Zayne Died for us three times, betrayed his god, and is cursed when he falls in love he dies or forgets his memories yet he stubbornly falls in love over and over and in this lifetime he is currently trying to search for a cure for our heart too because he went back from the future and future him is trying to help Current Zayne to alter the course of history by his foreseer powers even though it will undoubtly delete future Zayne
Xavier searched for us for hundreds(?) of years in the stars while looking for the cure for our heart and even gotten himself injured to the point that he often needs sleep to recover
Rafayel possibly waited for us for 800 years (I assume his whiny episode has a level of truth to it even tho he lit said Jellyfish are walking naked) And remembers every single lifetime we spent with him?
Bruh… These tropes are what made me a danmei girlie and now this game is punching it on my gut and stabbing it in my face and heart
i love characters doomed by the narrative. i love characters whose death are vastly more impactful than their lives. i love learning the secret kindness and gentleness of these characters but only after they’re gone. all my love for tragic characters
Absolutely unhinged how the game is still rated for teens when we're getting to see Zayne's bulge and Rafayel's titties and hearing all three men grunt and groan suggestively
Sami finds himself unable to maintain character when answering a random child's phone call after Johnny Knoxville shared his phone number before WrestleMania 2022. (From 24: WrestleMania 38).
looking at zayne and rafayel’s other personas, it’s very interesting to compare and contrast them with their linkon versions because each self is an actual reincarnation; it’s lovely to see the difference is speech patterns and how they treat mc in each lifetime
meanwhile xavier is the same dude every time so you know the gap moe gaps in personality are done intentionally and all on his own
When Zayn talks about leaving 1D and the last few years of the band, he is speaking from his own biased perspective. As is Louis, as is Liam, as is Niall, as is Harry. They all are omitting things and reshaping things for public consumption. They’ve all talked about it in different years and with varying levels of emotional distance and hindsight. They have different relationships with their careers and each other and themselves.
There are a few common threads. There were things going on that were not public knowledge and that we knew nothing about. They were under a lot of pressure. The pace they were going at was unsustainable. They had to make some tough decisions. They had a lot of bittersweet feelings. There was a lot of uncertainty for what the future held for them as individuals. But there’s a lot of space for nuance and different experiences and perspectives and relationships within that. I don’t think any of them are speaking the “objective” truth here, and that’s fine.