#while Mammon and Lucifer continue to hog the spotlight for the vast majority of the time

[katboykirby]

For me, it's not so much a belief that "making the three undateables into dateables will 'steal' attention from the main cast" because you're right, that's not really the issue.

For me, it's much moreso that "adding three more dateable characters to the pool of 11 that already exist is just going to make a bad problem even worse"

Because the writers simply cannot handle the 12 characters (11 of which are romances) they already have, plus the story, plus Pop Quiz events, plus everything else. I won't go into detail about the story/plot problems, or the characterisation issues, or anything else of that nature right now because there's already plenty of info out there breaking all that stuff down. I just wanna focus on the issue that presents itself when we start talking about the three undateables (Thirteen, Mephisto, and Raphael) and the problems that come along with making them dateable.

Because OP is right - if your name isn't Lucifer or Mammon, good luck ever getting any significant screentime, good luck ever getting nearly as many (or any at all) Spotlight events, good luck getting anywhere near as many UR and SSR cards, etc etc. The writer and devs biases for these two characters at the expense of everyone else in the cast has been prevalent since the first season of the original game all the way back in 2019. Also, OP, Mammon has had four Spotlight events now (not three) even though Beel, Belphie, Diavolo, Solomon, and Luke still haven't even had one.

The problem with making the undateables into dateables is that it's just going to add three more characters for the writers to juggle, when they can't even handle the 12 characters they already have. Lucifer and Mammon will continue to get a full 60-70% writers and devs attention at all times, while the entire rest of the cast (now 14 characters in total, including the player) all get shoved together into the 30-40% of the story and screentime still remaining. Thirteen, Mephisto, and Raphael won't "steal" that screentime from the other boys, they'll just be forced to share it while it gets spread even thinner and thinner

Something that bothers me Is that everytime one of the "trio" Is given spotlight, the same old discourse happens of "do you want them to be dateable?" And Some people answer that No, because "they will take Time of the other cast" I'm sorry but having more or less characters isn't part of the problem. Look at season 1 of OG, and any event before the side characters became dateable. The problem Is the devs playing favorites, even If w still had 7 characters, the same problem would still be there.

Giving Thirteen a kiss scene will not rob of Beelzebub of an spotlight or giving Mephisto a hug of Asmodeus having screentime. The problem Is Mammon having 3 spotlights this year when we still have characters that haven't had one. The problem Is the devs pushing Lucifer as the center of the universe in the Main Story of NB. Why do you blame the characters that barely appear of robbing you of something that they aren't giving you anyways?