>>38340643Axel due to his lax personality and low energy streams has always sat at the bottom on the rankings for the boys.
Axel also speaks Japanese and live in Australia with family in japan and at some point told the others that he really admires Nodoka's work ethic.
Vesper thought it would be a good idea to early on tell the audience that Axel really likes Nodoka as a bit in order to drum up relevance via shipping drama without telling Axel. It also helped that as Nodoka is not a talent but a office worker and more of an accessory to A-chan than anything there would be less controversy than if it was one of the girls.
In response Axel shot back telling the audience that Vesper liked A-chan but that never really went anywhere.
This shipping got Axel attention from the wider community as it moved him from a literal who into a figure within the greater Cover social web. You know the kinds of fans who don;t watch streams but like to keep up with the talents relationships to each other.
This also led to moments like Axel getting a rely from Nodoka on twitter or her and A-chan showing up for his birthday stream.
This however has had the blowback that Nodoka within the western continuity has gone from an accessory to A-chan to shipping fuel for Axel to the point where the more natural dynamic of Axel and Zeta that has formed has become embroiled in a weird love triangle thing that none of the actual members put any stock into but the reddit and youtube comments do.
