#decided to answer this because it’s like the tenth message I’ve received in this vein over the last few days alone

[midnightsun-if]

Why is Scarlett even an RO if she doesn’t seem to like us? It makes absolutely no sense for her to be one at this point. First she’s locked for over half the players and now she doesn’t care one bit about the MC.

Anon, I’m going to share something with you that might surprise you… It’s something called:

Scarlett doesn’t have to like the MC to be an RO at the start of her romance — not that she even dislikes you to begin with; she is just neutral about you, which is completely understandable? The MC is the youngest child of a noble family — even if said noble family is part of the Etheric Court — that Scarlett maybe sees once, perhaps twice, every other year. Why the hell would she have an obsession with you? When having such a personality isn’t aligned with her character nor is her being randomly kind to the MC; especially when the MC continues to bug her even when she’s made it clear she wishes for you to stop. Scarlett has an Ice Queen archetype — it would completely be out of character for her to be a happy ray of sunshine with the MC when she doesn’t know you, doesn’t trust you, and this being the first time she’s ever truly interacted with you outside of a political/diplomatic setting.

Sloane is an RO — do you have an issue with them? Especially when, one can argue, they’re a lot more forward with their dislike; even if it’s not necessarily something personal… They’re just like that.

Not every character is going to like the MC. Not every character is going to think you’re the gods gift to the world. Because, if that were the case, it’d make a fairly one dimensional experience; flattening the characters into simply existing for the MC and that’s not something I’m willing to do with the world I’ve built (and will continue to build).

And I’m not getting into the first half of your argument as it’ll only start a circular argument once more.