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popponn · 2 months

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note: happy birthday fishman. please just come home already. i want to poke this cutie a lot.

you stare in disbelief at the pile of plushies in your hands, then at the empty ever-rotating crane game machine, then finally at the half-fish half-man who you get the pleasure of calling employer and boyfriend.

"...how?" you ask, still dumbfounded.

rafayel—who casually keeps a finger gun pose shamelessly in the middle of a public arcade—smirks even wider, "who do you think you are talking to?"

"someone who always misses the plushies," you answer quickly without a missing beat, before adding an afterthought, "usually. on every turn."

this response immediately makes him drop the finger gun away from his chin. changing it into a childish (and very adorable) hands on the hips pose. as animated as his gestures are, his face morphs into a pout, "hey. that's just me holding back so this place could still have a business."

"..." you doubt it, really.

"what does that face mean?" rafayel's eyebrows frown even further—which serves as enough warning that you probably should start giving him praises or you will have another spiel of how "you don't love him and even the jellyfishes that eat grass agrees with that". no one wants a repeat of that.

and also, you love him enough to think a preening smug rafayel is better than a pouting annoyed one.

"it means—" you poorly try to hide your smile, "—that i am very thankful that a really handsome guy gets me all of this. so much that i couldn't believe it."

predictably, the air around rafayel soon matches a peacock more than a fish. "hmph! good!" he says, in a manner that sounds like he will demand some spoiling the moment the two of you get home. or so you think, before he opens his mouth again and eyes the other machine a few steps behind you, "why don't you let this handsome guy get another round of plushies for you then?"

(five minutes and eight rounds later, the plushies in that other machine remain untouched.)

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace x reader #love and deepspace x you #rafayel x reader #rafayel x you #rafayel x y/n #love and deepspace rafayel #love and deepspace imagines #drabbles #congrats homura you finally get five plushies and get me that achievement. and for me to writing a proper lads fic that is not a scenario #after many many “this is for you girlie” *misses* moments. you are precious #happy birthday babyboy. i will try to finish all your audio drama soon.

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atsuwumus · 3 months

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the LOVE AND DEEPSPACE boys height reference chart :

#I'm soooo unwell tonight #caleb honey I need it #not a waitress but I'll take the tip #as a 170 cm girlie this had me screaming #mai mumbles (ꐦ •᷅ࡇ•᷄)#love and deepspace #rafayel #caleb #zayne #xavier

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goddess-reborn · 2 months

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Okay yall I’m CONVINCED this has to be because it was my birthday!!!!!!

Like the game let’s you celebrate your birthday in game for 1 week and literally since the day it started my pulls have been fucking wild????

Like I got Rafayel in my first 10 pull and then when I did a 10 pull with the pity guarantee, I got not just Zayne who was my precise wish, but Xavier too (so both the limited cards I didn’t have) AND an extra Zayne so I could rank him up a level?????

This cannot be a coincidence, especially with getting a 5 star on two separate non-pity 10 pulls, there’s just no way skdjksks

If anyone else has a birthday coming up soon and they have the means to test this theory out please do and tell me the results because this has been absolutely insane!!!!

#not to mention even in 10 pulls that I didn’t get a 5 star in I still often got multiple 4 stars even tho only one is guaranteed????#I also wonder if September and October girlies would have a higher chance of pulling zayne and Xavier respectively????#like I’m SO curious if devs made this a secret/surprise part of the birthday celebration #love and deepspace #love and deepspace theory #love and deepspace zayne #love and deepspace xavier #love and deepspace rafayel #lads #lds #lnds #l&ds

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yuri-is-online · 3 months

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Love and Deepspace Timeline: MC, Philos, and the Aether Core

Look I finished Xav's myths card. I don't regret waiting until I was done with it to post his timeline because the last two nodes have more to do with MC than him, but I am in a state so we are making this to cope.

This is all speculation and should not be taken as fact, I have done two other posts, one on Zayne and one on Xavier and I will not be doing one on Rafayel please see this reddit post by u/joonmin for relevant information about his myths card blah blah blah.

This post is less of a timeline and more here to answer questions you very likely have if you: A) decided to browse reddit and saw people saying Xavier feels like the "cannon ro" [this is a gacha game there isn't one] but have never read any of his memories, moments, or dates B) read chapter 8 and went "none of this makes sense I feel like I am missing something" or C) just generally are confused about L&D's world building and what's up with MC. I have answers for you. Wibbly wobbly soupy answers. This post also has a TL;DR in case you don't want to see me break out the string board and just want the relevant bits of information about MC you won't get from the msq.

SPOILERS FOR ALL IN GAME CONTENT UP TO CHAPTER 8, VARIOUS MOMENTS, AND ANECDOTES RELATED TO ALL 3 ROS, PROCEED WITH CARE.

Current Timeline MC (i.e. The one we are playing as)

The game starts with MC's graduation from the Academy and first day as a fully licensed hunter. We learn a few things in this first chapter, namely that MC is combat trained, has a rare heart condition known as Protocore Syndrome that has no known cure, and that her decision to become a hunter has something to do with what she experienced fourteen years ago during the Catastrophe when the Deepspace Tunnel opened and Wanderers started invading earth.

Specifically MC describes something burrowing itself into her heart. She feels helpless, like prey, and has a strong desire to never feel anything like this again. Which is unfortunate because I have a feeling a lot of someones are going to be on her trail sooner rather than later.

In Chapter 5 it is revealed that MC has an Aether core fused to her heart. This sort of human experimentation is highly illegal and it is unknown who did this to MC other than our beloved Grandmother was directly involved. Grandma appears to have taken MC away from wherever this happened after the tests started to threaten MC's life.

This is known to Dr. Zayne and Dr. Noah, though neither seem to know more than what Grandma told them. Neither of them seem to fully understand what an Aether core is or what it is doing to MC's heart. Zayne in particular seems to find this extremely concerning.

Uncovering the mystery of the Aether core seems to be what will be driving the first arc so we will not be discussing it at length here. I do want to note that Xavier absolutely knows what it is, while Zayne does not but does seem to know more of the technical aspects of how it is effecting MC, and Rafayel is at least aware of it being valuable and maybe why exactly the people in the N109 Zone want it.

At some point in the past MC met and made a promise to Rafayel. It is my personal theory that this likely took place on Hat Island during the field trip MC talks about due to some of the comments made in Chapter 7.

MC and Caleb were friends with Zayne in childhood. MC's exact age is a bit fuzzy, but the game does seem to suggest she is younger than Zayne. She does not know why Zayne disappeared from her life or what led him to become a doctor.

Comments in Chapter 4 suggests that Caleb encouraged MC to become a hunter. He seems to be very supportive of her, but Grandma seems more interested in trusting MC's protection to Zayne.

On the surface MC seems pretty normal. Her memories from before the Catastrophe seem to be gone, if she had a mother and father or other blood relatives, she doesn't remember them anymore.

Philos MC (i.e. What is Going on in the Myths)

It is revealed in Xavier's When Shooting Stars Fall anecdote that Philos is Earth in the distant future. This has confused numerous people in the notes of my Xav's timeline so I am going to be insufferable and attempt to assist with a graph:

The MC you play belongs to the game timeline, the MCs (plural each myths card features a different one) in the Myths cards come from the Philos timeline. I have tagged the Game timeline as a "potential tangent" as the events that take place in game are entirely reliant on the existence of the Deepspace Tunnel, which is created in the Philos timeline.

At some point in the Original/Philos Timeline, Earth's core ceases to function. Humanity replaces it with a new, artificial core that causes noticeable weather changes and fuses all of the tectonic plates together, and begins a new calendar counting forward from the years since Earth ceased to be and Philos was born. As a result, we don't know what exact year Earth's core giving out happened in the Original Timeline. The artificial core allows almost all humans to "live eternal." They seem to be like Tolkien's elves in the sense they can live for an eternity but they start to get tired after a while and give up on life. This is why there is a royal family that needs a line of succession. Xavier is the Crown Prince of Philos, he meets MC in school and learns she has a rare disease called Protocore Syndrome which will not allow her to live forever. He attempts to cure this by finding a specific protocore she mentions, but fails to reach her in time and is forced to watch her die. This all happens in the year 214.

At some point MC is reborn and assigned to the same teacher as Xavier. She is to train to become his knight and serve as the leader of the Lightseekers, an order tasked with killing Wanderers. At some point during or before Xavier's coming of age ceremony, he learns the truth about Philos: the planet is dying due to the artificial core never having been meant to sustain the planet this long. The Royal Family's solution for this is to occasionally feed humans to the heart of Philos in Starfall Forest. When they do this, it creates Wanderers. As if that wasn't bad enough, Xavier learns that his father and the royal family have found what they think could be a permanent solution: there is a girl who has achieved true immortality. She is the only person on Philos who can die and be reborn constantly, and while they don't seem to know why she does this, the royal family believes this girl is the life force of the planet itself.

This girl is MC and Xavier does not want this to happen. He has a plan that he does not explain to MC, but it involves traveling back in time. He says they have specific places in time picked out, but we know from Xavier's Passing By anecdote that something went wrong with his team's attempt at time travel and now there is no guarantee that the MC he left on Philos as its Queen is still there.

So now we have two timelines: Original/Philos Timeline and Game/Tangent Timeline. But all of that is just taking Xavier's anecdotes and Myths card into account... so what happens if we try to plug in the other two ROs?

Rafayel

In u/Joonmin's reddit post they mention two very important bits of information: 1) It has been 30,000 years since the sea dried up and 2) MC is a member of the royal family of Philos, not by birth but because "she has a heart that’s been blessed by the gods" and has "awoken from the depths." If all three myths cards take place in the same Philos timeline as the one Xavier leaves, we can reasonably place Raf's myths card after Xavier's backtrack mission.

So the Philos timeline would look like this. I have a note for Zayne's card there as well, but if I had to get picky with it I'm slightly tempted to place his Myths card between MC's first death and her being reborn to meet Xavier again. The other explanation would be that there are three separate Philos timelines created because the MC was successfully scarified to the Heart of Philos. In Xavier's Myths 6 MC briefly takes a dip in the space time anomaly at the center of Starfall Forest which could also explain MC scattering across different timelines, but the in game spacepedia makes a point to say that there is a chance that life still exists on Philos:

So it could simply be that MC over there has been stuck in the exact cycle of death and rebirth that Xavier was trying to prevent. It could also mean that when they add that mystery fourth love interest there is an explanation for a fourth possible myths card. Anyway all this information leaves us with a set of timelines that currently look like this:

This still leaves a lot of unanswered questions. For example, if the Philos timeline is where this all starts, what version of it is? What caused Earth's core to give out in that original timeline? Is Rafayel and Lumeria's existence the consequences of clashing timelines or are mermaids cannon to this universe? What effect on the space time continuum did Xavier's actions have? And how much of this is actually going to be answered in game?

TL;DR

Philos is Earth in the future with an artificial core that started running out of power, and never should have been made in the first place.

The royal family fed some of their long lived humans to the anomaly in Starfall forest to keep the planet running, but then they found out about a girl who could constantly be reborn each time she died and had an idea.

An idea Xavier wasn't very keen on but who cares. They thought that "when the time was right" they would sacrifice her to the rift and leave her there to die and be reborn forever. They also did not think to ask her.

Oh yeah when they fed people to the rift they turned into Wanderers. So wanderers = people as mentioned in Zayne's Still in the Dark anecdote.

Whatever makes MC reincarnate might have something to do with Lumeria, or at the very least the Lumerians in Rafayel's myths card seem to think it does.

In game MC, current timeline MC knows none of this, and has no memories from her lives, past or future. This is consistent across all her incarnations.

Final Thoughts

The only reason why I think this way about timelines is because I watched Donnie Darko in a college theater class. People like to argue about that movie and how it is supposed to be interpreted, but generally speaking they all seem to think that Tangent Timelines and the Tangent Universes they spawn get deleted very quickly, so maybe that's why the game starts by talking about "being able to leave this loop" and why Xavier seems to think something bad will be happening to Linkon City soon.

Chapter 8 ends with Xavier attempting to send a message back through the Deepspace Tunnel to make contact with someone. Interestingly enough he calls this "Traceback II." This sounded familiar to me and sure enough the game starts by mentioning that exact same thing, it is going past a black hole and is what says that line "we are stuck in this loop."

I thought in previous posts that the Aether Core is what could cure MC... but now I think the Aether Core is likely what Philos's artificial core is called... so who created it in the first place? ｢(ﾟﾍﾟ)

The Deepspace Tunnel is a spacetime anomaly likely caused by Philos's existence since it was "never meant to exist." So why was it created? And by who?

#love and deepspace #l&d #love and deepspace xavier #love and deepspace zayne #love and deepspace rafayel #as a side note i hate how the reddit girlies are like #“just finished this myth card! can anyone tell me what to think of it?”#if you gave me the details of what happened yes i could otherwise please do not waste my time #i am autistic and cannot make you a spreadsheet without the data you are denying meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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elenagoeslightly · 2 months

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Ngl this was sweet

Still don't understand a thing about this man tho

#rafayel #love and deepspace #i love how i literally never played a game before the arcana and now im a player girlie #rafayel love and deepspace

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starmocha · 24 days

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FUCK. THAT WAS SMOOTH 👀👀👀👀

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace rafayel #ohhhhh #he's good #rafayel girlies come collect your fishie

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mooncrestedwaters · 23 days

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It's so funny to me that Rafayel obviously works out ("Puh-lease, I have abs" his own words and have you SEEN his body????) and probably does really extensive workouts too but he will still bitch and complain about getting on a treadmill for 5 minutes

#love and deepspace #rafayel #love and deepspace rafayel #rafayel love and deepspace #love & deepspace #rafayel girlie #lads rafayel

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rohansdisciple · 12 days

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THIS CARD IS SOOO 😚💗💗

#is xavier girlies are eating 🙌🏾#love and deepspace #xavier love and deepspace #zayne love and deepspace #rafayel love and deepspace #xavier #zayne #rafayel #otome games #rpg games #rohansdisciple

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seaofgoldensand · 25 days

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if rafayel's new myth cards are broken,,, i can only imagine how xavier's and zayne's will be and i'm excited to see them 🥺

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aebebanreb21 · 2 months

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"A Jealous Encounter"

Short fanfic

Featuring: Zayne, Rafayel, Xavier

(I feel like Zayne girlies would like this more, it also has little bromance)

A/N: I honestly don't know how I typed this but I kinda liked it 🤓 This is impulsive writing.

This is inspired from this video on tiktok:

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSFfyoHB7/

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"Dr. Zayne! Please pass me the toy!"

Zayne's lips quirked a little and he bent to pick up the toy while at the same time also hiding his smile.

"Here you go"

*Swish*

"I got it!"

Rafayel suddenly appeared in front of MC and caught the toy instead and immediately Zayne's amusement turned into a scowl and slowly walked in a threatening manner towards the unsuspecting fish still celebrating his bounty and teasing MC on how he now got MC's toy.

"Uhm Raf-" She tried to warn the fish but the Icy snowman was already behind him.

Rafayel felt a hand firmly grab his shoulder and Zayne's deep voice spoke near his ear.

"It's rude to take someone's belongings"

Rafayel looked back at Zayne and chuckled nervously his eyes drifting back to MC who was starting to blush deep red probably because of how they look like to her perspective and he remembered that MC once mentioned that she kinda liked reading BL manhwas in the past and a wicked idea lit up in his head.

He slowly tilted his head back to stare at the doctor and purposely made his gaze sensual. "How about you do 'rude' things to me doc?"

"Uhm guys-" She tried to stop the incoming storm but she suddenly felt a head rest on her shoulder and come face to face with Xavier's sleeping face.

"Ugh Xavier, now is not the time to take your hourly nap" She was sweating now in nervousness because she felt the air thicken around the two guys who was about to start a wrestling match and are now glaring daggers at the sleepy boy beside her despite the fact that Zayne is at the process of restraining Rafayel with him having Raf's arm tight in his hold and twisting it so it's at an odd angle behind his back enough to make the Fish uncomfortable and submit.

Xavier, who is able to sleep even while standing nuzzled his head further on MC's shoulder causing Zayne to twist Rafayel's arm further and the latter let out a yelp and swiftly broke Zayne's hold on him and immediately came to MC and smacked Xavs head away from MC's shoulder. "Hey!"

Xavier stumbled and managed to regain his balance, while rubbing the sleep from his eye "W-what-?"

"Rafayel!" She reprimanded him and grabbed his shoulder but another hand settled on her shoulder and made her step back to come face to face with Zayne's back.

Zayne grabbed the back of Raf's collar which made him stumble back. "Hey watch it doc! This shirt is expensive"

"So are the medical expenses you'll get after I'm done with you" Zayne's icy gaze pointed at Rafayel before turning back at the clueless Xavier who was unaware of the impending danger of the Doctor's wrath about to rain on him.

"Hm?"

"Sleeping shouldn't be done while standing especially not on a girl's shoulder that is smaller than you" Zayne crossed his arms and glowered at Xavier.

Xavier tried to look at MC behind Zayne but the doctor's large frame is literally enough to cover the sight of MC in Xav's point of view. "Sorry about that doc."

Without hesitation, Xavier rested his head on Zayne's shoulder and proceeded to continue his nap there.

Rafayel bursts out laughing while the MC beside him is about to faint at the situation she's forced to witness.

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace zayne #love and deepspace rafayel #love and deepspace xavier #my first tumblr fanfic #jealous #yes I'm a zayne girlie #jealous zayne #zayne love and deepspace

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