Why Klee?

You start playing a gacha game. First mistake, I know, let's get past that. Anyways, you start playing a gacha game. It hooks you immediately. The gameplay is fun, the story is actually kinda interesting, and the mechanics involving the combat piques your interest as you enjoy a nice mix of skill, strategy, and weird convoluted matchups and damage combos that you can make. For some people, that's why they enjoy certain JRPGS. For some, that's why they like card games, board games, hell, even cooking when it doesn't come to games. (don't tell me that chemical reactions aren't neat.)

But one particular strategy and set of in game matchups and combos gets your interest. The timing and the actual units that can take advantage of the strategies needed for those combos are perfect with your already existing muscle memory.

"Okay, cool, but where does Klee come in? She's a shit unit."

Well... I got her when she released first. Benched her, used Xiangling, but something about the idea of applying just pyro started eating at me. So... I started using Klee. Upon getting her C1 the day her banner was about to leave, I realized that she was... actually a really good unit for how I played the game. I wasn't one to sit there, go over each unit and try to pace myself. I sit up in the enemies face, abuse the hell out of I-Frames (invincibility frames), and enjoy taking advantage of her pyro application.

"Okay, but still, why her as a waifu?"

To be fair, because I use her so much. She was my first and primary main. Every team, for the most part, if she could be on it, she would. She fits so well with my playstyle that I constantly use her. Even to this day, over four years later, she's in my teams. And when you grow attached to a character, especially one that has quite a bit of love by the developers, you can't really help but get interested in them. Mind you, there isn't anything particularly skeevy going on with my attachment, in my opinion.

As a character, her english voice and translation doesn't catch her cute charm. Though, she is one of the better characters with regards to the translations for the game... But in general, her appeal outside of gameplay to me is the fact that she falls in the basket of tropes of a budding powerhouse. She's already strong lore wise with her bombs, and she's a daughter of one of the most powerful characters in the lore of game. Personally, that group of concepts are some of my favorites. Young character, born to be strong and powerful, showing that immense strength despite everything... Reminds me of some of my other favorites that I've loved since I was younger.

"So... is it romantic...?"

That's complicated. The way I would describe it, it sounds romantic, but that word doesn't fully fit in my brain. I feel similarly with a multitude of things, but I'm also autistic, so I suspect that my infatuation could be simply crossed wires of a strong interest and a similar romantic feeling that one may have towards objects, towards concepts, towards songs, or other non-human things. Fictional Other and Yumedanshi feels the best with regards to describing my interest in her, but I'm sure that if I was neutrotypical, I may not feel similarly.

I do chalk it up mostly to me being a fictophile, so it could also be that. Regardless of semantics, I consider the feeling enough to consider her my Fictional Other. Past that, I feel as if any of my rambling thoughts could get misconstrued as delusional justification for abnormal feelings.....

but we all here are writing about our fictional others, so I doubt any of this can be judged as too strange or extreme.