Who was a good looking LI that was wasted in their book. Im replaying WP for acheivments and thinking Jake is way too good looking for this mediocre book.
I'll say Joel because we're only getting 10 eps with him but only he deserved more 🥲
truer words were never spoken 😭
Definitely Gabriel ... from KCD.
You know why.
Maybe not LIs but One from HOT, Dee Dee from WTC, Austie's Dad from HS2 and Swiss Guard from VFV. Their sprites are too beautiful to waste it on some background character.
I so agree with One I wanted him so badly
Glashtyn. Honestly, this man deserved a better book and a better plot. He had so much potential (his good looks, his powers, his shape-shifting ability, those mysterious vibes) at the beginning of the story when we first saw him; only for him to be sidelined throughout the entire book.
Austie's dad from HS2.. he gave me Daario Naharis vibes, so majestic.
Hathor from ARC. I would have dropped Damon in an INSTANT
(edit) +Arhat from KFS. We have many LIs already in the book so another one wouldn't make sense, but in an AU I would be rooting for them 🥲
Edit: oops misread the question, I thought you said wasted sprites that weren't LI. But for the actual question, idk I never thought that any LI was "wasted" in any book.
i thought the same thing too 🤣 it’s okay lmao. i agree tho, Austie’s dad is sooo hot 🤤
Hathor 😭 I’ll never get over her
Thats okay it can be any character. My non LI choice would be One from HOT
Oh you're right about One. And in that case it would have made sense to have a path for him, it could have been a slowburn/forbidden love one.
Something tells me that Arhat might eventually turn into a fling. Just wait for it
One from heart of trepia...most beautiful sprite...😍
Rishi from KCD
Yashuhara from LOW 😂😂 the times he pops in my top li matches the guy is desperate for love....
Eragon from HS 2 Vicky falling in love with her mom's mentor it would be messy as hell🤣
Chris from elite tag man was swoon worthy...not just as a fling I wanted him as an li
Leaving yashuhara aside everyone else would have made a really good potential li Oops I misread it...🥲
Still pining after Rishi to this day😭
He was cute
Madi in TDR......my beautiful boy🥹
omg both him and Rajab are sooo handsome 😍
Too bad I don't see them often on Zain's route🤧
Each and every Li in Sophie's ten wishes they wasted the potential
Loy from HS1
Armand from vfv guy needed his independent route
That's it otherwise everyone fits everywhere
I would’ve taken Armand over any of the official LIs any day
Christian pre-facejob 😔
100%! I miss his old sprite - he was so hot and had so much potential! 🥲 I still like him but I’d be full on head-over-heels for him if they didn’t change his eye color and everything else
The new design grew on me with the last two updates, but that is because the visuals are in a small % of importance to me, my brain is just wired that way. If you would offer me a hot sprite + so so dialogue.. vs "non conventionally beautiful/average sprite" with an amazing dialogue - I'll always pick the later. But agreed.. i did like the original. Ehh..
I recently replayed that book to get achievements, and his old sprite is still there in the chapter where he and Devi first meet. I guess it’s supposed to be him when he was younger, but they really do look like two different people.
All of the LIs in GC. They were all very promising, but they didn't really get to shine until the end 😅
Another one for me is Diego from Sophies 10 Wishes.
Yes Diego is so attractive! He deserved better and to be in a better book - same with Logan!
loy from heaven's secret that face card was way too good for him to be treated that way.
Benedict in STW..
I have list of side character who had potential to be li..but got wasted
benedict was the only one that made me push through that book, otherwise the plot would have flopped so bad i wouldn't have finished it
Not lis but Austie got wasted in her books she looks so hot and rather than making her a li in HS2 like giving her a redemption arc like lucifer we got 3 new males li
Michelle(TO2) how is she not a LI??i would've dropper Imani in a instant if she was a LI
Chris(ET) i got a soft spot for sweet blond man🤤
For lis Daisy(STW) & Benedict(STW) like they are so hot and they got wasted in this mediocre book
Murphy(ROT) i hate this book with a passion but hey he is hot & have a good Fashion taste
Marshall - he should have been endgame! He’s one of the hottest sprites on the app and I’d love more LIs who look like him!
Same with the new body guard in ET - Loto (?) and the Shaadhan sprites in HOT who showed up for like 5 seconds in s2 - they’re all so attractive! 😮💨😍
Definitely Loy(HS) and Haku(STW)
Daisy (STW) she's so pretty, fun and sweet and she deserves way more than being a li in a bad book nobody even remembers
Arhat, arhat, arhat..then Belial, austie’s dad, Eragon , christopher too
I forgot his name, but in the beginning of TC:W there was this older guy who was in trouble with a human 🤭 I’m so sad he wasn’t a LI
If I recall from an interview with Arina, she had considered making him an LI, but there was no way to have him active in the plot in a meaningful way or in a way that wouldn’t slow it down/cause issues. I’ll see if I can find it.
ETA: Found it. Third from the bottom. Not that it changes much, but it’s nice to know he was considered lol.
Marco!😭
RAJ DOOBAY before the time jump that man was FIIIIINEEEE 🤤
wait i thought you meant side characters with hot sprites 😭 oh well i said what i said hahaha
Haku from STW, both physically (though I'd personally cut the hair lmao) and personality wise.
Hotch GC - I know he technically was thrown in at the end but my god the wasted opportunities to make him a real LI are a travesty.
Glashtyn SoL - Was completely wasted in that story. Could have and should have been used more.
Haku STW One night was not enough!
One HoT Such a beautiful sprite…The Queen and the Spy!
Belial HS2 Why waste such a beautiful sprite?!!
Virid HS2 Only see him for the blink of an eye but he’s definitely one of the most beautiful sprites. That green man deserved more than a brief flashback scene.
Eragon HS/HS2 I love a power imbalance, this would have been so good!
Murphy RotT I hate how he was basically a LI and then for whatever reason the writer couldn’t be bothered to keep writing his route. Wasted!
Marshall, Pierce from ROTT. Such a waste :(
Leon from Q30
I'll say all ROT LIs. The book was a mess and those LIs deserved better especially Marshall. I hate how they wasted my man's handsome sprite.
Glashtyn of SOL - If he was in other book he would have been more famous. SOL was not for him.
Belial and Ares 🥵
I’m so surprised not to see Belial mentioned more often on this thread. The drawing is beautiful.
- Benedict/Daisy, no need to say why, too good for STW.
- Painter guy ( forgot his name) from VfV, he was very cute. Prince Phillipe deserved more screentime too.
- Damon from Arcanum ( deserved more screentime too, he was very interesting and became one of my favorites in S2). Hathor too, damn that girl was too hot😂
- Austies father, Christopher, Belial for obvious reasons. Well at least Vicky became really enthralled with Belial lol
Yes, the painter in VFV is done better than some of the LIs.
All that you mention in HS2- very well done sprites. Yummy and beautiful to look at. It’s too bad almost no LI in that story was given the amount of story that was deserved.
omg yes, poor damon 🥺 he’s one of my favorite lis, though i feel like we didn’t really get to know him well because he was almost never present lol 💔
also yes to hathor being a wasted non-li sprite, that woman is SO beautiful
Ikr? I love Damon too, but he was heavy sidelined on S1 and S3😭 and well Hathor had no reason to be that hot and beautiful and not being a LI haha
So far Agnia (SCN) is the very top of the list, she’s been sidelined so hard in spite of being one of the best looking LIs on the platform. If we’re just talking looks, I’ll also throw in: Mimi (HS2), who had a big improvement over her HS1 portrait, but whose book was nothing but suffering; and Threxia (SL), a nice looking portrait wasted on a low-effort genderswap of a male LI.
It always makes me so sad when I am reading and Threxia is mentioned as a "he", I couldn't read the chapter eight update because I couldn't take reading another misgendering of Threxia 😭
Also, it's probably a hot take but, Threxio looks too much like a fuck boy for me to find him attractive, he looks more like the man I'd stear clear of and judge my friends for dating
Yeah, I’m wary of genderswapped LIs just in general, and the first time I saw a pronoun they missed when swapping Threxio/a, it really threw a spotlight on how much Threxia’s actions and dialogue still feel like a man’s, and it kinda put me off the story. And I think playboy was exactly what they were going for with Threxio, so I guess mission accomplished on his portrait? Lol.
I completely agree, I think the only one who I trust to make gender swappable characters is Arina because she didn't make one character but two and the writing and art clearly shows differences between male and female Onyx
Agreed with the first two, but I really don't see this problem with threxia, for me she's pretty much feminine! which actions makes her seems like a man to you? would she be more convincing to you if she talked how nice her nails and boobs look? and a woman can for sure be a playgirl too so I really don't see your point... in the recents episodes If you compare some of her scenes with threxio you can clearly see some differences in the dialogues.
If there are more differences between the two in the latest episodes, that’s a nice change, but I can only compare what I’ve seen from the first five episodes, I haven’t read past that yet, and from the screenshots of Threxio I saw, there were no real differences save for anatomical details.
And of course a female character doesn’t need to be hung up on anything in particular, much less “nails and boobs” to feel more authentically female, but when a character is initially written as male, it generally takes more than a simple pronoun flip and edited anatomy to make a genderswap feel authentic. It’s hard to describe because the line between masculine and feminine is fuzzy at best, but there’s still a recognizeable difference. For Threxio/a in particular, I’d say it’s the level of lust and the expression of it. I get that s/he’s a demon of lust, but something about it, at least in the first five episodes, feels very testosterone-driven, and seeing a “he” in the middle of one such scene really drove that home for me. There were a few other minor things that taken together felt wrong to me, but I can’t say I recall them in detail offhand, it’s been like three months since I read the first three episodes.
Once again, if their scenes are starting to diverge some more in these later episodes, that’s a positive change. I expected more effort at diversity out of Wincy in SL after HOT, so seeing her put that in would be great.
If you're talking about the cgs being the same pose, well I don't see why would wincy change It if it's part of the scene and contributes to what they're doing at the moment.
Threxia/o are authentic characters...the same can be said about Cynthia/Walter! (for me all of the cog characters in RC is being well written, try going to choices or episodes and compare some of their cog books to the ones in RC, the differences is drastic lol).
And again a woman can be a playgirl too so threxia being the same shameless, straightforward and flirty as threxio isn't weird, "written as male" or out of character and yes a wrong prounon can be annoying! but this didn't bother me or made me feel like she was written to be a male, bugs happens! she's so feminine, she's a femme fatale.
The fact that unfortunately many writters dont even care to put more than 1 female lis and the only female li is sidelined...wincy is doing a very good job at giving diversity and giving wlw players finally choices! so i'm grateful for her and some other writters too.
I am not talking about the CGs.
It may not be immediately obvious, but I assure you, Threxia does not ring true in the five episodes I’ve read. She reads like Wincy wrote Threxio, and spent very little time at all changing anything for this simple genderswap. I’m sorry you’ve encountered worse examples of COG characters—I have too—, but that doesn’t make the content I’ve read of Threxia feel any more authentic to me.
I can appreciate that writing several LIs is time consuming, and that Wincy is at least making SOME concessions for wlw players, but that doesn’t mean I have to accept weak pandering in the form of COG characters. I don’t like them in principle, and I don’t think Threxia, at least so far as I’ve read, is a well done example. I’m happy you’re happy with her, but I’ve found her highly disappointing.
Ok it's your opinion, I'm not going on and on, I've made my point clear.
If we're talking about those characters who look great, but are not LI's:
Rishi Doobay from KCD, definitely, I love the book to death, but I would happily romance Rishi as opposed to his psychotic, obsessive cousin. 😂 He had an amazing character arc as far as a side character.
(Will sing his praises 'till the day I die, him Ram and Lalit are the only Doobay's that I like.)
Definitely Hathor from Arcanum, that girl is damn fine 🤤 such a gorgeous sprite, appears only for a moment and then we never see her again.
Definitely Eragon from HS2 (Tbh, would've preferred him over the likes of Astaroth, not that I hate him or anything, I simply don't care for him.)
Christopher from HS2 (At least if you choose you can pair him up with Mimi, but again-- I would've preferred him over his brother)
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
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ET | Elite Tag |
GC | Gladiator Chronicles |
HS | Heaven's Secret |
HoT | Heart of Trespia |
LI | Love Interest |
OTI | On Thin Ice |
RC | Romance Club |
RotT | Rage of the Titans |
STW | Sophie's Ten Wishes |
SoL | Sins of London |
VfV | Vying for Versailles |
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The guard from VFV🤣
Armand from VFV - I wish he was an end-game LI😭
Hodge from OTI - wasted potential I’d say
Dee Dee from WTC - I hope she appears more in the story!
Murphy from ROT - that book was incredibly messy! I only sticked around for his romantic scenes.
Heather from ROT, her sprite is so pretty and the book she is on is so hard to read. I still haven't finished season 1 because I get annoyed at every single character in that book as soon as I start reading it
MURPHY FROM ROT. How did they pull off an LI like Murphy in such a clunky book?