Now it's time for my ROMANTIC dream!

[shanghaiworld]

this place really needs to be used more

So, we all play in a game based on the ideas of romance. So, I was thinking, why don't we all talk about that?

By that I mean why not tell us about your characters and romance. Do they have someone they fancy/are with? Do you have plans for them in this sense? How into ladies are they? Do they enjoy longs walks, dinners or something else entirely? What would they want from a relationship? Or do they just want nothing to do with it all?

So, come on, speak up and talk about romanticism and relationships!

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[ritsu_kouyou]

Akiha is a special case when it comes to love. For she is indeed in love, deeply, at one point obsessively, in love... with her brother. NOW WAIT A MINUTE. Yes, it's creepy and a little disturbing, but it's not incest as her brother, Shiki, is adopted and Akiha has always known they weren't related.

She's a tsundere to the core, especially when it comes to love. She's the girl that would rather just be near the one she loves than let them know for fear of rejection. She's also the jealous, possessive type that will try to run off/mistreat others who show an interest in the one she loves.

That said, Akiha... She knows she's a monster. Her brother denied her love, choosing someone else over her. In fact, she snapped (having inverted) and tried to force him to pledge his love to her, and then tried to kill him and the one he loved after he refused. One of those 'if I can't have him, no one can' things. But he fought for her, forgave her and she realized she loved him too much to deny him happiness. So she stopped being crazy, regained control and accepted that he will never love her.

This means that Akiha doesn't believe she deserves love. People just don't love people like her. So whereas she desperately wants it, the man she loves didn't want her. And Akiha is young enough to not understand that it's okay to love more than one person. She wants someone, but also has a really bad habit of mentally comparing potential people to Shiki. Combine that with the fact that she doesn't really like herself, and you have a very, very frustrated girl. So frustrated - both romantically and sexually - that she writes horrible self-insert fanfiction as a way to deal with it all.

At the Gardens, Akiha has lots of feelings. And a lot of them she doesn't understand. Kris is the big one, because the magician confessed love to her, which Akiha doesn't understand. She knows she treats Kris like crap a lot and yet Kris still loves her. But Akiha does like Kris, as the magician has kind of wormed her way close to Akiha's heart - no part in the girl's ability to take Akiha's attitude and manner with a smile, but also because there are times when Kris reminds her of Shiki. They've shared a few kisses, a few cuddles, and Akiha is slowly, slowly starting to appreciate Kris.

Akiha also has a strong attraction to Katina which pisses her off. She doesn't like Katina. All they do is argue and fight, but damn Akiha wants to jump her. This bothers her a lot as it doesn't make sense to her teenage mind. So she suppresses the attraction (except when inverted - oops).

Then there's Kohaku, and it's complicated. Akiha states in canon that she likes Kohaku... during a very hot suggestive scene. Akiha freed Kohaku from the nasty abuse her father put the girl through, taking her on as her personal servant, but not before there was too much damage done for Kohaku to ever have a normal life/normal feelings. Kohaku is also the one Shiki fell in love with and chose over Akiha. Some of that resentment is still there because though Akiha has accepted Shiki's choice and sort of moved on, she still loves him. But Kohaku at the Garden comes from a time before she developed feelings for Shiki, and Akiha knows it. So...yeah. It's complicated.

Akiha vastly prefers men, but canon did give us that one scene between her and Kohaku strongly implying there was a sexual component to their relationship. So while preferring men, Akiha isn't adverse to women. she just won't talk about it or openly admit it as she's a private person and Japanese. Such a thing is seen as improper in Japanese society, and Akiha's upbringing is very hard for her to move past.

/tl;dr