AOI

[aubins]

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week 0, saturday

[aubins]

[ common room it is! yuri is... just laid out on one of the sofas. it almost looks like he's having a little nap. his arm is over his eyes and he seems pretty relaxed.

how nice. ]

[gamerbrain]

[ ......... she climbs onto the sofa to snuggle up to him? it's fine! ]

[aubins]

[ so.


he was napping.



but he's also very On Alert A Lot of the Time. so he's immediately off that sofa like a shot. ]

[gamerbrain]

[ she does not seem surprised! ]

As expected of a mysterious character.

[aubins]

[ oh my god. ]

What, am I being that predictable?

[gamerbrain]

Predictability's not bad. Lots of players have a 'type.'

[aubins]

I'm less worried about that as much as I am people guessing what I might do.

[gamerbrain]

The details aren't as important. A spy. An assassin. Time traveler. Demon. Reincarnation. Hidden route.

It doesn't matter. The mystery is the appealing part, not the answer.

[aubins]

[ haha, hidden route. ]

... That sounds weirdly specific but I have no idea what it's specific about.

[gamerbrain]

Visual novels.

[aubins]

[ squints. ]

A story book?

[gamerbrain]

Basically.

[aubins]

Sounds like something out of one of those weird romance novels ladies in the big cities would obsess over.

[gamerbrain]

Romance is the genre. Typically.

[aubins]

[ huh. ]

Popular with women?

[gamerbrain]

Even visual novels that don't fit into the 'otome game' genre are surprisingly popular with women. But the target demographic of the games Aoi is in are men.

[aubins]

... See I don't remember them being popular with men. Interesting.

[gamerbrain]

It's the sex scenes.

[aubins]

Pardon.

[gamerbrain]

Men like stories where you can have sex with cute girls.

[aubins]

[ terrible! ]

A lot of men like stories where you can have sex with anything. [ said. SO dryly. ]

[gamerbrain]

That's true. Anthropomorphic characters practically come with a built-in following. It's like combining two kinds of otaku.

[aubins]

[ ... one step forwards, two steps back. ]

You're... doing that thing where you say words like they have meaning to me again.

[gamerbrain]

Got it. Aoi will try harder.

[aubins]

.... Thanks. [ he thinks? ]