Any bits of “haha he horny” or whatever are entirely part of his charismatic front he puts on or how other characters perceive him, part of how he just gets people to think of him as flighty ol’ Yuuya. I don’t think it’s a genuine part of how he really is as a person.

That’s not to say asexuals can’t be flirty of course, every ace is different, has different comfort levels with stuff… nor is “he’s not actually a flirty guy” definitive proof of ace-ness, but like… The fact that all intended ‘haha people be hot, right ;3′ is all kind of an exaggerated front and kind of a goof instead of being a genuine Yuuya trait is very relatable to me, a certified sex-repulsed asexual who does not at all relate to being interested in sexual stuff in the slightest and thus my perception/humor about this stuff tends to also be a little…. Exaggerated, similarly to Yuuya’s flirtation. It strikes me as me or one of my other ace friends (those who aren’t sex-positive anyways) who don’t quite relate with this stuff and how we joke about it moreso then an allosexual or even a more sex-positive asexual who actually connect with interest in sexual stuff.

alternatively, if you are gonna interpret his flirtations as being a more genuine part of who is is (which i don’t, but. eh.) sex-positive aces exist m8. Not my headcanon, but a perfectly valid one nonetheless.

tldr; you will never be able to pry my biace yuuya headcanon out of my cold, dead hands

#hatoful boyfriend #yuuya #yuuya sakazaki #i'd joke about more propoganda to spread #cause i do have headcanons bout most of the birds #but fantail bros are the only ones with actual thought behind em #and i already also went off about sakuya #so i'm out of sexuality headcanons i can actually go off about #the rest of em are just gut feelings that i'm not 100% solid on tbh #Anonymous #ask the trashbag #long post

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lethesomething · 6 years ago

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The definitely not definitive otome guide

I sincerely doubt the world needs this, but that sort of thing has never stopped me before. Have an extremely biased guide of several dating sim games, organised by some arbitrary metrics.

Word of warning: this will be long (4k words), because I've played an embarrassingly large amount of otomes.

As a disclaimer: obviously this is a personal opinion. If you (as a lot of people do) enjoy the more forceful bad boy type in your dating sim, I’m not going to judge you. I, however, don’t, so this list is very specifically going to call out games for how they treat the protag.

Featured here: Amnesia: Memories, Blood in Roses, Cutie Demon Crashers, Destined to Love, Dream Daddy, Hatoful Boyfriend, Hustle Cat, Ikemen Revolution, Ikemen Sengoku, Lost Alice, Midnight Cinderella, Monster Prom, Mystic Messenger

A note on play styles.

These games come in a few flavours, which is important to know if you're gonna try them.

The vast majority of the mobile games here follow a basic visual novel structure. You pick a guy and read through the different chapters, and depending on your answers you'll be leaning toward one of two or three endngs. Since these are free to play mobiles, there's a bunch of challenges you will need to log in daily to pass.

Mystic Messenger is the main outlier, since it's a chat simulator that plays in real time.

The pc games tend to be more complex, with interlocking routes and more endings, generally. You'll need a number of skill points to meet character A for instance, or you'll need to do a series of actions to reach ending B.

Great games

Ikemen Sengoku

Hands down one of the best mobile otomes out there right now. I found this when searching for pics of Masamune Date (from a different game) and I've sort of been obsessed with otomes since.

Platform: Android (free to play, pay for premiums) Story: MC gets sucked into a wormhole and finds herself 500 years back in time, in Sengoku era Japan. She drops in on the exact moment where Nobunaga Oda, the Demon King, would be assassinated at Honno-ji. She stops the murder, disrupts the timeline and now there's a bunch of hot warlords vying for her attention. Protagonist’s spine: Reinforced steel. This is one of my favourite protags, because she is Super Sassy and doesn't take shit, unless she's literally being threatened with a sword. The protags where I feel like I understand their actions are few and far between, but this is one of them. Except when she goes far beyond mere bravery to get her man, and decides to forgo tampons and, like, wifi, to live 500 years in the god damn past. Squick factor: Low. This game is made by Cybird, a company that appears very big on consent. The guys generally treat MC with respect, probably more than could be reasonably asked of a Sengoku warlord. The only worrying stuff happens in the Obvious Yandere route, but you kinda know what you're getting yourself into with that one.

The Good: I friggin love the writing for this game. The guys feel like real characters, there's a ton of interaction between them and I need to give this game extra points for the story events, which are almost invariably gold. This is where the makers stop giving a shit about realism and just go for what they want to write. There's ones where all the guys are suddenly idols, there's a Christmas episode, there's one where they battle through cooking and cleaning. It doesn't take itself serious, is what i mean, and it's Hilarious. The Bad: This is one where the in-game art (aside from the CG's) is actually not that great. Hideyoshi's smile is kinda weird looking and the models feel a little outdated at this point. Best Warlord: This is very difficult, because a lot of them are dreamy, but let's just say that I need a Mitsuhide route so very badly.

Ikemen Revolution

The newest Cybird game and my current fave.

Story: MC falls down the rabbit hole when she tries to give a rushed White Rabbit man something he dropped. She ends up in Cradle/Wonderland, where war is about to break out between the Red and Black army, the Hearts and the Spades. Everyone is hot dudes and MC is considered Alice the Second (after the one from Through the Looking Glass). Squick factor: Low. Again: Cybird game. This means there is steamy situations and sex scenes, but they're blatantly consensual. The routes I've played so far keep well within the bounds of what I would consider romantic. Protagonist’s spine: Varnished wood. In general MC is self-propelling with occasional bouts of bravery. You can tell why she's doing the things she's doing and how she reacts to situations feels sort of logical. She's hard-working and caring and a little naïve, but the fact that she's canonically a woman from early 19th Century London does put a lot of her actions in perspective (like the amount of bullshit she puts up with).

The Good: The writing is fun. There's a good mix of angst and just… general comedy. The characters interact with each other a lot, and it feels like they're a big loud family, especially in the Black Army, which is more like a frat than anything else. The art is also decent. The backgrounds are utterly gorgeous and most of the guys are very good looking. When I first started the game I was weirded out by the blinking animation, but I have since gotten used to that. The Bad: I found some of the plot rushed. Like you spend so long slow burn growing toward each other, and then suddenly stuff has to happen action movie style because we're running out of chapters. The final chapters of Fenrir's route were just plain dumb. Like could that BE more of an obvious trap. Come on MC, I expected better of you. Also, since this is a very new game, not that many routes are out (four at the time of writing). Best boy: Hooo man. Of the routes that are out, Ray is very… oooof. But my fave chars are probably 'so done' Sirius (the fact that he's voiced by Suwabe has nothing to do with this, surely) and 'also quite done' Kyle, who is both a doctor and an alcoholic wreck of a human being.

Mystic Messenger

You know Mystic Messenger, it's like one of the biggest otome's of the past few years.

Platform: Android, iOS (free to play, pay for extra saves and stuff) The Story: MC follows a text message to a weirdly high tech apartment and this somehow puts her in the position of party planner for a secretive group of weird people. It only gets more complicated from there. The game plays out in real time, via chat conversations and the occasional story segment. Squick factor: Um. I personally wasn't weirded out, but I also decided very specifically not to play Jumin's route. This girl did her research. The routes in Another Story are also very over the top and would probably bug me. While I love the Saeran character, I don't think I'd be able to handle that route. So: highly dependent on chosen route. Protagonist’s spine: Adderall. It takes a specific kind of person to download a chat app and follow the instructions given by a random stranger therein. It takes a much stranger person to sit in an apartment with a bomb and just keep inviting people to a party. MC is on a different level from us mortals.

The Good: I loved the game mechanic, because it felt very real. The player is following a chatroom, just like the character is. Besides that, the story is completely bonkers and I appreciate that. The Bad: Did I mention it plays in real time? Because it plays in real time, meaning you get chat conversations at two in the morning. I was very sleep deprived when I played this. Best boy: 707. Dude is funny and deep and hot and relatable and smart and I want to give him all the hugs.

Dream Daddy

One of the few decidedly mlm games I've played so far. You've probably heard of it since it was the subject of much hype and much controversy. Markiplier played it. Friggin Buzzfeed has video's on it.

Platform: PC and Mac (it's on Steam) The Story: MC is a Dad who moves into a neighbourhood with a lot of other single(-ish) dads. Time to work it. Squick factor: Low. This is primarily a humour game: there's a ton of dad jokes and silly mini games, and a distinct lack of kabe don's. The canon routes are all very thoughtful. Protagonist’s spine: Barbecued sausage. Player Dad just goes for it. He’s flexible and caring enough to handle the more sensitive subjects, and self aware enough to deal with random crime and weird drunks.

The Good: I remember opening this game and, in the character creation screen, telling a trans friend of mine 'omg you can wear binders', and the sheer Glee of his reaction. That's the kinda stuff this game was, partly, made for and it is appreciated. I really liked the tongue-in-cheek writing, most of the jokes landed and the whole thing is just a lot of fun. The Bad: Some of the minigames are annoying. Why the hell are you making me play Bejeweled with fish? I also had a hard time sympathizing with some of the kids. I mean… Lucien straight up tries to murder someone? Ernest is 'rebellious' but he's also an ass. Best dad: Damien has the best route, but have you Seen Mat? Holy moly.

Not worth it games

Amnesia: Memories

This game should come with a friggin warning, so I'm giving it here. Its popularity and star rating is a terrible indicator for how much you may enjoy this game. It presents itself as a cute dating sim with gorgeous art, but it devolves into straight up horror, and not in the good way. This feels like a guidebook written in the 1800's to tell young women their place. Not even mortified intrigue could make me finish this.

Platform: PC (Steam or Google Play) and PlayStation Vita Story: MC wakes up with amnesia. Someone hurt her and she doesn't know who to trust. You'll need to figure out what happened. Squick factor: Super high. Like… so high. Everyone treats MC like shit and she just lets it happen, even developing all kinds of Stockholm Syndrome as she falls in love with these asshats. MC's childhood friend supposedly loves her but is such a tsun and just… doesn't communicate while also treating her like a small child. One of the other characters is so popular he has a fucking harem but MC is just supposed to wait for him to actually fall in love with her. And don't even get me started on that friggin yandere. *shudders* Even the secret route 'true love' character is a million types of wrong. Protagonist’s spine: Undercooked custard. MC has the self preservation skills of a wet sponge and whoever is playing this is supposed to get turned on by high concept ideas of S&M that are just written out so badly everything feels like an abusive relationship.

The Good: *sigh* The art. The art is very pretty (I'm upset at the art since it sucked me into the horror). Also, as a visual novel, this one is complex as all hell. There's a ton of endings (most of them deadly) depending your actions as a player. It's vast, is what I'm saying. Also, I hear the clover route isn't as bad as some of the others, but I was too weirded out to try. The Bad: See rant. This is one of those games that really seems to glorify the whole possessive, abusive boyfriend shtick, but it's ok because he loves you, really. Ugh. Just… ugh. Best boy: Kent? I guess? He doesn't appear to be actively abusing MC at least.

Shall we date: Lost Alice

I wondered if I should include this because I literally played like ten chapters and then deleted it, but that in itself should give some indication.

Platform: Android (free to play, in-app premium purchases) Story: MC wakes up in the forest with amnesia (I see a trend). Turns out she's in Wonderland and everyone thinks she's Alice. Most of Wonderland's characters are, predictably, hot men. Squick factor: Unavailable. I didn't play far enough to see but some of the men are quite pushy and also it's a Shall we date app, so… tread carefully. Protagonist’s spine: Cement. This is an MC that puts up a fight, which I respect. Sadly she does so in that 'needlessly aggressive' way that anime characters sometimes have. I didn't find her particularly sympathetic.

The Good: The art. It's always the art that gets me. The Bad: The UI annoyed the shit out of me. This is a free to play, pay for premiums game, so some level of mindless clicking is expected if you try to play for free. This one had just too much. There was friend greeting and picture rating and princess lessons and got knows what else, all taking a ton of time. Trying to get to the home page popped up at least four different 'now on sale' screens every single time. The writing wasn't good enough for me to deal with that. Best boy: Well there’s a cat. So.

Decent games

Hustle cat

This game is set in a cat café, that was all the encouragement I needed to buy it.

Platform: PC (Steam) Story: MC is invited to take a job at a cat café. Turns out everyone in the café is cursed, and also they're into you. Squick factor: Almost non-existant. This is a very tumblr friendly game in the sense that your love interests are both male and female, and none of them are particularly pushy. The relationships feel pretty natural and mostly consist of MC helping their love interest with some subquest. Protagonist’s spine: Cucumber. MC is actually pretty cool. The game does that 'modern western game' thing where you get to pick a gender and a skin colour for your protag and the general atmosphere is 'tongue in cheek'. MC doesn't let people walk over them, but they're generally helpful.

The Good: CATS. The premise of this game is pretty neat. The Bad: According to Steam I played this five months ago, and I pretty much forgot about it. Fun game but not particularly memorable. Best cat: Landry. Tall, gentle giants are a particular weakness.

Shall we date: Blood in Roses

This is me giving Shall we Date another shot, because the amount of hot mildly medieval boys was intriguing.

Platform: Android (free to play, in-app premiums) Story: There's two, because this app has been around for a while and now has two 'seasons'. The Witch stumbles upon a supposedly abandoned castle and gets imprisoned there by a bunch of vampires. The Hunter, meanwhile, seeks out the castle because she wants to stop an attack on her village. Both come to realize that the castle is now a hotel for monsters, and that its denizens are both not what they imagined, and also hot. Squick factor: Highly dependent on route. The Witch literally starts in a jail cell, so you can imagine the Stockholm Syndrome shit that goes down. Also, this is a personal preference, but I'm really weirded out by a lot of blood play stuff so most of the vampire routes are gonna be… problematic. Shall we Date games don't shy away from sex scenes and I like that, but coupling them with drinking blood 'to get in the mood' is a rather specific niche. The game does offer a number of other options for you to court, from werewolves to wizards and… grim reapers? It's a mixed batch. If you're not into pushed boundaries I can offer one tip: stay away from the vampires. Protagonist’s spine: Sand cookie. She has one, but it's brittle. I've mostly played Hunter routes and it's like… she tries, and she can take care of herself but she also tolerates more bullshit than necessary, ya know.

The Good: The art is good, and some of the storylines are intriguing despite my reservations. I'm still playing it (mostly in a quest to find a good ending where MC doesn't die to become a weird immortal creature). The UI, while annoying, isn't as bad as Lost Alice's, or so it seems. The Bad: The writing is very hit or miss. There's routes where the guy just sort of lowkey stalks MC, until she suddenly decides she's incredibly in love with him. There's others that make even less sense, and then there's ones that feel more natural. In general, MC's actions don't seem to have a lot of thought put into them. Best boy: So far: Gordon. He's cute and sensible and tortured and not incredibly antagonistic.

Midnight Cinderella

You'll notice a friggin ton of Cybird games on here.

Platform: Android (free to play, premium purchases) Story: MC gets, mostly by accident, chosen to be the Princess of Wysteria. As such she must prepare to govern the country when the king dies, and choose a consort from a number of suitors. Squick factor: Low. Not only are these men respectful of her, they're rather literally treating her like royalty. Having said that, there is a lot of the typical hurtful tsun stuff going in several routes. Protagonist’s spine: Lightly done steak. There's something weird going on with the protag in this game. When it comes to governing, she's tough as nails. She's thrown into a situation she wasn't ready for, and while this stresses her out 24/7, she performs admirably. On the other hand, her main reaction to literally anything when it comes to love is 'Oh'. She cries a lot, at times she feels like a wet rag. There's a bunch of situations she could have just solved by going 'Yeah I'm into you'. She's complex, I guess.

The Good: The writing, while melodramatic, is nice. The art is good as well. The Bad: This is an old game and it doesn't perform that well on my current-gen smartphone. Expect to push certain buttons several times before the game realizes what you're trying to do. Also the loading takes ages. Best boy: For me, Sid, because he reminds me of Aomine Daiki and I'm weak for that type of personality. As far as routes go, Leo's probably had the most impact on me.

Destined to Love

I'll be honest, I started this because of an event in Ikemen Sengoku that would give me cross game storage. Don't judge me.

The Story: MC gets flung back in time (this is also a trend, it seems) to the 1800's, a few weeks before the Ikedaya incident will make the Shinsen-gumi a historic Legend. She meets, and chrams, a whole bunch of historical figures. Protagonist’s spine: Cured leather. As a modern woman sent back in time, MC is probably fairly sassy by the standards of the time, but she remains mostly polite. She's tough, considering the circumstances, but quite pliable in that 'we'll see where this goes and make the best of it' way. Squick factor: Low. There's one character that just screams 'red flag' but I have yet to try his route. Since this is a Cybird game, most of the guys are pretty respectful.

The Good: I really like the premise? As the title suggests, MC's love is part of a higher destiny, one that transcends time, and it's one of the reasons she has to go to friggin 1800's Japan. She has a hand in making history. This amuses me. Also, the guys are pretty good looking. The Bad: This is a fairly old mobile game and you can kinda tell. On a technical level it's not as bad as Midnight Cinderella, but again the touch buttons aren't always responsive. Besides that, some of the writing is rather clunkily translated and a bunch of the art is low res. Best Boy: I haven't played all the routes here, but Katsura is a god damn sweetheart, and Kyo and Yamazaki seem adorable AF.

The weird: the special ones

Hatoful Boyfriend

The reason I know otome's exist. This one shot to meme status a few years back.

Platform: PC (it's on Steam) Story: MC is one of the last remaining humans after sentient birds took over the world. She gets enrolled into an elite school for pigeons. Squick factor: Medium to high. The major thing to understand about Hatoful is that on the surface it looks like a particularly silly dating sim with pigeons, but dig deeper and it is Also a full blown apocalyptic horror story. And it follows the genre where a wrong move gets MC horrifically killed. Having said that, several of the routes, including the god damn serial killer one, didn't bother me as much as something like Amnesia, because they were not sold as romantic. Maybe it's the whole pigeon thing, maybe it's the general weirdness of the plot, or maybe it is because said serial killer actually goes 'Surely you knew this would happen', before he guts you. Protagonist’s spine: Gummy bear. MC is highly forgettable, but therefore also like… not annoying. The main focus here is on uncovering the many layered plot and the player character doesn't really have a scripted personality, she just embodies the player's actions.

The Good: This whole game is so out there. There's a reason it became so popular. It's an Experience. The plot is over the top and intricate and Weird, and that makes it intriguing. There's a ton of routes and endings, some more secret than others. The 'human' version of some of these birds is kinda hot (sadly that includes the serial killer). The Bad: the plot is so weird and meandering that it's kinda hard to follow at times. I'm fairly certain it takes several guides to unlock all the endings. Best Birb: It's been a while, but I remember liking Yuuya's route quite a lot.

Monster Prom

The new hype.

Platform: PC (Steam!) Story: MC is a student at Monster High, and is trying to get a date for Monster Prom with one of the hot people. Squick factor: None. I mean, nothing that happens here is in accordance to health and safety norms, but that's kinda the point. It's a parody game, making fun of all the hoops teenagers are willing to jump through to become popular. Protagonist's spine: Coagulated blood. MC is willing to make deals with demons, wear corpses as a hat, anything really. The question is very openly: what could I do to make them like me.

The Good: It's a funny game. I like the characters, who embody everything from the Mean Girl to the Hipster Nerd and the Needlessly Aggressive Jock. The art is simple, cartoon style, but pretty neat. The Bad: Everything is very tongue in cheek, which leaves it a little… light for my tastes. I don't feel like any of the routes matter in the grand scheme of things, MC hasn't truly touched anyone's heart. The whole thing is a joke game, so it's funny, but a bit shallow. Best monster: Polly, the permanently stoned party girl.

Cute Demon Crashers

Technically a sex game? But a really very special one.

Platform: PC (free! Here!) Story: A portal opens in MC's house and four Incubi/Succubi drop through. To apologize for the inconvenience, while they wait for a portal back, they offer to teach MC about sex. Squick factor: I've written about this game before and the best thing, the very best thing about it is how incredibly consent-minded it is. Like, even if you're already in bed, getting it on, there's always an option to turn back and leave it at that. The demons are really just there to help MC find out what gives her pleasure. Protagonist’s spine: Rock. Obviously, MC is mildly upset about four random demons showing up. As mentioned before, what happens next is mostly up to the player.

The Good: It's free and the art is pretty and I love the premise. The Bad: Kinda short, but again: free. Cutest Demon Crasher: *cough* Orias *cough*

#otome game #mystic messenger #ikemen revolution #ikemen sengoku #amnesia memories #and a bunch more #shall we date #lethey writes #long post

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guattari2600 · 7 years ago

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an otome romance route taught me something therapy couldn’t

as bizarre as it seems because this is about a visual novel where you date anime boys for your phone, actual serious content warning for discussion of abuse. ALSO mystic messenger spoilers ahead, including for super new content.

I have played maybe four visual novels (including Hatoful Boyfriend, a masterpiece) so I’m not an expert in the field, but I absolutely love Mystic Messenger. Partly for its format (it’s delivered like an app on your phone complete with e-mail, chatrooms that appear in real time, calls and text messages from the members of the chatroom). I also love that all of the characters feel like, if not real people, super individual in their personalities. It can seem a little one-dimensional (as opposed to two-dimensional, ha ha ha. ha) at first, but once you start to get to know them better there’s a ton of history underpinning pretty much all of them. One thing that has really struck me about Mystic Messenger is that the way to get the “Good Ending” on most routes is to pursue the healthy relationship options as opposed to the unhealthy ones that feed into the characters’ insecurities. One character, Yoosung, is really young and struggles to get work done instead of playing video games. You can choose to enable his bullshit and step in as a surrogate mom - but that results in a bad ending. Another character, Jumin, who has problems expressing himself emotionally, gets very clingy very fast. You can choose to dive headfirst into a codependent relationship with him - but that, too, gets you the bad ending. Taking your time and being respectful of people’s boundaries and empathetic are the best way to “win” Mystic Messenger.

Seems reasonable.

So I was super psyched when the newest route for the mysterious head of the RFA, V, was released this month. I knew V’s backstory was a clearly unhealthy & codependent relationship with another character in the series (Rika). I didn’t realize that watching them communicate in real time would knock me on my back the way it did. I’m writing this to deal with the fact that I got enraptured by the anime boy messenger program for a few days, but also to advocate for what I think was a nuanced & powerful representation of codependence and abuse in relationships.

I have (like many of us) a history of abusive relationships that have damaged my ability to connect with others in a lot of ways. Luckily, I’ve had a great support system backing me up and some really great mental health professionals who have helped me get through a lot of it. But some stuff still stings.

V and Rika’s backstory, in a nutshell: V was a famous photographer who met Rika when she was looking at one of his photos at an exhibition. When she talked about his paintings he felt like she understood him and they got involved. The way they talk about their relationship is really burdened with metaphor - him being her “sun” and promising to love every part of her, even the parts that are “darkness.” As Rika’s mental health deteriorated the “darkness” kept coming out more and more. V tried to continue to be the “sun” to her darkness but this just resulted in Rika feeling more and more suffocated because it felt like his obsession with trying to fix her was rejecting the parts of her that weren’t perfect. We get cutscenes interspersed throughout the story that show us times that Rika and V spent together where they were happy, the deterioration of their relationship, and Rika in the present day.

When things started going downhill.

Eventually, Rika’s mental health deteriorated completely and after attacking V and doing damage to his eyes that could result in him going blind, she disappeared and formed a cult where she tries to “save” people by letting the darkness inside them out instead of focusing on the “light” (yes, this is where the anime cheese truly emerges). Her feelings in the present-day of the game toward V span the entire spectrum of grief - she goes from raging about how she wants to hurt him, to begging him to save her again, to telling him he means nothing to her and she’s just using him. What makes Mystic Messenger particularly remarkable - and painful - is that because of its format, you get to not only watch their dialogue in real-time, but participate in it. You’re there whenever V tells her that what they had wasn’t love, but obsession:

And you’re there whenever V starts to lose it and think that he’s worthless unless he goes back to her:

Whenever the two come face-to-face in the chatroom, you’re there to plea in what felt like the most futile and devastating scene for me, where you try to beg V not to go back to Rika as he’s talking to her:

And maybe most disturbingly (for me, because it rings a little too true to past events), you’re there whenever Rika admits that she’s fully aware of how manipulative and abusive their relationship is:

While the rest of Mystic Messenger had some rough emotional moments, watching the dying throes of an abusive relationship being played out in front of me (including the character who I was growing emotionally attached to in this route of the game) drove me to put my phone down and have a glass of wine. Several times.

What made this route particularly tough for me was that it followed the rest of Mystic Messenger in that the only way to get the “Good Ending” (and I did get the Good Ending) is to give the healthy, empathetic answers. I caught myself making the same mistakes I’ve made in the real-life past in the game too. Whenever Rika said something particularly spiteful, I wanted to tell her that she was evil and beyond help. Whenever V was hurting, I wanted to beg him to run to me instead of her. But either of these choices will result in a bad ending, so I had to bite my tongue (and in several cases, rewind and restart a chatroom so I didn’t tank my game).

As I progressed it started getting easier. There are several checkpoints along routes in Mystic Messenger where you can fail and get a bad ending in different ways, so if you continuously choose the “good” answers the characters will respond differently to you. As I forced myself to understand more about Rika and what she was going through, it became easier to not respond with kneejerk disgust and to instead say “You’re not evil, you need help.” And whenever V was vulnerable, instead of trying to force my way in, I could say “You need to learn to love yourself - you’re precious beyond what you offer to others.” In retrospect, there are some situations from my past in which I deeply wish I’d made those choices instead. Eventually, if you do it right, V tells Rika goodbye once and for all... and watching her begging him one more time to take her back is one of the most painful conversations to sit through.

Playing through V’s story was profoundly difficult for me, and when it was over I breathed a sigh of relief. The “Good Ending” isn’t V running into your arms, it’s a 2 year lapse after which he comes to you and says he thinks he’s ready to start again. My one complaint is that we don’t see what happens to Rika (although I expect that’ll be in some post-game content that’s slated to be coming soon). I’m left here feeling absolutely silly that a game where you message anime boys on your phone could do such a number on me (believe me, you can’t laugh at me any harder than I already am).

There is, however, a really dangerous lesson that I'm trying not to take away from this route. The nature of the visual novel's structure runs the risk of encouraging the idea that your choices matter in other people's abusive situations. Here's what therapy HAS successfully taught me: sometimes there's no right thing to say, and even if you approach someone in the healthiest way possible it won't keep them from making self-destructive decisions. In the real world, even if I said all the right things to V, he may have still decided to go back to Rika because he couldn't manage to love himself enough to leave. Maybe you've heard the statistic that it takes a woman on average 7 attempts to leave an abusive relationship. You can't just fix people by selecting the right option on the chat wheel - you can only tell them that you believe they deserve to be happy. You can't make them believe it too.

I do understand, however, that telling that story would make for a pretty heartbreaking video game (especially in a phone app where you date anime boys). So if you wanna get your heart put through a wringer you have both my recommendation and my warning. I think that if I'd gotten a bad ending I may have just put my phone down and taken the week off to lie in bed. But I do feel like I’m better off for playing it.

#mystic messenger #long reads

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duckskool · 7 years ago

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💖🔥😇💎✖️️🐒💫💕🍳🌠🏘️🍭🌟😂 >:3c

💖 Current special interest?:

!!!!!! OSOMATSU-SAN AND ARTEKAO

🔥 How many special interests do you have at the moment?:

6!!!!! MAYBE MORE?!?!?! WE DONT KNOW!!!

😇 If your special interest is a video game/movie/tv show/etc, who’s your fav character from it?:

Osomatsu-san: Karamatsu!!! I loaf him

ARTEKAO: HMMMMMMMMMMMM i have to say that Gem and Nicole are the most fun to write, but my favoritecharacter of all??? Terry. He’s also very fun to write and I love how he acts and everything he does and says! But I have to say Kennith Redoc is also my fave character, even though he’s not really shown in the game at all, I kinda developed him as a character outside of the game and I LOVE how he acts and I kinda developed him a little too much!!! (Hopefully if I have enough motiation, I’ll make a game for him bc I have so many scenes planned)

💎 When and how did you discover your special interest?:

Osomatsu-san I found through tumblr!! It was when the second to last episode of season 1 aired I think? You know the sad one?????????? I loaf it

ARTEKAO uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i made it so ya but i started on the concept when i was 11!!!!

✖️️ Is there something you don’t like about your special interest?:

Osomatsu-san has a really bad fandom since most of it is just...bad incest shippers.

ARTEKAO, since I made it, I’m gonna point out its flaws that i’ve noticed that I did but I could NOT fix!!! D: One, Real and Era weren’t really put into the game as much as I wanted them to be since I didn’t really have a place for them in the storyline. At first in the original concept, they were just there because I was really scared of people yeling at me for not putting girls in my game (this was when I was 11). But I kept them in because I’ve grown to love them. I want to make something with them so they can have more character because I DESPERATELY want them to have more character since I truly love them so much! Two, act one goes by really fast if you don’t have the multiple endings factor. I knew I was gonna rush it because I rewrote act 1 like SO many times over the course of the years that I was just tired of it, but I wanted to make up for it so I just threw in 5 endings in there. Also I wanted to include a LOT more stuff, but I couldn’t, which is why you’ll see a lot of CGs that weren’t put into the game in the game files.

🐒 What’s your favorite line from your special interest if it’s a video game/movie/tv show/etc?:

“SO YOU’RE FINALLY HERE, MY KARAMATSU GARRUS”-Karamatsu Matsuno, 2017

“I can’t believe you actually fell for it!”-Nicole Mercury

💫 Favorite fact about your special interest?:

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUU rn my fave fact is that Ososan is adding more character to Ichimatsu. He apologized for stealing tuna and giving it to the cats??? His heart is literally a glass heart with the words “FRAGILE” on it??? Who could not love this boy

No matter what you do the world will end, so basically every end is kinda a bad end but the true end goes a little more better..?

💕 What’s your fav thing about your special interest?:

This:

Act 2 of ARTEKAO is rly sad bc from act 1, you already know whats gonn ahappen to everyone, you just dont know when

🍳 Do you have a stim related to your special interest?

I don’t have any, I’m sorry :(

🌠 What’s a past special interest?:

Hatoful boyfriend!!!! Such a nice SPIN :D

🏘️ What was your first special interest you can remember?:

THE TITANIC. god i used to research it all the time

🍭 What’s a headcanon/theory you have about your special interest?:

Karamatsu is trans and so is Ichi, Oso has Dependent Personality Disorder and Jyushi is ADHD and autistic. Also Karamatsu is bi

I don’t think I have any HCs or theories since all of it is canon technically since I made it???

🌟 Did someone introduce you to your special interest?

Nope D:

😂 Something funny about your special interest?

THIS:

(source: karamatsuinbadpants)

for artekao?? THIS

#spin #response #thank you!#daniel-dickens

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princessmtt · 8 years ago

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the thing about having ocs is that ya gotta talk about them first if people are gonna be interested but idk how to do that so I’M JUST GONNA LIST THINGS AND HOPE FOR THE BEST

Corinne is white/Japanese. Her father is Italian (hence the surname Salucci), and her mother is a second generation Japanese-American.

her FCs are Young Mia Fey and Tifa Lockheart.

Her birthday is October 10, 199X. The barrier had been broken the summer before her 23rd birthday, and she began working as Mettaton’s assistant after she turned 24.

one of her main duties as his assistant is to drive him places; Mettaton is too tall to fit in any driver’s seat (being 7′5″), and taking a limo everywhere is just tacky.

which he is and he knows it but he is tasteful about it thank you

Corinne was originally conceived as his private agent, but that job didn’t give her a solid enough background.

She was born in Rosemont, IL, but moved to Los Angeles with her friend Gabriel for their careers. and also because she hates winter.

Corinne and Gabriel both work in the dance industry as instructors and choreographers; Gabriel is the spearhead of the studio, and Corinne is his second in command. they also run a dance group Pollyana, though Corinne is currently more of a reserve member due to her new job.

Gabriel has worked with celebrities before, and worked with/created dance routines for Mettaton before Corinne got the assistant job. He is the one who referred her to Mettaton in the first place.

Corinne’s main inspirations for her dance style are Kamen Liar 217, Asibuto Penta, Miume and KoRock. She’s one of the most flexible dancers at the studio, and is also the best at tutting. She also has a high school history in color guard.

Mettaton and Corinne met once very briefly before her job interview, but Mettaton isn’t aware of this. She plans on telling him about it eventually, but isn’t rushing about it.

Mettaton calls her “Connie”, unless he’s being serious.

During the first few months of working for him, a gossip mag had started a rumor mill that Corinne and Mettaton were sleeping together. While finding it absolutely hilarious and weirdly flattering in a way, Corinne was positive Mettaton would fire her because of it.

He did not, and was actually really mad about it for her sake more than his (those kinds of rumors were nothing he didn’t expect to happen for himself, but).

flash forward a while later, the whole ordeal inspired Corinne to create a wall of some of the hate mail she’s gotten because she finds it that funny. It’s basically this picture in the form of a collage. Mettaton hates the wall.

In the span of time since she started working for him, Mettaton has accidentally injured Corinne three times:

first was on a small outing to Muffet’s new bakery. while having Corinne taste-test some pastries for an event Mettaton was hosting (needing a human opinion), his battery began to glitch and he temporarily shut down. not knowing what to do, but knowing that his body was worth more money than her entire existence, Corinne tried to catch him before he completely fell to the ground; he ended up bruising her entire left shoulder. when he was up and running again, he told her to just let him drop next time.

second was an involuntary reaction; Mettaton was playing a game and had such a strong emotional response to a cutscene that he smacked Corinne in the face. again, she thought it was hilarious.

third was a technicality. while it wasn’t actually Mettaton himself that did it, a commemorative tin box in the shape of him ended up falling on Corinne’s head. it broke skin and gave her an awkward cut on her forehead for a week

Corinne routinely checks online forums and blogspots dedicated to Mettaton for the purpose of finding fanwork (he loves that stuff), and likes reading different theories people have on how he works.

debunked theories are: his feet (he has them), his sex drive/interest in sex (he has none), what’s in his pants (also nothing, giving birth to the inside joke “Schrodinger’s Genitalia”)

the strongest attribute of Corinne’s soul is Patience. It’s something she’s known for a while, and it’s something she has mixed feelings about.

conversely, her weakest attribute is Bravery. she thinks that makes perfect sense.

ironically, Corinne’s unusually high Patience was one of the core reasons Mettaton hired her in the first place--he knew he needed someone who would not only be able to keep up with him, but also put up with him.

the other reasons were her genuine kindness to Napstablook and Shyren, and the fact that he wanted someone that reminded him of Alphys, since no one kept him in check better.

this isn’t to say Alphys is dead or anything she’s just super busy rip

Corinne talks anime with Alphys a lot, and has given her and Undyne some recommendations. Undyne is very passionate about Bleach.

Mettaton once paid Corinne to take Alphys to an anime convention for her birthday.

she also got Papyrus into Layton. she’s really mad at how good he is at it.

She had somewhat figured out Mettaton was a ghost on her own, but after a night of unfortunate battery malfunctions has since been formally told about it.

like seriously dude you keep calling Naps your cousin?? you aren’t the same kind of monster??? what kind of conclusion did you think she’d come to after that

Mettaton finds it hilarious when Corinne curses because he thinks she has excellent delivery.

Corinne is allergic to chocolate.

As long as they’re both alive, Corinne always ends up working for Mettaton, no matter the time line.

this also applies to AUs (except fell bc I don’t got time for that)

in Underswap specifically, Corinne and Gabriel’s dance group are the official performers for Napstaton’s concerts. Napstaton hired her themselves to help Mettaton adjust to his new body, and also to work as his author’s assistant.

Corinne routinely teases Mettaton with Safety Bot. Mettaton hates it because he thinks it’s genuinely funny but he never sees it coming.

“Safety Bot” is one of the many names Corinne has given Mettaton in her phone contacts. Other names include “Big Boss”, “Tiny Box Tim”, “I AM D’BOX GHOST”, “Shoop-Shoop-I-Dub”, and “MY BRAND”.

Mettaton is her favorite meme

the only reason Safety Bot became an inside joke was because Corinne found out that Mettaton and Sans would quote The Baby Is You to one another without knowing the context. which she had to provide.

this means Corinne has had to explain Homestuck to Mettaton.

his favorite kid is Jane.

Sans likes Rose.

She's gotten Mettaton to watch a few animated shows, and play a bunch of video games. They have game nights now.

he played Hatoful Boyfriend and cried. as do we all.

she has also roped in a few games of Cards Against Humanity among the monster crew. she has to read out all the cards that Mettaton doesn’t want to say aloud. The most infamous and understandable one was, of course, “Pacman uncontrollably guzzling cum”. she does, however, have video footage of Mettaton defeatedly saying “titty sprinkles”.

“Connie-darling, what’s ‘pixelated bukkake’?” “Lemme ask you this, boss, do you know what a “money shot” is?” “Unfortunately.” “Multiply that by a factor of 10.” “Ewwwwww.”

on Superfight! night, the two of them got into a heated argument about who would win in a fight between A Baby Assassin Holding Another Baby or Voltron Whoopi Goldberg. Corinne won with Whoopi.

Mettaton frequently goes to Corinne for explanations on how human bodies operate on a personal level (knowing how they work scientifically). In return, he tells her how monsters operate in the same vein. Good learning experience overall.

A lot of his questions do tend to revolve around human sex and sexuality, since sex isn’t a thing that monsters do. as such, fairly obvious innuendos tend to fly over his head. Corinne usually has to explain them in post. it is a thankless job, but also funny to see him so scandalized.

She’s declared herself first in line to fight Mettaton for Hatsune Miku’s hand in marriage. Mettaton has honored this.

only they know how much they’re joking about it

This is them in 10 years.

Corinne considers her relationship with Mettaton one of the closest she might get to having a brother.

Mettaton is her hero.

This would genuinely surprise him if he knew.

#corinne in the house #THIS IS SO LONG????? how did it get this way #this is how i keep myself occupied at work guys #just think about shenanigans for a fic you might not ever get out because you cAN #this is mostly just reference for me but Corinne's come so far since i made her i am a proud mother

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smallfriendlyhamster1187 · 7 years ago

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$11.87: nah im a boat rn

Waytfm hype-train: Fucking restart the game

$11.87: fine

$11.87: yeesh

Waytfm hype-train: You're almost at sec's level of playthrough awfulness

$11.87: oh the sayori girl came up to me

$11.87: brb putting on pants irl

biglawk: i'm going to be sick

Tormeson: @secular25 your gameplay was fine I'm sorry for having mocked you

Waytfm hype-train: haha

Waytfm hype-train: @secular25 Fuck you sec, you'll never be forgiven

$11.87: this game is far improved when i think of myself as being a boat

Waytfm hype-train: I'll make that game for you

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434352582534889483/unknown.png?width=400&height=48

Waytfm hype-train: Hatoful Boatfriend

$11.87: i feel insulted

Tormeson: I want a british Sayori calling you a chav now

10: 04 AM] $11.87: =\

https: //media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434353085293527050/unknown.png?width=400&height=61

$11.87: fuck off main character

$11.87: you're so melodramatic

biglawk: MC is the worst

Tormeson: 0 to hate in 25 seconds flat

Waytfm hype-train: Fucking MC

Tormeson: Impressive

$11.87: who is MC

Tormeson: Main Character

biglawk: main character you dip

$11.87: oh ok

$11.87: i meet girl with large bust, named "girl 1"

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434353366458564608/unknown.png?width=400&height=183

Waytfm hype-train: That's how you know it's anime

$11.87: > this club is full of incredibly cute girls

$11.87: MC confirmed thirsty

$11.87: well, thats a given, seeing as he is a boat

Waytfm hype-train: Holy shit, I'm banning you

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434353710894940180/unknown.png?width=400&height=65

biglawk: uwu

Tormeson: :smilepls:

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434354038256173066/unknown.png[10:07 AM] Tormeson: That's the only anime emoji I have

Tormeson: I think

biglawk: i long watching 11 screenshot things

Waytfm hype-train: Everytime I see the name "Limerick" I want to just delete this whole channel

$11.87: Limerick II

Waytfm hype-train: Mes, how can you not have anime emojis?

Tormeson: I dunno, I'm not in servers that have a lot :shrug:(edited)

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434354508496371730/unknown.png?width=400&height=44

$11.87: why is everybody so coy

$11.87: "these are good cupcakes you made"

Waytfm hype-train: Motherfucker, have you read a VN before?

$11.87: gasp HOW DARE YOU

Waytfm hype-train: Also, if you wanted to bump the resolution down to like 720 or what have you, I'd appreciate it. not only is my internet carried in by carrier pigeon, but I also have a daily datacap

Waytfm hype-train: it's pretty awful

$11.87: one sec

$11.87: its at 720 and 10 fps

Waytfm hype-train: Aight, I can do doki doki powerpoints

Waytfm hype-train: Hopefully

biglawk: 11 you broke your stream wtf

Waytfm hype-train: It's at 480p now, actually

$11.87: its working for me

$11.87: oh oops

$11.87: lemme fix that

Tormeson: Eleven, my first VN was DDLC and even I wasn't surprised by this

Waytfm hype-train: Go play Saya no uta, Mes

Waytfm hype-train: stream it

Tormeson: I have exams tho

Tormeson: After exams?

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434356081435607040/unknown.png?width=400&height=32

Waytfm hype-train: You think I care about your life

$11.87: time to seduce monica

Waytfm hype-train: She's onto you 11

Waytfm hype-train: Abort game

Waytfm hype-train: Get the fuck out of there

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434356229834407936/unknown.png

10: 16 AM] $11.87: some romance going on in here

Tormeson: Monika would probably wipe the floor with you, Eleven

biglawk: you don't even stand a chance

Tormeson: And I'm not talking about her club, just Monika

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434356457534914560/unknown.png?width=400&height=216

$11.87: title screen

$11.87: stop telling me about these teacups when you've not animated them

$11.87: they just have their hands behind their back

$11.87: thats a weird ass way to hold your cup of tea

$11.87: "ah i read a horror book once"

$11.87: me_irl

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434356908489703424/unknown.png?width=400&height=27

Tormeson: I think Eleven is our world's MC

Waytfm hype-train: Yeah, Saya no Uta is kinda bad. it's a shame, because it's a cthulhu love story, basically, but cthulhu is a loli and it kinda ruins it

Tormeson: Fun fact my second VN was DDRC

Tormeson: I haven't played any other VNs

Waytfm hype-train: Oh, boy

$11.87: i have 200 hours in some anime dating sim

$11.87: but i just afk'd that for two weeks

$11.87: im not really one for VNs or animes in general

biglawk: lmao

Waytfm hype-train: No, fuck off, you don't get to say "I have 200 hours in a dating sim" and "I'm not one for VNs"

Waytfm hype-train: You shit

biglawk: ddlc was my first and so far only VN

$11.87: who tf is like this

https: //media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434357829168660480/unknown.png?width=361&height=300

biglawk: nic

$11.87: this girl is going to snap her spine or something

$11.87: also is there some fan thats out of shot that makes the hair billow

Tormeson: No she's just perfect

Tormeson: Doesn't need a fan

Waytfm hype-train: Mes

Tormeson: And she has a strong spine

biglawk: we're all her fans

Waytfm hype-train: Don't

$11.87: oh no

$11.87: i actually have to do something

Waytfm hype-train: You trash

$11.87: i forgot that this was a game and not just a powerpoint

$11.87: since i spent the last 20 minutes just reading the slides

biglawk: who are you gonna try to bang

Tormeson: You

Waytfm hype-train: Write your poem

Waytfm hype-train: Go go go

Tormeson: :ablobwink:

biglawk: :heart_eyes:

$11.87: monica obviously

$11.87: what the heck how does this work

$11.87: um

$11.87: time to write some magical literary masterpiece

Waytfm hype-train: Click a word

Waytfm hype-train: then click another

Waytfm hype-train: And do that until you've spilled your heart out onto a page

$11.87: > suicide

Waytfm hype-train: >picking papa

$11.87: > one girl jumps up and down excitidly

Waytfm hype-train: hmmm

$11.87: i have daddy issues, ok?

Waytfm hype-train: You have no idea

Waytfm hype-train: Yuri is trash-tier, just so you know

Waytfm hype-train: Natsuki is like a worm crawling around on the ground

biglawk: delete tihs

Tormeson: Yuri is trash-tier only if trash-tier means top-tier

Waytfm hype-train: My girl Sayori floats above like an angel though

$11.87: hmm mr "oh jeez whats a 'book'" is now effortlessly flirting

Waytfm hype-train: You're a fast learner

Waytfm hype-train: There had better be A)voice and B)a saved VOD when you finish this game after you're done with your other stuff

$11.87: hmm, i can probably record

$11.87: but rn my roommates are loudly watching something else

Waytfm hype-train: Eh, this first hour probably doesn't matter so much(edited)

$11.87: also yuri sure seems to be a datelet

biglawk: explain this word

$11.87: she is very ungood at being subtle

$11.87: she's bad at flirting

Waytfm hype-train: Have twitch save your past broadcasts, though, if they don't already

$11.87: i think the bigger question is "what sort of chad am i where so many people are tripping over themselves to date me"

biglawk: big booby goth tho

$11.87: they only do that if you have enough subs or something

Waytfm hype-train: That is a big question

Waytfm hype-train: I don't think they do?

$11.87: also brb im getting some water

$11.87: my recording software can probably do that

Waytfm hype-train: Haven't really looked too much into that

$11.87: " i just happened to buy two of them"

$11.87: hmm that was a bit heavy handed

Waytfm hype-train: You ain't seen shit

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434360808248442881/unknown.png?width=400&height=37

10: 34 AM] Waytfm hype-train: Buckle up motherfucker

Waytfm hype-train: Quit ruining my posts, 11

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434360967158300682/unknown.png?width=400&height=30

https: //media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434361015996645376/unknown.png?width=400&height=36

$11.87: > implying that the MC being a doofus will be a surprise twist

biglawk: but who is the real MC

$11.87: oh no

$11.87: stop bullying me

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434361467806941200/unknown.png?width=400&height=184

$11.87: :thinking:

Tormeson: >LimerickII

I might just delete this channel

$11.87: i told you, im cosplaying as a boat

Tormeson: Hmmm

biglawk: why delete this whole channel when you can just delete 11

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434361939792101376/unknown.png?width=400&height=36

$11.87: this some tasty smut

biglawk: lewd

Tormeson: Don't make me use this

https: //media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434362150668992512/Capture_2018-04-13-10-39-46.png?width=194&height=301

$11.87: > sorry i didn't know you were self concious about that sort of thing

$11.87: you fucking idiot MC

$11.87: brb getting water

$11.87: back

$11.87: oh no its decision making time

$11.87: who should i show my poem to

Tormeson: Who's your fav?

Waytfm hype-train: Gross

biglawk: decision time

Waytfm hype-train: No one wants you to whip out your poem

$11.87: ill show it to my waifu, monica

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434363648316538902/unknown.png?width=400&height=78

$11.87: this game is not good at being subtle

Waytfm hype-train: Your face isn't good at being subtle

biglawk: i hate you and your boat

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434364023979638804/unknown.png?width=24&height=300

$11.87: i like how this is handdrawn

$11.87: like, is that canon?

Waytfm hype-train: ?

$11.87: did monica actually draw this little slide thing on her paper

Waytfm hype-train: lol

biglawk: yes

biglawk: what do you think of her poem

$11.87: :shrug:

Waytfm hype-train: Monika's poems are shit

Waytfm hype-train: Natsuki has the good stuff

$11.87: roni just shouted "yuri is best girl"

$11.87: so i know who her waifu is

Waytfm hype-train: Roni, shut the fuck up

Waytfm hype-train: We're trying to have a moment here

biglawk: based roni

Tormeson: Roni is right

Waytfm hype-train: I'll ban all of you

Tormeson: Tell her that she's right

Tormeson: :(

Waytfm hype-train: I'll corrupt 11's game so he can't play anymore if you keep poisoning his mind

biglawk: i would be banned a million times for yuri

Waytfm hype-train: You will be

biglawk: oh no

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434364791575019521/unknown.png?width=400&height=41

$11.87: thats some good mind reading MC has

$11.87: then again he's a boat so pretty much any action he takes is impressive

Waytfm hype-train: Go play hatoful boyfriend

$11.87: the fuck is this shit

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434365292391563286/unknown.png

$11.87: this reminds me of that joke with the table

Tormeson: :tharking:

Waytfm hype-train: Flicka flicka

$11.87: why cant i tell what my poem is about

$11.87: it is just a bunch of random words on a piece of paper

Waytfm hype-train: Yeah, you're a pretty shitty poet

$11.87: hm this poem is the best imo

$11.87: its not 2deep4me

$11.87: HAHAHAHHAHAHHAA

$11.87: this poem is so trashy i love it

$11.87: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433621801512337410/434366555699019788/unknown.png?width=249&height=301

biglawk: way is going to ban you

Waytfm hype-train: Listen here you little shit

Tormeson: I'm not a Natsuki-boi but I actually like that poem

$11.87: > i dont get an option as MC to trash on her poem

$11.87: whats even the point of playing tbh

$11.87: anyway i need to head out

Waytfm hype-train: Yeah, you'd better get the fuck out of here

$11.87: i'll have my laptop so i can remote access if i have any downtime

$11.87: but i won't be able to alt tab as easily to give comments

Waytfm hype-train: Commentary is paramount

Tormeson: :ANGERY:

biglawk: just wait until you're back home

Tormeson: ^Way rn

$11.87: oh god i can't wait to get 0 sleep tonight

$11.87: im not bringing my bed

$11.87: so its blankets and floors for me and roni

Tormeson: >having a bed

You fucking bourgeois scum

(napkin) i might miss your msg: who is roni?

Tormeson: Eleven's gf

(napkin) i might miss your msg: understandable

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