#i could probably write a whole meta post abt why i think this card is ooc for artem but. eh.

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wait is artem's card that bad? omg it sound so out of character :((( i always feared they'd make him this dommy guy since a lot of the fandom wrongfully associates him to that trope ...

ANON I'M SO SORRY. as someone who feels the exact same way as you, i regret to say we literally took the biggest L of the century.

well. time to be blunt. i personally think the card is extremely out of character. to the point where when i was reading it, i didn't even process it was artem. my brain was just like oh. this is a whole other character. but seeing as i am in the small minority of people who feel this way (from what i see anyways), it just might be a preference thing. and for those reading who enjoyed it, please feel free to ignore this post and enjoy it! but as for you and i, anon, we seem to be on the same page with similar preferences ^^;...

i can give a quick run down of the card. i'll be vague. there are three parts (like the first anniversary cards). the first two are very normal and very artem-y. right down to artem avoiding eye contact with mc for weeks because he's too nervous about proposing.

if you jump ship at part 3 you'll have a normal experience with nothing lost and still get the proposal and everything.

because part 3 is where it goes off the rails. like, 0 to 100. FAST. like pure sleeper agent shit.

they're riding home, artem is shitfaced (wow shocker. this is their only fallback for him i swear), artem is like blabbering on about how he regrets being passive and wants mc to "proactively be [his]", then when they get back home. he immediately picks her up and starts making out with her

which like. Aight.

"can i push my greed a little further" is a line i then read with my own two eyes, mc quivers uncontrollably like a leaf, and then we get the only W of this part - mc says yes which like. nice. consent. the bare minimum. thanks hoyoverse.

we lose that W soon enough bc he bites her neck and keeps smirking and is like you will only gaze at ME from now on 😈 and has this really weird dommy back and forth with mc that is like uwahh artem i won't look at anyone else

also really funny bc this card confirms this is the first time they bang so i'm really glad artem just knows how to do all of this shit his first time. and by glad i mean baffled.

while we're at it, i think he's still holding her? like carrying her this whole time? while drunk? insane? then it fades to black. literally. the lights magically go off while he's still carrying her.

where was i. oh yeah. hated this card. i liked vyn's card where he tries to hide his boner with a jacket better because at least it was funny. artem's card (the final part essentially) was just sad.