I wonder which game (franchise) is more nonsensical lore wise: Star Stable Online or Garten of Banban
Garten of Banban is truly some nonsense, with each new "chapter" (a new game that costs more money to buy and play) adding new characters and "story" that make less and less sense. They even skipped Chapter 5. Just straight up didn't release it, they went right on to Chapter 6 because??? I guess the devs got so ahead of themselves they forgot what number they were on, so the games go from 4 to 6. But it does not actively go back and release the previous games, requiring people to rebuy the game from the beginning to see the "new lore" to understand the "new" and updated story.
Star Stable, meanwhile, also has a great deal of nonsense and lack of foreshadowing so you can't guess where the plot or next story beat is going. Their magic system is so soft and irrational (or veers very deep into Looks Cool rather than Solves Problems, depending on how you want to 'classify' their magic system) that there is basically no way to guess what new magical plot development is going to be pulled out to save the next installment. This is further frustrated by constant retconning and full on redoing intro quests, to the game and NPCs, that can only be accessed by making a brand new account with a new email and buying the game all over again. What's the story in SSO? Hell if I know, when I started my character was there for the summer before starting college in the fall at the Hippological Institute and Anne was missing for 2 years.
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ok, so. marriage of convenience au where raven and svensen get married after nato so they cannot be forced to flip on each other during the Trial(tm)
and then they just don't get a divorce after because svensen doesn't really care and marriage is too good an excuse to cover for some of the shit they get up to (and the medical stuff/emergency contact list etc.). raven, however comes up with every reason under the sun why they absolutely shouldn't get divorced whenever anyone else brings it up. because.
because he is emotionally involved and unreasonably attached to his partner in war crimes and damn if he hasn't been thinking (read: fantasising) about this exact scenario for years. so he's not about to let go, even though he is literally the only one with skin in the game.
svensen "only" cares for him as a friend, sometimes with benefits but he's first and foremost a pragmatist and it's all about convenience to him
raven/bobby does still happen (initially only to make svensen jealous but that fails because he's genuinely happy for raven), and raven does have Real, Actual feelings for him, but they don't get married (they can't because raven refuses to let go, he's not going to prioritise the man he loves over the man he's fought and bled beside, even if he could move on romantically if he did because he'd still view it as a form of betrayal and raven would Never betray svensen. it's just not happening) and they don't have a daughter.
bobby eventually breaks up with raven, he refuses to play second fiddle to raven's old war buddy—though he does respect the hell out of the man on the field.
there is a lot of resentment involved, and svensen is mostly confused, he thought raven was happy and ready to get settled, although divorce still didn't come up, but he's there to comfort raven through it all in his usual, gruff way. raven goes back to being miserable. what can you do?
it just goes on like this, they are just two best friends Who Are Also Married, and raven is tragically in love with svensen who leans on him throughout his various unrequited crushes, though only as a buddy would, not in a spouse sort of way lmao raven isn't that lucky.
over the years, raven bitches and moans to kozlov who he has sworn to secrecy and who doesn't want to hear about any of this, no, thank you, but his loyalty to raven supercedes everything else in his life. alas, he is forced to endure. they're all so very loyal to the core and it fucks them constantly but like hell they'll give this up.
eventually, svensen considers divorce because he gets serious enough about someone (take your pick of who of my favoured svensen ships would actually have the balls to demand this). raven denies him because they said Til Death Do Us Part and he meant it and he expects svensen to mean it as well (and he's ultimately selfish enough to justify this to himself lol they are both selfish people when it comes down to it).
so svensen grins and bears it and all of it is terribly toxic (marriage of convenience HAHAHA). what raven doesn't consider, though, is the possibility that svensen's partner concedes on the marriage and still cares enough to stick around anyway because they're not here to build a family, they're here for svensen and, fuck, they'd be forced to have raven in their life either way so does it really matter all that much? no.
raven still smokes too much and gets cancer, but he also gets his wish because they never divorce and when he finally dies, he's still svensen's legal husband, and svensen continues to be there for him until his final breath and he doesn't regret anything but he also kind of regrets everything.
he certainly doesn't die content.
svensen does not get married again after raven's death (though he does manage to keep his relationship going in spite of himself) and kozlov takes raven's secrets to the grave with him, so he never finds out how fucking inconvenient this all really was for raven or how deeply he felt for him.
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