[ SECRET POST #2882 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2882 ⌋

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Re: Canon ships you're not into?

[feotakahari]

Pick any JRPG where the MC has a single canonical love interest, and odds are I'll hate the pairing. Not usually the characters, mind you, just the pairing. JRPGs, especially ones from the 90s, really have a thing for "Here's the main character, and here's a beautiful woman! They want to boink from the moment they meet for no readily apparent reason, but they'll spend the whole game not admitting it!" For some specific examples:

I spent the entirety of Luminous Arc 2 building up the MC's relationship meter with his childhood friend. Turns out that makes them really, really good friends. The default love interest is an obnoxious tsundere who has zero chemistry with the MC. (Thankfully, I accidentally unlocked the path where he dates a redeemed villain--at least they feel like they have a reason to be together.)

Grandia 2 sets up romantic implications for the MC with both a charming priestess and a villainess with poor impulse control, and never resolves who he ends up with. As a character, I like the priestess, but I never figured out what attracted her to the MC. Everyone just kept saying they were like a couple, and eventually they started to become one. I don't like the villainess as much, but again, they feel like they have more reason to be together--he basically gave her a purpose in life beyond serving the main baddie.

Trails in the Sky gives the MC and her (yes, her) love interest a background: he was raised like her brother for years. This gives them incredibly good chemistry as a brother-sister bash duo. I feel like that gets in the way of the whole "romance" thing--yes, I know Japan has a thing for "they're not blood siblings," but it still feels incestuous and out-of-place.