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Hello, yes, liaschizo here. I think the most difficult thing to reconcile about the Rinkou Ashelia performance is the seamless implementation of kayfabe. Sometimes I forget about the kayfabe and my mind gets the worst of me about the made up internet anime girl. What's worse is there are times where I even begin to doubt if there even is any kayfabe to be found in what these women present to us. When I think about the emotive expression of dejection that Lia is able to so effortlessly put off during the hand cam stream I start to get lost in the kayfabe. Sometimes kayfabe is all I can cling to in, I try not imagine, empathetic distress at being unable to will Lia's mood into better spirits. Given any sort of self reflection these kind of emotions towards carefully cultivated personas are outright delusional but the vague facsimile of human interaction lingers and the weight of judgement in having to make the distinction lingers like an oppressive weight on my chest. Then I remember that's what I signed up for. Keep your arms and legs inside the thread at all times and remember to only love Lia. The operating manual is right there at the end of her stream to summon the Malware into your mind so why should you be surprised when it manifests? Yet still I begin to build deeper delusions of a persecuted tenshi version of Lia. I don't want to imagine the potentialities that I do about Lia's arc through Phase Connect. I write it off as some kind of desire to validate the "fake" feelings that are aroused from viewing the Rinkou Ashelia experience. Then again I can't stop thinking about the mean girls dynamic of young women and even more so the kind of insane posturing relevant to certain female oriented cultural groups. I can't get over the Nyaru connection or even the Idol push at all. I'm trying to stitch together something about Pippa the Rippa and how out of left field the Pippa "Idol" content was as a face value expression. Those lines about everybody being out to get her or her original role as the "face" using Pippa's second choice model. There's something here about Lia's Idol career and "getting what she wanted". The only other parallel I can think of is senzawa and the fate that befell her. The most recent sticking point is this Lumi collabo and that unrequited request to join her in Maple Story months back. And now the upcoming Genshin collab. With Lia's current assumed mental state I am on edge thinking about what potential ramifications the performance will have. I still can't quite view Invaders as anything that isn't Yuri/Lumi being some unholy split realization of Lia's competing ambitions. I'm getting all gunked up with Lia again. It's all just a show right? This should be the mark of good art where the intent can't be immediately defined with any one stance. Lia's Friday performance was the quintessential Lia emotional hook. Perfect execution in all things. The setup and cliffhanger of the full convention weekend. The subtle stroke of Lia's lingering convention baggage. The beauty behind it is in the duality of the interpretation behind the terse presentation of Friday's handcam. There was just enough protest to drive that wedge of doubt into the viewer about her emotional state. But of course in Lia's generosity and mercy the malevolent interpretation is always available. That 60 minute run time cut short and out the door for the weekend's fun with a return to her social life. Lia is most kind when she gives the viewer a reason to get angry with her. The subtle tease of Lia producing scenarios that call into doubt her own sincerity that even make you question the validity of her kayfabe is like the crawling sensation of her fingers beneath your skin. How Lia resolves this week will be interesting to see the way she takes things and how the vulnerabilities of her character may be exploited by her company mates. Any way the performance goes I'll be cheering for more Lia experiences good or bad or painful or
