>>10382529Well, that and, let's be honest, we also didn't really have much of the necessary personell in EN before to make this work convincingly (i.e. people who can dish out good bantz, people who can take bantz well and retort). It has gotten better over time with gen1 finally finding some chemistry, and gen2 bringing new varieties in, but the first few months were painful sometimes. Since this is the Kiara thread, I'm sure many remember how many times she tried to liven up group collabs, only for her attempts to fall flat with her wet blanket genmates, and earning her a worse reputation than if she just had more extroverted talkers to bounce off of and respond, so she doesn't have to carry conversations alone (which can come off as domineering).
Also as for kayfabe rivalries, I don't know. As much fun as the thought would be if you imagine it working well, in reality it most likely wouldn't work as well as one thinks. We just came out of a manufactured kayfabe relationship, and we saw how well that (didn't) worked. You'd need two special people to pull that off convincingly, and I don't know if we have them in EN (maybe with gen2, I don't know them well enough yet, but some of their senpai-kohai interactions have shown the potential for fun teasing, it helps that some of them can actually bantz back).
And yeah, beyond all of that hangs always the specter of having to dead with a retarded fanbase who can't take the joke and make serious drama out of it, thus you have to abort any fun prematurely before it gets out of hand.
