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thenovelartist · 1 year

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TheNovelArtist Masterlist

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~Anime~

Homecoming Queen (I’ll steal you away) - Fruits Basket AU - Completed - 6 Chapters

The Nights are Shorter with You - Fruits Basket

Sei’s Magic Brew - The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent

Desperately - Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits

Bandaids lead to Bullet Holes - Bungo Stray Dogs

~Webtoons~

If Only We’d Escaped the Sea - Siren’s Lament AU

Down Time - Age Matters -

The Problem with Standiel - Age Matters

Don’t Leave - Age Matters

I've Captured an Impulsive Airhead - Beware the Villainess

~Games~

The Collector - Honkai: Star Rail - DanStelle

A Heart that Beats for You - Honkai: Star Rail - DanStelle

Clipped Confidence - Honkai: Star Rail - DanStelle

Life After Destruction - Honkai: Star Rail - DanStelle - Completed - 11 chapters

The Unfortunate Amnesiac - Honkai: Star Rail - Light DanStelle

The Coffee Conundrum - Honkai: Star Rail - General

~Otome Games~

Code:Realize

Winter Wonderland - Victor x Cardia - One-shot

Snow - Van Helsing x Cardia - One-shot

Snow Day Duo Disaster - Van Helsing x Cardia (With Delly and Sisi) - one-shot

Ikemen Sengoku

In My Arms Again - Ieyasu x MC - Childhood Friends AU

Ikemen Prince

~Fanfiction~

Revenge is Best Served Upside-down - General

The Costco Calamity - Modern AU

The Mystery Man - Gilbert x Emma - Single Mom AU

Not Everybody Wants to be a Cat - Shifter AU

~Headcanons~

Modern AU (Based off my Costco Calamity story)

Twins with Twins

Jin, Luke, Clavis as Fathers

Yves, Chevalier, Leon as Fathers

Childhood Friends AU

Mystic Messenger

Drunk Wedding

Bustafellows

Pansy - General

Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice

~Fanfiction~

All Over Again - Gavin x MC

Christmas Drabbles

Bells - Gavin

Fireplace - Gavin

Candles - Kiro

Naughty or Nice - Kiro

Gingerbread - Victor

Presents - Victor

Cookies - Lucien

Stars - Lucien

~Headcanons~

Office Meeting

Childhood Friends

Late Night Snuggles

Meeting their Daughter’s Boyfriend

Boys with their Sons

Pocky

Wedding Nights-SFW

Pregnancy Reveal

His Greatest Gift - Historical AU

Jealousy

Jealousy - Shaw watching MC pick Gavin

Tears of Themis

~Fanfiction~

Unlocking the Tragic Backstory - Vyn

His Best Drunk Decision - Vyn x Rosa - Drunk Wedding Series

Mistaken Drink; Drunken Mistake - Artem x Rosa - Drunk Wedding Series

The Drunken Vow - Marius x Rosa - Drunk Wedding Series

I Wasn’t that Drunk - Luke x Rosa - Drunk Wedding Series

Give and Take - Vyn x Rosa

Princess Rosa Surrendering her Crown for Love - Drabbles for All Boys

The Fine Line of Loving You - Luke x Rosa (7 chapters, Complete)

I’m Dreaming of a White Kissmas - Luke x Rosa

When Rosa is #DONE - General

~Headcanons~

Childhood Friend Card

Jealous Vyn (Partial Collab)

Good in My Shirt

Play For Me

ABC Fluff Headcanons - Luke Pearce

ABC Fluff Headcanons - Vyn Richter

Only One Bed

Boys as Dads

Caring for a Pregnant MC

Caring for their Sick Infant

Boys Watching MC Chose Another

MC with Bad Taste in Jokes - Vyn and Artem only

Comforting a Terrified MC

Puppy Surprise

Rosa Upset with the Boys

Jealous Boys

Jealous Rosa

Finding Rosa’s Baby Photos

Clingy - Artem Only

Comforting a Crying Rosa

With a Quiet MC

With a Motherly MC

Tie Tug

Drunk Marriage - After stories

Comforting their Adopted Kid

Meeting their Daughter’s Boyfriend

#masterlist

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shipperdesu · 2 years

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My Top 5 Triangle Dates

The triangle dates were a fantastic addition to Wintertide Miracles!! In these stories, Cardia doesn't choose anyone but is free from her poison, so she lives some cliché tropes with two love interests at the same time and I loved that! GIMME MORE FLUFF CONTENT. I played all the dates (besides the secret ones) yesterday so here are my top 5!

5 - Van x Cardia x Saint

This one is less about the boys and more about how I love to see my girl happy. She suffered so much and now she can live as a normal girl, dancing and being sandwiched between two men lol

Btw it's always a pleasure to see Van Helsing being soft towards Cardia.

4 - Victor x Cardia x Impey

Sandwiched Cardia!!

Ok this scenario was so sweet, the smart guys came to rescue their princess from insomnia. Fran made a calming essence from some herbs and Impey the device that sprays it in the air. Their work is successful and I love how they look soft here, looking at her.

3 - Van x Cardia x Impey

One of my favorite tropes is the Caretaking one and I'd love to see Lupin and Victor in this situation, but I have to admit that it was smart to use Impey and Van.

Cardia is having a high fever, they don't have the medical knowledge to help her, and the mansion is conveniently empty, so although they don't have the best synergy in the crew, they have to work together anyways, just for her. I love it.

2 - Van x Cardia x Lupin

I love the umbrella trope, I love Lupin and I love Lupin and Van Helsing's interactions. AND SANDWICHED CARDIA!

It was so cute how Van was planning to share an umbrella with Cardia and how he got embarrassed once Lupin figured out his plan.

Bonus points for sandwiched Cardia laughing softly, so they stop arguing with each other because Cardia is happy and that's the most important thing.

1 - Victor x Cardia x Lupin

The moment I saw this picture on Pinterest, I knew I had to play this FD. Lupin and Victor are my favorite routes!

I wasn't expecting this scenario at all! First of all, poor Victor, he's too shy and feels left behind in the fight for Cardia's heart. One day, he happened to see Lupin and Cardia in an intimate moment (Lupin was actually just teasing Cardia), which made him desperate.

Victor needs the courage to confess his feelings before it's too late, so... He uses a truth serum he made for the queen. It was just a sip but it was enough to surprise Cardia. Lupin sees this as a challenge and then we have this beautiful picture!!!! AAAA

I like this route because once the effects of the serum fade, Cardia tells Victor to not rely on tricks to confess to her, so she'll wait for his next try as if nothing had happened. Lupin, on the other hand, knows Victor will be a worthy rival since he has "woken up", so he won't let his guard down again.

#code: realize #code realize #code realize wintertide miracles #cardia beckford #arsene lupin #impey barbicane #victor frankenstein #van helsing #saint germain #my posts

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stormkitty97 · 1 year

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Favorite Otome game Pairings

1. Amnesia: Heroine (Alianna)/Ukyo

2. Amnesia: Heroine (Mirana)/Ikki

3. Code Realize: Guardian of Rebirth: Cardia Beckford/Arsene Lupin

4. Code Realize: Guardian of Rebirth: Cardia Beckford/Van Helsing

5. Code Realize: Guardian of Rebirth: Cardia Beckford/Saint Germain

5.Collar x Malice: Hoshino Ichika/Kageyuki Shiraishi

6. Hakuoki: Yukimura Chizuru/Kazuma Chikage

7. Hakuoki: Yukimura Chizuru/ Toshino Hijikata

7. Kamigami No Asobi: Kusanagi Yui/Hades Aidoneus

8. Kiniro No Corda: Primo Passo: Hino Kahoko/Yunoki Azuma

9. Code Realize: Future Blessings: Cardia Beckford/Herlock Sholmes

#amnesia memories #code realize #collar x malice #hakuouki #kamigami no asobi #kiniro no corda #code realize future blessings #Kinda forgot a few haha #So I had to add them

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koladelight · 2 years

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Spoilers for Code: Realize - Guardian of Rebirth and Future Blessings:

Having now finished the whole game and all the possible endings and extras, I wanted to write about the experience as a whole. My thoughts on the routes were a but more rushed so I plan on taking my time with this post.

All in all I am extremely happy with this game. I understand why it’s often recommended as a first otome game to play (alongside Piofiore, Collar x Malice etc), and it was the first otome game for me as well. Graphics were beautiful and I enjoyed the overall flow of the game pretty well. I didn’t want to miss anything so I played everything from the beginning with all the guys. The common route being quite long got a little tedious by the end of the game, but I found it went quite quickly if I put the auto skip on until there were parts I hadn’t played before. The only times I didn’t use the skip function were the first run (obviously) and the last because I wanted to enjoy the full experience during Lupin’s route. Path of Genesis came in handy after I decided to replay couple of the routes after finishing the game.

The extras were quite funny and enjoyable. I thought all of them added something to the characters and revealed new sides of them. I don’t think I will ever recover from Van’s hotness or Saint playing dumb while making Cardia help him get dressed (bless her poor innocent soul). The event gallery is very handy too. I like that you can play the scenes or just look at the pretty pictures. I’m currently playing Future Blessings and I’m similarly excited about Holmes’ route (or Sholmes, whichever) and Delly’s room.

When it comes to characters, nothing went as I thought it would. My prediction was I would love Lupin and Fran the most. Wroooooong. In the common route I found Lupin very distant until I played his scenes on it. He is still sort of a favourite but a lot of that has to do with the anime. I ended up watching that from Crunchyroll and oh boy, I loved Lupin x Cardia in that. Now the anime and the game have fused in my head and I do like Lupin’s route. I wished it was longer though, because a lot of his route is taken by the non-romantic aspects of the plot. I still cried when they fell off Nautilus though.

Saint was a surprise entirely. During common route he was downright boring. Obviously during his own route it became incredibly clear why he was so distant. I love his eyes, expressions and voice acting. The angst was immense and there are so many possibilities for their life together post-game. Before I got to Saint’s route I was not looking forward to it at all. That’s why his route felt like being slapped in the face by a ton of emotions. I sobbed so much while playing that I was a mess by the time his route ended. Saint had a ton of character growth and he is one of my favourites, absolutely.

I had Fran marked as a likely favourite before I played. I love sweet and intelligent guys and was really looking forward to it. My thoughts have changed slightly from my initial opinion after playing his route. I ended up playing his route twice, once during the recommended order and once after finishing the whole game once. After first play through, I thought his route was sweet but lacked the angst level I had realised I loved. I also thought there was too much of ‘I’ll save you’. After second play through I will have to acknowledge my thoughts have changed. His route is still sugary sweet and there is a lot of saving involved, BUT there was more angst simmering underneath the surface than I had initially thought. All in all, I took a while for his route to grow on me but after that it was great.

Now Van was another surprise. He is so emotionally constipated, it was hard for me to imagine where the story would go. His route is absolutely brilliant. The angst is all there and Ripper is one of my favourite side characters of any games. His route has the most sexual tension out of all the routes (in my opinion). That notion is also amplified by the extra chapter. Cardia was fierce during this route. She is otherwise as well but it was the most visible to me during this one. Van has a lot of character growth, like Saint, and I feel like he could make Cardia very happy. On the flip-side there is so much potential for trauma bonding, considering Cardia and Van are both traumatised. I replayed Van’s route as well and loved it as much the second time, if not more.

Impey was my least favourite (sorry, Impey lovers). The reasons actually have very little do with him and more to do with me. He is cheery, cute and funny. But he flirts a lot and is so over the top with it, I find it hard to take it seriously. I was happy to find out more about Nemo, but that character annoyed me with how he spoke. Impey being a vampire was a surprise. Impey’s route had some loving moments and I think he is a lovely guy but sadly, he is not for me.

Then some random thoughts in the end. I’m excited for more scenes with Delly in Future Blessings. He is such a sweet boy who deserves all the love. Sisi is a little cutie too. Everytime he is on the screen, I swoon. I have started playing Future Blessings now too. I won’t get into that too much, but I have been thinking about doing an AU ending fanfic for Victor’s route in that. Additionally, I’ll be posting a load of screenshots I’ve taken once I go through them all. I might do some thoughts posts about Future Blessings as well.

#code realize #code: realize #code: realize spoilers #otome #otome game #code: realize guardian of rebirth #code: realize anime #anime / manga #victor frankenstein #impey barbicane #abraham van helsing #arsene lupin #cardia beckford #saint germain

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otome-corner-cafe · 7 months

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Loving the energy of the triangle dates in Code: Realize Wintertide Miracles…

The game is giving me what I want. Being charmed by two dashing men of my choice instead of just one.

But - and I admit this is me being down bad for Saint-Germain - but I really would’ve liked to see a version of the Van Helsing x Cardia x Saint-Germain CG with just Saint?

Like we get a version of the CG with just Van Helsing but not Saint-Germain… 🥺 My man…

#code realize #saint germain #erika’s ramblings #I will say that Van Helsing is in my top three for c:r men #and the scenario wasn’t written with a hand off #but ejchudjdhchs!#I’m silly right now

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little-lady-mimi · 5 years

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出来る限りの愛し方を by トモリ ⊳ Van Helsing x Cardia Beckford of Code: Realize 👍 Permission granted

#code realize #code: realize #van helsing #cardia beckford #van x cardia #cardia x van

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hopen4e · 7 years

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#code: realize #code:realize: sousei no himegimi #code:realize #code realize #cardia beckford #cardia #cardia x van #abraham van helsing #van #van helsing #van x cardia #thank you for becoming my friend #teaching me #worrying about me

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kash-phia · 3 years

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misc. otome game doodles from twitter o(-<

pixel ones are made using pixel-me

#im too tired to make separate posts for them hahaha #code realize #cafe enchante #collar x malice #cardia beckford #impey barbicane #finis beckford #abraham van helsing #kotone awaki #ichika hoshino #kei okazaki #chizuru yukimura #hakuoki

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coderealizeheadcanons · 7 years

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Can we get the gangs reaction to finding out their girlfriend is really good with machines (like Impey level)? Thank you!

Mod Cheshire here! I really like the idea of a techy S/O :3 it’s very different and unique. I’m going to call this Code: Realize Guys and a Mechanic S/O. As always, let us know if you want more!

Arsene Lupin: Lupin would be happy to have all of Impey’s mechanic skills with none of the actual Impey-isms. His s/o would dedicate their skills to making Lupin gadgets to help with his job, which Lupin would wholeheartedly appreciate. Without his s/o knowing, Lupin will add brand-new tools to his s/o’s workshop, always happy to see her freak out over the shiny new tools.

Abraham Van Helsing: Van would be impressed with his s/o’s skill. Her ability to repair cars, guns, mechanic household appliances, the stove after Van tried to cook one night, are all skills he considers very useful and uses them to his advantage. His s/o cares for and builds him custom guns, all of which Van will keep on display in a special gun-case.

Impey Barbicane: Impey would be absolutely amazed by his s/o’s talents. To actually have someone that could understand his passion toward machines would be like a dream come true and the two would spend almost all day building all kinds of contraptions together. As night fell, Impey would sneak off and cook his princess of machines an amazing dinner, which his s/o would always appreciate.

Victor Frankenstein: Victor would definitely be surprised, and would spend a lot of time learning everything he can about machines so that he could talk to his s/o about her passion. It would be an issue, however, as both would get lost in their work often and skip meals or, in extreme cases, forget to even sleep. Victor’s s/o quickly remedies this by building an alarm clock that rings at lunch/dinner time and whenever bedtime rolls around. It’s one of Victor’s favorite gadgets.

Saint Germain: Saint-G doesn’t hesitate to build his s/o a state of the art workshop where she can hide away and build to her heart’s delight. He makes sure to fill it with the best tools and parts money can buy and, whenever his s/o makes something just for him, he’ll store away one of his antiques just to make room for her contraptions. Saint-G doesn’t hesitate to ask for new things and has taken to asking his s/o to build him unique gadgets to have around the house.

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helsiiing · 3 years

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Blonde visually impaired guy seeking revenge only to find out that he can be forgiven and that he has suffered enough from all the pain they have been put through due to a love from a non-human doll like vessel with a heart that has been replaced with something unnatural who is very capable of showing emotions while being in the company of said angsty guy.

Am I talking about Abraham Van Helsing x Cardia Beckford from Code: Realize or am I talking about Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd x Byleth Eisner from Fire Emblem Three Houses?

#[ action in my Otome game? It's more likely than you think. OOC ]#I realize that I have a ship type;;#abraham van helsing x cardia beckford #dimileth #van helsing x cardia #dimitri x byleth

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unwiltingblossom · 4 years

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Code: Realize Route Review - Victor Frankenstein

to be fair to everyone else, this doesn’t include his Future Blessings content, but mmm MMMMMMM that’s such good content that I will 100% be making reviews of all of them, especially Victor’s.

MY HEART. MY BOY. MY SWEET PRECIOUS CINNABUN.

I’d save him for last because he’s transparently my favorite, but I’m trying to do this in the play order I’ve worked out should be done. Victor was my first route, though, because aaaa he’s so perfect - this was a bad choice both because it meant I saw him in all other routes and couldn’t romance him and because he spoils everything except Germain and Lupin’s routes. (He doesn’t spoil a plot twist in Impey per se, but information Impey gives you is redundant if you play Victor, and you’re definitely supposed to have Van and Impey’s routes done to make the ‘surprise’ in Fran’s route work. It’s not a surprise if you go directly into Victor’s from Common Route)

Anyway, Victor should be done third. It spoils Van Helsing’s route and negatively impacts Impey’s route. Germain’s route spoils Victor’s so even though Van’s teases Germain’s, you should do Victor before San-chan.

Victor Frankenstein

THE BOY’S PERFECT.

Anyway, Victor has an unfair advantage over all the other guys, even Lupin. He shows up the most in the common route and is super important to Cardia. He’s technically the third introduced, but Impey’s solo scene with Cardia is shorter and mostly focused on bullying Impey, and Lupin suffers from what he’ll always suffer from: plot is way more important than him whenever it’s ‘his’ time. If you don’t believe me, trust me anyway. I will make a whole separate post to PROVE to you that Victor gets an unfair advantage in the common route compared to literally everyone else.

But it’s no joke to say that Victor Frankenstein’s route feels the most ‘natural’ of them all, because the common route does such a good job of setting it up (especially if you’re going for his route) that by the time you’re on his route you can’t imagine her ending up on anyone else’s route. It’s so effective that Victor being my first route made me think that the whole common route adapted and gave special scenes to whatever the highest affection boy was, so that you naturally fall into their arms like ‘well of course they fell in love’.

It’s so significant I can’t even review his route without talking about his common route parts.

So let me stop rambling and get on with it.

Victor, like Impey, has a really obvious role in the story that you know basically immediately. He’s the cute nerd who’s also the only doctor for Cardia, dedicated to improving her life because he feels responsible for her creation and is suffering from crippling guilt over the Vampire War. He makes her clothes, he identifies the gem in her chest, he explains where it came from and what it’s meant to be, and he teaches her how to handle chemicals. Which she takes to REALLY well, because Isaac is her dad.

Victor’s route further explores the fact that the Vampire War was all just a staged play and more of a pointless genocide than an actual ‘war’, and that’s part of why Helsing’s route should be played first, but also Alistair is outright villainous in Victor’s route, so it’s impossible to be fooled in Van’s route if you’ve done Fran’s first.

You may not know immediately if you don’t also guess/know that Cardia is a homunculus, but Fran is one of...I think just two? who know immediately that Cardia is a homunculus. Most of the men find out when she does, after they’ve already fallen for her, but not Victor. He knows from the beginning, and despite that, all he ever sees her as is a human girl like anyone else. He loves her knowing full well what she is, because to him she’s always just been an innocent girl he caused harm to.

Fran’s one of my favorite routes on a purely technical level, because Cardia learns chemicals and uses them alongside Victor. He doesn’t let her use the deadly explosive kinds because he’s super protective, but his is one of the routes where her training actually comes in to play, rather than expecting her to step back and let Fran protect her. In fact, his route requires you to treat him as an equal and trust him implicitly.

Victor’s route was super easy to get into for me because I was a simpering fool for Fran anyway. You’ve got to go with him to help protect him in the train during the tag team mission, and ideally you’re supposed to trust him to be able to handle himself against the Twilight soldiers even when it looks like he’s backed into a corner and helpless, because he wants to protect Cardia so much he’d rather be put in danger than let her endanger herself.

Cardia’s route is probably the roughest encounter with Finis, as he succeeds in activating the Horologium before Victor can show up to save her, turning her into a ticking time bomb that can’t be turned off.

Victor is actually so attentive to Cardia. When Cardia tries to sneak out of the mansion at the very end of the common route because she thinks she’s a monster, she looks back to the mansion because her heart aches at the thought of never seeing Victor anymore...but there he is. He noticed she was trying to sneak away and followed after her, because Victor would rather banish himself than allow her to feel alone. Imagine my surprise when I found out like half the other routes Cardia just escapes because no one notices her trying to sneak away.

So, Victor doesn’t just reject that she’s a monster, he rejects it with the authority of having always known her true nature not out of some spat of denial. He accepts her completely, and loves her even in her darkest moment. Then he promises he will do anything to save her, and runs off into the night.

It’s just about the next morning that Cardia realizes this strange feeling in her heart might actually be love, but oh my gosh. This girl has it bad. She’s always dedicated to her routemate, but with Victor, she is laser focused on him and only him, and will blindly rush into danger if it means seeing him.

to be fair, though, Victor is basically the same thing. Honestly, you wouldn’t expect the scientist of all things to have maybe the most action packed route but dang, he is just IN THE THICK OF IT. He jumps off a bridge with Cardia while a bunch of Twilight soldiers are shooting at them and that’s at the beginning of his route.

Especially if you’ve played through Impey’s route where Cardia can’t stop taking back her confessions and Van’s route where he pretends he isn’t in love to ‘protect’ her, the fact that Victor and Cardia admit they’re deeply in love and will say it just over and over again, without ever doubting each other or questioning each other about it, it’s really nice. Maybe a tad mushy, but the angst on the route helps balance that.

For me, Victor’s route was the easiest route to play. I didn’t hit any bad ends for Saint Germain, either, but I was more uncertain about some of the choices. Victor’s are so easy you kind of have to choose them on purpose to fail.

Victor doesn’t trust himself, Cardia and Victor both believe they don’t really deserve to live. The fact that the choices and overarching plot of the route is basically “Trust Victor because he’ll do literally anything to protect you, even controvert the laws of the universe, so don’t you dare give up, but also protect him from his own stupid choices motivated by survivor’s guilt” is pretty wholesome.

Victor’s route is, I would say, the most wholesome, and I’m sure I’m not biased or anything.

All the boys have things that allow them to sympathize with Cardia, but I feel like Victor and Cardia have the most similar backstory. Victor sees himself as a monster because his work massacred the innocent vampires, and Cardia sees herself as a monster because her poison killed the only person who ever loved her aside from her father who abandoned her and told her she wasn’t allowed to ever love anyone.

Granted, there’s no revenge or closure or anything on the villagers for what they did in Victor’s route, but there is acceptance, understanding, and healing, because both of them have ugly, horrible tragedy in their history that they can’t go back and change or make better, but they have someone who loves and understands them and doesn’t blame them for it anyway.

Victor is at once plagued with the guilt and self-loathing that tells him he doesn’t deserve to be happy and just so desperate to make up for what he’s done and find a way for someone to forgive him so he can forgive himself.

But man.

Cardia is transforming into the Philosopher’s Stone in Victor’s route, which means this person he loves, the only person who knows everything about him and loves him anyway, is a ticking time bomb who is going to explode and wipe out an entire city full of innocent people again, and it’ll be his fault for not doing anything.

Because the queen isn’t pretending to be a good person in this route, she gets the most development out of all the routes. (she has a really weak and shallow epiphany in Lupin’s route that matches Victor’s, but that’s the ‘must resolve all plot threads whether it makes sense or not’ thing) It’s also the one that most clearly shows she’s romantically interested in her knight.

Victor’s route climax has him caught between two horrible fates: allow Queen Victoria to release the Zicterium and massacre her own people to plunge the world into a massive war so that Cardia will survive and be allowed to live as a normal human girl, dying beside her in the process, or...allow Cardia to be the one who kills all of Steel London when she explodes, killing her as well. No third option, no ‘save all of London’.

This is just. so cruel to Victor. He has a big flashing button on his chest that says ‘traumatized by the fact that Zicterium killed a bunch of people after he accidentally invented it’, and then his route climax is him stuck in a dilemma where the only answer is ‘everyone dies by Zicterium’.

Despite that, Victor thinks just incredibly fast on his feet, and he’s so dedicated to his ideals and pacifism that he’s able to finally sway Leonhard into defying the queen’s commands and defending her from herself. I don’t particularly find Victoria sympathetic regardless of her motivations, because she’s a ruthless killer who massacred the vampires and tried her literal hardest to do the same to her own people in a misguided attempt to protect Britain, but the route tries to make her sympathetic anyway.

Victor and Cardia both get BDH moments, including Cardia rescuing herself from being a hostage and showing up at the showdown to allow the heroes to fight to their fullest without fear of her being killed as a hostage.

And they’re always like ‘I’d rather die for you’ ‘no, I can’t live in a world without you, I’ll die first’. Honestly, they’re just...so adorable.

Cardia’s poison goes away late in the route because she’s mid-transformation, which gives Victor the ability to kiss and touch her without fear.

and rather than try to explain how cute it is, I show a picture and save probably literally 1,000 words

aaa

so perfect and cute.

...

I think I’ve gotten lost in the weeds again.

anyway.

so.

Honestly, you won’t be surprised by the queen AT ALL if you just go by what happens in the route. It relies on you being tricked by Impey and Helsing’s routes where she comes off as good-natured and reliable, so that you’ll fall for her tricks in Victor’s route. Aleister’s role in the route is pretty much superfluous, though, he’s there to be annoying and hold Cardia captive so that Victor can be scared for her, and then flounce off into the night in style because you just saw him star back in Van’s route.

The other boys also don’t contribute that much to Victor’s route, other than being there in the big showdown while they fight off the Twilight troops and helping Victor try to sneak into the castle again. Saint-Germain briefly features to tell Cardia what she’s feeling is love, but even though the routes usually have the ‘next in line’ feature in the route to tease you, there’s just so much going on with Victor that there’s no time for Germain to do much but look absolutely fabulous and murder Finis so hard he doesn’t come back.

Both of Victor’s endings are so good!

His normal/bad ending is one of the more tragic and painful of the endings, and while it’s not as completely different as Impey’s, it still feels unique and based off of the choice you make, not just collected affection points deciding if the story cuts off too soon or not.

It just works. Cardia deciding to take away the responsibility from Victor and save his life by killing herself is well within her personality, and it plays out so painfully tragic - as she didn’t know he was only moments away from finding the solution to save her.

It’s also interesting, because Fran’s is the only ‘normal’ ending in the original game where Cardia dies instead of the love interest. Her dedication to making sure that Victor survives, and her determination not to live a life without Victor is just that strong.

Poor Victor.

BUT ANYWAY ONTO THE GOOD END.

Victor being willing to put Zicterium in his mouth so that he can feed it to her, conveniently in the form of a kiss! Granted, he does point out it’s much less volatile and immediately deadly in liquid form, but it’s still extremely dangerous, since leaving anything behind or swallowing any of it could be terrible.

Victor gets to kiss Cardia more than the other boys, but, look. he

earned it

It kind of cracks me up, honestly, that while Victor is always looking for a cure for Cardia, it’s only on his route that he immediately figures out a fix. Most people have to either wait for Future Blessings before he’s done or complete her transformation into the philosopher’s stone, but Victor is like ‘well it’s a prototype but it’s one I’m willing to trust my lips and other things to’

To be fair, the version he gives Cardia in his route requires her to constantly take it, and never neutralizes it completely while the others are one-and-done, but still.

ANYWAY

The fact that Victor refuses to see her as anything but a beautiful, lovely, human young girl and that Cardia refuses to blame Victor for the atrocities that the queen perpetrated, that she gently holds him when he cries and he removes his gloves to touch her face when she thinks she’s becoming a horrible monster....they’re just so sweet.

They’re so adorable.

in conclusion:

VICTOR IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also, how can I not love the ship when it is “Victor Frankenstein and his monster”

...anyway now that I’m done gushing about Victor (for now, wait for the coda and the future blessings review) I guess it’s time to move on and cry about Saint Germain, the second most perfect man.

#code realize #victor frankenstein #victor x cardia #code realize review #code: realize #victor frankenstein route #otome game #spoilers #ooc #i decided to make it prettier with pictures #should I go back and do the same for impey and van?

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