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Zam138

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  • d.fish
    So female xianxia novels and male xianxia novels seem to be on opposite spectrums; male ones tend to be 'if anyone offends me, I kill them', 'kill the young, come the old', and 'in the immortal world, there are only ants, fellow daoists, and seniors', while female is 'perhaps I should compromise with this hot guy', 'will they, won't they', 'I have so many jealous half-sisters and jealous stepmothers'
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    d.fish
    So I saw this one story where a female xianxia novel protagonist got a male xianxia system; she kept facing the same kind of xianxia-otome problems, while her system kept killing everyone who breathed wrong around her
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    d.fish
    This Zam isekaied as an otome villainess; she is the true princess of the empire, but she was lost when she was just born, replaced by the now deceased empress' jealous handmaid's (who was also sleeping with the consort-emperor at the time and is his childhood friend) infant daughter, but this Zam doesn't want to follow the script and duel with the fake princess because she's also a reincarnated golden immortal
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    d.fish
    d.fish
    It's a very popular set up; "swapped at birth", because the conflict between the two fake/real daughters is very compelling to the average audience

    system isn't that necessary, but it's there so that the MC-inserting audience would find greater joy in comeuppance

    the not following canon bit is rarer, MC'll have Bad End and Pain if not

    all distilled wisdom of young girls/housewives novels
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    d.fish
    I just read a newly written one where this modern setting one where an orphan girl gets a divine spending system, so rather than return and be publicly labeled as an "adopted daughter", be abused by the biological mother who only loves the fake, please the biological brother who keeps asking her to be nice to the fake, etc. to make the fake feel better, she became a trillionaire instead
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    d.fish
    Some readers feel like the two daughters conflict is bound in tradition; girls require relying on others to thrive, that kind of thing, and they deride it as girls not improving themselves first, and in some aspects I agree, as self-improvement is making your soul more beautiful, but humanity is emotional bonds, being the one dad/mom/brother cares about more and using that against the other is still compelling to me
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    d.fish
    I read this one story where it was like MC relies on three system given spouses to get stronger, and then I realized this is like taking the wife collecting gacha mobile game premises but forcing it into a story
    d.fish
    There is a saying, single draws in a gacha will drive your three generations into poverty, ten at a time draws in a gacha will ruin your life
    d.fish
    Maybe curiosity killed the cat because curiosity is the first step to falling in love
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    Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back
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    d.fish
    Within this forest of concrete and glass, the circle of life is no longer that of predator and prey, but that of a simp buying breakfast for his goddess and her boyfriend
    d.fish
    Within the heart of every Zam is an animal, and when Zams are backed into a corner, a beast is unleashed
    d.fish
    "Zam is indeed the reincarnation of a fox, and this is a fox whose tail is always raised."
    d.fish
    Within every Zam is a smaller Zam, and that Zam is delicious
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    d.fish
    "My ears aren't just pregnant, it's filled with a litter of multiple babies."
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    Zam138
    *Profound statement about those being Ideas*
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    d.fish
    I mean, they handled a few of the gifts right, like these specific gifts that have supposedly deep meaning that just coincidentally take you back to the places you need to go during your journey, but you know, it's like, how loose you gotta be to "fall deeply in love" with someone over the course of like three days that you'll kill your mother with them like what
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    Beetlebrox
    I mean usually that only happens if the mother did something really bad that you would want to kill the mother even without falling in love and the reason they fall in love is because they are shown how bad the mother is or that there is a way out.
    d.fish
    I know I complained about RPG mechanics where you give lots of gifts to a companion and their affinity to you rockets from -25 to 100, but look at it in real life, like some random backpacker who just saved a wartorn country comes up to Zam and gives 5 houses, 3 cars, 1000 fashion accessories, a year's worth of snacks, a box of jewels, upgrade all tech gadgets, compliments for days, you telling me you no doki doki?
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    d.fish
    d.fish
    I guess it's just all of the characters in dragon age are too unattractive to me for me to want to give them gifts...
    Zam138
    Zam138
    B-but the materialistic items have a heart over them when I'm in the "Gift To X" screen, clearly that means that item I bought for a pittance of my heavily-grinded fattened coinpouch is the key to their heart!
    magic9mushroom
    magic9mushroom
    Best way to run it would probably be to have a hardcap on affection that's only raised by meaningful interaction, but let gifts push you up to that cap and maybe elicit some reciprocity if you're capped out.
    d.fish
    "Isn't she just more beautiful, more wealthy, younger, more connected, more skilled than me? We're not that different at all, why doesn't he look at me more?"
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