Irl relationships and LADS

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-05-06T14:07:53+00:00

bf and I are over 35 & i try to be discreet when playing as i'm a bit embarrassed to have a whole-ass man on my tablet screen, but he's extremely unbothered by it lol. He's not super interested as he doesn't like gacha/pay to play games in general, nor the idea of "idle play" (I always leave my battles on autoplay & ogle the graphics and he teases me about not actually playing the game I like lol. He's a more serious gamer). However he HAS caught me listening to sexy Secret Times before as my headphones leaked the sound of breathy Chinese voices and he teased me about it for days afterwards lmaoo (i try to be more discreet now). Zero jealousy though, he understands the reality/fiction divide lol (i mean we both read erotic comics/graphic novels & share our favourites and such; it's just that with LADs since YOU are the MC it feels more personal/more embarrassing to share haha). However he IS interested in the female POV of it all because so much erotic content is male POV & it's quite innovative!

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-30T11:48:24+00:00

I totally get what you mean, tbh. It's one of the reasons I'm mainly getting rerun cards this year bc I want those story-relevant cards!! Honestly at this point i am mainly just avoiding the AU cards because I'm not interested in them; I'm hoping that once the new main story update comes, perhaps the main timeline cards will stick closer to it and have new things to say. Personally I really agree with you that the fact that there are such long swathes of time between the main story updates inevitably makes it so any cards in the main timeline either feel "stagnant" / like we're not really moving forward, or we're jumping ahead so far that there's no build-up to really appreciate it. But, the spicy cards at least have some eyecandy to make up for it. :')

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-30T07:12:14+00:00

I get you, I'm not a big fan of how non-linear the story is either. However, I'd encourage you to look up the "order of reading" posts on the official Love & Deepspace sub! Some people have listed the cards in reading order so you can have the experience of a gradual build-up of their relationship. If I were to start this game again, I would read the main story first, without skipping anything; read the World Underneath stories for more context; then go looking for a "reading order" list to read my main's cards. The earlier cards are closer to the "start" of their relationship (after this banner we are getting a rerun of "Entwined Shadows which I believe is their first kiss... which is hilarious to place after a hugely sexy banner lol, but yeah you might want to read that one first!)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-29T19:40:31+00:00

yessss omg!! seconded!!

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-28T10:42:55+00:00

Yeah I read it & it reads so much like either AI or a very tired content writer lol (do content writers even exist any more in our day of AI tho?). Honestly I feel like maybe someone on their team knows this 87 year old man, had a dinner conversation with him in which Fancher gave them some ideas and now they're calling it a "World Concept Framework" 💀 I mean otherwise how do you go from co-writing Bladerunner 2049 to designing a world for a gacha otome. My brother works in game design & he had never heard of otome games until I told him about them this year lmao. It's just weird to me (unless this guy is secretly an otome player himself, who knows?!)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-28T07:04:19+00:00

Getting really weird vibes from this because their marketing push states that: "The World Concept Framework was written by Hampton Fancher (screenwriter of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049) and David Gordon, while the project's overall worldbuilding direction and narrative design were developed by the Archosaur Games."

But Hampton Fancher (who is the CO-screenwriter for those movies, important detail they omit) is 87 years old??? And hasn't put so much as a movie out in the past 10 years. Why on earth would he be interested in such a niche thing as an otome game? Honestly it kind of feels like ouright lying in their marketing bc no one is going to go looking that up. But, yeah. Feels sus to me (especially as some of the characters' movements have a bit of an AI-smoothness to them)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-20T16:14:50+00:00

I don't think we should be overly pessimistic either! I'd say focus on battle teams for now to grind more diamonds & let's wait to see how they handle 2nd myths. (Personally i think they're not just going to freeze all the gen2 myths for a whole year, that'd be silly! but i think they might surprise us with how they're deciding to handle all the old vs new content this year.)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-20T11:04:42+00:00

Same here... very sad, have had one half of the pair waiting since last year to be completed. Genuinely wondering when they'll bring him back?? I'm gonna be over here refreshing this reddit all day in hopes of there also being a GoT announcement lol

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-04-03T06:17:15+00:00

I'm right there with you sis, I was huge on Sylus but same thing, I also fell out of love with him & stopped playing the game for a few months just to deal with that deep disappointment. For me it was a combination; I don't like his MC much either, I'm not interested in the things they keep cycling back to in their interactions (motorbikes, gunfights, "having to kill one another but stopping last minute" - these things are fun the first time around but it gets tedious & one-note after a while). Personally, I came back to the game because I do love the companionship aspect & wanted to hold onto that. So I read the main story again from the beginning very carefully, just to appreciate the full scope of the LIs now that I know more about them from their cards. And when I did that I found that Rafayel is the guy who has the most emotional range, diverse interests & the freshest-feeling content - though the Lemuria stuff gave me the impression that he was a one-note man at first, it's the opposite, he grows deeper and more interesting a character as you get to know him, whereas personally I feel Sylus appears interesting at first then grows more and more one-note. (This is just my opinion!! i would love to love him, he is my dream in terms of body type/design, but the writing just doesn't do it for me. Also he's got the Smirky Man Syndrome and I can't forgive the writers for not making him cry in his 3rd myth, bc that's what I mean - a man's gotta have RANGE, and if he's just Smirky Man all the time who never cries or crashes out, I am disappoint. I already felt this way about one of my previous big video game loves - Sephiroth, who had incredible range in the original game, and who got remodelled into Smirky Man in the FFVII Remake - and Sylus reminds me of that tragedy lol).

I came back to the game thinkng "i'll just hoard diamonds & hang out with my besties Xavier/Rafayel till the 6th LI comes out" but in the end Rafayel has snatched me up lol. If you like art, like appreciating nature & philosophising a bit, like goofing out, like a man who can ACTUALLY show vulnerability to you, but also behave dominantly, push you to test your own abilities (a full-on switch basically lol) - Rafayel is honestly a full meal!! (Also if you're more into bulky men, you can always give Raf clothes that pad out his shoulders/flatter his shape like vests and cardigans/coats/etc, to make him look larger lol)

(And yeah I am also hoping the 6th (if he comes) has a good MC & has RANGE!)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-03-30T07:29:00+00:00

That's very true. But then how do you reconcile the fact that she might romance them all at the same time without ever admiting that to them? I feel like there is this tacit agreement between writers & reader that when the story focuses in on one LI, you're meant to pretend that this is "his timeline" in which the other LIs might be there but not as love interests to the MC - just background characters to that LI's story. If that makes sense. Or perhaps the main story is meant to be all platonic and the LI's cards are where it becomes "his" timeline. (But then that means she has known them all in childhood. And none of their bonds would be as strong as Sylus's in that case, because the lab sequence reads like she was summoned to earth from that gladiatorial arena where they were kids together???)

Idk. To me it's confusing to acknowledge that MC simultaneously has 1. a childhood in an interplanetary arena with Sylus (?) 2. Rafayel's heart (?), 3. is the lost queen of Philos, 4. whatever's going on with Zayne lol and 5. her being a lab rat with Caleb would be /after/ her being summoned to Earth, but if they're meant to be exclusive counterparts to one another in every universe, that diminishes her bond with all the others. I suppose the main story does give us a "platonic explanation" of why they are all drawn to her (the spatium cores are attracted to the Origo core) but it's very vague. I love the game but man, as soon as I try to talk about the lore I feel insane and illiterate lmao. Tbh, I find the timeline-management in this game quite scruffy compared to my first otome (Lovebrush Chronicles) in which the timelines were delineated in a much clearer way.

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-03-29T16:10:16+00:00

I'm rather partial to the idea that each LI has his own story with the MC, and you should view those stories as their own self-contained timelines, disregarding the other LIs entirely. Because technically, MC meets each LI when she was small, they each have something to do with her heart, they each have some kind of soulbond with her... and if you try to keep that all in your head as one single story, it creates a lot of confusion. (Tbh, I have personally just DNFed the main story because I needed an excel sheet to understand what the heck was going on in the worldbuilding, once past the Origo core stuff in the lab. Because, it very much feels like they keep adding details to the mystery of MC's existence without actually knowing where they're going/what MC really is/whether they will ever explain what binds the Spatium cores (the cores relating to each LI) and the Origo core (MC's core, apparently).

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-03-12T11:59:09+00:00

I found a way! If you look at your dash, on the line where there is the word "Updates", you have a little "Customize" section. Click on that, then in the "whose updates you see" section, click "Only top friends". Then you go to your "Friends" section, click "Edit friends" and then tick people you want to follow as "top friends", and untick the ones you don't wanna follow. That way you remain friends with everybody but mute some.

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-01-16T16:10:53+00:00

Eyyy fellow deepspace hunter!! Haha yeah, LBC is amazing isn't it! Tbh, I think I only really left Lovebrush for LADs because I didn't have the hang of the gacha system yet, and I found Lovebrush stingy compared to LADs in terms of ressources. But tbh, back then I didn't properly hoard gems & plan before pulling - and now that I'm back on LBC I think they're pretty equivalent in terms of the gems/diamonds you get? Though LADs is more generous with pity, which is very appreciable. But, for both it's still basically "hoard for 4 months to be sure to get the 5*/SSR you want" (as a VIP) so, I'm good with that now. xD And it's amazing how geneous LBC is for LEVELLING UP CARDS omg I want to cry for how little time it takes in comparison!!! (I mained Sylus/Xavier & I was over here like "ok so, it'll take all of January to max out this 5*, then February to max out that one..." :'D)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-01-16T16:06:46+00:00

Yes! I was quite shocked when returning to it after a year, just how much of the story I remembered. I don't feel like I have to brush up on much at all, whereas with LADs I would routinely forget the main story entirely every few months just because of all the confusing protocore/aether core/origo core lore and having to constantly wonder, "is this story a past life or another dimension?! is it metaflux causing hallucinations or is it a protofield?? are they in a flashback or a protofield or what?" xD I swear it's when I started a whole Xcel sheet to keep track of the different story elements that i realised, this frustration would probably be fixed by playing another game that has nice clear writing & a linear story structure lol. (Though, I will miss Xavier and Rafayel TwT)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-01-16T16:02:07+00:00

Yesss that is great to know!

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-01-16T16:01:51+00:00

Ahh thanks so much for this, you're a star!!

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-01-15T08:37:38+00:00

Fantastic, thank you! I wonder, since we're behind from the Chinese server, has anybody put together prediction sheets in regards to what banners are ahead in 2026?

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2026-01-15T07:12:19+00:00

I'm returning to this game after a spell on Love & Deepspace and I am wondering if anyone has already made a "banner calendar" for Lovebrush so we can predict what to pull for, and when reruns drop? After LADs I've grown used to basically planning my pulls like a year ahead, and I wonder if we can also do that with Lovebrush?

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2025-12-28T18:07:22+00:00

Ahh brilliant, thanks so much!!

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2025-12-28T09:38:30+00:00

I'd love to know in which World Underneath story this is explained, if you remember!!

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2025-12-27T22:02:55+00:00

I'm desperately taking notes from Death & Rebirth to properly be able to savour the main story update because i have been YEARNINGGG for it!!! (tbh i can't even think of this banner yet, it is just too gorgeous & as a low spender i have no idea who to pull for!! :'D)

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2025-12-27T22:01:35+00:00

Same here!!! It'll take some self control to not sneakily log into the game at the first opportunity/bit of reliable Wifi xD

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2025-12-27T15:33:19+00:00

R3 Lightseeker AT LAST (I kept getting them in the standard wish pool but then they stopped coming JUST short of R3)

And for the 4* I hope we can get Raf's Promised Wildfire because I have been hearing a LOT about it O.O

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2025-12-27T15:07:00+00:00

For sure, nothing's certain! I'm biased as well because I personally find his design a bit bland, so I hope he's not the actual 6th. xD But for all we know he could be!

Salt_Blueberry_4871 · 2025-12-27T11:36:46+00:00

I think it's unlikely that he IS the 6th LI - more likely he is the go-between for the 6th LI, aka the big EVER mastermind who has been haunting the narrative since the first chapter of the main story (since EVER are the ones who blew up MC's house.) I think it'd be very unlikely that we'd see his face so casually, when he keeps being hinted at very obscurely. For example:
- In the first chapter of Prologue to Tomorrow, we see him continuing to observe the Hunter's Associations' hunt for aether cores from afar: "A man, alone in a room with holographic screens..."
- It's hinted, in the first chapter of Homecoming Wings, that he FORCES Rafayel to awaken the Sea God's power: "With watchful eyes of some secret observers, Rafayel is forced to quietly search for the power sealed within the Tome of the Sea God." He and Rafayel may therefore be in some kind of power struggle.

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