#her personality feels too ‘strong’ to be a self insert otoge MC

[prettyboybaek-main]

i cant express how happy i am to see all these non-MC y/n fics, glad to know that im not the only one who cant relate to the MC… please keep them coming 🥲🫶

[ikemen-bully]

it’s true ;; so many of ToT fans seem to have started with OM! Personally, the first otome game I played was Dandelion: Wishes brought to you (where MC has a name, family, job, hobbies, etc.) and then Nameless (MC has family, hobbies, strong likes/dislikes, etc.), so when I saw people were complaining that Rosa had too much personality I was kinda shocked? Because, in a way, she’s still got a lot of backstory that’s not touched that can let the player put a bit of themselves in her. I think Mihoyo did good with her, she has enough personality you’re charmed by her and root for her but not enough where there’s no room for possible wiggle space in creating a bit of a personal backstory to her. Even then, games with “choices” still tend to lead you to a similar route with few changes until you’ve reached the end… look at OM!, none of the choices end up changing what happens — they give you the illusion of choice, that’s all. I think ToT might not be the best introduction to otome/otoge games (which, funny enough literally mean maiden games; which already should tell you it’s targeted towards straight women) if you like to create an OC for your romance game MC’s…

For me it was my candy love and in this one you can actually change your character appearance and you still got cg with her in it at the end. I love this touch and wish that customization was incorporated this way in more games too but my candy love is pretty much the only game I know that do that.

As a Luke's fans though, I feel like you don't have much space to self insert since they talk a lot about the past which shape Rosa but it's actually better for me who directly ship Rosa with Luke.

And see that's the thing with these game. You can't satisfy everyone. I don't usually like self insert, I am not a yumejoshi. I am a "otome" which mean that I rather ship the heroine with one of the love interest.

For the choice aspect it's quite true, at least for all the games I tried until now. You either get at the end of the game or get a bad ending. Really though OM isn't what i would call a "reference" in otome game, heck from what I know you barely get any romance in it, which is why I got tired of it since the actual content that I care about is provided by the fandom. I am really not into being in a harem either lol

Tbh the best game to go to for customization is Our Life. Even regular otome game will force a mc on you, no matter how self inserty she is. Only mysme (on popular game) manage to do it well since you get to chose everything your character say. People also talk about appearance but I never saw anyone criticizing the fact that Mysme MC is still your regular pale skinned thin and brown haired character.

But I guess that as an otome tears of Themis is really ideal for me. I just wish Mihoyo wouldn't force self insert on you in this weird fashion where Rosa is called "you" and the game is generally narrated at the second person...