So in the last 24 hours:
🐺 We learned the trademark for Valko went through same day as the sudden livestream announcement
🐺 Mujin posts video about the situation
🐺 BBNO$ joins the fray
🐺 Sina News article
🐺 Illusio fixes seemingly across the board for dark skin MCs
#Valko
Yesterday, I read the Chinese article "Overseas Players Continue to Voice Their Opinions: How Can Domestic Games Transform Global Feedback into Content Expansion?" The discussions that followed made me realize that I'm tired.
Tired of arguments.
Tired of watching people tear each other apart over a world that was originally created to bring us comfort.
I don't wake up hoping for another controversy.
I wake up hoping to see an update waiting for me.
I want "Eat healthy. Sleep well." to make me smile again instead of reminding me of everything we've lost.
I want to look at Valko and smile—not simply because I think he's attractive, but because his presence would remind me that the world I spent so long believing in is still moving toward the future it was meant to have.
That's why I keep speaking.
Not because I want someone else's favorite Love Interest to lose anything.
Not because I enjoy conflict.
But because I believe Love and Deepspace deserves to remain the world its creators originally imagined—not a world gradually pulled apart by fear, short-term thinking, or the belief that removing one piece somehow protects the rest.
Trust begins to fade the moment people start questioning whether the future they were invited to believe in is still the future they're moving toward.
Certainty becomes uncertainty.
Curiosity becomes anxiety.
The question stops being: "I wonder where this story is going."
and becomes: "Will this part of the story still exist tomorrow?"
That's not the relationship I fell in love with.
I don't want Love and Deepspace to become a smaller version of the world that first made us fall in love with it.
Maybe that's why I still haven't given up.
I'm not waiting for a miracle.
I'm waiting for the day I can open Love and Deepspace again, download a new update, smile when I see Valko and quietly feel that the world I trusted is still becoming the world its creators originally envisioned.
Trust takes years to build.
It can be shaken in seconds.
And rebuilding it takes something even rarer: Courage.
Silence may protect a difficult moment. Courage is what rebuilds what comes after it.
Maybe this is the next step.
Let players finally meet Valko in-game, exactly as your team originally intended.
Not simply because so many of us have been waiting for him.
But because it would show that you still believe in the story your own team set out to tell—and that you still believe this relationship with your players is worth rebuilding.
Show us that the same courage your stories ask of their characters still exists behind the studio creating them.
If you take that first step, many of us will be ready to walk the rest of the way with you.
#ValkoIsLoved #WeWantValko #ValkoIsInnocent