“Another Story” is not a romantic drama.

It is a story about self discovery, and the long road to recovering one’s own identity after years of abuse and self neglect. V’s story is one we can all learn from.

I’ve heard that there’s been a lot of V hatred, and uh… That’s not okay.

Listen, I’ll be the first to admit that at the beginning of MysMe, I really disliked V. Not hate him, per se, but… Disliked him. And after the secret stories? I only pitied him. He was characterized originally as the “brooding artist” (and thanks, but I’ve had enough of that mess) who romanticized mental illness, mental pain, until it came back to bite him in the ass.

We can’t, no, we shouldn’t deny that in some way V is to blame for Rika’s breakdown, though I don’t doubt she would have lost it eventually by losing herself to her own delusions and machinations. Where V faltered, is in his lack of understanding. He didn’t understand himself, he didn’t understand other people, but most importantly? He didn’t understand that true love is something one must feel for one’s own self before feeling it for another person. He appeased the shit out of Rika, and he obsessed- YES RIKA, OBSESSED- over her until she snapped, and in turn, she obsessed and wounded him until he couldn’t see himself as anything other than “Rika’s Sun.” Until he lost himself. Until he defined himself by the actions and suffering she inflicted upon him, by only his past pain and failed attempt at renewal.

In a metaphorical sense? The neglect and carelessness he inflicted upon Rika was really in the end the abuse he inflicted upon himself. That’s not to say “he deserved it.” Far from that. He never deserved it, no one deserves that. No one deserves to be dammed with the incapability of loving themselves. Least of all those who were not taught selflove from the beginning.

V learns that you cannot define yourself by the love you give others, nor by the love you wish to receive from others. You must define yourself by the love you feel for your own, personal self.

After struggling through “Another Story,” fighting for this wonderful man’s freedom, from his abuser, from his own self hatred from his own self-abuse…?

How can you not love him?

No… How can you not respect him?

i ain’t gonna smile if i don’t want to.

Photocards I’m selling for Cosmania 2017 PH. I would be uploading 707 next :3 Tsubaki Chou Lonely Planet ref for the poses :)

i need a Ray route ;w;

v’s route is not a “lover’s spat”

I see people treating all the bullshit in V’s route as a lover’s spat and I’m like???

ok, but creating an entire cult and manipulating and drugging SEVERAL PEOPLE into it is more than some sort of petty lovers’ drama

it just so happens that there was an infatuated mentally ill, emotionally conflicted, depressed, love depraved, abused man who used to be in a relationship with a mentally ill, paranoid, depressed, delusional, also love depraved woman in the midst of the story.

like… mint eye did not stem from v and rika’s relationship, mint eye was also a thought and an idea that rika had long before she even brought it up to v. mint eye existed before the rfa, did you forget how we see preteen saeran being abused and drugged in secret ending one, waaaay before the rfa existed?

i don’t know if I should feel concerned or morbidly amused at the fandom’s treatment of this. give the v route more credit than that, the story is way more than two people who fell in “love” and then argued.

there are elements of abuse, neglect, torture, mental illness, manipulation, betrayal, trust and change.

rika and v’s relationship isn’t the main focus and it isn’t what started all of this, neither is it what ended it.

heck, the whole point of days 8-10 of v’s route is convincing v that him turning himself over to rika would accomplish nothing, because even if he wants this to be only between him and her, it’s… really not. There was no “them” in this situation.

i mean, it’s v’s route, so the main point of it is to make him feel better and heal him and restore his sense of self and ability to love himself, so many people might have missed that point.

but like… this is so much more than that. It’s a complicated series of events that needs to be treated with sensitivity and thought.

V’s route is not a “lover’s spat”. It stopped having anything to do with an argument between lovers (and lesbihonest V and Rika’s “fights” consisted of rika having an episode, yelling her throat raw at v, and him just sitting there and taking it, this is canon and shown in a VN) the moment Rika took a child- an abused, vulnerable child- and drugged and abused him further into a cult, alienating him against the only person who ever loved him and even possibly being the reason behind his D.I.D symptoms. Also, there was that little thing where…y'know, she kinda dragged another whole bunch of people into her cult. That was nice.

My point is… There’s a lover’s spat, and then there’s blinding your fiance and running away to fully moderate a cult 24/7. There’s a lover’s spat and then there’s having an unhealthy infatuation towards your ex and being convinced that letting her torture you will solve the world’s problems.

It’s not a lover’s spat \(“-”\)

In a Heartbeat is INDEED beautiful, but Yuuri Katsuki is still my patron saint on giving a first impression to that guy you like 😂

…pretty much the whole mm fandom waiting for v’s route.

RFA

Before I started the game

Rika’s Fundraising Association

After starting the game

Ready For Agony

Like tbh Jumin’s GE - AE is the only possible route when everyone could be happy. I mean…

Yoosung

He get the reward money lol

Jaehee

Vacation? Check; Promotion? Check

Seven

He settled everything with V (highly likely also things regarding Saeran too)

V

Alive and happy *sobs*

Zen

Oh well… but still good; their relationship improved

And don’t forget with the typical drama/soap opera here~

Lastly… I love my savage friends~

big mood

I absolutely cannot wait to

childhood friends

Biggest mood.

footage caught of the v route trust me its not some image i made on that one mystic messenger generator for fun based off a popular vine i swear,

My Two cents about V’s route

Okay, listen, I’ve read it all and read the reasons and those cheritz theories and such.

But hear me out, and don’t get yourself upset.

It’s a long one but please listen.

V LOVES RIKA AND CANNOT CHANGE HIS MIND FOR ANYONE ELSE

Okay, but you do know they’re abusing each other right? But did seem like it’s such a foreign thought that abuse victims can get help?

V and Saeran thinks that all the things Rika does is right.

When you’ve sat down and gone through abuse enough at some point you think it’s correct and the right way of things should be happening. 

Just like Saeran was brainwashed by Rika, why is it that he can get loved and wanted to be saved but V is a bad person?

V is also struggling and suffering from Rika’s abuse.

It’s always someone outside of the abuse to open the victims eyes.

Just like Seven and MC opened Saeran’s eyes and helped him, someone needs to help V.

Why is this such a bad thing?

IT’S GONNA RUIN THE STORY.

Bullshit, it’s gonna enhance it because there’s more information about Rika and V. It’s not going to ruin anything.

You’re getting more information

AU or not, it’s giving the audience more canon information (or leaving us with more questions not answered) 

Cheritz knows what they’re doing, they aren’t gonna leave plot holes don’t give up on them.

IT’S BAD TO GIVE THE FANDOM WHAT THEY WANT!!!

…

Then how is a product going to survive?

You can’t just crank out the same thing over and over again and expect people to stick around for the same thing you know?

This is a mobile otome game. They need to make more new things.

Someone is going to bound to want something.

Saeran, V and Rika are shrouded in mystery the people want more from them some how or some way. That’s a selling point guys. That makes money.

Just think about how Voltage and Otomate shot out other characters even though the games were good already. 

People want these other characters!

It’s not bad both sides got something good out of it.

RIKA SHOULD BE THE PLAYER AND FALL IN LOVE WITH V IT’S ONLY CORRECT!

Listen, that’s bad business. It really is. I don’t think Cheritz wants to go down that route because 

A. They gave money to fund a women’s shelter (that included abused women)

B. They would lose money if doing that.

Why it doesn’t make sense to make Rika the player is because not only is she the villain, she’s abusing multiple people in the game, that’s not really something people want to see because to a lot of people just its wrong to do so and false advertising in a way.

People are looking to save V not abuse him.

RIKA IS A VICTIM AND HAS A MENTAL ILLNESS SHE SHOULD BE EXCUSED FROM THIS AND DESERVES HAPPINESS.

Okay but that doesn’t excuse her behavior no matter what. Abuse is abuse. Even if your not in your right mind.

V HURT RIKA!

I’m going to reiterate this again. 

ABUSE VICTIMS PICK UP ON THEIR ABUSERS’ BEHAVIORS AND COPY THEM.

And also, when people come across having a mental illness it’s hard for people to cope and figure out how to help themselves or their loved ones.

Rika chose to not take her medicine, Rika chose to not do anything to get help.

Rika chose to blind V and ruin Saeran.

You have to realize this is a bit like a two person job. Both are at fault but it’s mostly Rika for deciding it was okay to damage everyone.

MY OPINION (please read this, because I have a lot to say)

Asides from having a V route to romance, I think this is very important to me to have V be saved and get out of that horrible situation.

I think it’s amazing how Cheritz gave a male victim of abuse, who was abused by a woman which is rarely shown in the media.

I don’t know how it will go, but I want V to get help.

This kind of topic of abuse is close to me due to things that I’ve seen go down in the past. 

Seeing V get help is something important to me, because that shows something realistic and valuable that victims are not shit and are not worthy of getting help.

Please do not ruin the fun for others, for some of us, this V route is extremely important, this is not just about Kissing V. 

This is about saving him.