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Honestly? I've never been able to see Ram's "love" for Roswaal as anything but Stockholm Syndrome. Penny for your thoughts?

I don’t think Stockholm Syndrome is quite right, but I think saying it’s unhealthy is reasonable. Especially in Arc 4, when she smiles as he crushes her heart (??? GIRL).

I will say, the One Thing that kind of saved it from a lot of its potential creep factor for me is the fact that Roswaal was completely blindsighted by the idea that Ram did not fucking despise him. If he had been the one to fall for her first, or — god forbid — WANTED her to fall in love with him, then that would have been something else. But as it is, the idea that he basically went and employed a monster among monsters to do his bidding with the intent of allowing the monster to kill him one day as its reward only for that monster to turn around and say “Actually I’m kinda into you.” is really, REALLY funny. Man thought he was making a deal with the devil or capturing the Minotaur for his labyrinth, and then his prized beast turned around and decided to do THAT.

To be honest I’m more or less just trying to write Ram as I believe she would perceive herself and her relationship with Roswaal without inputting my own opinion into the mix. I expect my own opinions to solidify once I actually read Arc 4, but I’m probably gonna want to keep them out of the story anyway, you know?

#also admittedly i have some problems with stockholm syndrome as a term #considering that it was kind of coined from an incident where the Real Problem was that the police butchered a hostage situation #to the point where the hostages felt safer with the criminals than the cops #and then the cops needed an excuse to not recognize how badly they fucked up #but that’s a whole other thing #my inbox #now that’s what i call a dogshow #ds!ram #ramswaal #me tag

We don’t acknowledge enough just how FUNNY Ram’s crush on Roswaal actually is. Cause like, that entire confession scene was just—

Ram: I am in love with you *cue soulful music*

Roswaal, who saw Ram as a mix between the hellhound contracted as his temporary servant and the demon he straight up sold his soul to: 👁️👄👁️

#like. okay #it’s anime so ofc ram is a traditionally attractive anime girl #but this is the anime equivalent of a story about a faustian bargain where the devil suddenly completely deviates from the script and #I feel like that should be acknowledged more often because it is FUNNY.#bro was in a completely different genre and then ram pulled an Anime Girl on him out of NOWHERE #well. out of nowhere from his perspective anyway #ramswaal #ram #roswaal l mathers

I don't think you've talked about it before, so I've been wanting to ask. How does Ram's friendship with Subaru and her love for Roswaal change in your fics where she's learned of RBD, what her and her sister have done to him, and....everything to do with Roswaal.

You've made it clear that the majority of the characters don't really like pre-amnesia Rem or approve of the nature of her relationship with Subaru, but what does Ram think of it? She doesn't exactly have what you'd call a healthy definition of love either, so it'll be interesting to learn about her perspective on things.

Ram has to reassess a LOT of stuff lmao.

1) Ram murdered Subaru. This is actually a really big deal because she has been playfully jesting about murdering or otherwise bodily harming Subaru for the duration of their relationship, and now that it turns out she ACTUALLY DID THAT it’s like — this recontextualizes EVERYTHING, she can’t do that anymore! And the fact that Subaru took it in stride even AFTER she slit his throat to cover up her sister’s (genuinely horrible) crime in the middle of the woods — what the HELL, Subaru?? Why are you like this??? This is SO much worse than she thought, what the fuck?!

2) Rem and Subaru’s relationship is uh. Okay Ram didn’t actually have any problems with their relationship in canon, even before the Gluttony situation. She was a little prickly that Rem was suddenly enamored with Subaru over her but like, she didn’t think that they were TOXIC or anything. She certainly didn’t think that REM was toxic. But now — I mean what else do you call it? Rem tortured Subaru in the woods, violently disemboweled him in the hallway, then suddenly turned on a dime and started sneaking into his room to watch him sleep, following him everywhere like a puppy, blowing his nose for him, fantasizing about whisking the both of them away from everything (and against his will no less) so that she could have him all to herself, faked her death to make him agree to take her as a second wife — what the HELL, Rem?! Subaru’s going along with it makes sense because apparently he really is just that starved for affection + devoid of any common sense about what is dangerous and what is not, but Rem? No excuses there.

3) And yeah, alongside Remsuba apparently being WAAAY WORSE than she realized — now she gets to see Roswaal and her from an outside perspective and. Uh. It’s not very comfortable. Ram has to reassess a LOT about how she feels about love, and romance, and relationships, and Roswaal specifically, and—

It’s just a lot. She might end up actually bedridden from stress for a while ngl lol