Yeah she did post about it on Tumblr, I remember reading it there…I think it was the update about how the next big bad wants MC for their blood…but in a different way than the other big bads before. Maybe the reason could be related to their powers and what kind of being they are…but it’s impossible to say, since this time it’s a supernatural Sera created just for the series and not from any real world myth/folklore. Since they are “elusive” maybe some kind of shape shifter or supernatural that can hide in plain sight or turn invisible? They will be hard to capture.
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Note that what Sera says is “elusive” is the name, not the character:
I originally interpreted that “hilarious” as the elusiveness being ironic considering the supernatural, but now that you bring it up I suppose it could also be interpreted as appropriate. 
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Yeah it’s vague…but thats why my first thought was shape shifter maybe. A big bad who will be really obvious once the team finally realizes it, because maybe they have to hide in plain sight the whole time to get close to the MC. But who knows.
Or maybe Sera just finds it funny because it’s a made up being, so finding a name should be simpler.
But if the big bad can copy or mimic other people, maybe that is why they could want MC’s blood, so they can get the same ability the MC has.
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This is… ahem… interesting…
Sera’s comment about how M’s newfound popularity is an “interesting surprise” came off as displeased (contrast this with her response when F was moving up in the ranks and she was happy about it). We better stop saying how much we love M’s route or she’ll go out of her way to make it as horrible as possible.
And the fact that he’s literally screwed the whole Agency at this point is… amusing.
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What was her response about F? I think F is the least popular from what I’ve seen…so it’d make sense she’d be happy about it I suppose.
But for M, I feel like it was expected that route would be a more…acquired taste and be less popular? Given the super slow burn and all. I would have completely disagreed with that assumption though, slow burn is a pretty popular trope. Compared to a BFF trope like F which is less popular (I know because I love that trope and it’s often the case those character types aren’t usually the lead/main romance, lol).
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Time to use the fight club rules and stop talking about how M’s route is, at least at the moment, the best one (sera being surprised is honestly so damn funny, considering M is the one character who got the most consistent/organic character development of everyone else)
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I’ve been saying this for weeks now.
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Here you go:
“Aah, you don’t know how happy it makes me to see F climbing the popularity ranks for the romance!”
And there’s this about her being delightfully surprised about how popular the LT has become.
There are more about popularity, where she says M was definitely the least popular at first. And it’s never a happy thing when M moves up, unlike the gushing over F gaining in popularity.
I think she’s surprised because she is fumbling around with M and doesn’t really care if anyone likes them or not, since she doesn’t. I guess if you think about it, she really wouldn’t understand why people like M, even in b3, since M still doesn’t fit that “classic” romance trope like N, A, and even F do (with the pining, dating, suave, whatever crap).
Yes, you have. And everyone should take heed. No more M questions on tumblr for those who are on there! We don’t want her breaking our toys out of spite!!
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See, this is where I personally am not a fan of the whole “one true soul mate” trope, because I just find it a bit difficult to visualize characters as more on the spectrum of sexuality that way. Like how people have mentioned A’s demi-sexuality and how the whole “soul mate” thing kind of negates that. Because at the end of the day, there are bound to be other people out there who are at least similar to the MC in some way, or that A would actually fancy as long as they got to know the person first (since having that deep connection with someone is exactly what is needed in that case).
Or M, for instance. I think of M as Aromantic because they previously just like the fun of sleeping around and not having any deeper connections. It would’ve been so interesting to see the spectrum of aromanticism that M could’ve rested on where they had to ask themselves how they actually felt about the Mc, because they still didn’t like all the lovey-dovey stuff that comes with a relationship, but they still wanted the relationship. I think that would’ve been super cool, and in a way, is kind of what we’re getting. I just view soul mate as a very romanticized and somewhat one-note way of doing relationships.
Mishka mentioned in an ask that she viewed demisexual as not having sexual attraction towards someone without a strong emotional connection and that she didn’t think it had anything to do with how fast someone falls in love… but love is a strong emotional connection. At least as far as I know it is? I would like to hear other people’s thoughts on that because, being a demisexual, I can’t think of falling in love as anything but a strong emotional connection.
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Wasn’t A revealed as demisexual in one of Tumblr asks? It reminds me of the way some fantasy universes go - you just slap and slap stuff over another stuff and say whatever in response because you don’t really remember much.
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Thanks!
The LT route being less popular than the single routes, I get. Love triangles are popular in other media, but if you play a lot of visual novels/otome or IF, it seems lots of people often don’t like it when they are playing as the main character. Which makes total sense, IMO. People feel closer to their MC’s they are role-playing as than they do a protagonist they don’t have any choice over.
But isn’t that good? If a character outside a writer’s normal wheelhouse becomes popular? It just means they nailed the character and did a good job. I can understand when it’s a villian or a side character they didn’t plan for or want to get so much attention, since those can easily overshadow a story when fandoms latch onto them too hard. But this is a main character.
Well, whatever, I’m successfully put off by the mention M is sleeping with the entire facility, probably even the moles, lol… 
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I’m not really understanding your confusion here. I’m not an expert, but my (meagre) understanding of demisexuality matches Sera’s (had to happen some time, I guess), and I DO agree with you on love being a strong emotional connection. You seem to think these two things are at odds, and I’m not quite grasping how. A is demisexual but NOT demiromantic.
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I don’t think it necessarily negates it, or even means there couldn’t be more than one person aside from MC that could have a deep affinity with them… I think the soulmate thing is just the author’s way of letting the audience know that the bond with the MC is special, and any other kind of special relationship the ROs could possibly have are outside the scope of the story/book. The MC is the love of their lives, and that’s that. If you don’t play their route, we aren’t going to be reading about them ending up with some other side character who is their ‘new’ soulmate.
Or do you mean the love at first sight thing negates the demisexuality? A already knows there is a deep bond? I’m not sure, but couldn’t it be the case A is resisting the relationship for other reasons that don’t have to do with their sexuality? Like their past traumas, or whatever.
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M will likely to continue to just have one night stands. They aren’t looking for anything more when not on the MC’s route and have that ‘soul mate’ thing happen.
M is off having one night stands on MCs who are locked into their route? I suppose that’s one way to create angst. I thought N commented that M wasn’t doing that, though.
Doesn’t matter if we stop talking about it. The rest of the internet is still going to talk about it.
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They only continue to have them if you are in the other members of UB routes, thankfully Sera dislikes cheating of any kind as far as I’m aware.
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Gotcha. That was phrased a bit confusingly. It sounded like it applied to all routes and that the ‘wanting more’ part was what was exclusive to their route.
I guess you’re right, I suppose I just have a bit of a tough time wrapping my head around it because I always experienced that connection through just getting to know who people were rather than just feeling it from a first glance, but I suppose that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. I guess I’ve never been challenged with thinking about someone who’s demisexual immediately being sexually attracted to someone they lay eyes on, because at that exact same moment they’re also in love with them. I was probably a bit blinded from my own experience because I’ve personally always had to get to know the person first before feeling anything like that.
But, this is why we talk to other people, in order to see new perspectives and understand things differently than what we know them to be!
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This is very enlightened of you. Personally, I just talk to people so I don’t have to grow my own food and recycle my own trash. >_> 
(I’m kidding, of course; I don’t talk to people 
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I would be a liar if I said I don’t like the soulmates trope, I’ve read far too much creative fics with the premise to be a cowardly clown about it, but one thing I dislike here is that it completely shifts things? Like oh yeah, M likes to have sex with no strings attached, but not with MC!! That’s their soulmate so they’re going to be completely different!
I get that it’s supposed to be “”“romantic”“” but eh personally I don’t like it when the trope has to impact a character to the point where it makes me feel like a special snowflake (which is extra relevant here, considering the mc is already a special blood snowflake. Even if there were others with the same oddities around)
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I’d like to know what Sera’s definition of ‘soulmate’ is. It might be different from what you or I may define it as, or anyone else.
For me, a soulmate is someone who is ideally suited for partnership and/or friendship. This doesn’t mean they are the only one out there and that no other partnership will work. It just means it is ideal. There are many other partnerships that can work toward becoming ideal.
Personally, I’ve never met a single person who can be everything for another person. Sometimes you want your lovers to be your lovers and your friends to be your friends (and your coworkers to be your coworkers), without having to combine everything together expecting that every single emotional need can be met by a single person.
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