The Commander once calmly shrugged off being caught dreaming about a 5P session, yet in NIKKE's 2023 Christmas event he's suddenly stammering "I'll turn my back" when girls invite him to the hot spring — and players are absolutely losing it.
It all started when the Christmas event story went live and a flood of players poured into NGA's NIKKE subforum to vent. The original poster was confused, saying they'd been browsing the subforum for ages and couldn't figure out what happened, asking someone to break down the drama. It didn't take long for the comments to turn into a full-blown roast session.
**Commander: From Chad to Cuck**
NIKKE's Commander had always been the gold standard for Master Love (ML) gacha protagonists — bold, decisive, and always ready to make a move. The 1st anniversary Red Hood storyline had veteran players hyped. But the Christmas event did a complete 180. When a new banner character literally invited him to take a hot spring bath together, he hit her with the "I was just joking" switcheroo. Even worse, this "just joking" gag got recycled over and over throughout the event until players developed collective PTSD. One commenter roasted: "You're so good at joking — why not just do stand-up comedy?"
The ultimate facepalm moment: when forced to choose between the Black & White Rabbit twins — two popular characters who literally got new skins for this event — the Commander got all wishy-washy about "finding a way to avoid" bathing with them. A viral comment from floor 12 went off: "Bro, one of them was pole-dancing until dawn and came back the next morning, the other was so intimate she literally passed out, and they both want you to be their lover — and you're playing the turtle hiding in its shell?" For context, in Chinese internet slang, "turtle" (龟男) implies a man who's pathetically submissive about romantic situations.
**The Lumi Mystery: Why Is a Faceless Nobody Stealing the Spotlight?**
If the Commander turning into a coward was just annoying, a character called "Lumi" — a faceless, generic mass-produced NIKKE — became the real powder keg of this controversy. This NPC hijacked the entire event from the moment she appeared: the main event story revolved around her, the minigame storylines orbited her, and even the cute bonding side-stories had to include her. Every character in the event pivoted around Lumi, while she herself did nothing but spam ellipses, speak in riddles, and carry a PTSD backstory. A commenter in floor 16 nailed it: "It's like this character is someone's skinsuit." In Chinese ACG community slang, "skinsuit" (皮套) refers to when a creator sneaks their personal self-insert or OC into a work — essentially implying Lumi might be a dev's pet character forced into the narrative.
A player in floor 15 piled on: "You can literally punch through buildings, but you're scared of a polar bear?" — pointing out how the Commander can fight off all kinds of powerful enemies yet was written to cower before a polar bear in the event story, completely breaking his established character.
**New Banner Characters AND Fan Favorites Both Flopped**
Beyond Lumi, the two new limited banner characters were also torn to shreds. One was written so badly that "many Commanders wanted to execute her on the spot," and the character dynamics got locked into a pairing nobody wanted, tanking future reputation to garbage-tier. Even worse for longtime fans, the beloved Black & White Rabbit sisters suffered severe personality derailment, described as feeling "like characters from a completely different game." Floor 16 summarized it perfectly: the Commander's role was entirely stolen by the new banner character — he spent the whole event doing nothing but spamming ellipses and going "aaargh," transforming from protagonist to a literal security camera.
**Community Erupts: Truck Protests and Internal Sabotage Theories**
The rage in the comments was palpable. Floor 9 kept it short: "Just call the trucks" — referring to the infamous Korean gaming community protest tactic of parking LED billboard trucks outside a company's headquarters to broadcast grievances, a move multiple game studios have been on the receiving end of. Floor 16 went even further: "Don't know if a feminist infiltrated the writing team or they just didn't care — verdict: SU still owes us a truck protest." Here, "SU" refers to the game's developer SHIFT UP.
Not everyone agreed with the doom-and-gloom take, though. Players in floors 11 and 13 pointed out that the Commander also gets humiliated in the main story chapters, but players trust he'll "eventually stand up and fight back." The real issue with the Christmas event wasn't getting pushed around — it was becoming literally invisible, watching other characters be lovey-dovey while you can do absolutely nothing. Floor 10 took a more measured stance: "Not a huge scandal, no cuck writing either — just pure impotence."
To sum it up: while this wasn't a morality-level controversy, for NIKKE's core ML audience, turning their Commander into a spineless cameraman while a suspected dev self-insert NPC hogs the entire spotlight was a precision strike on every single pain point. As one commenter put it — "It's a voiced major event, but a ton of people just skipped through it" — and that's the ultimate player vote with their feet.
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