intro tweet! im Mahara, 27 bi f infp introvert who loves gaming.
aside from LADS, I play ZZZ, BA, HoloDori, WuWa and LaN. here are a few of my favorite gacha characters right now~ will update this periodically.
🧵 Summer Surge // spoilers
I really enjoyed this card. A question I see a lot is “Why does Xia Yizhou’s content keep bringing up the past?” and reading the uncensored CN ver of Summer Surge will give you your answer:
Becsuse it is impossible to extricate Xia Yizhou’s love from his identity as our adoptive brother. You can try, but that character will no longer be Xia Yizhou. Gege is who he is today because he suffered through those teenage years being uncertain about where he stood with us. His crashout in Homecoming Wings (Captive Bird) is a direct result of years of anguish; of reminding himself to be good, to always be GOOD! He must be a good brother, and he should never use his authority to lead his sister astray. If his little sister wants him to stay by her side for 100 years, then the role of a brother is the one he will take up for the rest of his life.
But his death and return changed everything, because we had a year to actually process his death and what he meant to us. His absence shattered what we thought our love for him was, and it gave him the opportunity to cross the line with us from siblings to lovers. The reason why his cards feature the past so much is because the seeds of his love were planted all the way back in time, when he was still our adoptive brother. It is grotesque, it is not right; and yet, he harboured this love for his sister all the same. In telling this love story, the past will always be the soil that our story germinates from, because it is the source of his love for us in every single universe.
summer surge highlights caleb's brotherly side so perfectly. he's the annoyingly competitive upperclassman who will tease you and beat you in basketball just for fun, but also the caring gege who guides your hands and teaches you his ways.
of course mc can't win against caleb, who was a part of the basketball team, but he coddles her with so much affection, letting them end the match in a draw just so they can be in sync.
I don’t want to be the stronger one in my relationship with Caleb. I don’t want to split every household chore equally with him or face every hardship on equal footing. I want to be his meimei, the girl he can always protect and never allow to feel sad.
But when gege is the one feeling down, when he needs someone to take care of him even if he can’t admit it to himself, I’ll stay by his side and withstand a hail of arrows with my body shielding his. Because this is the kind of relationship that makes both of us happy. He loves protecting me and caring for me, and I love making him feel like the most important person in the world, because that’s exactly what he is.
caleb being the overbearing brother and babying mc is literally whats supposed to be his appeal and if you dont get that you should just never speak on his character again thank you very much
adopted siblings, i adore all the tension and guilt in their dynamic because of how they were brought up together despite nothing actually being wrong w them being a couple
to every caleb main who sees this tweet: do you consider caleb your blood brother / childhood friend / something else?
no hate whatsoever im just curious to know how people see him
maybe im far too hopecore but theres really no doubt that valko will return. the only thing that makes it confusing is the fact infold moves like a wild rabid animal rather than a functioning multimillion dollar company. u would think two other boycotts would prepare u for this
this was my first 2 days back to work after a long sick leave and dear lord i underestimated how exhausted physically i would be. i would sleep it off if my brain was off enough bc i just feel so heavy
I do think it's very telling that even tho I got back into x for Valko just occasionally seeing Caleb stuff on my tl got me to fall all over again. I hope I see Wolfie or gege in my dreams