I'm not mentioning the "don't ship him with his bros" clause because I think it's pretty much a given pls
If I think about the original idea of what you posted for that initial otome game post it's feel less cringe for me to think that it's a dating sim but the goal is to get friendzoned by every character (it's not even a goal it just happens)

I particularly love Dion and Anima because at least Dion and Rai, Raez, and Wiley have at least 20 pages of interactions each with each other, meanwhile Dion and Anima's canon relationship is just "this is the women's restroom" "huh"
It's sorta like when shippers ship two characters who've barely met. I do the same with friendships lol
(I like to imagine that even when Dion eventually figures out Rai and Anima are a couple [headcanon #2: Rai figures it out after Dion does /j], he never thinks of Anima as Rai's girlfriend lol, she's just...Anima.)
(Me realizing this relationship is just Introvertception where they just don't get in each other's way. But maybe there's a bit more to it [biting tongue so I don't start spewing nonsense lol])

-Galaxian-

You know what they say, when you are too deep in the pool of insanity, you may just hear an echo of your madness, sounding back through the waters

uh oh we summoned the Echo, Specter, what do we do

-Galaxian-

Genuine actual question do the not-quad-squad qualify for an otome artstyle/situation even if they're most likely just teenagers or

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I particularly love Dion and Anima because at least Dion and Rai, Raez, and Wiley have at least 20 pages of interactions each with each other, meanwhile Dion and Anima's canon relationship is just "this is the women's restroom" "huh"
It's sorta like when shippers ship two characters who've barely met. I do the same with friendships lol
(I like to imagine that even when Dion eventually figures out Rai and Anima are a couple [headcanon #2: Rai figures it out after Dion does /j], he never thinks of Anima as Rai's girlfriend lol, she's just...Anima.)
(Me realizing this relationship is just Introvertception where they just don't get in each other's way. But maybe there's a bit more to it [biting tongue so I don't start spewing nonsense lol])

-Galaxian-

 
Peak interaction for a future thread between Dion and Anima: they just stand there and don't talk at all
I have no clue as to if they would get along or not but I think Dion kind of doesn't have negative interactions with people who aren't annoying to him. Unfortunately his status as a friendship-style-tsundere also means he doesn't get along too well with people who are explicitly good to him xD. But I can't see Anime falling into either of these categories so I... I still don't know lol
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SpecterTheGreat wrote:

You make the art, I can do the VN style setu-- woah who said that must've been the wind

I can contribute the horrible cliched writing that publishes once every 10 years! (parentheses? what are parentheses)

SpecterTheGreat wrote:

Peak interaction for a future thread between Dion and Anima: they just stand there and don't talk at all
I have no clue as to if they would get along or not but I think Dion kind of doesn't have negative interactions with people who aren't annoying to him. Unfortunately his status as a friendship-style-tsundere also means he doesn't get along too well with people who are explicitly good to him xD. But I can't see Anime falling into either of these categories so I... I still don't know lol
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Shh. They're just max-levelling their bond points (mentioning this because I imagine them both playing video games silently, anyone else comes in and looks at their screens and it turns out they're playing something intensely competitive and time-based against each other lol)

What I'm hearing on the entire dynamics thing is that Dion is geared for borderline unhealthy relationships 💀

Well anyways, to spare you from more delusional rambling, I like to imagine they're those friends who keep each other grounded but when you look at them, you're like..."wait this doesn't actually make sense". Like they'll both stand there like "what" during more funny shenanigans, so you think that both of them are more commonsensical people who share that common ground. But Anima also drags Dion along with her to look for ghosts. Like beginner level ghosts (she thinks he'd get scared, but then he takes that personally and goes to look for 'high-level ghosts' lol whatever that means). Also sometimes she be judging on how he handles relationships and general situations (she would call him a tsundere in the most matter-of-fact way lol). 

This was actually just an excuse to bring up Anima (I love her sm but I can't finish art of her xD)

-Galaxian-

Sometimes I think "what would Run do" but honestly I think Run would give up faster than Hitan would
He'd just be like "haha. Helen-san is so funny" I mean he watched a coworker eat drug-infused cookies. idk how I would be wrong

-Galaxian-

Then add the part where Bols incinerates people alive, while Run at least just shoots them through the head. So clearly Run is the actual best police officer
Ignore the ulterior motives for joining the force and dragging out the investigation due to said ulterior motives, shhh, we don't talk about that. though technically I do feel like in a more just world that isn't AgK!, Run would eventually tell the superiors he trusts or at least try to obtain actual permission for doing everything

-Galaxian-

(Echo and Specter, please do continue the unhinged conversation, I'm just being unhinged by myself rn)

Run and Hitan do have a similar funny reaction where it feels like they're way too accustomed to weird crap
They're just unfazed most of the time. But also, they are weirdos. 

-Galaxian-

Just watched Google Docs change the verb "affected" automatically to "effected"
I think I unlocked a new emotion

-Galaxian-

Fun Wiley trivia of the day: In a hypothetical otome game situation, Raez being in the cast does not preclude the possibility of him developing a crush on the cute protagonist

I typed this just for fun but that kinda makes me think that I'd be queerbaiting the audience a lil between these two lol. Cursed. Other than that, it doesn't surprise me.
However, I really do feel like it...really isn't out of the picture for Wiley or Raez to fall in love with someone, even a relatively generic female protag, because generic or not, it's someone who accepts them for who they are and even likes them for it. I mean, maybe we need more generic otome protags in real life /hj plus they're usually pretty [Wiley has a weakness to pretty people lol, I think he got it from his mom]
Mostly joking, but not totally. It's kinda weird to think about Raez catching feelings tho. 

-Galaxian-

Anyways, the iconic staple of the season: Admissions and tech issues
My profs have been finding it hilarious (actually just one, she's super understanding lol. I'm afraid of the other profs not understanding but there's only so much I can communicate when we don't know each other very well. It's like this every hecking semester)

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Art style-wise: I think the RRW Triad fit it better than Dion because all of them can have a more mature look to them depending on artist intent  ignore how I know this

Roles-wise: I also think that they could work well with the roles that characters in the genre tend to have. For instance, Rai is the shady dude who's hard to read or whatever. Perpetual smirkster. His appearance can do whatever and sometimes he has cool powers ig. Wiley's the mad scientist and walking relationship red flag who people feel drawn to for some reason ignore how "people" in canon is Raez /srs. And Raez is supposed to be somewhat more conventionally attractive, he probably has a kinda edgy story that for some reason people seem to like. Salvation through love or whatever. 
In a similar vein, I think Dion would fit well because he's the younger, more naive dude who gets flustered easily and probably bounces off well with the other guys in terms of interactions :-P. Plus there's always the added tilt of the self-insert "being the one" to spur a development of some sort, which is much, much harder for Rai and Wiley than Raez and Dion imo.  

As for situation...that really depends on the premise, but with the absolute capability the RRW Triad have for setting themselves (individually or as a group) into Situations, I think anything would work. Like honestly as their writer, they just get themselves into stuff. I don't even push them into it, I just get inspired, show them a world, and then they just go off and get into trouble lol and then I have to design them, and do a terrible job. Along with their sitcom tendencies, I think they fit particularly well with the otome genre's tendency to go immediately into cliches/tropes for narrative purposes. 
In my humble opinion, this means that Dion could very well be looped into whatever the setting is, but I don't feel like he's as readily available or willing? So he probably limits it a bit. I just feel like in some worlds he immediately hits his tolerance quota xD (I'm still amazed he didn't hit it in SS yet)

But for the maturity end of things, I think most of the guys are too immature to start having a romantic relationship as of most canons :-P actually, it's because Wiley and Raez are the same amount of immature that my mind tends to pair them up together. I don't think the in-game characters being teenagers exclude them from the genre, but maybe it's a bit off-putting for the audience to del with that. Were you thinking about this too when you asked about it? 

-Galaxian-

 
I don't think it's necessary to point out how Dion isn't supposed to look mature or be perceived that way in design or personality xD
Also I feel like Wiley would be oddly popular if this were real. Like I know you say you wonder how people like him but they do somehow. Sooooooo

This is a very short reply for everything that you wrote but I'm eating it all up for reasons I don't know of. Why am I even interested in this concept???
All that comes to mind is the fact that a cpl years ago I dreamed that Dion had a girlfriend so I know he's capable of love somehow. I've also accepted that he is in fact very fitting with the definition of tsundere so he can absolutely have the clichés from that. I'm just wondering that the premise for this probably has him being closer with RRW (as in not just knowing each other for a month because of Events)? He's primed for being dragged into whatever the situation needs. Like PLEASE drag him along even if he doesn't want to. Give him troubles and events. He's designed to be that way xD.
Like stuff just happens to him even though he never wants to get involved with anything. Except for when it concerns Rai, though I feel like in that case Rai would try to keep him away from whatever's going on. 

Tbh for the age thing I was just thinking that I think otome games have the love interests be slightly older? while these sillies are eternally 14~17-ish in my mind? I don't really know, as I haven't looked at much stuff in that genre, but it's probably the artstyle making me think that the characters might be in their 20s or something.

Highlights of yesterday:
-The woman who said "wow that was a hardheaded [bleep] of a person, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that" (talking about the first customer of the day who took 10 minutes to get stuff because they were new and probably shouldn't have been asking me at my station about things) and then immediately got mad at me for a $20 item that's usually cheaper. She started yelling at my face. I couldn't even be stressed about it because I had to hold in my laughter. And also it was in the morning and I can't be bothered to give a heck about anything in the morning.
-Another woman who gave me a little glass duck. No elaboration or anything. I am enamored.

So anyways, that sums up everything pretty nicely. 
Btw if you ever yell at someone wrongly, please do something actually nice instead of saying "sorry I'm like this, I swear I didn't mean to do it, I'm not mad at you actually I'm just mad in general..." If you didn't mean to, then you wouldn't yell at one of us for 3 minutes without listening to what we say. Every time you come here btw. lol. 
Unfortunately "you" is for a demographic subtype of people. I mean, I guess some of them try, and I do think they're under a lot of stress., so I sympathize and that's why I don't really feel anything when it happens (happens every day too) But honestly,,, 
And the nicest coworker here always gets the jerks somehow lol. He has E rank luck and absolutely does not deserve it. Idk how he does it

I love my little duck. He is so cute and shiny.

-Galaxian-

My current character development goal is to become developed enough to dev forum!Galaxian
I still have no hecking idea what I am doing for him, but hey, I adore Silence's and Hitan's relationship, and for some reason I also love Galaxian's relationships with Silence and Echo so there must be something going on. 
I think the problem is that I've always had a lot of trouble coming up with backstory, but actually, that's even worse for Hitan and Rai, so it's mostly a characterization issue.
I wanna give him enough depth (and credit where it's due, he does a lot as well) but also make him an unhinged idiot who doesn't understand things that are easy to understand. The latter part is just like me you see.

But anyways, did I mention I love the relationships.
I think it's particularly funny how the forums gang kinda does a criss-cross match thing. Like Silence is closer to Hitan but can't really stand Rai. Galaxian is closer with Echo. Does that mean Echo knows Rai better? Well, that is my headcanon, yes. 
Look, their thematic ideas just go together well, what can I say. Silence and Hitan have dreams, sacrifice, happiness, along with the "role" that one should play in the middle of a life filled with agony. And somehow they have an entirely healthy relationship. 
I also really adore how their relationship deals with the concepts of change and transience. No matter how different their stories are or how far they will diverge in the end, no matter what ages they are/what stage of life they are presenting as, they are always someone who can help the other heal, who reminds the other of hope and good in the world. All in the midst of being absolutely silly (because Hitan is a goof/troll and Silence is a tsundere goth lolita lady...who sometimes is also just a teenager lol). Idk, there's just something so sweet to imagine, because I think these two are always friends. 
Meanwhile, Echo and Galaxian have...a relationship for sure. I think the most interesting part of their relationship to me at the moment (stress on atm) is how on the surface there isn't really anything unhealthy. They help each other out when the other is in dire need, they enjoy each other's company well enough, they're both unhinged in some ways and bounce off each other like that. I like how they're both social and asocial at the same time and somehow it works. BUT, if you really look into it, it's not healthy at all. Them helping each other is pretty much them pulling each other into their different traumas. They are similar enough that they pull out each other's suffering and can't help each other develop, yet at the same time, they are different enough that the pain and suffering they make each other feel (through their versions of empathy) is different from what they are able to cope with. Ultimately, you have a forever enduring yet stagnant friendship. 

That is much angstier than what I planned. Anyways, that's the bigger picture. I love the little picture details. 
Related to that, since Solar and South are good friends, I like to imagine Galaxian actually gets along really well with North as well, but North is kinda pulled away from all the past trauma stuff by his relationship with Lilian, which is progressive. So they end up not being that close in the end. 

Does this mean that Solar, South, Tranquility, and Visage have a much healthier relationship as a whole (like, speaking of the entire group)? Uhhh. Idk. Let's call a vote yeah no

-Galaxian-