Talk:Yui Komori/@comment-93.12.57.10-20140929212810

I don’t normally do these things, but this post on the diabolik lovers Facebook page made me start thinking and it led to this. Honestly, there’s so much to discuss here that I’ll probably only touch on a few topics and try my best to focus on my main point.

I don’t doubt that there are some otome games out there that intend for you to take the place of the heroine by making her as much of a blank slate as possible, but these are the exceptions rather than the rule. I say this because, even if they were rampant in the past, in the current - and growing - horde of otome games this isn’t true at all.

Seriously, give me a heroine and I bet that I can find someone who can write a TL;DR essay on said heroine’s personality. In fact, I don’t even think it’s possible for a heroine to have “no personality”. If a heroine doesn’t speak much, goes along with what other people are saying, and doesn’t push her opinions on others, then that would show that she’s meek (and that’s a whole different topic that I won’t even try to get into about cultural differences in the types of personality that is admired, etc.) rather than “not having any personality”.

. You are not the heroine. YOU ARE NOT THE HEROINE. Let me repeat that. YOU ARE NOT THE HEROINE. You are simply riding along in whatever perspective the story is written in and enjoying the story.

The choices that you make in the game? They are superficial choices. What I mean by that is that they aren’t giving you choices to make you feel as if you have control over the story. The choices being made aren’t choices YOU are making. THESE CHOICES ARE NOT WHAT YOU WOULD DO. These are choices that are made within the personality of the heroine.

Even in otome drama CDs the Heroine has feelings, her thoughts and actions are implied by what the guys says though. I’m making this example up but “Would you like to go out with me? what no? That’s too bad…” “*kiss on the forehead* eh? why do you look so unhappy? You think I’m treating you like a kid? Blah Blah I’m not stuff happens the end” ((I enjoy it more when the Heroine has a voice with lines though))