Orion going to the gym to cheer for dalia as she lifts iron and fights kickboxing matches. Orion definitely the girlfriend in this relationship.
Nuts. I can hardly play the game without punching my screen because of this GigaSimp. Have to take a break every 10 minutes and rant about him here to keep enduring playing this otherwise good game lol.
We may think of different scenes when thinking of him, and I don't know how he behaves later, but I just read the beach scene with dalia before her first BJ - and it was pain inducing. Its nonstop giving cringe compliments to get sex. Thats simping. Then it continues with reading all these messages on his phone. Constant buttering them up in hope to get sex. Penelope: "Which picture do you like more?" Orion: "Every picture looks great if such an awesome woman is in it." Please kill me. The cringe. Then the nightmare where he wakes up in the corpse room of an hospital. Dead girl asks him if he pushes the button (1/7th chance of saving his big love, 6/7th chance of dying himself). Orion: "Of course!!" He's such a pussy slave.
Never seen a leading man in a VN outside Cosy Cafe and Our Fate.
No offense to you, but that guy is really a pain for me to watch. Surefire way to get friendzoned. What rape games do you mean for example?
This bypasses how Caribdis uses these elements to serve plot and characterisation.
Dalia's established as a gym freak and competitive in school physical education too, while Orion's an exchange student to Kredon for his academic results, not his athleticism. This makes Dalia the far likelier character to do competitive sports and matches, while Orion has to restart his gym routine.
The simplistic reading of Orion as a cringe simp relies on a partial selection of examples, but his interactions show a wider palette. Luna's arc's full with friendliness and helping without whiteknighting. Annie becomes a real option as a partner only till after the
Red Herring. The sex in Penny's arc happens because both teasingly flirt and get carried away. There's plenty of relaxed banter with Dalia, Penny and Alex, too. To give a few examples relying less on single anecdotes.
Eternum's narrative and romantic plot resembles a bildungsroman: Orion has to undergo character development and cultivate emotional intelligence, despite the headstart from his
origins. He transitions from a horny virgin to surprise success to the
WRE's flawed, reckless champion leaning to a bad boy to becoming a more emotionally mature heroic figure. This achieves Caribdis's goal for Eternum to have a more anchored harem formation.
An alternative storyline where he becomes more of a playboy/bad boy is possible in theory, but less likely and matches the Hero's Journey-like plot less and fit a less vanilla fetish orientation.
It's clear Orion doesn't match your gender ideal and yes he could've maybe had more chill or more of a gym routine at the start - if that served Caribdis's story purposes: but he doesn't have, and repeated posting of those variations on the same theme, and I suggest your lens leads you to a selective reading, doesn't achieve much. Like MAGO-DAG already said.
I was actually very glad he got that wake-up call (getting shot), and realized he was becoming a major asshole. I was starting to really dislike him, and that showed he was going through a character arc instead of being poorly written. It made me appreciate Caribdis' writing, and like Orion way more than if he had just been a flat character.
Is he btw worse in this way on the full harem path, like in some LIs' arc than in others'? Like I mean, I doubt in a narratively significant way, it won't impact the wider plot, of course, but does flavour text or specific LI arcs make him look worse? Beyond the fixed sections of the gem hunt where he already "shines" in that way.
Probably more of a question for a loredwarf.
