#but nightbringer is pulling the strings somewhere

[earl-grey-love]

One thing about the plot in the lesson 20s of NB is how one of the serious intelligent characters will be like "Who knows what consequences these events will lead to. It may change our fates and the fates of the three realms for the worse. It's likely we will suffer for this. There will probably be another war... but don't worry about that right now silly 💕 we're having a ✨️tea party~✨️"

[misc-obeyme]

hi CC! this is about something that seems to plague me in fandoms everywhere; a fundamental misunderstanding and application of the word yandere to any character who's vaguely sinister or clingy.

This is in regards to Barbatos, who I've regularly seen being called yandere but haven't seen any evidence so far of it. He seems to be neither the possessive or obsessive type. Some of the brothers have more yandere tendencies than Barbatos does, from what I can tell. So why does he get painted that way?

He's not poisoning people for talking to MC or getting ready to hurt anyone, and he's not stalking or stealing MCs things to be close to them. He seems to be generally chill and friendly.

Yes he has a torture chamber but that's not a yandere trait or even related to being yandere. That's like, a part of his job at the palace. He's loyal to Diavolo but it's still not encroaching on yandere territory.

I'm frankly having trouble wrapping my mind around it. What am I missing?

(I recommend anyone who is confused about this to take a few minutes to look up the term and see how it applies to fictional characters)

Hi there, anon!

I personally don't think Barbatos is yandere at all.

I have to admit that before getting into the Obey Me fandom, I wasn't super familiar with the term yandere. (I knew about tsundere, but yandere was a new one for me.) So I had to look it up a few times, just to make sure I was understanding what it meant. Since people were applying it to a bunch of characters and I was getting confused.

My understanding of the word is that it's a character who is obsessed with their love interest to the point where they will do intense things to be with them, such as kidnapping them and keeping them locked up. Or as you mentioned, stealing their things and stalking them. Like they are so devoted they might get violent about it. They're possessive in a way that's like... not healthy lol.

I don't really think any of the Obey Me characters fit this definition. Sure we get them threatening MC sometimes, but it isn't because of their love for MC. It's usually because they're trying to protect something or they're upset about something.

I read somewhere that Belphie was supposed to be yandere, but they changed his character. He kinda gets just barely on the edge of that in Nightbringer when he has his little episode. It was like the attic came into being just because he wanted a place to lock up MC.

But other than that? I wouldn't apply the term to any of them.

I'm not sure what it is about Barbatos that would make anyone think he's yandere. He certainly isn't in canon.

I can definitely see how easy it would be to take what we know about Barbatos in canon and make him yandere. I mean, there's a lot of stuff about him that we don't know. You could write a whole fanfic about how he's the mastermind pulling the strings all along and the whole reason was just so he could be with MC or some such thing.

But really you could do that with any character?

Honestly, anon, I'm with you on this one. If you're missing something, I'm afraid I must be missing it, too. I've always read Barbatos as a calm, quiet character. Smart and knows more than he lets on, but not in a creepy stalker kinda way. Just in an observant, intelligent kinda way.

If anyone else has any insight into this, please feel free to share! This is just my interpretation!