successfully completed 3 nights back to back this evening………………i might be getting somewhere, yay <3

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Round #3 — Match 24 of 26

Lucanis Dellamorte

“He was my first romance in Veil Guard, so I'm biased. He initially comes across as a badass, sexy assassin, which is already hot, but then turns out to be a sweet, shy boy who likes coffee and wyverns, which is so endearing to me.”

vs. Josephine Montilyet

“her romance route is so sweet”

“okay so. shes the only reason why inquisition works in the first place since she's the one who keeps the nobles/the chantry in check. keeps them from getting rid of the inquisition. without her inquisition wouldn't last A DAY! she's so smart. and she's the prettiest character ever. i've even learnt how to spell gorgeous just to be able to say it about her. also she's got drama. you get to duel a dude if you're dating her that's actually so cool. no other character romance has a duel in it but she does since she's like a princess. and she's the best princess at that i love her so much. also she has dirt on everyone and if she doesn't, she can make some up. with maybe leaving some stuff to make it seem like the thing she needs it to seem like. that's so cool of her. have you ever seen a more cool character. also she's antivan.”

Who should advance?

Lucanis Dellamorte

Josephine Montilyet

there’s this term i coined in my friendgroup i call “the charizard effect” and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc i’m exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and it’s highly commodified.

i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff i’d otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena “the charizard effect”

making this term has done numbers for me being able to concisely express how i feel abt something. like. its not charizard’s fault i feel this way, im sure i’d feel normal abt it if it was stripped of all this over commodification, but i cannot. hence the name