Still in Love is a yandere character from the video game series Umamusume: Pretty Derby.
Background[]
She is madly in love with her unnamed trainer/the protagonist.
She is an umamusume, a horse girl. She trains with the protagonist to race against the other umamusume and as the two spend time together she begins falling more and more in love with him.
Deredere Feats[]
- She always blushes and acts cute around her trainer.
- She feeds her trainer an ice cream on their date.
- She paints her ring finger red in hopes that she will get married to her trainer someday.
- In the ending of her story, after realizing that her mental health is causing issues for her trainer she decides to quit training and runs away. Although nobody is able to find her, after the trainer begins desperately chasing after her he is able to find her. She tells her trainer that she doesn't want to return and after noticing that she is cured of her insanity he decides to run away together with her. They both live happily together and get married.
Yanderu Feats[]
- Her victory pose after winning a race is to make the iconic "yandere face" as she holds her face and sickly admires her trainer.
- She seductively licks her painted ring finger while looking at her trainer hinting at her possessive nature.
- She stares at her trainer with a sickly lovestruck expression and begins obsessively repeating "I love you! I love you!" twelve times in a row, before stating that they are destined to be together.
- As her story mode progresses the game menus slowly start to become distorted and the screen slowly begins glowing red, showing her slow descent into suffering from mental health issues. This feature was considered possibly disturbing by the developers so the feature can be turned off in the settings.
Gallery[]
Still in Love making a heart for her trainer
Still in Love looking at her trainer
Still in Love holding flowers for her trainer
Still in Love making a heart for her trainer
Still in Love looking back at her trainer
Still in Love staying at an inn with her trainer
Still in Love getting shy and blushing at her trainer
Still in Love lovingly smiling at her trainer
A visual representation of Still in Love's inner struggle
Still in Love's victory pose
Still in Love's victory pose
Still in Love's lovestruck victory pose
Still in Love about to confess her love
Still in Love repeatedly confessing her love
Still in Love telling her trainer they're destined to be together
Still in Love's devote my love screen
Quotes[]
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Trivia[]
- Her portrayal as being yandere in the game is based on the real life race horse in Japan with the same name, Still in Love. The real life Still in Love was very attached to her trainer and around the time her trainer's wife began showing up to races her mental health began rapidly deteriorating. She would only let one person ride her and also showed aggressive impulses towards those who weren't her trainer making her difficult to work with. Her trainer even joked that they would run away and elope. This lead to many Japanese fans to joke that the horse was yandere for her trainer.
- However, in actually this was merely a coincidence and her mental health suffered as a result of poor genetics from inbreeding, leading her to have to retire early. This fan created lore likely inspired the character's portrayal in the game.