I don’t get why the RWBY fandom is so hostile toward the “Qrow is Ruby’s dad” theory. I don’t care what Miles said, I love it, I think it’s fun, I think it adds to Qrow’s angst, I think Ruby doesn’t look anything like Tai and keeps getting father/daughter arcs with Qrow while Yang is the one who gets them with Tai. They keep doing all of these things to accidentally enforce the theory while insisting it isn’t canon, which like it isn’t, I know that, but I’m always gonna love it.
It also doesn’t make Tai any less Ruby’s dad. Like yeah Qrow could be her father biologically, but Tai raised her, Tai loves her, she calls Tai dad. He is still her dad too, nothing about that changes.
Really, I like this theory less for what it means for Ruby and more for what it implies about Qrow’s character. He thinks of himself as a bad luck charm, it makes sense that especially when it comes to his daughter he’d want to do anything to keep her safe, even if it meant removing himself from her life altogether. She has Tai, she has Summer, she even has a sister, she’ll be fine.
I think canonically it wasn’t until after Summer died that Qrow became a more active presence, and even then Qrow’s visits were sparse. But Tai was a mess and someone needed to make sure the girls were safe, so Qrow intervened as best he could while still keeping that he was Ruby’s biological dad a secret, because at this point, who was that going to help?
I think if Ruby found out she would be confused. Probably feel betrayed. It would strain her relationships with both Qrow and Tai to some extent. I don’t see it changing anything about her relationship with Yang, however. I could see her asking “Did you know?” and once Yang said she didn’t, she is just as confused as Ruby, that would be that. They would still regard each other as sisters, no change at all, maybe even be brought a little bit closer.
But yeah that’s the appeal to me. I think of this as less of a “theory” and more of an “AU” since Miles confirmed it will never be canon. So it’s an AU I really really like and pretend is canon, basically. I think it could’ve been cool! Familial angst is great! And it makes sense and fits with the storyline, but alas, never to be
when i was a Small Child™️ i was often forced to go to sunday school which usually involved sitting in the main area of our small trailer-sized family owned church while my brother's mother read us bible stories and came up with fun games for us to play
eventually though i became a Big Child™️ which meant now i had to learn from the weird old Pentecostal lady who attended our church
and apparently now because i was a Big Child™️ that meant now i could no longer wear blue jeans or pants of any kind because that wasn't lady-like and i didn't want to look like those harlots in the instruction booklets who wore sports jackets and blue jeans and sneakers and cut their hair short and instead i needed to dress like that same teacher's young grand-daughter who was being raised by her and taught to wear exclusively white lace dresses and pantyhose because that's what Good Christians™️do
anyways where was i going with this, i lost my train of thought
oh yeah, being told that the t-shirts and jeans that my parents bought for me or were given to me as hand-me-downs were suddenly Evil and Terrible was easily 10x more confusing than learning some boys used to be girls and some girls used to be boys
so yeah i think maybe the kids are fine actually and it's the confused and emotionally stunted adults who keep messing them up-
I am into female crime lately (not practicing) and Satan being a beautiful blond girl representing rage and wrath just sounds right to me (do not romanticize any murderers please)
It was kinda difficult to make him look like an actual female character, not just Satan with long hair but I think it looks pretty good
Have you played the new obey me game obey me till death do us part? What are your thought's on it? Is the character acting like themselves because I saw a few reviews that are low in the play store so I was wondering what your take on it is thank you 💜
Ok sorry this took us a few more than a few days... ;;;;
For anyone who enjoys the game and doesn't want to hear negative things about it, skip this post!! We are mean about it!
Very short answer: Yes, we played it. Yes, we hated it.
Our expectations were zero when going into it. The moment they announced it we were already frustrated since Solmare had said they were moving beyond mobile games but then gave us another one. We now know that they've actually been working on Sinner's Choice, and IDO was more of a "keep engagement" cash grab. But not sure how well they even did on keeping engagement since it!! sucks!!!
Now as for why we don't like it...
We will disclaimer that we only played a little. And by "we", we mean Cosmos did, and Chaos looked over their shoulder from time to time, and then we ranted and dissected and discussed. So this isn't even covering all that's wrong, but what we noticed in the bit that was played. We'll split this critique into actual gameplay and then the game/story/concept itself. We wanted to be educated haters, but even then could only get through so much.
The Gameplay
It...doesn't really exist?
It's a very boring game. You tap-tap away at your chosen demon brother on the home screen to get enough dialogue lines so you can earn an item that helps you make more "merch" for the digital merch shrine. Who asked for a digital merch shrine?? It's so badly done and it's obviously just a way for them to use all the assets from Actual OM Merch but shoved onto a poorly rendered digital table in an otherwise empty room. Like...look at this!!
So much of the game is focused around the merch table ("Nether Nook"). You have to get more items that allow you to craft more merch for your little shrine so that you can unlock more story. More merch also means more affection! Never mind that not all fans like to engage with their media via these kinds of merch collectibles, let alone want digital versions of them -- or maybe part of the point is to keep pushing their real-world merch, through a feature that's almost fully just an ongoing advertisement. But since progression is locked behind this, you have to participate, so you better learn to be that kind of fan!
What was "Jobs" in OG and Nightbringer is just "Work" here and it doesn't require anything. You just have to claim the rewards (mostly more merch crafting items.....whoo...) once the time passes, but it doesn't involve much else from the player. And unlike in OG/NB, this doesn't even increase your affection with the character, either.
Did you hate only having cards in your gacha? Well, not to worry! IDO also puts in dozens and dozens of barely-rendered ugly clothing items that you can get to dress up your demon, with a multitude of colors for each item. Or you can spend "stardust" to pull instead for, you guessed it, more merch crafting items, and with a drastically reduced card drop rate to boot -- less than one percent (0.8% to be precise), to get any card, and only 0.4% for your selected preferred card.
Speaking of clothing, even the proper outfits you can get/see in-game are stiff and put on models that make the proportions look very off. So much of the art design is just...BAD. Like OM has made some ugly clothing before, but at least they didn't make the sprites look stiff and unfinished???
Also, who asked for a calendar feature that you can't integrate with any of your actual calendar events?? It's just a bad calendar UI that apparently bugs out a whole bunch.
There's no chat/phone call feature, so the only way to interact with your chosen demon is through home screen tapping, dressing him up in ugly clothes, or the story chapters that are locked behind merch crafting or cards in the gacha. And as a bonus, sometimes it'll just decide that you can't click any of the other features in the UI until you tap your way through the home screen dialogue!
The UI design itself also sucks. It's very plain/minimal, and overall seems like zero-effort was put into it. While OG/Nightbringer had solid design choices (and whimsy!) in UI elements, IDO may as well have been drawn using only the rectangle tool in MS Paint.
It's so clear that they looked at the success of games like Love and Deepspace, saw its more "lifestyle" and casual gaming features, and thought doing the bare minimum would be enough, when it doesn't even come close.
Frankly, it's insulting. It feels like a game that was cobbled together on a shoe-string budget just to keep up engagement with the OM fanbase with no actual care put into it. And to add insult to injury, remember that they even had the fans pay for the development of this sloppy ass app -- they did a whole crowdfunding campaign, and even blew way past their original goal to hit TWO stretch goals.
There are plenty of players who are happy to get anything with their boys, but it just makes us angry.
The Story/Lore/Concept
The basic premise of IDO revolves around marrying your demon brother of choice and the life you then live with them as a married couple. (Hey, remember how in OG they straight up said how demon-human marriage couldn't happen because politically and legally it wasn't feasible at the moment? Guess that's not an issue anymore, because they sure don't talk about how they solved it!)
We will give IDO some credit in that there is some worldbuilding going on, but at the same time, so much of the story and characterization is so off that whatever interesting worldbuilding there is feels like it has to be completely removed from its context because we just don't acknowledge the rest of the game/story. The disconnect from prior established lore is so vast sometimes that it can be hard to even know how seriously we should take the worldbuilding that there is as truly canon with the rest of the games. Like the Devilgrams (which, to be fair, have also historically been full of inconsistencies and contradictions), they feel a bit more like half-canon. But hey, at least they remembered...some of the politics!
Our cast finally graduates RAD, the forever school, which is funny to think about considering the previous games implied they've been attending it for centuries. Now they're just working at their various jobs – unless you're Lucifer, who in complete OOC fashion decides he's going to retire to just be a stay-at-home husband because MC is the only thing he cares about now. The Avatar of Pride?? The demon so devoted to Diavolo's mission and to his brothers and is a total workaholic is just okay with giving it all up??? That demon would go maybe two days doing nothing before needing to busy himself with anything and everything. Good luck to the rest of the brothers, because if they thought he was overbearing before, he doesn't even have work to distract him anymore! (Also, as a side note, it's pretty unhealthy to drop everything you care about to make your whole life about one person...)
Oh, and who is taking Lucifer's place? Satan! Because Satan would not at all have another existential crisis stepping into Lucifer's place as Diavolo's new right-hand man. But it's okay, because apparently this is signaling a "generational shift" for Diavolo's crowning!
And so for this "next era" that is to mark Diavolo officially becoming King, with all his goals and ideals of inter-realm peace and cooperation, they...retired the highly controversial former angel from leadership, put in Satan (the only brother actually born a demon, and has therefore been noted not to face the same anti-angel discrimination that the others encounter!!!) and have made Mephistopheles (literally born and raised in the House of Lords to take part as demon nobility, number one nepo baby???) the head of RAD – what do you mean new age, THIS IS BASICALLY WHAT THE OLD DEMON CONSERVATIVES HAVE WANTED ALL ALONG???
They've thrown random things at all the rest of the brothers in terms of jobs and powers, some making more sense than others. Asmodeus is the new Press Secretary, but did they mention that once in the first part of his own route? No! Belphegor is a fortune teller, because something something his interest in stars means he just tells people their future now. And fuck the Devildom Navy, we guess, because Leviathan is now a writer instead and has been given "anything he writes comes true" powers all of a sudden. Just...???
There's so much more that could be said about the story and how each of the brothers has been treated, but we just can't be bothered. What we have seen hasn't been that good, other than them finally letting Satan be more than some cat-obsessed freak and giving him back his more intellectual, social-schmoozing persona he initially had.
It all just kind of reads like bad fanfic by people who had no idea what they were even writing about. Ultimately, IDO feels a lot like Solmare handed a team that has never touched the games a folder with some basic summaries about the setting and characters and just let them loose -- and considering the announcement of the much more polished-looking Sinner's Choice, maybe that's exactly what they did.
Players who just want anything with their faves will continue to enjoy it, and they're welcome to do so! But so much of what made the characters who they are is not honored properly in this game, making it feel pretty worthless as a dating sim about those characters. Between that and the utter lack of effort at actually making a good, proper game, we don't find it worth any more consideration.
And judging by the newly announced management handover? Seems like the devs agree.
You don't exactly look forward to being on cooking duty. It's a lot of work to cook for yourself and 7 fully grown demons with voracious appetites.
There is no greater feeling, however, than all 7 Rulers of Hell asking for second helpings. You may be able to control them through your pact, but you can only taste true, unfettered power when all of the brothers ask for more of your food.
Beelzebub always gets seconds. That's a given. You learned early on that it's best to cook enough for a small army when he's home, and that will get you through dinner plus leftovers for lunch the next day if you're lucky.
But to have Asmodeus ask for another scoop when he's cleared his plate and left no crumbs? To have Lucifer put off work to grab a few more bites? That kind of power goes straight to your head.
Belphegor is drooling over the food instead of his pillow for once, and Satan actually put his book down to savor the meal. Leviathan is consuming every morsel without complaint and actually asked for more while Mammon's hatched an under-the-table deal to get you to save him some for later. You don't want his grimm, only his praise for your fantastic cooking.
You feel amazing. On top of the world. Too bad you just threw together whatever was in the fridge and didn't write down a recipe.
Hey! I am trying to find out whether different ways of engaging with the Obey Me! Games and the fandom affects which characters or story arc
Hello hello! For the longest time, I have been curious about how the extent of engagement with the Obey Me! games affects which characters or story arcs fans prefer. So, I created this to satisfy my own curiosity.
If you:
Have played either the first Obey Me! or Obey Me!: Nightbringer (whether currently, or in the past)
Quit a while ago, but are still hanging in the fandom
Have never played, but are here for the characters anyway
...then I would love to hear your input :D
This survey won't take more than 15 minutes of your time, and if I get enough responses, I will share my analysis and results with everyone!
Thank you so much, and I'd love to hear your thoughts! And don't forget to reblog this post to reach more fans.
(Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or run into any issues with the survey)
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