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girl they really are doing this because they dont want to pay writers 😭😭😭 and on fucking instagram the people who only care about julian and lucio. if they like muriel its him as their fetish "i can teach you about the world" piece. alongside the people who call asra abusive at the worst, and misgender him at the best. 😑 we aint gettin out of this one

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tbh i always wanted to fight mod alex - community manager 🙂

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Pull the trigger Piglet I can’t take it anymore

You KNOW that the people who will be writing the stories for Fictif and The Arcana will be the shitty Lucio stans and the fans who made Muriel into a baby man.

It’s batshit and mind melting, I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea this is. Also from what I hear Dorian falls into the mega paywall method which is eurghhhhh.

Also where the fuck are Sage’s ears in the banner?? Are they seriously gonna *uncats your catboy*??

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From grace and lulu leaving at the same time, to the last 3 devs leaving at the same time, to the incest joke, to the dorian rumors, to the dorian actual announcement,,, this fandom has been a wild ride and Not in the Fun Way

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reblog to scare dorian

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Nix Hydra ended today, and their intellectual properties were acquired by a different company.

I was Community Manager there for about 3ish years. It was the best job I ever had at one point. At another, I was calling my wife in tears 2-3 times a week. The latter won and I left the company.

The artists, writers, and engineers there were the best people I've ever worked with, without exception. Every single one of them deserves good things and I am happy when I hear they get them.

But for the company itself, I just sort of have to have a moment of quiet reflection.

I have a lot of thoughts I'll probably share later. But that's where I am today.

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Oh no the shitty lucio stans are gonna have the best time of their lives slandering nadia in their shitty fan contents

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Who the fuck is dorian

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I miss the old team. They gave off a wholesome feeling of family and comfort.

The new team is like the creepy uncle u stay away from at family dinners

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I miss the old team. They gave off a wholesome feeling of family and comfort.

The new team is like the creepy uncle u stay away from at family dinners

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So because I enjoy my own suffering apparently, I’ve decided to see how many characters nix hydra as a whole has come up with from both fictif & the arcana (it obviously is an approximation, I tried to find every main character/side character I could. Though I’m definitely sure I missed a few)

Fictif + The Arcana Total Characters:

Female- 50 Male- 53 Non-binary- 8

And of those characters these are the Love Interests:

Female- 10 Male- 20 Non-binary- 3

Technically, there is 12 female love interests (Nahara & Adra) BUT!! Nahara you could only romance in one story & Adra you couldn’t actually romance at all.

(Edit: that’s also not including the major arcana characters)

And going through the character designs & profiles for these characters, while it seems diverse, it also feels like they stick heavily to stereotypes.

For one, all of their characters seems to be weirdly tall. Out of the females the shortest are Volta & Portia, with Portia standing at roughly 5’0 (Volta I’m not quite sure, but I’d say even shorter than that) the majority of the other women are 5’7 and taller. And I know that that isn’t that tall but still. Then the male characters, Felix from what I can find is the shortest standing at 5’6 and Muriel is the tallest at 6’10, all of the other men fall at roughly around the 6’0 mark. And our lovely enby characters fall more on the taller side from what I can find.

As for body types, there isn’t much diversity there either, especially for the LIs. Most of the woman are thinner, with a more hourglass shape and average-bigger breasts. The men are pretty much tall, buff/muscular and really chiseled in their appearances. The non-binary characters seems a little more relaxed to a degree in their physical appearances and seems to be covered up a lot compared to the other characters. (Though they tend to follow the stereotype bodies as well. Like the amab characters having more “masculine features” ect.)

While the characters have a wide range of skin tones,ethnicities, ect. I’ve seen people talk about how a lot of poc characters have features that they wouldn’t necessarily have (e.g. eye colour) and how that they don’t necessarily properly represent POC individuals and going through all of the characters…..all of these characters all seem to be very similar in appearance as well.

So with all of this in mind, it really makes me further doubt nix hydra when it comes to their arguments about being inclusive/diverse and a being all for lgbt+ and women empowerment ect. The way I see it, they use those arguments as nothing but an advertising tool to lure in players who are being promised proper representation, just to constantly let those same people down. How are we as a fandom supposed to believe and support them when they constantly queer-bait and give false representation? What makes it worse though, is that nix hydra is a company run by women and they should know better than anyone what it’s like to grow up with no good representation, what it feels like to constantly have characters that are the stereotype and nothing close to the real thing. And then going as far as to blame us for not showing enough interest? We do show interest! Everyday on Tumblr, Instagram I see people expressing their love for these beautiful female and non-binary characters saying how much they would love stories with them. The beautiful artwork and stories they make for them (…coz you won’t). If you actually took a minute to look past what you want to see, you would find a community full of beautiful people wanting these stories & characters.

Nix Hydra ( @fictifgames) ,you had a great opportunity to break the mould and to be a company/storyteller to give actual proper representation. But time after time you have failed in that. I get that making these stories takes time and effort and I applaud every single writer/artist/developer ect for their work but come on! You need to stop targeting the lgbt community, women & poc individuals if you’re only gonna use us. We are not a marketing tool for you to exploit!! Especially as so many of your fans are younger people who are figuring out their identity, what kind of message are you sending them? And covering all this up with posts about women empowerment and whatnot isn’t gonna change anything. You guys need to learn that it’s okay to try different things! Make smaller characters! Make bigger & curvy characters! Make male characters with realistic body types! Make wlw stories! Give us the representation we deserve and you’ve been promising! It’s really not that hard. I’m sure there are plenty of good people who can give you pointers if you’re struggling to write certain characters properly. Stop buying into outdated stereotypes and concepts! Stop writing women the way we’ve wanted people to stop writing us for decades! You may think it’s nothing but it is harmful especially when we still live in a world we’re we don’t get proper, realistic characters.

Edit: And furthermore, while it’s upsetting not getting proper lgbt, women & poc representation, you’re not necessarily giving your male audience much representation either. You’re writing your male characters through your own fantasies and ideals and what society as a whole has deemed to be the male standard by making them buff and tall and “classically handsome”. That’s not proper representation either.

But anyways, rant over! Sorry for any mistakes ect.

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so, the devs are gone

thats such a dramatic title but i want yalls attention.

LL is ending, because the devs have left and for 2/3 routes, were in the final 3 chapters. with that in mind, it’s never been more important to

reblog fan content.

I’m serious. This fandom has incredibly talented people, but if yall dont start ENGAGING we will stop POSTING and then the only way you’ll get content is by making it or being friends with creators. so if you dont want LL to die violently,

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG.

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rip rime solano varela you would've loved a route

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I may or may not simply delete Fictif after Last Legacy is fully released 🤔

I have grown uncomfortable with current tendencies of Fictif games. By that I mean - all the new released games moved from character route model to linear storyline where your choices may lead do getting intimate with all the characters at once.

I am a keen dating sim player, and I play all different types of novels, even badly written ones, ironically, and I'm telling you - it can still be fun. However for Nix Hydra and their games it is a dramatic decrease in quality, at least the way I see it.

For example It is sort of uncomfortable for me, that I can't avoid gettin intimate with every single character of "Courting the Croun". Even when I have a chosen love interest in my walk-through, others keep acting touchy and getting too close to mc. Mc also shows signs of attractions I've never intended to get in my walk-through.

It is not a big deal when talking about some simply made, low level novels that you read once and then forget forever. An mc who s happy to ride every sexy person they see /sigh/. I do play those, while also mocking them and callin them shitty and stupid. They re fine as a meme, as somethin that the genre is concidered shitty for.

But it is disappointing when coming from developers who gave me the game that became my main fandom for 4 years, you know...

Not to mention that I feel feel like an mc's are getting less and less flexible and unrelatable to me personnally.

Even though they manage to make female LIs attractive, they fail to let them develop a story and ignore what their audience demands.

Every time they release a new male route it is either a himbo or a nerd or a nerd himbo or a himbo nerd.

I'm just getting bored and sad.

We should probably admit that The Arcana was an accident succes of this devs team, and Last Legacy just lucky enough to follow it's step.

Fictif games are still fine, comfortable and friendly. But it is simply not what I expected and waited for, and I think Im gonna quit watching this app an these gamedevs failing me furthermore.

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So you guys know how fictif pretty much said: It’s okay we cut celias route short guys theirs a female LI centric story coming your way?

Really because ...

Idk about you guys but this shit sounds like it’s about a man to me

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this is Sawyer's fault