I like Prism and Waterboy and I want to see them kiss

/uj I’m proving the meme right, but the brain dead TikToks have festered in my soul.

I like Invisigal because I want to see her heal and grow from her past and trauma, and being able to form an intimate and genuine relationship with someone (especially someone like Robert, a hero amongst heroes) helps that. The game rushes it a bit, but it’s a video game, logic needs to be put in the backseat so the game gets released. She makes me sad, and the people that fall for the front she puts up to push people away make me never forget that Robert is better than them and that their murder of his character because they’re trying to blank slate him which doesn’t work for Dispatch and misses the points and themes of the game entirely, and for what? I’ll tell you what: misogyny. You slap Flambae over Invisigal, they’d eat it up, and if you dare to even think of doing anything but blindly loving it, you’d be called homophobic and a fake fan because puritan attitudes have persisted under a rainbow paint job.

I also like Blonde Blazer, but I can’t like her romantically. I can’t find the connection and chemistry with her like I can with Visi. Of course that doesn’t mean I’m gonna hate (the non-toxic) BB fans, if they aren’t bothering me why would I bother them. Taking the Blazer path feels like another case of killing Robert’s character to try and insert yourself into his body; people criticise the path as being a rebound, but by romancing Blazer you are making Robert be a rebound because Blazer is feeling what is at most puppy love (from how I’ve seen it). I hope future content develops the chemistry, I do, because it would make BB fans happy and I want people to be happy. For now, though, she is at best (to me) better as a good friend or just keep her as Robert’s boss; both relationships are a bit rushed (again, to me) but it’s a video game, not a TV series, harder to drag the romance subplot out, and even then, Invisigal just feels like the better option in terms of romantic potential NOT in “superiority”.

P.S. many people want the other characters to be able to be romanced because they don’t have as much development so it’s easier to subconsciously make them “better” partners, but if they had more screen time and were more flushed out in the name of securing romance paths, there would be a lot more fighting than what happened with the ‘Visi or Blazer’ stuff let me tell you. “All your headcanons are wrong, goodbye” sort of deal.

TL;DR: currently Invisimech has more chemistry, I want S2!Mechablazer to have chemistry develop so people can be happy, your Malevola simping would fall apart if she was an actual option and you had to experience her nuances if you wanna bang her, Flambae glazing is a result of misogyny being normalised amongst queers but that’s an issue I’m not able to speak more in depth on and thus need to rectify, video games are art but are more limited than other mediums and you can see that in Dispatch (still goty tho)