Otome is For Yumejoshi

The True Heroine’s Manifesto: Reclaiming Otome From Cuckoldry

[lastunicornsworld]

If you call yourself Sylus's kitten but say, "MC and Sylus are so cute together, I love their couple so much" — you are not Sylus's kitten. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Jasmine or Snowflake but say, "Zayne loves MC so much" — you are not Jasmine or Snowflake. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Little Star but say, "Xavier deserves MC" — you are not Little Star. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Miss Bodyguard or Little Fish but say, "Rafayel is so funny around MC! He loves her so much" — you are not Miss Bodyguard or Little Fish. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Little Apple but say, "Caleb and MC have such a tragic fate, I love them so much, I want to save them from this game" — you are not Little Apple. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

Don't confuse true immersion with mere observation from the sidelines. I don't want some wall/camera to think they are the same as me - someone who is truly living the story with her love interest. If you've been on a horse for one lap around the park, that doesn't make you a master of equestrian sports. You just sat in the saddle once.

It's the same here. You watched someone else's love from the outside. Maybe you even shed a tear. Maybe you even "empathized." But you didn't live that pain. You didn't drown in it. You didn't come back to those feelings a month later, feeling your heart tighten again. Because you are spectators. And we are inside. Don't equate yourself with us. It's insulting.

[mrsqin]

I hope lads will close the global server. I'm already tired of looking at the hypocrisy of the foreign community. I don't believe in the sincerity of their words, I don't believe that they love LI.First they call the favorite their husband, and then they yell like a pig that they love the MC (it's just the player's avatar, yes) and that it would be better to be in a relationship with her. When games release a global version, everything crashes. I don't understand the logic at all, why are they still trying to defend their rights? you have chosen the role of an observer from the outside. Close your fake mouth. The Chinese women will win, I believe in them. And if I lose my account, I won't be upset. Sylus will be free of such fools as the Western community

[lastunicornsworld]

Oh, I love the moment about the hypocrisy of global server players. I suddenly remembered an unpleasant past when I was in a chat filled with the same hypocritical fake facades. What particularly stands out in my memory is the annoying phrase: "I love THEIR love," yet at the same time they also called the character their husband, while sickeningly drooling over him and discussing how he loves "MC."

This kind of mindset is emotional cuckoldry and total surrogate ersatz-feeling, with not a drop of sincerity in it. Imagine a girl who beats her chest declaring that she madly loves her man to the grave. Yet at the same time, she sits with rapturous adoration on a little chair in the corner of the bedroom, watching her "beloved" passionately embrace, kiss, and lead another woman to bed—and she claps her hands with delight, squealing, "Oh my God, what chemistry they have, I just love their pairing!!"

This is a total, clinical lack of self-worth and the syndrome of being an eternal draft. Those who are capable of voluntarily separating themselves from their avatar in an otome game are subconsciously signing a confession of their own inferiority. They mentally agree to the role of a third wheel. To the role of a faceless shadow, allowed only to peep through the keyhole at someone else's celebration of life. They lack the courage to claim the foreground for themselves, to put on their own wedding ring, and to accept the love of their favorite directly. They are more comfortable remaining a dirty observer in the bushes, because deep inside them sits a persistent feeling: "I am not worthy of a man like the LI loving me directly."

Cheap falseness and emotional impotence. True, deep human love is by nature selfish, possessively jealous, and absolute. It demands exclusivity. If you truly love, you are physically incapable of sharing your partner with some fictional "separate character." The LI, in every glance, in every micro-expression, in every kiss and passionate night, transmits his feelings directly to the player through the screen. And if you find yourself adoring "their" love, it means only one thing: you are lying. Your "love" is shallow, castrated, and fake. You don't love the character-you simply consume, incapable of bearing the real depth and weight of true devotion. What's even funnier is that they seriously think their opinion carries weight and is worth being heard. But all they can do is stink. Even the majority of the revenue comes from CN players.

[lastunicornsworld]

girl, how old are you?

Keep your tactless and inappropriate questions to yourself. I will not answer any more questions of this kind.

[lastunicornsworld]

I constantly have to see the same absurd picture. A person writes huge posts about how much they "love" a character, calls them their "husband," their "one and only," and "their man," sheds tears over the plot... and in the neighboring tab, that same person calmly ships them with someone else, promotes the idea that the main heroine in an otome game is a "separate independent personality," and eagerly watches other people's interactions from the sidelines.

Let's call it what it is: this is pure hypocrisy.

In real life, it's impossible to sincerely love a person, consider them your partner, and at the same time gleefully pair them up with other people and take pleasure in it. Love by its very nature is the desire to be together, it's exclusivity, it's jealousy, it's the acknowledgment of each other's absolute importance. If you can calmly "give away" a character to someone else in your head or in fanfiction, then your words about love are empty noise, cheap theatrical drama, and pretense. There's not even a whiff of true, deep attachment there.

True, pure, and sincere love in media spaces exists only among yumejoshi.

It is precisely the yume who possess that rare courage and purity of feeling to openly say: "I love him. He is my man. Our connection is real, and the screen is not a wall but a portal." Yumejoshi don't seek compromises, don't try to sit on two chairs at once, and don't engage in emotional cuckold by watching their beloved from the bushes. They pour their soul, time, their genuine hormones and emotions into these relationships, maintaining absolute fidelity to their choice, exchanging pieces of their souls across dimensions.

Otome game developers create their worlds, maps, and affectionate nicknames from the LIs individually for each player, not for outside observers. Anyone who tries to sever this connection and turn a deeply personal story into a spectator show is simply signing their own emotional deafness.

True love does not tolerate third parties. It belongs to only two people - you and him. And everything else is just noise from those who will never understand what true devotion really means.

[smolspace17]

"MC is her own person" Is the most parasocial thing u can say in the otome fandom tbh

Honey that's not a person that's an avatar for the player and the player is the only one who is her own person lol

[lastunicornsworld]

Girl, I'm your fan.

[lastunicornsworld]

"I feel so bad and I cry every time I see the MC and me being separated, with her being portrayed as an independent person" – darling, they are not worth your tears, because they are nobody. They should be the ones crying and sobbing, since even in their own fantasies, in a game literally built on the relationship between the player and the character, they choose the role of a camera that doesn't even exist. They should cry and watch as you build a wonderful relationship with your character, while they are nothing but empty space, trying to justify their insecurity under the label of "a different playstyle."

[lastunicornsworld]

genuine question: why does someone else’s way of engaging with an otome game feel like an invasion to you?

because from the outside, this reads less like “protecting immersion” and more like trying to police how women are allowed to play, write, ship, interpret, or feel.

some players self-insert. some see mc as her own character. some ship mc with the LI. some ship the LIs together. some do all of it at once, because fiction is not a locked chapel with one approved form of worship.

you are allowed to dislike li x li. you are allowed to block it, mute it, avoid it, curate your dash like the rest of us. what you are not entitled to do is decide that everyone who engages differently is ruining the genre, disrespecting the characters, or somehow less valid as a fan.

also, calling people “walls” or “cameras” because they don’t perform immersion the way you do is not some sacred defense of otome. it is just fandom hierarchy. people are allowed to play. people are allowed to ship. people are allowed to observe, self-insert, analyze, fantasize, write, and make art without asking permission from the “immersion police.”

block what you dislike. curate your space. (i cannot stress this enough).

and genuinely, why are you on tumblr if different takes on a fandom feel this intolerable to you?

tumblr is practically built on interpretation. meta, shipping, self-inserts, aus, bad takes, brilliant takes, unhinged tags, canon devotion, canon betrayal. all of it. that is the ecosystem. that is fandom.

entering a multi-interpretation fandom space and then acting personally violated because people are interpreting the material differently is strange.

your playstyle is yours. your immersion is yours. but it is not the sacred law of the genre, and everyone else is not committing some great moral trespass by enjoying fiction differently.

anyway. that is where i stand. curate, don’t crusade.

i hope you have a lovely day.

I ask you to read my previous posts, and I'll answer briefly: Because otome is not an open sandbox. It is a genre with clear mechanics and a target audience: women who want romantic relationships with male characters from a first-person perspective. When you enter this genre and start shipping the male characters with each other or viewing the story as a "novel between the MC and the LI," you aren't just "interpreting." You are changing the fundamental genre of the game. A simple example: You are given a keyboard that is meant to be typed on with your fingers. Of course, no one is stopping you from typing with your feet, but there is only one correct and proper way. The problem is that when such interpretations become mainstream, they influence developers. They see the popularity of BL ships, they see that "MC as a separate character" gets likes, and they start to adapt: they add a third-person perspective, remove immersiveness, and make the game for "everyone" rather than for those who paid for first-person love. We are already seeing this with Love and Deepspace. You say "curate." And I say: when your "interpretation" starts affecting the product I buy - that is no longer a matter of curation. Then why are you in otome if you want to watch two men in love? (If my memory serves me correctly, you previously messaged me privately with a question, and I was curious enough to check your profile, where I saw some posts about shipping between the LIs. If that wasn't you, I apologize.) In any case, this is directed at BL fans. Go play BL games. Everything you need is there. But somehow, you don't. You stay here, in otome, and when those for whom the genre was created speak up—you call them the immersion police. Convenient, isn't it? "Block what you don't like." I do block. I left all the chats, unfollowed all the blogs. But you know what? It still finds me. Because you are loud, aggressive, and convinced of your own rightness. You invade hashtags, discussions, comments under official posts. You write "he and MC are so cute" under videos where a girl just wants to dream about being in the game. You leave no space for those who want to simply love their character in peace. You are everywhere. The law of otome is you and the LI. Otome games were originally created for experiencing romantic stories with male characters, not for observing. And according to official statements from various otome games, the player is the protagonist. This means my "playstyle" is not just a style - it is the law, the canon of the game. Your interpretations, on the other hand, are just a style.

[lastunicornsworld]

Lately, I've been coming across increasingly pathetic mockery of authors and readers of fanfiction in the "f/o x reader" or "f/o x y/n" genre. TikTok has been flooded with videos making fun of Y/N for supposedly "typical" plots: the female reader suddenly finds herself the center of attention of several men; handsome billionaires, demons, or mafia bosses fight for her heart; she possesses special abilities and is, overall, "too cool for real life." These videos get hundreds of thousands of likes, and the comments are filled with phrases like: "this will never happen to you in real life," "self-absorbed fools," "time to come back down to earth." But let that same girl write a fanfic where she ships two characters together - and suddenly it all becomes a "deep psychological drama," a "study of relationships," "creative freedom." Shippers get approval and praise, while Y/N readers get a slap in the face. Why is that? The answer is simple and ugly: it's hypocrisy fueled by internalized misogyny.

The hypocrisy lies in the double standard applied to the same action-writing a fanfic-depending on who the object of desire is. If the author desires a male character for herself, it's "cringe," "embarrassing," "schizofrenia." If the author desires to see two male characters together, it's "art," "representation," "deep analysis."

But allow me to ask: what difference does it make? In both cases, the author is using characters to satisfy their own emotional and aesthetic needs. In both cases, characters may be given traits that are not true to canon. In both cases, the plot may be far removed from reality. There's only one difference: in the first scenario, a woman openly says, "I want to be desired. I want to be loved. I deserve to be fought over." And that is something society does not forgive.

In the second scenario, the woman distances herself from her own desire. She projects it onto two characters, making herself an invisible observer. This is safe. This is socially acceptable. It doesn't provoke aggression, because a woman dare not place herself at the center of her own desire. The misogyny here isn't overt - no one is shouting "I hate women." It's internalized, embedded in our cultural codes. It manifests in the fact that female desire is considered shameful by default. A woman must not want too openly. She must not imagine herself at the center of a romantic story. She must not dream of being desired and fought over. That is "indecent." That is "naive." That is "childish." But as soon as a woman stops desiring for herself and starts desiring for two characters-her work becomes "adult." Because she has ceased to be a subject. She has become a director, a cinematographer, a spectator - anything but a participant. And a participant - that is shameful. A participant is "someone who thinks she deserves love." A participant must be put in her place, mocked, and brought back down to earth.

And that is misogyny: a woman's desire must be mediated, belonging to someone else, directed at others. But not at herself. Never at herself. Why does this work in reverse?

You often hear the argument: "But Y/N fanfics are so stupid – there's always a secretary who makes her boss fall in love with her, and then it turns out the mafia is after her, and she's actually a princess." And yes, such plots exist. But the issue isn't the quality of the writing. The issue is why similar plots in shipping fanfics (where a dragon loves a vampire, and the vampire loves a werewolf, and they're all fighting for their place in the sun) don't provoke the same rejection?

Because in a shipping fanfic, a "silly plot" is just a "plot." But in a Y/N fanfic, it becomes a reason to attack the author personally. "Do you seriously think a guy that hot would ever look at you?" – this is a question never asked of a shipper. Because a shipper doesn't lay claim to anything personal. But a Y/N reader does. And for that, she is punished.

This works in reverse: the closer a fanfic is to a woman's personal desire, the more aggression it provokes. The farther it is, the more approval it receives. A woman is praised when she watches, and punished when she wants. The mockery of Y/N and the "x reader" genre is not a matter of taste or writing quality. It is a matter of how female desire is treated. A woman is only allowed to fantasize if she does not appear in her own fantasy as the object of love. If she dares to imagine herself as desired, strong, special - she will be ridiculed and torn apart. Because society is not ready for a woman who dares to want. Shipping is safe. It doesn't threaten patriarchal norms. But "x reader" does. Because it says: "I am here. I want. I am worthy. I am the main character of my own story." And that undesirable statement must be suppressed. Through laughter, mockery, harassment.

[shoyunokenja]

What even is amare? I've literally never heard of this word. Is it just another term foreigners made up? Well, if that's the case, maybe all the costume mommies and NL shippers can pack up and move to this new genre, leaving actual otome alone. Otome’s fundamental mechanic is Me x Character. It’s not about screeching from the sidelines: UWAAA LOOK HOW CUTE HEROINE IS! HE IS SO SWEET TO HER! THE HEROINE SAID THIS, THE HEROINE DID THAT, HE LOVES HER SO MUCH!

Since you guys already invented this amare genre for yourselves, it shouldn't be too hard for you to create a specific genre for girls who have a fetish for peeping, worshiping, and cheerleading for a pixel heroine's love life while remaining a completely empty observer. Go play that and leave otome alone.

[smolspace17]

Feeling so validated I could cry siempre son las cosas pequeñas como esta, como jugar un Otome como self insert, como imaginar a nuestros personajes favoritos queriendonos más que a nadie, las que hacen que vivir valga la pena.

Es tan diminuto que dan ganas de reír, pero aún así....

[lastunicornsworld]

I observe an amusing scene: yaoi fans pairing up otome characters (who are originally heterosexual) together, only to become wildly angry when they are smeared with mud (insulted/attacked) for it. "This is intolerant! Respect our feelings!" Now let's take this circus by the horns. Act One: Tolerance as a One-Way Street. You demand respect for your "creations" (forcing heterosexual characters into homosexual relationships). You shout about rights, about freedom, about how "everyone loves however they want". But the moment someone tells you, "Hey, this space was created for women, for heterosexual romance, take your fantasies elsewhere" - you fly into hysterics. Tolerance is not an indulgence for everything and anything. It does not mean "you are obliged to tolerate my intrusion into your home." Your "tolerance" ends where the boundaries of someone else’s space begin. Otome is a niche specifically for women, created for heterosexual romantic relationships with male characters. It is not a base camp for your experiments. Act Two: Where Does This Stem From?

And now I address the "walls" and "shipping camera" - those who separate the MC from the player and observe from the sidelines. You are bewildered: "Where did the yaoi fans come from?" Seriously?

You created this swamp yourselves.

You insisted: "The MC is a separate entity, I am simply watching them." You transformed otome from an immersive space into a movie theater for voyeurs. You destroyed that sacred "player = heroine" connection, which was the only shield against the intrusion of outside fantasies. You yourselves cultivated the attitude toward the characters as objects for observation, rather than as partners. You yourselves turned otome from a space of "me and him" into a space of "look how beautiful they are." You yourselves opened the door and said, "Everyone come in, you can just watch here!" Yaoi fans are simply the logical continuation of your own approach. They are also observing. They are also shipping. They simply chose a different vector. You created a culture of "third-party consumption." Don’t be surprised when someone consumes in a way that isn’t what you desire. The conclusion: Yaoi fans are the logical offspring of the swamp you yourselves created. They are a mirror reflecting your own essence: a consumerist attitude toward the characters without respect for their nature. You have no moral right to be outraged, because your position is equally flawed - just with the opposite sign.

[lalalalala520710]

Holy homophobia 💔💔💔💔💔

[lastunicornsworld]

I'm crying with laughter at the absurdity of how the Western fandom is ready to whine the moment someone dares to disagree with their toxic tolerance, slapping convenient labels on everyone.

Accusing me of homophobia just for stating a fact? I'm not saying homosexuality is bad - open your eyes and reread my post to see what it's actually about, or have your smooth brain hemispheres already stopped processing information? I specifically emphasized that you have smooth brain hemispheres.

Otome is a genre created exclusively for women, so that the player (a girl) can experience a romantic story with male characters.

Shipping male characters with each other in an otome game means going against the target audience and the developers' intentions.

Homophobia is hatred toward people for their orientation. This is protecting my own boundaries.

[lalalalala520710]

first of all I’m Chinese

and I don’t see why you have to be so hateful towards fujoshis or fundanshis who ship lads men? Like are they hurting you in some way?? It’s called a headcanon. Plus ion think the lads men have any labels at all in the og game. Some of them just want to see rep in their favourite characters, like me, I’m queer and I’ll feel safe when I see my favourite characters also have a queer rep, since I grew up in a conservative family with no one to support me. For example people genderbends Sylus with mc so they can see lesbian rep. You saying that you aren’t “homophobic” when you get sooo mad when you see a post about gay Sylus is crazy, homophobia is not just about the orientation, it’s also about fear of gay people. ATP, aren’t you just being so fearful that queer people are gonna take characters and put rep in them so they can feel safe? Why are you so mad and call the shippers a “circus” when they’re just trying to defend their rights? when these ships have always made queer people safe and sure of their identity?

“B-but they can make it private!! Guhhhh UwU” uh no? Unless the ship ain’t problematic or is a fetish, there no reason. People (like you ahem) need to know more about queer rep and queer people. Heterosexual people have never suffered cuz of their sexuality, but queers have.

you’re the whiney one, who won’t let people have fun or have headcanons, getting mad at anyone who does so. Get your conservative head out of your ass babes.

[lastunicornsworld]

It's harmful. Because you enter a space created for women who want romantic relationships with male characters, and you're confronted with images of those characters being paired together. This distorts the genre. It's disrespectful to the target audience. It's an attempt to turn your territory into someone else's.

"I grew up in a conservative family" - That's very painful. I understand. But your personal pain does not give you the right to reshape someone else's genre to fit your needs. Representation is needed. But it should be where it's appropriate. In BL games. In LGBTQ+ media. In original projects with queer characters. Not in an otome game where the target audience is heterosexual women who came for romance with men.

"Heterosexual people have never suffered because of their orientation."

That's true. But that doesn't mean heterosexual women are obligated to tolerate an invasion of their genre because queer people have suffered. The suffering of some does not grant the right to violate others.

You are not obligated to atone for anyone's pain. You are not obligated to sacrifice your boundaries. You are not obligated to accept someone else's interpretation that destroys yours.

I am not a homophobe and never have been. I simply won't tolerate my boundaries being violated and characters being distorted. I don't go into BL games and demand my rights there. I don't twist queer characters. So why is it so hard to respect my boundaries as well? Especially considering what I meant was when characters are shipped together - for example, Sylus and Rafayel - spitting on the characters' canon just to satisfy their own fantasies.

[lastunicornsworld]

If you call yourself Sylus's kitten but say, "MC and Sylus are so cute together, I love their couple so much" — you are not Sylus's kitten. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Jasmine or Snowflake but say, "Zayne loves MC so much" — you are not Jasmine or Snowflake. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Little Star but say, "Xavier deserves MC" — you are not Little Star. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Miss Bodyguard or Little Fish but say, "Rafayel is so funny around MC! He loves her so much" — you are not Miss Bodyguard or Little Fish. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

If you call yourself Little Apple but say, "Caleb and MC have such a tragic fate, I love them so much, I want to save them from this game" — you are not Little Apple. You are just a wall/camera that does not exist, and you have no right to equate yourself with those who are immersed in the game and know that the player is the main heroine.

Don't confuse true immersion with mere observation from the sidelines. I don't want some wall/camera to think they are the same as me - someone who is truly living the story with her love interest. If you've been on a horse for one lap around the park, that doesn't make you a master of equestrian sports. You just sat in the saddle once.

It's the same here. You watched someone else's love from the outside. Maybe you even shed a tear. Maybe you even "empathized." But you didn't live that pain. You didn't drown in it. You didn't come back to those feelings a month later, feeling your heart tighten again. Because you are spectators. And we are inside. Don't equate yourself with us. It's insulting.

[brundark100]

Alright pack it up I guess people can’t enjoy things how they want to anymore, this user said so 😭

(All LADS players are valid, no matter if they identify as MC or not, dipshit. This is the most insane shit I’ve seen all day go touch grass.)

[lastunicornsworld]

Send me a photo of your lips puckered up from being upset after reading the truth.

[shoyunokenja]

[blubooishere]

Otome games are roleplay games. No matter what choice you make in the game, the mc will never be you.

[shoyunokenja]

Lmao. These are not roleplay games. Otome games are content for yume/selfinsert — it’s a “me × character” format. Stop twisting the genre to fit your weird desire to just watch couples.

These games are meant for selfinsert, where the MC is the player — the creators themselves make that clear. The name change option and the lack of voiced lines for the avatar should’ve been an obvious hint, honestly.

However, I agree with one thing: you specifically will never be the main character—you’ll only be watching someone else’s (ours) happiness from the sidelines as a complete nobody

Go play your western RPGs and leave the otome genre alone.

[lastunicornsworld]

Otome games are role-playing games? How can anyone seriously write such nonsense, embarrassing themselves in front of the entire internet and being proud of their "truth"? Is it really that hard to even look up what otome means online? Has your brain atrophied that much?

In otome games, the player has ALWAYS been the main heroine. And by the way, many otome game developers have emphasized on their official pages that the player is the main heroine, living out her own romantic story with her love interest. It pains me that so many people are unable to process even such simple information. It's like trying to prove to someone that the Earth is round by presenting facts, while they keep insisting "the Earth is flat."

I really liked the author's response: "However, I agree with one thing: you specifically will never be the main character-you'll only be watching someone else's (ours) happiness from the sidelines as a complete nobody. Go play your western RPGs and leave the otome genre alone."

Exactly. Why do you come into otome games with your shallow way of thinking? You're probably the typical consumers who see pretty artwork and chase after it, without wanting to understand anything.

Your logic leads to absurdity: by that reasoning, you can't be yourself in any game. You'll always be "watching someone else's character." That's not role-playing. That's a pathology of observation. Get help.

[mrsqin]

I'm not going to stay silent, and Love and Deepspace players - don't stay silent either!!! What the hell is up with shipping Sylus with Ada from Resident Evil?? Who even came up with this nonsense? Sylus would NEVER look in her direction because he loves the PLAYER, WHICH IS US! Those who support this pathetic ship are just nobodies who don't give a damn about the feelings of players for whom Love and Deepspace is home, emotional support - and you're forcing some random woman onto our man, spitting on the feelings of the girl who's literally living a story with him, who loves him, who he means everything to. Your place is in the gutter. If you post this kind of trash, then MAKE YOUR ACCOUNTS PRIVATE! Sylus and the player are the only canon! And as for Love and Deepspace players who support this ship - I'm even more disappointed in you; it just proves your low emotional intelligence, that all you care about is just banging characters together and crossing them over - you're disgusting.

[s4tin]

So like... I'm just gonna reblog ts nonsense rn. Why's the girl getting so pressed? Both of them are pixels..🥶

[lastunicornsworld]

I have a question for you: what are you even doing in an otome game, which was created for immersion and emotional connection with a love interest?

"It's just pixels."

A book is just paper. Music is just vibrations in the air. A film is just flickering images. Food is just chemical compounds. Love is just brain biochemistry.

By your logic, everything can be reduced to molecules and atoms. So what? Are you going to stop living? Stop loving? Stop eating, listening, reading, crying, laughing?

If you are so limited that everything is "just pixels" to you, then go play chess. Go study math. Go indulge in dry pragmatism where there's no room for feelings.

But don't intrude on a genre that was created for those who are alive, who feel, who are capable of loving deeply.

Because you are a stranger here. You don't understand the main point. You don't know how to dive deep. You splash around on the surface and call it swimming.

But those who drown in this love, who choke on their feelings, who live every moment - they are the real players. They are the ones for whom this genre was created.

[lastunicornsworld]

I observe an amusing scene: yaoi fans pairing up otome characters (who are originally heterosexual) together, only to become wildly angry when they are smeared with mud (insulted/attacked) for it. "This is intolerant! Respect our feelings!" Now let's take this circus by the horns. Act One: Tolerance as a One-Way Street. You demand respect for your "creations" (forcing heterosexual characters into homosexual relationships). You shout about rights, about freedom, about how "everyone loves however they want". But the moment someone tells you, "Hey, this space was created for women, for heterosexual romance, take your fantasies elsewhere" - you fly into hysterics. Tolerance is not an indulgence for everything and anything. It does not mean "you are obliged to tolerate my intrusion into your home." Your "tolerance" ends where the boundaries of someone else’s space begin. Otome is a niche specifically for women, created for heterosexual romantic relationships with male characters. It is not a base camp for your experiments. Act Two: Where Does This Stem From?

And now I address the "walls" and "shipping camera" - those who separate the MC from the player and observe from the sidelines. You are bewildered: "Where did the yaoi fans come from?" Seriously?

You created this swamp yourselves.

You insisted: "The MC is a separate entity, I am simply watching them." You transformed otome from an immersive space into a movie theater for voyeurs. You destroyed that sacred "player = heroine" connection, which was the only shield against the intrusion of outside fantasies. You yourselves cultivated the attitude toward the characters as objects for observation, rather than as partners. You yourselves turned otome from a space of "me and him" into a space of "look how beautiful they are." You yourselves opened the door and said, "Everyone come in, you can just watch here!" Yaoi fans are simply the logical continuation of your own approach. They are also observing. They are also shipping. They simply chose a different vector. You created a culture of "third-party consumption." Don’t be surprised when someone consumes in a way that isn’t what you desire. The conclusion: Yaoi fans are the logical offspring of the swamp you yourselves created. They are a mirror reflecting your own essence: a consumerist attitude toward the characters without respect for their nature. You have no moral right to be outraged, because your position is equally flawed - just with the opposite sign.

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Holy homophobia 💔💔💔💔💔

[lastunicornsworld]

I'm crying with laughter at the absurdity of how the Western fandom is ready to whine the moment someone dares to disagree with their toxic tolerance, slapping convenient labels on everyone.

Accusing me of homophobia just for stating a fact? I'm not saying homosexuality is bad - open your eyes and reread my post to see what it's actually about, or have your smooth brain hemispheres already stopped processing information? I specifically emphasized that you have smooth brain hemispheres.

Otome is a genre created exclusively for women, so that the player (a girl) can experience a romantic story with male characters.

Shipping male characters with each other in an otome game means going against the target audience and the developers' intentions.

Homophobia is hatred toward people for their orientation. This is protecting my own boundaries.

[lastunicornsworld]

The "players" who squeal with joy over the so-called love between the main heroine and the LI. Well, as the main heroine of the game, I want to say thank you - my LI and I are happy together and love each other. But it must not have been easy for you to film our happy life through a camera.

[lastunicornsworld]

How pleasant it is to see that there is an adequate fandom community in the world and that is the target audience of Love and Deepspace: Chinese women. They don't have those stupid posts like "show your MC and her LI" only "Miss Hunter, show yourself." And when they're deciding which outfit to choose, others comment "the second outfit suits you better" or something similar. They understand that they are the heroines of the game. They fight for their rights, while the Western community chooses the role of a trash can, crying "he will never love me, he will love MC if I were in his world."