You know guys, I have a suspicion. The hints are really subtle, so I'm not certain, but putting the pieces together I've come to an earthshaking conclusion.

...I think Zanka might really like Maid x Mistress yuri.

holy shit

mind=blown

[awks intensifies]
[heavy panicking]

...WiD is basically just Kal's Bizarre Cosplay Adventure isn't it? Hell she even has a Stand... :v

Given all the shit she pulls off here it's no wonder she basically soloed poor Crownslayer and her mook squad in the main storyline tho.

^^not that we're ever told of. And well, I mean, Kitsune Saiguu is slightly dead or as close as makes no diff since centuries ago so... yeeeeaaaahhh.

What I'm getting at is trying to rationalise this scene will just give you a brain aneurysm. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What kind of mom is that who does not show up at her daughter's wedding?

The kind the author sorta kinda forgot existed, I'd wager.

Accurate.

^sounds like a market niche for a start-up!

You know what I've always wanted to know about her mother because I figured she'd have some kind of plot significance at some point in the story. I thought in like the last few chapters of O.G Citrus she'd make some kind of surprise appearance (shame it didn't happen)

Wasted potential, in my Citrus?!

^elbows perhaps? It's not like you're limiting yourself with any kind of anatomical logic by that point...

I just went and asked the Guild rep fot hints and she marked the last two on the map...

...well that was a lot of new campaign missions cleared holy shit o_O

Out of the left field but I just realised those upcoming idol skins are all for birb peepl (griffons like 'Chetto and Hellaold being classed as Liberi). Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Also 6* Myrtle has an interesting looking kit and her visual design is 10/10 so I guess that's one more waifu for the already lengthy "future savings" list... >_>

^reading this convo I am yet again grateful that our writing system is derived from practical administrative notation and not oracle bone chicken scratches =3=

^four ears look absolutely terrible and mostly like the artist couldn't really decide and just settled on what amounts to glorified cosplay props :|

^^there's this bizarre convention among fanartists to draw the "male/active" role character as taller even if it flies right in the face of explicit lore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@Felx - this is not a question of emotional investement itself but what you're emotionally invested in as has been repeatedly made very clear throughout the debate. As such I'm going to go and accuse you of deliberate bad-faith mischaracterisation of the whole argument.

Your gross false equivalencies are null and void right in the face of it, though it's funny that you attempt to invoke parallels with "traditional" fiction - when at least two people previously have been specifically trying to make the excuse that differences in the medium, structure etc. are somehow so fundamental they magically relieve the audience of the default personal responsibility to distinguish between the real and the fantastic.

^spare me the weird reductio ad absurdum strawmen. Treating something fictional like it was or should be real, and reacting with outrage when it's not because you're so emotionally invested in it, rather strikes me as a fact/fiction separation issue per definitionem.

^^kek

^...because being that invested in a fiction doesn't indicate issues with separating the real from the make-believe in the first place?

^errrr... did you hit the bottle and suddenly switch into "soulful old drunk" mode or something? o_O

^^^to put it bluntly I can only see that as a "you" kind of problem; emotional over-investement in a fantasy that holds a particular appeal to you.
Because that's what it is at the end of the day and allowing yourself to forget that distinction after the latest performance segment has concluded is straight up dangerous. It's the first step down a slope that leads to some very dark places.

Whatever the medium and the skill of the performers it's fundamentally the responsibility of the viewer to distinguish fact from fiction; and the audience most certainly is not entitled to make any demands of the actors outside the role and then get mad when those aren't met.

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^I quite fail to see what is supposed to fundamentally change with the different medium and degree of interaction. Plus live performers are a thing too and routinely interact with their audiences while donning one role or another on the stage.
Tell me - exactly what difference is it supposed to make that the stage is a virtual forum instead of a structure in a hall or a park?

Lowkey suspecting you might need a dose of certain healthy cynicism regarding the scripting aspect, too.

Quite like it, the snapshots of their off time!

"Off time" might be bit of a stretch when several of them are called on to do their costume capers while in the middle of their muggle day jobs...

^no but seriously what part of "performing artists" wasn't computing for you in the first place? You don't expect the actors in whatever series you're currently watching to "really" feel the emotions and relationships and whatever they're portraying either, do you?
That's just basic entertainement reality check.

I might add that only too often when I see people commenting on VTubers here I legitimately cannot tell to what degree they're just playing along with the relevant kayfabe and how much they've allowed weird wisful thinking and "shipping" to erode the ever-important reality/fiction filter that distinguishes the actor from the role.

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^
>account created literally today
>makes exactly one post
>username remarkably similar to another he's comping

...I'm not saying that's a sockpuppet acc but it sure tries hard to look like one. :|

^^it's ~sacred resonance~ after all

^ can't unthink >_<