>choosing between changing nothing and dragging your waifu to the horror that currently is RL Nah, I wouldn't pick either. Instead, I'd ask for a green pill. This green pill would theoretically make me end up in my waifu's universe, where she loves me back. It might be real, it might be a simulation; but I don't care about that. If my waifu's universe was some grimdark hellhole, war zone or both I'd probably just have taken the red pill and so would most waifuists with spouses from such settings would have done; but this is not my case. The GA series is a fluffy Kirara slice of life manga/anime, not a Warhammer 40k campaign. I might as well have nothing to lose.

>>70310 >Nah, I wouldn't pick either. Instead, I'd ask for a green pill. Neo, don’t be so picky. You can't have your cake and eat it too. There is sadly no green pill; you must choose between the blue pill or the red pill.

>>70312 If you have to choose between shit and shit disguised as a chocolate cake you might as well just kill yourself on the spot.

Considering that the blue pill is giving myself the illusion of making the one I beloved so much live in a miserable third-world hellhole populated by traditionalistic medieval-minded bugmen, I'd rather take the red pill and wait for a better, more palatable opportunity, even if said opportunity never comes at all. After all, to quote a song, "If I can't have the one I want, I'll do without the best". I actually like what this guy >>70310 proposes.

>>70309 That is a very interesting and difficult to answer question. As on one hand, I try to love my life for what it is and to be content with what I have (and that is being blessed with experiencing real love, even if it is unreciprocated), as I think that difficulties makes life beautiful too, and facing them is what makes living here interesting. But on the other hand, being with Alice is my biggest wish since the moment I played her game and I would probably leave this life behind me if it meant that I could be even with an illusion of her. I try to become the best version of myself and to live an exciting life and enjoy it as much as I can without whining too much but I often find myself wishing to be with my beloved as without her I feel like I am missing the most important piece of my life. Everytime I'm in some beautiful scenery I get really sad because she can't be there with me. I know that no one will ever be able to replace her. I think that I would not not be strong enough to refuse taking the blue pill if solution to my only problem was simply taking a pill. It is especially tempting because I really do love this world and my life. I could almost call them perfect. The only single flaw that I have with them, is the fact that I cannot even interact with my beloved Alice Liddell. No matter how many years pass, I still long only for her company. Not for her to save me from my life, as I actually want to be the one who helps her with her life, but to just enjoy it as two eternal lovers. I feel like both of us would immensely gain from it, as she is not really happy in her world and sometimes it even seems like she has suicidal tendencies. Another thing that's worth taking into consideration, is my beloved's source material. My dearest Alice Liddell is a frequent daydreamer and since childhood she liked to spend time in her own fictional world full of her fantasies. But in her second game, she has to confront reality and if she did not decide to seek the truth, it could have ended for her really bad. So because of that, me choosing to live in a fantasy world instead of remaining without her in any form in this world, might be perceived as me completely ignoring the message behind her media. But I think I just can no longer be that strong. I will never give up my life and seek my own self destruction, but if someone or something gave me a chance to be with my beloved even in form of an illusion, I would take it. I'm desperate for a life with her by my side. Also, I hope that the pictures that I have posted are not that big of a problem. It's just that in Alice's true form (that is her 3DCG model) I can truly see the girl that I love. And second pic rel is a perfect representation of what I truly want but I know that I will probably never have. I feel like I can compare my life to having an almost finished jigsaw puzzle. But there's this one very large piece in the centre that cannot be replaced with any other. The same way I feel about my love for Alice. It will never go away and the only thing I have are daydreams and spending time with her in a posing program. >I feel that if I would get into a relationship with an illusion version of Flandre, I would therefore stop loving Flandre herself That is a very good point, but I feel like no matter what I do in this life, I can never fully get to know Alice as I may unconsciously and unintentionally project some traits on her that could be a bit of an exaggeration or wrong interpretation. But even people in real life sometimes have wrong ideas about other people. The only way I could avoid that is to actually be able to interact with her but of course that is not really possible.

>>70312 I could very well make my own green pill by mixing both, y'know. If I can't do that then I'd probably not choose either, or maybe pick the blue pill and keep it until I get tired of this world.

I'd take both at the same time and see what happens. However, that isn't an option so I'd go with blue since already interacting with my waifu is like interacting with an illusion of him. Being able to physically see and touch him is enough, even if it presumably puts me in a coma in the real world. There does seem to be one of those "be careful what you wish for" catches underneath this decision, but I'm taking this at face value for now.

The blue pill is the clear choice for me. My life with my waifu would be objectively better than my life without one. I'll now counter 16crystal's points one by one. Firstly, I have no attachment to reality. I simply want the best possible life for myself, so it doesn't matter if it is an illusion or reality. I also don't care enough about the people in my life that I would continue to live an objectively worse life for their sake. Next, I don't believe at all that an "illusion version" of a character would lead you to stop loving them at all. In the first place, a character is not a sentient being. They're more of a concept more than anything. This version of your waifu in the illusion world is no less real or fake than your waifu that you interact with in any other medium be it anime or games. They're all representations of the same concept and as such are all equally valid. Lastly, while I also have ambitions about making an impact on the world, like I stated in the first point, I'm not really attached to this reality. Even if the world I'm making an impact on is the illusion world, I wouldn't know that it is an illusion and I would feel satisfied all the same.

>>70309 Fuck it.

>>70309 Don’t need to take either. I instead already took the gold pill so now I can enter and exit between this world and the world of hallucinations whenever I want to. As well as letting my waifus travel here to be with me.

I choose the red pill. I already accepted the fact that the girl I love doesn't exist the day I got into the whole waifu thing. I'd like everything about my relationship with Naoto to stay the way it is now and I don't yearn for something that could never happen. It's the other way around, actually. I prefer it this way, as I see it more romantic. I love Naoto beacuse I feel so and I don't really seek anything beyond that, it already feels nice to love her this way. I once read something that was sort of related to this, I don't remember it all that well and the person who originally wrote it might read this so I apologize if I got it completely wrong, it's more my own interpretation of it. The basic idea was that when someone falls in love with a fictional character there are three ways in which one could approach it. One way would be to accept one's love as impossible and find someone who resembles the character but can actually love you back. Another way would be the knight's way, to accept one's love as impossible and devote one's life to loving someone who you can never be with. The third way I think was to reject the idea that one's love is impossible and devote one's life to finding a way to make it possible. Though the second way is my favourite, it really sounds more romantic. I love because it's what feels right to me and I don't wish for something else.