YMMV / Rythian

• Adorkable: Is usually less so than certain other members, but even Rythian had his moments. He also tends to geek out about things when playing games in any franchise he has a history with and it is priceless.
• Tearjerker:
  • His response to a fan's post about how proud they were that although people were surprised that his IRL appearance as Joakim "a regular dude with dark-blonde(brown?) hair and beard, glasses, and on the chubby side" was to the character of Rythian ("'tall, dark and handsome' [...] intimidating figure with chiseled features and mysterious aura"), they showed him their support and love.
    Fan: "Can you imagine what that must feel like for Rythian, who whole-heartedly supports any and all forms of fan-made content (being in creative writing influencing his view on fanfics, fan art, etc. by welcoming it with open arms heck he even uses tumblr on a fairly regular basis, reblogging and commenting on posts he’s been tagged in), to have to live up to those expectations?"
  • Joakim also shared how hurtful it was for him to read comments like "Oh, he's just some guy" and "lol he pretends he’s this cool guy but in reality he’s a 500 pound fatass":
    Joakim: First of all, I’m nowhere near 500 pounds, but second of all, you have to realize how that makes you feel. I felt that I had to hide myself. And I had to not show pictures of myself because I would be disappointing people. I started wondering if people ever found out what I looked like, it would reflect negatively on me. People would stop being interested in me, people would stop saying “omg rythian is so hot”. People would not want to watch me anymore, or care about what I think. So I just didn’t do those things. It felt nice to hear people to talk about me as if I was attractive. For over half my life, I have never ever really truly believed that anyone really found me attractive. At all. Any girlfriends I’ve had, I never believed them when or if they said they thought I looked good. I always thought they were just being nice. They were with me DESPITE what I looked like. So if I had a choice, I would hide myself. I felt better just talking to people via voice or text. It took a lot for me to get past that. And to “show myself”. A lot of it is because of my lovely girlfriend of three years (I love you), who’s slowly convincing me that I’m not disgusting, that I can actually be really, truly attractive to someone.