#my enchanté edits

[williamrikers]

Intricate Rituals The Series Part 2

[dribs-and-drabbles]

The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #3

Don't Say No ep 5:

Bad Buddy ep 5:

Enchanté ep 10:

Even Sun ep 6:

Vice Versa ep 8:

The Eclipse ep 8:

The Three Gentlebros ep 1:

The Eclipse ep 11:

A Boss and a Babe ep 4:

My Dear Gangster Oppa ep 3:

Middleman's Love ep 1:

[ohmybitna]

- I haven’t been able to adjust really well. Sometimes when I’m with him, I don’t know what to say or do. It’s like I’m always worried. I don’t know how to act. - Li Ming, you can just talk to him. Touch him. When he can’t hear, physical touch will make him feel like there’s someone next to him. Other than that, treat him as a non-deaf person.

Moonlight Chicken (2023)

[kissablelips-desireslure-vol1]

ONLY FRIENDS (2023)

KASIDET PLOOKPHOL (as Mew)

&

JIRATCHAPONG SRISANG (as Top)

[ynbabe]

Do you think you could write a smau with Yuki or Daniel with a male reader who is like 6'-6'4 and they kinda have a gay panic moment and reader is just subtly flirting with them through captions and comments...

If not than that's ok, have a great day/night

ahhhhh this is such a cute idea, I went with Danny ric for this one cause the yuki to 6'4 reader height difference would be too mean 😭

y/nfsnweek

y/nfsnweek new shoot coming out @/alphatauri

y/nfsnweek excited to meet all the cool guys at @/vcarbf1team

vcarbf1team we're excited to meet you!! username YOU'RE MEETING DANIEL AND YUKI?? y/nfsnweek perks of the job 🤷‍♂️

username HELLO??? father what do you mean you're modelling for an f1 team??

username girl they were a fashion brand first 😭

username omg does this mean Y/n's going to a race? He has to right?

username every time I find out abt this man's height I need to log off cause WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS CUTIE IS FUCKING 6'4???

username tall king

username imagine him next to Yuki 😂

username they wouldn't even fit in the camera screen together 💀

vcarbf1team

vcarbf1team our drivers through the eyes of @/y/nfsnweek

y/nfsnweek need a pass for every race pls

vcarbf1team we got you king 💪

yukitsunoda no comments, no one talk to me, deleting all social media

username omg yuki 😭 bbg it's not your fault y/n is just freakishly tall

danielricciardo finally someone I had to look up to talk to 😂

yukitsunoda Daniel you're blocked first

username daniel looks at y/n like he wants to eat him, Yuki looks at y/n like he's planning to steal his height

username Danny something you'd like to share with the class???k

Daniel was trying to be normal but there were only very few people he had to look up to talk too and even fewer people who looked like that.

He had accepted he was gay a long time ago but refused to be in a relationship due to the media and his job but there was no way he could ignore the way his heart began racing when he looked into your eyes. The worst part of it was he didn’t even know if you were interested in him, or guys.

One wrong move and his career would be down the drain… again and he couldn’t risk that but he couldn’t stop himself from thinking about you either. This was driving him insane. You were driving him insane and you hadn’t even spoken to him over 10 minutes.

He could always count on Max right? He had never told anyone about Daniel’s secret even when they had been fighting and he was his best friend obviously he was going to cry about this to him.

Why had Max sent him one of Y/n’s Instagram posts? Daniel was not in the mood to stalk his crush only to see him with women all over him.

y/nfsnweek

y/nfsnweek If you know what I did last summer pls let me know

Oh, okay, he liked guys, but did he want Daniel? Y/n was a model, he worked around gorgeous men 24/7 why would he want to be with Daniel?

Daniel couldn't do much more, he could pine and yearn like he had for years before or he could get on with his job and move on like he is used to.

danielricciardo

danielricciardo Enchanté orange edition 🍊

landonorris Papaya edition?

danielricciardo no comments

y/nfsnweek my favourite fruit 🤭

username bro??? username your favourite what 🤨 username oh?

maxverstappen doubles as MV1 merch

danielricciardo @/Landonorris defend your colour

danielricciardo

danielricciardo austingp my home away from home

ynfsnweek suddenly I'm very interested in America

maxverstappen 🤨🤨 ynfsnweek yee haw 😫

username that hat 😮‍💨

username max?? y/n??

username y/n being the first comment on this post is giving

username giving broke back mo-

daniel.jpg

daniel.jpg photo creds to @/lando.jpg

y/nfsnweek Lando needs a raise

lando.jpg it's all him y/nfsnweek fr mans fine asf

username Y/N????

username HELLO???

username if Daniel doesn't respond to y/n rn its going to get real embarrassing real quick

Daniels's head was reeling, what did Lando mean you were flirting with him under his posts? Weren't all those comments PR? Should he text you? but what if you didn't like him? But what if you did? Fuck.

Daniel texted you, why had he texted you? Did he not like you? Did your comments make him uncomfortable? You were not above crying till the sun rose and the tears were already ready.

But first you had to yell at the little gremlin that probably caused this, cause you may die of a broken heart and embarrassment but you weren't going alone.

Now back to Daniel, who was probably going to block and you were going to get your contract cut and-

Oh? oh? And where had that sudden burst of confidence come from?

On the other end, Daniel was losing his mind.

Oh

Oh...

HE LIKES ME?? HE LIKES ME!! He couldn't believe he was acting like a teenager right now but he was kicking his feet and giggling. You were the literal man of his dreams and you liked him back!

Daniel was going to die but at least it'd be from happiness this time and you? You were screaming into your pillow, stalking the man's Instagram, blushing thinking about the date.

[tribbles-the-lesbian]

💌Eddie Dear💌 Headcanon

(feat. ⭐️Sally⭐️!!)

So this thought has been stuck in my head for at least a month, soooooooo….

As I was learning French, my teacher would always ensure us that we didn’t need a “French” accent to speak the language, so long as we pronounce the words correctly we’d be fine! He would then demonstrate by putting on a heavy-ass country accent and talked a bit in French (it was hilarious)

This knowledge came back to me a while ago (more like it simply resurfaced) and I immediately thought of our country puppet man Eddie!!

I feel like he’d be fluent in French and speaks it in a veryveryvery heavy accent. But he doesn’t speak it often in the neighborhood since not many other neighbors speak it, so whenever he hears Sally say one of the very few French phrase she knows (feel like she only knows well known phrases like “enchanté” and “je ne said quoi” to sound fancy~) Eddie gets all excited and starts talking to her in French while Sally just stands there not understanding a word being said. But she unintentionally keeps the conversation going by nodding her head/saying “mmm” or “hmmm!” at the right times, thus getting stuck in a loop of one-sided french conversations that she doesn’t understand :)

This is the little comic(?)thing I did to go along with this⤵️

EDIT: I added alt text in case my handwriting is hard to read!!

⬇️sketch version under the cut⬇️

[respectthepetty]

Choose Violence: Pick One - GMMTV Edition

This started because of a "we hear you, and we don't judge" post because I was thinking about a pair who has *the* show that everyone loves, but I wouldn't pick that show as the show that highlights them best as a pair. So I'm going to sit in my truth for the GMMTV branded pairs and pick which show I think highlighted them best as a branded pair.

However, in order for the couples to be in this list, the pairs must have acted as at least THREE different couples as of the end of 2024, so for example, JimmySea is out because they only have Vice Versa and Last Twilight. The implied relationship in Perfect 10 Liners doesn't count since Jimmy didn't appear. So by these standards, even Singto x Krist are OUT! Most of the "newbies" like Winny x Satang are out too, but not all of them!

Off x Gun

Senior Secret Love, Theory of Love, Not Me, Cooking Crush, The Trainee

These are the boys who started the list because I should pick Not Me, but I'm going to be honest with the crowd - COOKING CRUSH! It's been their best show. Fight me!

Tay x New

Dark Blue Kiss, Cherry Magic, Peaceful Property

Technically, they shouldn't be on this list because they didn't play a couple in Peaceful Property since it wasn't a BL, but this is my list and there is no way Polca wasn't going to be included, so it's canon to me, and therefore PEACEFUL PROPERTY is their best show! I wrote what I wrote!

Earth x Mix

A Tale of Thousand Stars, Cupid's Last Wish, Moonlight Chicken

It's way too soon to know how Ossan's Love will turn out, but even if it's great, I know my choice because it will always my choice - CUPID'S LAST WISH! They played comedy, drama, and romance. It gave them dimensions. It gave them the range.

Pond x Phuwin

Fish Upon the Sky, Never Let Me Go, We Are

Oh, this is soooo har---NEVER LET ME GO!

Force x Book

Enchanté, A Boss and a Babe, Only Friends, Only Boo, Perfect 10 Liners

I know I should pick A Boss and a Babe, and before 2024, I would have easily picked that show, but now I know that Force and Book have the range, yet have been handed some of the weakest plots that horribly typecast them, so my pick is the only one that did them true justice - PEACEFUL PROPERTY with a steel chair!

First x Khaotung

The Eclipse, Moonlight Chicken, Only Friends, The Heart Killers

They will always turn out the best performance, but I have to go with the reason we even got them in the first place - THE ECLIPSE. Easy.

Milk x Love

Bad Buddy, Vice Versa, 23.5

BAD BUDDY, duh.

Gemini x Fourth

My School President, Moonlight Chicken, My Love Mix-Up

Were they a couple in Bad Buddy? Doesn't matter because there is only one show here that proved to me that even if I hate their upcoming Ticket to Heaven, they will win all the awards for it because they can act and had me by the throat in MOONLIGHT CHICKEN. Good for them!

Junior x Mark

Midnight Museum, Cherry Magic, Perfect 10 Liners

I really think they are going to serve in Perfect 10 Liners, but just like Force and Book stealing my heart in one episode in Peaceful Property, Junior and Mark did the same in MIDNIGHT MUSEUM, and I still hope they are together in a parallel universe.

Boun x Prem

Until We Meet Again/Between Us, Even Sun, Cutie Pie

It'd be obvious to go with Win x Team since they played them twice, but fuck it, we ball, so it's CUTIE PIE for the established couple!

View x June

10 Year Ticket, Dangerous Romance, 23.5., High School Frenemy

I have to squint for some of these, but this is my list, so since I'm not getting them again, I'll do what I want! I'm giving it to the show I only watched fan-made videos of their parts - HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY since I think they did best with hating AND pining.

Aou x Boom

Midnight Museum, Vice Versa, Hidden Agenda, We Are, Perfect 10 Liners

This is the hardest one because they have played a couple so many times and it all started with Enchanté where they weren't even a couple (right?), but even the tiny knowledge that Dome took over Boom's body in Midnight Museum had me in my feels! I'm confident that Memoir of Rati is going to be their best outing so far, but I still wouldn't be able to pick just one. DRAW because I think every version of a couple they have played is fantastic. Period.

Joong x Dunk

Star in My Mind, Hidden Agenda, The Heart Killers

I'm a Jaidee fan first, and a human second, so I love everything they have done, but gun to head, it'd be THE HEART KILLERS.

And it's only because the show leans into why I think they are a great pair in the first place since this is how they behaved in Safe House.

Basically, I think they are playing themselves.

A really loud kid pestering a quiet kid into leaving the house.

Choose Violence Bonus Round:

Ohm x Singto in He's Coming to Me is the best pairing either has had, and the competition isn't even close.

Thor x Fluke should have been a branded pair after The Warp Effect and could've easily pulled Wandee Goodday off (glad we got Great x Inn though).

And for Marc x Poon to be thrown together at the last minute, they are running circles around these established couples.

I wrote what I wrote. Fight me in a Texas Chicken parking lot, and come prepared because the streets raised me, and I'm Catholic, so I ain't afraid to go hard 'cause God will forgive me!

[naanima]

I wrote this in between RL commitments and 3 in the morning. I haven't done any editing. So sorry for the mistakes. Will edit later and probably post to AO3 sometime later this week. My grasp on soft Max is just not as strong as my grasp of Daniel's character.

Over 900 words.

Max after receiving Daniel's message congratulating him on his 4th WDC win. Maxiel. Soft and squishy.

Lovely

He rewatched the video later that night, alone in his hotel room. Well, he rewatched all the parts with Daniel in it.

Daniel's hair was longer, the curls escaping from under his cap and flicking everywhere at the side and back of his head. He was rugged up in what looked like a very soft and warm hoodie, probably one of his Enchanté ones. He looked soft, comfortable, and happy. It was a private message sent with the knowledge that it could potentially become public. Daniel had used his real voice, the voice he spoke in when he wasn't in front of a camera or trying to Danny Ric. His voice was lower, and his accent flatter, less Australian, evened out by touches of Europe.

It was the voice Daniel used with Max when the cameras weren't on. When he was too tired, when he was comfortable, when he felt safe.

Daniel looked so happy. And so lovely.

Max has always thought Daniel was lovely. And not just physically, though Daniel was that too. His large smile and soft brown eyes had caught Max's attention first, and then everything else about Daniel drew Max to the man like a moth to the flame.

Max spent years being allowed to touch Daniel whenever he wanted, a hand on his shoulder or neck to get his attention, an embrace to show their exuberance, and a jokey touch of thighs, and so much more. And when Daniel left, Max had thought he couldn't touch him anymore.

But that didn't last, Daniel had all but tore down those thoughts the first time they saw each other after he left Red Bull. He had greeted Max with a tight hard embrace and a sincere whisper into his ear.

"I missed you, Maxy."

And Max had clung back, and never let go.

Daniel on the screen was happy for Max. For Max's fourth WDC. Daniel was always happy for Max's successes, he had always found Max after a win, a tight hug and words of congratulations, had kept at it even when he wasn't on the grid, sent him texts and voicemails telling him how happy he was for Max, how amazing he was. And Max had saved every single message from Daniel, and would look over them whenever the need to bask in Daniel's overwhelmed him.

And Daniel had sent him a message to Max after his fourth WDC win via Red Bull PR. Even when Max knew Daniel had cut all contact with Red Bull. But for Max, well, Max was always the exception to Daniel, as it was the same for Max.

Daniel was Daniel. Daniel was Max’s exception. Daniel was the man who had seemed larger than life to a young Max, someone who had taken in all of Max’s sharp edges, and instead of running the other way, he had smiled his beautiful smile, swung his arm around his shoulders, and looked down at Max with so much warmth and confidence.

“You and me Maxy, we are gonna fuck shit up.”

And Max believed him, and Daniel had never broken that trust in all the years since.

Max rewatched the video one more time, let Daniel's voice wash over him, let his smile warm the gaps inside of himself, and then he smiled.

It was never in any doubt really.

Max had made his decision about Daniel the first time they met, the seed of what he felt planted when Daniel had sent him that first video to congratulate him on getting his super licence. He had just been waiting for Daniel to arrive at the same point as him. But maybe Daniel had already crossed the finishing line without Max realising it.

Max picked up his phone, scrolled through his contact list and hit Daniel's name.

Daniel picked up straight away but didn't say anything. Max could hear his soft breathing over the line. And every part of Max relaxed, letting the sound of Daniel's breathing sink into his bones.

A small laugh came through the line. And Max found himself smiling hopelessly fond.

“Maxy,” Daniel sing-songed across the line.

“Hello Daniel.” Max’s voice was soft, unable to contain the tenderness that welled up in him. “Daniel, I received your message.”

“Yeah? Did you cry?” Daniel asked, a hint of uncertainty. And Max couldn't have Daniel doubting how much his message, his sincerity meant to Max.

“I did not cry. But it was very nice.”

Daniel hummed softly, a question in the sound. And Max felt all soft and fond.

“Daniel, it was lovely.”

“Oh.” Daniel sounded surprised. “I - well, I'm an awesome person. Beautiful and smart, and just fucking aces.” And Daniel was joking, avoiding the naked truth in Max’s voice.

Daniel was the bravest person Max had ever known, but had so many fears because he didn't want to be hurt.

Max would never hurt Daniel on purpose, would try to curb all the accidental ways that he could hurt Daniel.

“Daniel, you are of course fucking aces.” Daniel laughed softly. Max felt a soft ache in his heart.

“The message was lovely, but what I also wanted to say was that Daniel, you are lovely. You have always been lovely to me.”

A soft gasp, and silence. But Daniel did not hung up.

Max waited. He trusted Daniel, and Daniel has never broken that trust.

“Max.” A shuddery breath, and then a long inhale. “Max, you are lovely too.”

Max smiled, and let the soft fondness, the certain love he has carried for years flow over him.

[apathetic-tortoise]

Couples that can now get married: Part 2 - Engaged edition

Rain and Phayu - Love in the air/Wedding plan

Pisaeng and Kawi - Be my favourite

Phupha and Tian - Tale of 1000 stars

Akk and Theo - Enchanté

Min and Jinta (kinda) - Cherry Magic

Puen and Talay - Vice Versa

[sugarpasteltmnt]

Hello again!

I've been making a TNV playlist of my own and over time I've gathered quite a few songs that I think fit the little silly quite well, and I'd like to share (and I'm pretty sure these arem't in your playlist)

First of all, a lot of songs by Dirt Poor Robins: Komm Jesu; Maximilian Von Spee; Furthest Star; It Tore Your Heart Out; But Never A Key (Deluxe Edition); Enchanté; Welcome to Lady Hell

And a few others: Curses (by The Crane Wives); Microwave (by Ricky Jamaraz); Disco! in the Panic Room (by Bug Hunter); A Happy Jam (by Fries On The Side); Sick On Seventh Street (by Sarah and the Safe Word)

Boy I sure hope none of these were already in the playlist that sure would be embarrasing

Anyway, can't wait to find out how Leo's habits in the prison dimention affect his life back at home, I'm sure it will crush me completely!

Have a good day!

OMG I gotta check these out!! I haven’t heard of any of these I’m excited!! Hehehe thank you so much! 🎶💞

And ya poor Leo is going to need a long, long while to readjust for sure

[fdelopera]

Welcome to the 14th installment of 15 Weeks of Phantom, where I post all 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as they were first printed in Le Gaulois newspaper 115 yeas ago.

In today’s installment, we have Part III of Chapter 6, “Le Violon Enchanté” (“The Magic Violin”).

This section was first printed on Wednesday, 13 October, 1909.

For anyone following along in David Coward's translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (either in paperback, or Kindle, or from another vendor -- the ISBN-13 is: 978-0199694570), the text starts in Chapter 6 at Raoul's inner dialogue, “She’s staying at the Setting Sun Inn, must be, it’s the only one!” and goes to the description of the old church at Perros, “The sacristy door opened onto this gruesome rampart, a feature of so many old Breton churches.”

There are some differences between the Gaulois text and the First Edition. In this section, these include (highlighted in red above):

1) Compare the Gaulois text:

Cet anniversaire et votre apparition si subite l’autre soir dans ma loge, tout cela m’avait reporté loin, bien loin dans le passé, et je vous ai écrit comme une petite fille que j’étais alors, comme une petite fille qui joue et qui serait heureuse de revoir, dans un moment de tristesse et de solitude, son petit camarade à côté d’elle…

To the First Edition:

Votre apparition si subite l’autre soir dans ma loge, m’avait reporté loin, bien loin dans le passé, et je vous ai écrit comme une petite fille que j’étais alors, qui serait heureuse de revoir, dans un moment de tristesse et de solitude, son petit camarade à côté d’elle…

Translation from the Gaulois:

"That anniversary and your sudden appearance in my dressing room the other evening, all that took me back, far back into the past, and I wrote to you as the little girl that I was then, as a little playful girl who would be happy, in a moment of sadness and solitude, to once again see her little friend by her side..."

Translation from the First Edition:

"Your sudden appearance in my dressing room the other evening took me back, far back into the past, and I wrote to you as the little girl that I was then, who would be happy, in a moment of sadness and solitude, to once again see her little friend by her side..."

2) Compare the Gaulois text:

Le jeune homme veut la prendre dans ses bras

To the First Edition:

Le jeune homme veut la saisir

Translation from the Gaulois:

The young man tried* to take her in his arms

Translation from the First Edition:

The young man tried* to catch her

* Note: I have translated Leroux’s use of the historical present using the past tense, as is more common in English writing.

3) Minor differences in punctuation and italicization.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 13 October, 1909. This link brings you to page 3 of the newspaper — Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

[williamrikers]

Akk + criminal side-eye

[yinwaryuri]

This post got me to properly make my bed after months of bad bed keeping habits, and now I've gotta share cuz it looks nice and I'm proud of myself

Teal mattress cover, gray striped BL sheet, black fleece blanket, gray striped BL body pillow (Target edition) in the back, 2 teal pillows, 2 black pillows, 2 TARDIS Van Gogh pillows, 1 gray striped BL pillow, chinzhilla hoodie blanket, Nong Nao, small Blåhaj, Enchanté fox pillow

My brother's friend recently gave him a bunch of unused pillows that he passed onto me, no way I am using that all at once lol

[icouldhyperfixatehimnav]

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[lunas-otome-blog]

Luna's Review: Café Enchanté

Official Summary:

When Kotone inherits her grandfather’s Tokyo café, she discovers the shop holds more secrets than anyone could imagine.

The café is a meeting spot for beings from multiple, mystical worlds. You’ll meet the king of demons, a humanoid beast, a fallen angel, and more.

And when government agents monitoring non-human activities show up at your door, your new café is about to become a lot more colorful.

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(Spoiler Free) Luna's Thoughts:

(Just as a reminder, I'm writing this for myself to keep track of my thoughts and leave a record of the games I've played. Others are welcome to read and feel free to provide your own thoughts, but please, no hate! They're just my opinions, nothing more.)

I was excited for this game. The premise sounded amazing: a cute cafe full of magical beings from other worlds? Sign me up! I love the colorful cast of characters, and the art is undoubtedly gorgeous.

But, while I enjoyed elements of this game, the setting falls apart almost immediately, and has very little to do with any of the routes, with the exception of the true end. The whole game is actually incredibly dark, complete with bloodshed and death in every route, which is normally not a bad thing, but it feels a bit misleading here.

You're told almost at once that the cafe is somehow sustained on payments from only a handful of romanceable characters, none of which use human currency or seem to have jobs that would involve payment, with the exception of the one human bachelor Rindo. This is nitpicky, I know, but I found it frustrating because it would have been so easy to write a way around this.

Let me be clear that I don't necessarily mind a game with a ridiculous premise. I love Mystic Messenger, and the entire game hinges on the fact that you have moved into a stranger's apartment and have somehow remotely taken on party planning for a charity group of people you haven't met. But the thing about Mystic Messenger is that the ridiculousness is upfront, right at the beginning, and once you get past it and accept the game for what it is, you can enjoy it.

This is not so with Cafe Enchante. There are many times in this game where just a little more thought could have made things make more sense. To me, the whole game was plagued with sloppy writing and baffling plot details that could have easily been avoided or explained in a different way — not to mention the litany of literal editing errors. It's also not translated very well in places — or maybe it is, and just written poorly in its original Japanese. Either way, it reads awkwardly a lot of the time

Overall, I was not impressed with this game. It just goes to show that pretty artwork and a fun initial premise do not necessarily make a good product.

Below are my thoughts on each route in the order I played them.

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(SPOILERS BEGIN HERE)

Ignis Carbunculus Route

This is the route I got first, without trying. I actually did not want to get Ignis first, because I figured he was the tsundere character in this game, and I like to do those a bit later. He's actually not particularly tsundere at all, just hypermasculine and therefore not great at expressing emotions other than rage.

This is one of the darkest and, in my opinion, one of the laziest-written routes in the game. You're expected to believe that Ignis went on a rage, literally killed and ate many of his own people, including his family, forgot about it and then just continues on with his life, only to be conveniently reminded of his dark past at the right moment to advance the game. And the rest of his clan has been tolerating him because they're afraid of him, and for whatever reason, Ignis has never noticed everyone hates or fears him??

Ignis is also the only member of his species who can eat. The rest don't need to because they're born with all the calories they need for the rest of their lives apparently, meaning the beasts of the literal beast world don't kill each other for food, just sport. And oh, yeah, that's somehow also Ignis' fault.

I felt like this route could have been simplified in a way that made more sense. Instead, the writers had a vision and manipulated many small details to make the rest of the game work within that vision, resulting in a lot of strange decisions.

I'm aware this game isn't meant to be realistic, but Ignis' whole plotline seemed very contrived. It's like they had something written already but realized certain elements weren't congruent with other aspects of the game, so they just...manipulated elements of Ignis' route until it kind of fit.

Overall, I think Ignis' route was my least favorite. It felt the most rushed, the least polished, and assumed a lot of things conveniently went unnoticed for years in Ignis' life. There was just too much coincidence in this route for me.

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(SPOILERS)

Il Fado de Rie Route

This was the second route I played, and overall my favorite route. It felt the most cohesive out of all the characters, and it was the longest aside from the true end.

That doesn't mean I don't have my gripes with it. My biggest one is that Il, who has apparently based his entire personality, including his name, on an otome game character, makes the baffling decision to tell Kotone about the game and literally recommend she try that character's route first, only to immediately regret it when he realizes she's going to notice something is off.

Like, I could understand it if the personalities were just similar, but he took the name, too. I cannot believe he would be so stupid as to forget the game that he stole his persona and name from and then just freely give away that information. What pisses me off so much is that Kotone could have so easily encountered this information on her own. Have her buy the game independently to surprise Il, and then discover the overlap herself. Why on earth would he just give her that information? It's lazy writing.

I did really enjoy how angels are basically human androids and god is a supercomputer. That was rad as hell and is a brilliant explanation for why angel magic is math based. I'd say this route has the best worldbuilding, including the gorgeous pretty-boy side characters.

I don't feel completely satisfied with how Il's route was resolved, as there's still some question to how much of his personality is his own, but ultimately it was the most solid route in the game. I didn't think I would like Il as I don't particularly enjoy his character archetype, but in the end I was pretty attached to him. His characterization in the true end route was adorable as well, and I adore his friendship with Misyr.

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(SPOILERS)

Kaoru Rindo Route

Rindo was my second favorite route in the game. I think it's super funny that Kotone keeps talking about their age gap even though he's the second youngest character in the game at 42 years old.

His route is also (to my knowledge) the only route that lets you just straight up kill the person you're trying to romance, although it does dead end the game if you make the choice not to save him when you can.

The worst part of this route for me what the treatment of Rindo's sister, Shizuku. She doesn't get a proper sprite in her human form, so you have no idea what she looked like, and it makes it kind of hard to feel anything for her. I did like the utter horror of watching Mikado feed her with his blood with no explanation.

This is one of the darkest routes and the only one where a side character with a sprite actually dies. And when he does, you feel bad for him because he was just trying to protect the woman he loves.

It did feel a little predictable to have Rindo become non-human after oodles of conversations about whether or not humans and non-humans can have relationships. Honestly the game writers are cowards for not making Rindo look more extreme as a non-human. Make him a freak!!

I do appreciate that he remains non-human at the end, though. I feel like forcing him to become human again would have eliminated any of the growth he made during the route.

Personality-wise, Rindo is one of the cuter characters IMO. He's flirty but as soon as things get serious he backs off. Super adorable!

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Canus Espada Route

This route was...ok. Just ok.

Honestly, I was bored through most of it. I can't really say why. It just didn't appeal to me that much.

Right at the beginning it annoyed me by assigning a gender to Vennia. Like, he could have just been left nonbinary. It's canon in this game that fairies don't have genders anyway, so it would have been fine to continue using they/them pronouns. I guess otome games haven't gone that way yet but it would have been nice.

I did like Vennia's relationship with Titania, and in the end, when he betrays Kotone, it felt natural. You can't hate him because you know he just wants to protect his sister.

I thought maybe his headlessness would be plot relevant but on the contrary, we get literally no explanation for why he's headless and nobody else is. I get that they wanted to make him an interesting character, but we know his ancestor was not headless, so why is he? Aren't there other dullahans in Medio?

I do think it's hilarious that we don't ever get to see his face. The implication is that he does in fact have one, so I had predicted it would be revealed as part of his route, but they stuck to their guns and kept him headless throughout the entire route.

Idk why I wasn't impressed with this route. Worldbuilding-wise it was one of the more solid storylines. It just wasn't particularly shocking or interesting to me, so I didn't love it, but I suppose I didn't hate it either.

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Misyr Rex Route

This route was, quite frankly, absolutely ridiculous. This was the most obvious case of having an overall idea and not having the skills to execute it well.

So many things happened just because Misyr willed it to. For example, he gains magic powers and a semi-human form simply because he wanted to visit a four-year-old on earth? How does that even happen? This is already ignoring the fact that he transformed into an ash monster through forced evolution or whatever, which is already a stretch, mind you.

And if that's not ridiculous enough, we then get introduced to Noah, who is somehow an entire world. I actually found him to be more interesting of a character than Misyr, now that we know that Misyr's entire life consists of going to one cafe and doing nothing all day.

The most disappointing part of this route was Asmodeus, who was largely not relevant at all other than the initial shock of realizing Misyr wasn't the demon king. Why bother making such an annoying character for a brief gag? He could have been so much more but instead he's reduced to an unlikable flirt who kidnaps Kotone in order to provide an excuse for a cute CG, and then we barely see him ever again.

This whole route stinks of worldbuilding with no consideration for how certain elements would affect the rest of the world. You know how sometimes worlds in fictional programs (ie: Black Mirror) build their entire concepts around one aspect of society and don't bother fleshing out everything else? That's basically this whole route in a nutshell. It falls apart under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.

To top it off, the good ending of this route, and therefore the whole game, involves Kotone becoming the world herself, largely losing her human form, now cursed to live for eternity as a realm that turns people to ash????? Who decided this would be a satisfying ending for an otome game?

The one element I did like was the explanation for why non-humans look so much like humans. I think it's super cool that humans used to have superior technology and lost it and everything else grew from that. I like the biblical references as well.

Ultimately, though, this was a disappointing way to end the game for me.

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I need to know why many people on mdl rated Enchanté so low. It's very silly so far, and Force has been such a goofball, which makes Akk the character of his that I most like so far. (ABAAB frustrates me because I just don't like boss/employee romance, and he was a little shit in Only Friends, my gosh)

Now, I don't know anything of this show, so their investigation to find Enchanté is interesting. It might end up to be Akk, although there is literally no reason for him to do that: they were already friends and honestly they seemed pretty close even without this weird anonymous courting thing.

As for the other four, they're really bad at flirting, but I've just reached the beginning of ep. 4 so we can give them a pass so far. (Also ep. 3 finished with them saying they were all Enchanté in front of an elevator and ep. 4 brings them all to confess in the library so WHAT IS THE TRUTH)

Do they even like Theo? I feel like Phupha might like Natee more in some points: it's definitely edited with a double entendre.

I'm just happy to see Gawin again, AND singing at that! (If he doesn't sing in his trashy vampire romance then WHAT IS THE POINT)