#lu's asks

[genderlessly]

wave! welcome to my blog where i talk about genderlessness, queerness and mogai as a whole. this blog was inspired by both @chorient and @your-bigender-big-brother and will serve as a little corner of the internet where i compile my thoughts on (my) queerness and identity.

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frequently asked questions!

[pt: frequently asked questions. end pt.]

"who drew your profile picture/art?"

i did. i know, i'm an omega of many talents.

"what is this blog for?"

whatever i want it to be.

"are you [x] from [blog]?"

i was formerly mod jester from @rwuffles, am mod affogato from @mogaicentral and run one other mogai blog; feel free to refer to me using any names/titles from those blogs, here, too!

[luthinks]

I think a lot of people really need to go back and read all of Rafayel's story if they think he's not fully capable within his own resolve to feel and act that way. I'm not saying he can't be influenced in the segment of the story we see in the trailer by some higher power, but everyone seems to forget be "wants to settle the score" with MC is there are heavy implications all over his story that he believes she did, in fact, betray him. Whether he knows why or how or if she was also influenced by something else is unknown. I just need the fandom to fr stop trying to princess this man who is capable of mass murdering people who have hurt and hunted Lemurians and can both love and resent MC for whatever jumble of memories he holds. The biggest problem this company created was giving Rafayel purely sappy cards to cater to his huge fan base in China. It's made everyone forget he is dark and angry.

Rafayel is definitely fully capable of taking action on his own against the people who have wronged him and his people and he does so many times. But the mass murdering aspect is also kind of exaggerated. The only people he has canonically killed which we as players have seen are, the person in the theater from Siren's song anecdote and possibly Raymond. Other instances we hear are from other characters — like the sea monster murders and stuff — I take that with a grain of salt cuz the people who were murdered, who worked for ever and experimented on lemurians, left ever group before they got murdered. It could also be ever group killing them and landing the blame on Rafayel. We'll never know, it's upto us what to believe. Knowing papergames, it's not going to be this straight forward but we'll just have to see how they expand on it.

And coming to the "he wants to settle score with MC" part, to me, he didn't sound malicious while he was saying that ... The first thing he did after coming back to linkon was to look up information about MC and make sure she's safe. He even confronted one of the raincoats to inquire if MC was on ever's list. In my personal opinion him settling the score with MC here probably refers to her having forgotten him. I don't think he's even going to hold it against her if she ever betrayed him. He has had multiple dialogues that say, even if she's leading him into a trap, he'd willingly walk into it.

He's definitely bitter that she had forgotten him and everything that happened but he doesn't want to harm her. Like in chapter 7 while he was going to fight the big sea monster, he told MC to stay away because he can't ensure her safety otherwise. And when MC invokes the bond and tells him to not go, he's melancholic that she forgot everything but even then she insists.

Tbh I think one of his major fears is MC will come to dislike him when she comes across his changed self (as he mentioned in omnipotent perception).

In my opinion both the extremities, that Rafayel is all sunshine and roses who's just a brat doing his bratty stuff, and that he's a cold blooded killer that despises MC and wouldn't hesitate one bit before killing even her are two ends of a spectrum. How people feel about him lies between that depending on their own interpretations.

While I believe him to be somewhere in the middle, (I'm team "Rafayel is never going to harm MC no matter what it looks like unless he's possessed, but he'll end anyone who tries to harm her or his lemurian subjects no questions asked" 😂) but at the same time I think it's okay for people to have different beliefs on that scale. Some might have liked the innocent care free side of his more which led to a sharp contrast with recent branch PV, so the angst is inevitable... It's okay for them to lament the loss of this sunshine aspect of his character ... While others might be excited about the dark aspects of his character being explored more, that is also fine. It's a game where all of us are playing at a different pace, and also some of the lore locked behind limited cards ends up with different people having different interpretations, even the timeline of how we get all the content is out of order. So it makes sense that, a complex character like Rafayel would generate a spectrum of opinions 😅.

All in all as long as people aren't being rude to other players I think it's fine how they personally interpret Rafayel's character... I personally believe that the sunshine carefree Rafayel and ruthless cold Rafayel are both part of his personality, neither is more real than the other. But my interpretation might not be in line with others, and that's completely fine too.

P.S. I'm very sorry if this came off as preachy or condescending. I'm not very good at expressing myself while writing 😅

[slipery-bastard]

Woaw new pfp

Yes :3

Will take some time to get used to since i had my old one for so long tho

[lupinlu]

Your art is phenomenal, i remember following you back in my hetalia days. Your art was already fantastic & it has only gotten better. You have so much talent & creativity. Your art is really beautiful!

Thank you so much for your kind words!! I’m really glad to hear it, I'm lucky to have such lovely people like you supporting me! <33

[slipery-bastard]

*comes crawling into your inbox like a dying cricket* i have another hyperfixation

Do tell

[slipery-bastard]

Hi bestieee

Hello :D

[slipery-bastard]

Starting to think I've been plural for a while tbh

Like. I've talked to new headmates/I've discovered new ppl that have existed for longer than I've thought

You mightve??

Does that mean like. Theyve been there before and youve just never noticed em? Like when an iceberg melts n ya find shit thats been frozen for years

[slipery-bastard]

find out if you want, or live with this

I do wanna find out im curious. Who are you?