[Coldsaturn]

so i DID read it right -- suicide pact, together in life and in death - if we can't * be *, i don't want to be here at all.

le HEAVY SIGH. god, that was a cathartic moment in the video, let me tell you.

I am going for the nuance here in my head along with you, in that pseudo-brother is the best situation possible and "childhood friends" does not in the least have the right level of obsession and duty to make it compelling. As I mentioned on the tumblr thread, I am an "older" and am not caught up in puritanical hand-flapping virtue signalling - nothing is black and white, everything is a murky shade of smoky gray at best and the best moral quandaries are ones that have real bite. this is fiction, of COURSE it should reach for your innards and twist.

(EDIT: maybe i should put it out there that EVEN IF Caleb was the main character's actual blood sibling, I wouldn't have a problem with it. This is fiction, stuff is allowed to happen. well, maybe not in a PG rated gatcha otome game...)

So while I haven't "met" Caleb for longer than about three episodes where he showed up, there was dinner and then a bomb, I have really high hopes for the guy because everything hurts worse when its family.

I made the "mistake" of reading some of the high-kudo-count stories on Ao3 and had to stop myself after a dozen or so. Without spoiling too many spoils, Caleb is often written as very obsessive and I can't tell from this early peek into the game whether that's a canon thing, or a fanon thing? Would love to know just how much is actually expressed in game if at all possible since it's gonna take me a bit to get there and I am a dessert-first kinda gal.

I mean, all the boys are going to be attached to us regardless, they're kind of written that way, but I didn't come across any stories that, say, had Zayne losing several mental gaskets and supergluing us to his trophy wall. I mean, he MIGHT,  but I would expect his mental gasket expression to involve vivisection or something.

I am waffling on whether to look up the myth stories at some point (since the likelihood of getting the cards myself is slim and more slim). I have a feeling I will park myself on a video with popcorn to hand at some point but right now I am just trying to keep away from it other than watching the trailer vids on the official website because a girl has to feed herself * something *, yanno?

I will post somewhere on chapter completion / story synposis per me, good idea!

I'm right there with you. I don't know how old you are, but I grew up in completely different fandom communities, long before I started seeing purity culture explode in our face. And okay, it wasn't all good, people had weird obsessions with canon straight couples and you'd get kicked out of forums and chats for daring to write slash, but it felt more insular and manageable than this.
I wouldn't have had any problem if Caleb had been presented to us as an actual brother by blood either. I like stories and I like well-crafted conflicts, I don't care how far down the rabbit hole one reaches in fiction in order to explore something. More power to them, if I can I'll be there with popcorn or with a pen myself, ready to join.

LOL at those fics. OK I can't tell you much without spoiling you and I'm going to hold back as much as I can until you give me the explicit "I like spoilers" greenlight. I can tell you that fandom has a bit of a habit of mischaracterizing a few of the LIs, whether it's because they don't like them, they like them so much they forget what is fanon and what's not, or they're missing important canon info. I won't tell you if those fics are accurate for his character (they might be, might not), but enjoy fanon content while keeping in mind that it might go in a completely different direction from canon personalities.

If the implicit question was "how dark does the game get?" then I can tell you: I don't know how infold is avoiding censorship and keeping that rating lmao
It can get deliciously dark when you least expect it.

I'd say, if you're resisting watching the myths already, you might as well get a proper feel for the characters in the main storyline so that you can then be punched in the face when you go and watch the myths. Pretty much every player relies on seeing the cards online because unless you want to spend ridiculous amounts of money, we're all missing important cards which means missing important facts. User Lavender on youtube has every single card known to man, so you can go there to watch the entire movies (some of the cards are 1 hour long) when you decide to do that.
You'll end up watching them at some point though, because they're necessary for the LIs.