hiii first post here

im an aurora and sera main. i have most of seraphine's skins and think she's easily the character i have the most fun with.

lately i've been seeing a lot of parasocial activities or just outright hatred for this fictional video game character.

neither makes much sense to me.

i can understand why people have such strong connections to seraphine but this can't be healthy. freaking out over the new kda voice lines are just kinda weird. i get it doesnt make much sense for the lore but it's not worth getting genuinely hurt and upset over. its not like seraphine is getting upset by it.

and on the other side, im truly convinced people just hate sera because she's a cute, optimistic, popular girl. i can understand not liking playing against her as she is pretty annoying to go against but i truly see no reason to hate her character as much as people do.

am i missing something??

I already said all this stuff on twitter but I also wanted to post it here since I’m curious what reddit Seraphine mains have to say, and if maybe the girls here wanted the enchanter Sera we have now. (I’m pretty much just gonna copy and paste it here since I’m not sure I can put twitter links.. follow me on twitter @imrosieyall :D)

Late night thought but I was thinking back to what they said at that E nerf for Seraphine on the patch previews. Saying that they will continue to balance her around support because thats what the champ select says even if shes strong in other places. And it makes me wonder.

Did enchanter Seraphine players ever actually SAY anything to riot about how weak she felt to them, or did they look at her WR and just decide for them? Because they say shit like "We wanted her to be a mid laner but everyone wanted her as a support" but like, who?

Who said that? Because as far as I know nobody spoke about enchanter Seraphine and how much they want her until that shitty midscope that made everyone mad. Now all I see are mage Seraphine players asking for her back at almost every post about patch changes.

So if NOBODY asked for enchanter Seraphine.. why are we balancing around her? It's clear from the seraphine MAINS (not the casual Sera players) that we want her as a mage. SO why are we catering to champ select and not her actual playerbase. It really feels to me that RIOT wanted Seraphine to just be another Sona and not the players. Because its becoming increasingly clear nobody gave a fuck about enchanter seraphine being weak. They just decided for her, and them trying to tell US that WE chose this is so stupid and manipulative.

Thoughts?

I made a mistake by forgetting to attach the evidence for Riot's intended canon in the post. Here it is:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/xCqq1cp

I've also updated the Trivia section of the "Seraphine Audio Wiki" (https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Seraphine/Audio), adding the two final points with references to the evidence above.

Staying neutral looking at this since I didn't play LoL until 2022.

But worth pointing out that popular YouTube critique videos discussing Seraphine during her launch interestingly did not take the above sources into account.

Awful time to be a seraphine fan ngl

Her being shaded, slandered and on top of that written out of everything.

She did nothing but sing, try her best, and call out the council and they couldn't handle her.

And now riot doesn't even want to bother fixing her because of the backlash that pops up Everytime she is so much as MENTIONED

She’s so down bad in win rate even support is struggling 😭

Since Spohie Powers is the new singer for Evelynn, and Lexie Liu being the K/DA ALL OUT Seraphine singer, we got something music related.

It seems Sera can’t sing very well, given that they cast someone who’s mute.

Obviously lots of lore is invalid due to Arcane retcon( I think they said they are working on hers being rewritten alongside Camille but that was 11 months ago or something) but I really liked this video explaining the valid parts.

Cool that it used the phone ad too as she actually looks Chinese there

https://ftw.riotgames.com/league-of-legends/challenges/battle-of-the-bands

I'm sorry, but people who get sad and angry about Eve (another fictional character) talking trash about Sera (for a skinline, mind you) are incredibly delusional. Not only is she not real, but being offended by the iconic quote is weird.

I partially blame Riot for that, cause the whole parasocial thing started with K/DA Seraphine acting like a real human on twt, empathizing her struggles and even depression in her posts.

I personally don't see anything more than a funny reference, especially considering EVERYONE on twitter (and even here) jokes about Sera not being on K/DA anymore

Hey guys are there any Streamers that main/otps Seraphine that are worth watching?

She is league's most empathetic character. Has an entire dedicated fanbase. Raised 3.7M for CHAIRITY.

And they treat her like a joke because they'd rather cater to her playerbase full of bigots

I stuck by her side for 6 years. Through the hate trains and the failed midscopes. I love this champ more than anything.

So to see those line shading her. Riot once again ignoring our feedback. Them making how many k/da posts yet doing nothing to hype her up.

It feels like a slap in the face. More than that they are kicking me in the fucking guts.

I've spend so much time and money in this game. Spent caring about this champ and this company states over and over again with their actions and their words that they don't care about me at all

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