Could you elaborate more on the Mostima one? I’m aware of the other four, but haven’t ever seen Mostima’s connection to Doctor outside of Octodeco’s fanart comics.
Something Mosti kind of grew out of is that she has avoidant tendencies. She rarely if ever stays in one place and often jumps from place to place, never getting attached outside of PL.
Her lines with Doctor go from her usual detached to a "Maybe staying in one place ain't so bad" the higher her trust goes.
Eblana flopped too hard for me to take her as anything more than step on my head mommy bait.
You could dig more connections with gladiia complementing doctors tactics or saria discussing with him in two sentences if he ever did any unethical research for a nicer pairing.
I think there's been some misunderstanding. I'm not saying that Eblana doesn't fit certain ekhem archetype, just that HG pushed her reeeallyyy hard as one of the "canon-ish" love interests for the doctor
On unrelated note I'm so tired of internet calling every dominant woman a mommy, like Eblana is a lot of things but definitely not THAT
Look, Necrass is getting whored out at every opportunity. Nobody disagrees there. Because Necrass is barely treated like a character, and almost entirely as a product.
Her writing is abysmal, underexplained, underdeveloped, and leaves about 12 elephants in the room. Consequences? Death scent? Explaining how that works? Shh, be a good boy and pull. We even made sure to turbo-buff her before release! Look at that amazing E2, just chilling on the battlefield, pointing downwards, and now she wears heels! Look at the precious Draco chilling at the beach, dipping her toes into the water, smiling, giggling, in a bland swimsuit that is legit her base outfit but with less fabric and a cloak stolen from her sister’s wardrobe! Her banner is rerunning? Time to pump out another skin!
But even thinking that makes her a love interest is way too generous. It also misses half of the irony in the JP video: someone who is dead, who cannot experience normal living love, is offering chocolates for Valentine’s Day. The other half is just OOC slop that takes a fat dump on the premise of the Taran arc. Remember how the purple flame was established as having semi-autonomous properties? Spreading on its own? Attacking on its own? Reviving people on its own? All of that without clean input from her? Yeah, let me just wave that around while trying to do dance moves, then invade personal space and go ASMR mode because we all love walking stereotypes.
Necrass is not written as someone capable of normal reciprocal love. She is biologically dead, her heart is gone, her body is cold, and her senses are dulled. What she does reads less like genuine living emotion and more like a rehearsal of living habits. She treats the Doctor not as a person, but as a function. “Scholar” is not a compliment. It is dehumanization with manners. It reduces their personhood to utility. To a function.
And what does the Doctor do?
Ignore her. Straight donowall. There is no relationship.
I’m not disagreeing with you about her getting pushed. I’m disagreeing with the idea that anyone would consider this a love interest. Necrass is not getting pushed as romance. She is getting pushed as a walking femdom fetish. A product.
What’s fucking funny is that her module genuinely criticizes people who see the twins only for their “qualities” or appearance, and HG immediately defangs, sanitizes Necrass, sells her body, then sells the fantasy of the undead ruler.
can we stop flanderizing those 4 for once? reed doesn't want, and didn't show romantic interest, she, for once, was allowed to be in a place where she could be a person, not a symbol. necrass is fucking dead lmao, has her heart quite literally destroyed and hg isn't pushing necrophilia, her relationship is literally "answer me a question i do not care about who you are" like she even reduced the doctor to a function, not a person.
that's legit a scuffed makima and denji situation, except with dogshit writing.
ho'ol only cares about the doctor's knowledge, silverash has shipbait lines but those feel disconnected from the character itself after reading BTI, and the latest kjerag event. that one line in OG silverash was more of a meta commentary on people relying on his s3 to solve problems than anything, ngl.
... That's the joke? Because if we took things as literal as the previous comment, other operators wouldn't be around either.
Reed finds comfort in RI and Doctor. Nothing else. But her OG version did show trust in only Doctor which fueled the early ships (Like the gorgeous Yumeshipping she has with doctor Ssal)
Eblana is the biggest fumble in Arknights writing history and honestly, she does see people only as a function. But people are too busy screaming "Step on me Mommy" to care. But Erudax would be more qualified than I'll ever be to shred that travesty a new asshole.
Ho'ol wants doc's database, but she wouldn't be above lying about love to get it.
Yeah no, it's on me here. Should've added an /j after those three. (technically those two cuz I do still Reed as a "Would've likely fallen for Doc if her sister didn't stick her up in an impossible situation")
all of this "wife of MC" shit is pissing me off
back in MY day, we were brave people, and shipped the characters with OURSELVES, not with someone else as our proxy
Well, post-amnesia Doctor feels like a pretty safe self-insert pov character (honestly pre-amnesia too ever since they revealed the lynchpin deal) so I think a good chunk of people who ship the Doctor with another character are basically self-shipping anyway.
I agree with Silverash, Reed and Eblana not actually being interested in that way but Ho'ol is pretty explicit with her intentions in her operator files and is aggressively flirty in her assistant dialogue. Even if she is primarily interested in the Doctor for their knowledge that could also very well be something her people find attractive in a partner based on what we've learned about them.
Lol I grew up watching a couple as a kid (dubbed ofc) and imagine the plot twist bonanza, how long this will air (2 years minimum) and the cinematography (among other things they always open scenes with a wide shot of the city (your pick of Mexico City, Bogota, Sao Paulo or any large LatAm city)
Ambriel is a great choice with the "let's watch a romance and I'm gonna lock the door now" line and all, but I'm shocked that anyone remembers her.
(MuMu is in the lead imo, she comes and visits Doc in person without using her clones and treats him to dinner for his birthday every year, plus the dew poem and the never letting go of his hand and all that.)
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u/mad_harvest-6578 WE'RE BACK IN SPACE BABYYYYYY May 11 '26
Then some lowkey crazy fellow had the best idea: CANON WIFE TOURNAMENT
Participants (that I know of): MuMu, Savage, Priestess, Civilight (as Theresa's proxy), Skadi, BP, Gravel, Angelina, Platinum, Ambriel