hi everyone! long time no see, please excuse my absence i was very very busy with school for these past couple of years but i am finally back! i have been rewatching brothers conflict and slowly getting back into voltage games. please expect more content from me in the future. thank you for those who stuck around and are still here :)
KBTBB BIDDERS FIRST IMPRESSIONS VS HOW I FEEL ABOUT THEM NOW
inspired by a post on tumblr i once saw but couldn’t find again. if you know which i’m talking about, please comment the user below so i can credit them!
HOW I DISCOVERED THE GAME
the first time i ever saw the kbtbb game actually wasn’t even on the love 365 app
it was on instagram LOL
a youtuber i love, kaylaslovely, made a video on her second channel reviewing and ranking the bidders
i was watching her for her brothers conflict content at the time and i decided to watch it just because she’s one of my favorite youtubers
(download snowkissed romance and my love for you is evermore, now available on ios app store and android google play store)
and i didn’t think much of it
and yes i sat through the whole one hour video despite the fact that i literally had no idea wtf she was talking about
but i was curious, so i decided to search the #kissedbythebaddestbidder on instagram
… and the first post i see is this
i felt.. troubled to say the least
(which is weird because i watch a shit tone of porn yet eisuke’s words rly destabilized me for some reason?)
anyways
after 2 years of staying 110% faithful to cod, i think it’s safe to say that i wasn’t used to the… language used in otome games
so what did i do?
i moved on with my life and went back to playing cod for another 6 months LMAO
until one day.. i got kinda bored
so i decided to download the love 365 app, since i kept getting recommendations for love 365 game reviews on youtube
so i did
and i actually held off playing kbtbb for like weeks, because it genuinely did not look entertaining to me
mostly because of the human trafficking aspect
instead i played cutesy games like our private homeroom, bad boys do it better, dreamy days in west tokyo… (which i recommend all of them)
but one day, while i was on the app, i saw the game and thought, “meh, why not, i’ve got leftover coins and nothing to do”
so i bought ota’s main story because he’s an artist so i thought the plot could be interesting
then i read rhion’s then shuichi’s, hikaru’s, baba’s, eisuke’s, luke’s, soryu’s and finally mamoru’s
and the rest is history
EISUKE
so the first time i ever saw him was in that instagram post i mentioned earlier
and i thought he was rly handsome
like actually one of the best looking animated characters i’d ever seen
and i’ll admit, his words kinda made me blush, so i thought he was pretty sexy too
and i still think he’s sexy
BUT GOD HE’S SO ANNOYING SKSKD
i just don’t rly like how he treats mc, especially in the earlier seasons
he’s always pushing her around and he’s rly possessive of her to the point of being kind of controlling
yeah, not my type
but still attractive nonetheless
also i always call him yuusuke by accident lmao
SORYU
honestly the first time i saw him on the love 365 app, i thought he was the best looking love interest in the bunch
i thought his hair was fire
but he didn’t look interesting to me, like at all
(warning: political rant) mostly bc i rly don’t like gang related love stories, i just find them cliche and repetitive, and as someone who’s studying political science, i didn’t know how i felt about people romanticizing an issue which has ruined so many nations and killed so many individuals
which is why his main story was actually one of the last ones i read
however, i must say i don’t regret it
HE’S SUCH A BEAN 🥺🥺
the hype around him is 1000% justifiable
he’s protective, sweet, respectful…
like every story of his i read i fall more and more in love with him
he’s an adorable softie who’s surprisingly rly hot and i’m all here for it
still don’t know how i feel about him being a mobster tho
MITSUNARI
ngl i hated his hair
and that goddamn fedora
and he looked kinda meh to me
good looking but boring
OH WAS I WRONG
i’m not exaggerating when i say that i would legitimately die for this man
i am so in love with him omfg you have no idea
a flirty dorky feminist gentleman thief who can clean and cook? i’ll take 7
he makes me laugh SO HARD
he’s such a sweetheart too aww
and he’s so sweet to mc in literally EVERY route
and he spoils her so much
i love him
we don’t deserve this man
fav bidder for sure
OTA
i thought he looked like a kpop idol
i also thought he looked rly young compared to the other guys, almost like a teenager
dog thing confused me, but i respect it
we don’t kink shame in this household
i kinda feel the same way about him as i do eisuke
cute, but not boyfriend material
kinda treats mc like shit, especially in the earlier seasons
i feel like he makes her cry a lot???
and he’s just teasing to the point of being genuinely mean to mc
however with that being said
he’s rly entertaining to read
like i think out of all of the bidders, i’ve bought his stories the most
because i know i’ll be entertained no matter how shitty the plot is
MAMORU
bro i was not into the facial hair at first
i thought he was cute, but i was irked at the fucking facial hair
side note: i still don’t rly like facial hair on otome characters, which is funny bc irl i’ve only ever dated guys with facial hair??? anyways off topic
i didn’t think he was my type either
let’s just say i’m not super into slackers
but honestly i was very pleasantly surprised
and i rly like him now
he’s so sweet to mc 🥺
oh and he calls her sweetheart which >>>>
especially in rhion’s main story
he’s rly funny too
and tbh, the facial hair grew on me
SHUICHI
ngl i thought he was hot as hell
like second best looking after soryu
i may or may not have a type
he was described as aloof and cold (which he is) so i liked that
and he’s a politician!!!!
needless to say i was actually rly excited to play him
luckily, he did not disappoint
a sadistic and sarcastic kuudere who thinks love is stupid but falls in love anyways? sign me up
he’s definitely a little too cold for my taste, especially in his main story
but he gets rly sweet and u can tell he’s rly in love with mc 🥰
also he somehow keeps getting hotter as i read him more and more
10/10 love him
second fav bidder for sure
HIKARU
no joke my first thought when i saw him was “huh, he has the same as hikaru asahina from brothers conflict”
tbh i didn’t find him at all attractive
i thought the hitman thing could make an interesting plot but..
i honestly had no interest in ever playing him
however after seeing him in shuichi’s route
my curiosity got the best of me
so i played his story
it was good, but at first, i didn’t rly get his sense of humor, so i wasn’t sure how i felt about him
but then.. i got it
and now i’m totally in love with him LMAO
he actually seems like the kinda guy i’d date irl
he’s caring, protective, funny, sarcastic and adorably innocent
also who doesn’t love a tsundere?
third favorite bidder after baba and shuichi
LUKE
i thought he kind of looked like he could belong in a tim burton movie
there’s just this zombie-like dead vibe to him-
very handsome ghost indeed
very vaguely reminded me of garrett watts
then when i read him, his collarbone fetish concerned me at first
i wasn’t actually weirded out, i mean people can have fetishes for anything, but i was taken aback by how intense his fetish was
i still think he looks like a handsome ghost
but he’s so precious aww
he loves and cares for mc sm
and he’s surprisingly hot like wow okay doctor
his collarbone obsession never fails to make me laugh
and i just love how kind of clueless he is about romance
protect him at all cost pls
RHION
YO HE SCARED TF OUTTA ME AT FIRST
listen i love cosplay but SHIT
the outfit, impressive
but the white face? noooo
but the reviews on his story were literally the best of all of the bidders
so i had to play his main story, i was too curious
THE BIDDERS + UNREQUITED LOVE FOR MC (KBTBB HEADCANON)
how the bidders would react if they were in love with mc but she was with someone else
EISUKE
feelings of envy, as though he deserves her more than the other
would try to bury his emotions
frequent hookups with women that look strangely like mc
calls mc to the penthouse for literally anything, using “it’s her job” as an excuse to see her
SORYU
strong feelings of anger and jealousy towards the other man
isn’t afraid to be openly agressive/rude towards him
might even still try to pursue mc despite that fact that she’s in a relationship (he explicitly said in one of his substories that he could see himself doing something out of character if he were madly in love with mc and she didn’t love him back)
but would give up once she got married
MITSUNARI
“if he makes you happy, then you should go for it.”
heartbroken and jealous, but hides it very well
tries his best to be supportive of mc and her relationship
remains civil towards the other man at all time
has contemplated sabotaging the relationship, but stopped himself once he realized that mc’s happiness mattered to him more than his own
OTA
feelings of jealousy and envy towards the couple
which he disguises by teasing them constantly
starts subconsciously creating art revolving around the situation
tries to spend as much time as possible overseas in order to avoid them
would not attend the wedding
MAMORU
never thought he deserved mc in the first place
doesn’t resent the other man as much as he resents himself
the only bidder who’s actually genuinely happy for the couple and genuinely wishes the best for them
but finds any excuse to touch mc, even just for a brief second
SHUICHI
strong feeling of loss
feels incredibly stupid for letting some woman make him feel that way
happy for the couple but..
“i’m sure she’ll leave him eventually.”
loses feelings for mc fairly quickly, only to have them crash into him all at once when mc hugs him at her wedding
HIKARU
strong feelings of adversity and jealousy
“i didn’t deserve her anyways”
i could see him as the type who’d start ignoring mc after she rejects him
wants to wish the best for her, but really can’t
breakup songs on loop for months
LUKE
genuinely happy for mc
begins spending more time at his clinic in order to avoid the couple
noticeably passive agressive towards the other man
would frequently check up on mc to make sure she’s okay
RHION
complete and utter heartbreak
happy for mc and feels like a terrible person for wishing ill on the man she loves
frequent dreams about her
when he sees her walking down the aisle, he imagines it’s himself who’s standing at the end
hot take: ota kisaki isn’t into pet play, and he never was.
a lot of people say that they don’t like ota because of his “dog fetish”, meaning he treats mc like a dog and acts like her master. they see it as a sign of disrespect because mc clearly isn’t into it — which is understandable.
others, on the other hand, love ota, they say he’s sweet and very protective of mc, and they refute the “dog fetish” argument by stating that he “eventually grows out of it”.
however, i don’t actually think that ota has or ever had a puppy play kink in the first place. i actually think that he treated mc like a puppy in order to maintain a distance between them and control her better.
here’s my take:
pet play is a part of bdsm, a term used to describe aspects of sex that involve bondage and discipline, dominance and submission and/or sadism and masochism. anyone who knows anything about bdsm knows that trust and consent are critical in bdsm relationships in order to ensure the safety and the wellbeing of every party involved. ota doesn’t have mc’s consent or even her trust, something she makes very clear in his season 1 main story. if ota truly was a dom, someone who was actually into pet play/bdsm and not some predator trying to use bdsm as an excuse to assault women, he would’ve asked her beforehand if she was okay with it, have a verbal/written agreement with her and he would’ve backed off immediately once mc showed hesitation. ota is not a dom and mc is not a sub.
ota has major trust issues. all of the bidders have trust issues but it’s very obvious that ota is the worst of them all. people with trust issues don’t want to get attached to others because they fear betrayal. he probably called mc “koro” and treated her like a dog so that he wouldn’t fall in love with her and so that there would be this distance between them. you can’t exactly form meaningful human connection by constantly treating someone like a dog, unless both of you are into it. people communicate with one another to connect, people help out each other to connect, people touch each other to connect… if someone is constantly shrugging off your attempts at connecting by treating you like a dog, you won’t get very far in the relationship.
dehumanization is a commonly used tactic by abusers to keep their victim from leaving them. as dark as it is, it has to be said. victims of domestic abuse often tell stories of their abusers patronizing them, calling them names, dismissing their concerns/pain, gaslighting them, belittling their accomplishments, basically treating them as though they are incapable of anything, sending the message that they need their abusers, that they are worthless without them. ota obviously never did any of those things, nor is he an abuser (i was only using that as an example), but he did dehumanize mc in another way, by treating her like a dog without her consent. one second, he’d call her “koro” and talked to her as though she was a brainless puppy, and the next he’d be all cute and shit, doing her hair and feeding her. by doing that, he made mc feel bad about herself (which she actually mentions in ota’s season 1), he made her question if she was the one who was ungrateful and stupid, and she even began believing that ota was sweet for taking care of her. abusers dehumanize their victims so that that exact thing happens, the victim starts doubting themselves and eventually becomes dependent on the abuser, thus they don’t leave them. ota probably didn’t want mc to leave him because he didn’t want her to expose the auctions. he knew he couldn’t use fear like the other bidders did, so he decided to ruin her self esteem and make her doubt herself instead.
continuing off of my last point, it’s easier to control people who are dependent on you. ota is almost the same age as mc, so it would’ve been very difficult for him to push her around as much as for example eisuke did because she wouldn’t be as reluctant to stand up to him. but because he treated her like a dog and caused her to doubt herself, he could easily torment her and push her around because her sense of reasoning has already been fucked with.
this is why he eventually stops treating her like a puppy once he’s in love with her and he’s sure that she’s in it for the long run. he wants to get closer to her, something that would be very hard to do if he keeps treating her like a dog 24/7, and he probably doesn’t want to control her anymore either, so he has no need to treat her like a dog. besides, he knows she won’t leave him either way.
anyways, that was my hot take, what do you think? did i sound real stupid or does this kind of make sense? leave your feedback in the comments!
side note: i actually like ota, so please don’t take this as a hate post, it really isn’t, it’s just an analysis.
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