In the game L&N,it centres about the topic light and night so does night mean evil or light means good.Im confused about Jesse being always night since his a ball of some sunshine.
oh no, most definitely not!! i'm sorry if my comment about Charlie being an angel misled you. there's no official word about what the light and night stands for, but IMO just think of them as yin yang and a gradient scale. neither can exist without the other, and we're all a mixture of these things.
light = yang, idealism, selflessness
night = yin, realism, selfishness
putting aside sariel for now (because he's true neutral), you can see that Charlie and Osborn are much more frank about themselves and live according to their principles, even if that goes against others. it's not that they don't have trauma in their pasts, but they've mostly confronted it and don't place that baggage between them and the MC. they look towards the future.
on the other hand, Evan and Jesse are shackled by family stuff. i've already mentioned that Evan is on a path of revenge and he's super nihilistic lmao. Jesse has been implied to have a dark past too, especially after he moved to Europe and his father died, and had a rude wake up call about how, in order to protect the people he cares about, he has to bear certain responsibilities and do certain things. HMM. not to mention, Jesse has a literal connection with death because of his abilities and that's yin energy. both characters are focused on the past.
(one day, when i stop being lazy, i’ll write an essay about Jesse and the greek mythology symbolism with him because the implications of these stories + his knight symbolism is Troubling like how i saw Evan's unsettling signs. it's why the two of them being night doesn't surprise me at all.)
going back to sariel, you can see that he's much more depressed and haunted by the past compared to Osborn and Charlie (so night). however, in contrast to Evan, Sariel is much more accepting of what's happened to him and he's more free than someone like Jesse who has to succeed his family (so light).
note: the game hasn't shown all the pairings yet, so i have no idea what will happen if Evan and Jesse end up in the same chapter. who will be the true night? my guess is Evan. Jesse and Sariel haven't been together either, but i think Sariel would be light in that case.
Hello, I've seen now that your doing an analysis of the game "Light and Night"
If you have time can you please a analysis of the game of each the ML are falling for the heroine like how slow build their relationship is going in, and what type romantic love the heroine has with them.
i'll try my best but please keep in mind that the game is barely 3.5 months old, so there's still a lot to learn about the characters. i'm also still missing one SSR for all the characters except Osborn.
i'm going to talk about the characters below in the order of fastest relationship development to slowest. warning for spoilers up to Chapter 10 of the game and its released cards!
Osborn (Xiao Yi)
he's known as a pro racer for a reason LOL (the joke is that "driving a car" in chinese means making dirty jokes or flirting). he's the first of the guys to get an explicit kiss card and he constantly makes the heroine blush. sexual tension is always present in their interactions!
i'm actually slowly working on a more detailed post about the relationship between them but Osborn is basically a combination of a bad boy, reliable older brother, and "more than friends, less than lovers". ironically, even though we have a childhood friend character, Osborn is like half of a childhood friend and gets the theme of "home".
what i love the most about him is his ever-present confidence and sense of freedom. a question that is brought up in various dates basically asks if he will just up and leave one day, but Osborn answers that he immediately does what he wants to do and goes to see who he wants to see. he never makes the heroine feel insecure and will always strive for a win-win situation.
i would say his love language is acts of service, quality time and physical touch.
Jesse (Xia Mingxing)
he and the heroine are childhood friends, so you can imagine where this is going. he's always basically revolved around her, until he had to move because of his family (and then he got involved with Some Stuff that still needs to be explained).
they're extremely casual and touchy with each other but Jesse seems to be holding back on fully confessing his feelings, probably until he settles the rest of his life stuff down. the heroine knows he's a grown man now, but occasionally she still seems to treat him like a little brother. i feel like, at this point of the relationship, jesse needs to be the one to make a move.
his love language might be giving gifts, quality time, and physical touch.
Charlie (Zha Lisu)
a rocky relationship since the heroine ran away from him at the beginning to escape their engagement LOL and she acts pretty prickly towards him. they're a comedic duo where Charlie acts ridiculous and the heroine deadpans or makes a snarky remark, although she's gotten nicer recently (there was a huge complaint about how she was being too mean).
i think their relationship is developing at the most normal speed though. both of them were in this arranged engagement without much thought about the other but now, as they get to know different sides of the other, they become more drawn to each other. it mimics our experience of getting to know the characters too. anyway, Charlie is extremely purehearted underneath his "flamboyant" persona so you can't help but love him.
his love language is likely giving gifts, words of affirmation, and acts of service.
Sariel (Qi Sili)
"it's complicated" probably describes his relationship development the most. he doesn't want to get involved in the world anymore! it sounds like his heart died way back in the past at the traumatic event that happened on his birthday, and now he just wants to revive whoever died that day (his lover? the heroine's past life?). however, the heroine is getting under his skin and he is opening his heart to her.
but none of this is going to stop his tragic degeneration and how he seems like he's going to lose his memories or die soon, because he's not going to get involved in the fight for the survival of his species.
so, we're probably going to get a lot of push and pull here. Sariel has already tried to distance himself in a date and failed, but he is probably always going to keep a bit of him reserved until he knows he has a future with the heroine (aka. we gotta solve his degeneration and either the past person gets revived or he moves on).
i would bet his love language is quality time, giving gifts, and acts of service.
Evan (Lu Chen)
i don't think he's contemplating love right now LOL just revenge. he may not be feeling the happiness he expected at finding his final weapon (the heroine) to destroy his family because he has some affectionate feelings for her, but it's clearly not strong enough to stop his plans or use of her.
like i mentioned in my previous essay, i think the heroine is going to need to do something monumental in order to overcome his nihilism. he was shaken by her words in the cello date about how she would bring him the smiles and laugh in the world, but hearing someone promise you this and actually experiencing and believing in it is something else.
he can only grow as a person after he gets rid of what's been haunting him his whole life. right now, i think he considers himself a weapon that is going to point its blade at the family that made him, or a dead man walking who will finally be free in death after his revenge has been realized. anyway, this is definitely the most glacial of relationship developments among all the men LOL.
his love language would probably be words of affirmation, acts of service, and quality time.
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Now I know that the game Light and Night is barely a year old,but so far what's your opinion of the mc is she likeable and relatable.
haha, calling it barely a year old is a stretch when it's not even half a year old! it's a really, really young game still.
i don't think i can answer this question well though because it's very subjective. she shares the traits of all the other CN mobile otome game heroines, like Love and Producer and Themis, they are all hardworking, compassionate and understanding with second chances, and uphold justice and the importance of a life.
this is just the way mobile otome game heroines are written so they can capture the largest audience possible (you run the risk of alienating audiences if your heroine is too idiosyncratic).
rather than commenting on the heroine, i guess i can say i like the pace and setup of the story in Light and Night? everything escalates and happens quickly so it avoids Love and Producer's problems at the beginning where it felt like everyone knew things except for the heroine and that made people feel like she was dumb (you need to separate audience omniscience from character perspective).
but Light and Night's heroine gets involved fast, told about what's going on, and even learns to use her powers quickly. currently, the things the heroine doesn't know are things the men themselves aren't 100% sure on and/or it doesn't directly involve her and so she doesn't need to know (putting aside Evan's, uh, complicated circumstances of revenge).
going back to the power bit, actually, everyone in the game abuses their powers LOL they use it all the time in their daily life. but i really think it's genius how well-matched the heroine's powers are with each guy and how it plays significantly different roles.
hm, the one thing i can say, as someone who also played Love and Producer and Themis (but dropped them for personal reasons), is that i find Light and Night does dialogue really well. the characters banter a lot with each other and the illusion of choice given, through choices in the main story and dates, makes the heroine feel more relatable and witty.
oh to have a boyfriend like Osborn your fics of him make me swoon
haha, thank you so much for the compliment. i like to think (hope?) that my depiction of Osborn isn't actually that far off from the game, so just know he's that affectionate and playful in there too.
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