I AM A MALE TSUNDERE Options

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I will immediately become the most popular bachelor of the game.

But seriously, anyone else wish the tsundere candidate would remain a dinosaur to you the whole time (kind of like Jamie!) just to shake off the whole "hidden softer side" cliché?

Or that they could reject your marriage proposal or event invites even at higher heart levels?

I suppose I'm just getting tired of "Gill is the new Chase is the new Vaughn is the new Gray." And suddenly you give them enough gifts and it's love! They live and die at your whim! You're gonna go all Beauty and the Beast on us? Don't let him be redeemed for once.

On the other hand, it's certainly not the only cliché character stereotype out there, but I think the constant onslaught on Vaughn-oriented fanfics is wearing me down. I suppose I prefer to see a twist like Won (Won is all about tricking himself out with a sweet cash cow) or Rock (a lazy, dimwitted, insensitive lout). Granted, I prefer to really go for the ones who aren't douchebags at all (or at least don't make you work for a scrap of courtesy), I just hope they overhaul the tsundere archetype soon.

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I guess, I just always thought tsundere was supposed to be "always rough" variety.

Thing is, I liked Candace in ToT. I love AP, but... some characters kind of lost some personality in the transition. Candace was one of them.

I actually like Selena and Luke as candidates, though. Selena's a major snob, Luke's exceptionally hyper and dimwitted... they're characters I actually love to see more sides of. Same with Dennyt from the Island games - he was pretty much Kai Redux, but I actually enjoy the way they wrote his IoH lines. Not as smug or playeriffic as Kai, but not as hyper or dim as Luke. Single-minded and boastful, goofy, and laid-back, but despite his fish obsession, he was one of the candidates that wound up being an overall favorite of mine.

I also wouldn't mind another one like Eve from the SNES days. She flirts shamelessly with you at all times and constantly tries to get you drunk. Or a complete, Engrish-speaking whackjob like SNES Nina. Her lines were pretty horribly translated, but that was part of the fun and joy of courting Nina.