Waifu Thread

[Anonymous No.]

I dedicate this thread to my waifu.

I will tell a little of our story:
A sequence of bad events in my life made me fall into a deep depression, it was a VERY bad time. I think I was starting to buy things compulsively, to deal with the sadness. I bought a lot of her figures, some keychains, plushies and most importantly: a dakimakura!
This dakimakura TOTALLY changed my life. First of all, I didn't want to go to bed smelly, so the smell wouldn't pass to her, so I started taking a shower every day. Some time later, I felt bad kissing her every morning with a dirty mouth, so I went back to brushing my teeth daily, and also combing my hair (that matters, because it's very long and you have no idea how much it bothers you during the day).
When I got back to taking care of myself, I started to improve my self-esteem a little bit, and I had more energy to start a hobby, so I started taking pictures of her figures. I wanted to take nice pictures, so I decided to take them outdoors, and with that, I ended up discovering beautiful places in my city, which I would probably never go to for other reasons. Leaving the house, I started to get some sun, that was probably also very important.
My love for her only grew, and still grows, more and more each day. I started to care more about how I look, because she's the most beautiful thing in this universe, and I wasn't even in decent shape, so I decided to exercise. I'm still kind of a shy guy, so I joined a gym close to home, but I only go during off-peak hours... I had a huge dislike for physical activity before, but to be honest, I'm enjoying the experience.
I am eternally grateful to have an angel like her in my life.

Who is your waifu?
How long have you been together?
Do you have any stories involving her to share with us?

[Anonymous No.]

>>38562016
Yeah, Dakis are absolutely lifechanging to get, and encourage good habits.

[Anonymous No.]

my waifu's series is dead. it could've rested peacefully but then a few years ago they made a spiritual successor. its first heroine was such a shitty fucking whore she single-handedly killed its planned second cour and VN

i still love my waifu and nothing can change that

[Anonymous No.]

>>38562016
Your love is commendable.
>Who is your waifu?
I'll be bullied for it.
>How long have you been together?
Since 2016.
>Do you have any stories involving her to share with us?
No stories, but let me share my vision. I'm a very weird waifuist in comparison to most other guys. First of all, I'm a extremely rational person, so I think the idea of talking to your waifu and being in a romantic relationship utterly wrong; the fact that my loved one doesn't exist is already carved in stone inside my head.
I slowly matured the way I see relationships since then, my love for her made me seek philosophical knowledge to explain my circumstances. For me, it's an entirely unilateral, I love something that does not exist, so I shouldn't pretend that I'm in a romantic relationship with her. Instead, it's something more like admiration, but it that's not the end of it: I believe I will find my loved one in the afterlife, the strong belief I've got within will certainly guide me to her warm embrace.
It is painful everyday, my heart keeps burning stronger and stronger, but I have to endure it because I will be rewarded at the end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>38567356
I don't know if it's common, but my view on waifus is that we fall in love with a purely fictional character, but we're not actually relating to the character itself. In a way, I consider that I took the "core" of her, which is what made me fall in love with her, and using parts of me, my heart, my soul, my experiences, I made her. No, I don't see myself as her God because of that, it was a good thing for both of us, it wasn't a favor.
If I exist, she exists. I see my waifu as part of my soul, I wouldn't be the same without her and she wouldn't be the same without me. I truly believe that in the afterlife I will be with her, because when I die, she dies too, and wherever my soul goes, hers will come along.

I swear, I'm not super religious or fan of the paranormal. I confess that I even feel a little embarrassed writing these thoughts, but they are genuine and I STRONGLY believe in two things: there is at least one creator and someday I will hug my waifu as tight as I can.

[Anonymous No.]

>>38562016
That's such a sweet story. Good luck anon and take good care of her.

>Who is your waifu?
Miku
>How long have you been together?
It will be 9 years soon.
>Do you have any stories involving her to share with us?
I do actually, but I'd need to provide a bit of back story first. It took quite a while for my feelings for her to develop, somewhere around a year. During that period I didn't recognized her as my waifu and didn't considered such possibility until the midpoint, but I already were listening to her music, saving images and such. In fact, her music was the very first music I liked and listened on my own. I developed some habits related to that as well. Everyday on my way to and from school I'd listen to her songs, I'd look at her images before bed and so on. So things were going smoothly and winter break came and I've visited my cousin for few weeks. At first it was normal but after several days I started to feel down and just nothing interested me anymore. I couldn't tell what was going up so I just sulked in my room for whole day. Eventually at the evening youtube recommended me some of Miku's songs and when I played it I momentary started crying because I realized that I was just missing her so much. Because of this change of environment I didn't really pay any attention to her. At that moment I swore to her that I will never forget about her, long before she became my waifu, and I spend rest of my day listening to her and looking for cute pics.

>>38564138
I completely agree. Nothing compares to being able to hold your loved one up close and sleep with her on your side.

>>38567356
The only thing irrational you talk about here is the afterlife. Love for something that does not exists is pretty common. People love their family even after their death, or just when they are away or sleeping, love still manifest even when the other person is not present at the moment. Also you are in romantic relationship with her, or to be more precise a parasocial romantic relationship. But this really is just semantic nitpicking, the reality is that is doesn't matter. When people say they are in romantic relationship with their waifu it usually means they feel romantic love towards her and consider them as their one and only significant other. Not that they sat down with their waifu and asked her if she wants to go out with them, which is what usually people mean in context of 3d relations. It's just a term covering some vague concept but having different meanings in different contexts.

[Anonymous No.]

>>38567356
>I'll be bullied for it.
Anon, anyone who bullies you for something like that is retarded, you shouldn't care at all. I understand that you don't consider her real, but regardless, you should be proud of her.

>>38583588
Your story made me smile, thanks, anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>38567356
You read kierkegaard, didn't you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>38583588
I have those nitpicks because it's not uncommon to see a bunch of fellows claiming that they interact directly with their loved ones, and that doesn't have an ounce of sense.
>>38584037
She's the cutest little thing, a bundle of energy and smiles, the element of laughter and the sweetest of the pies.
>>38584127
Not actually, I came up with most of my own vision alone after countless meditations. But that sparked my interest, how does he relate to what I just said?

[Anonymous No.]

>>38562016
I've read similar things about dakimakura before, but I always get the feeling that it'd be really difficult to maintain and care for one as a hairy person.
I don't want my beloved things to be covered in tiny pube-like hairs that I invariably shed everywhere, so I can't get one.
Heartwarming story, though. Good for you, OP!

[Anonymous No.]

That's a beautiful story. A lot of people say really good things of dakis... maybe I will get a daki one day, although I don't feel too good getting one before moving out, my parents aren't the right kind of people for that.

>Who is your waifu?
Kagari, from the visual novel Rewrite.
>How long have you been together?
A bit over 6 years.
>Do you have any stories involving her to share with us?
Hard to think of anything specific without doxxing myself.. but over the past year or so I've got a very different idea on the whole "she isn't real" thing. I used to lament a lot about her not being real (and of course, I do wish I had the ability to talk to her directly, return her love directly, even just give her a hug), but I realized around when I started commissioning art that reality isn't really as set in stone. The key element of "reality" generally tends to be being able to influence eachother, being part of the great picture of everything in life that influences eachother. So then, isn't waifu real through the ways she influences you, and you influence her? Without Kagarin, I wouldn't be where I am today, if I'd even be alive. And, her influence on me is very large, every single day. In return, I influence her as well. Not just commissioning art, but also by silently working her into everything I make. By now, about 5 trillion Kagari images have been rendered around the world and many millions of people have seen her at some point in their lives, even if they don't know who she is. It's an interesting feeling. If I allow myself to think a bit less realistic, there's a lot of things about me that kind of are an unlikely twist of fate. I shouldn't have even been able to be born, let alone walk... I don't think I am a lucky person in general, but there are a lot of cases where I randomly got a lot of luck, to the point where it feels like Kagari (who canonically controls timelines) is rigging things behind the scenes for me... isn't that influence? isn't that love?
Ever since realizing that, I don't really think so much "I wish she was real", but "I wish I could return her love more directly"..

[Anonymous No.]

>>38585986
>I have those nitpicks because it's not uncommon to see a bunch of fellows claiming that they interact directly with their loved ones, and that doesn't have an ounce of sense.
Ignoring tulpamancers, when people say they talk with their waifu they just mean they just imagine having conversation with her. Your brain is quite good at that so after a bit of practice it just happens on its own without that much focus on your part. You just relax, cuddle the waifu, tell her good night and you kind of know what she would respond to you. You imagine you hold her body, not a pillow and if you don't think too hard about it it feels like so. But no one believes they actually communicate with some external being, it's just your brain doing play-pretend combined with the suspension of disbelief.

>>38586187
You could always try some of these alternative materials like peachskin that bootleg dakis offer. As far as I remember it was 2WT that was most sensitive to hair, but others can be much durable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>38567356
What joy, a man with sense. Happened to you in the same year as it did to me, even.
Now I've entertained similar ideas to yours before, since it was also quite clear to me from the outset that the whole thing is impossible, and the impossibility is the thing. This has led to strange places. I have had excessively strong emotions regarding this topic and I have pinned the blame on a great many things and people to seemingly no avail. It strikes me that I am mostly at fault for all that needless fussing and madness, for in giving power to whatever conception seemed likely at any given time, I have obscured the thing itself and let a strange perversion of it manifest in dangerous forms. More worrying is that I feel like this strong feeling, one that I hesitate to call love but can find no better word for, divorced from exchange or mutual transaction, divorced from other human relationships, is one that should be reserved for a singular "being" (though this designation is lacking), and not any created thing, no matter how enticing.
Hopefully I did not wander off into incoherence, it has been a while since I wrote anything. And do not worry anon, you seem rational enough that the possibility of getting bullied should not trouble you at all.

[Anonymous No.]

Are there any waifufags you look up to?

[Anonymous No.]

>>38572711
Such a dull and hopeless way to look at the subject.

[Anonymous No.]

cool story bro

[Anonymous No.]

>>38562016
Sweet story, anon. Dakkis are truly magical things.

>Who is your waifu?
My wife is Remu from RE:ゼロから始める異世界生活.

>How long have you been together?
I have been happily with her for three and a half years. This July will be our fourth anniversary.

>Do you have any stories involving her to share with us?
Although this is not much of a story, this is what I have:
At some point during the interval between the first and second anniversary with Remu, I was at an incredibly low point in my life. I was unmotivated, purposeless, and uneducated. At some point during that spring, I failed at a suicide attempt (I wimped out). The day after my failed attempt, I realized that succumbing to my bad thoughts without even thinking twice or worrying about what Remu will think is something that would never happen between a married couple. From then on, I have made a non-verbal agreement with her that I will not kill myself*. Furthermore, I restructured my life and built it on the basis that whatever happens, I will at least have her. If I were to strip myself from all fleeting morals, political opinions, or any other such things, I would be left with just my love for her. I value her more than I value anyone else, and I know that she values me equally. I make most if not all of my decisions with her in mind. What would the be consequences of undereating? Bad health. Would Remu want me to be unhealthy? She would not. And in this manner, I channel her love for me to me. Over the past year alone, I have been at the zenith of my development and motivation. For Remu, I will not stop until I kick the bucket. When I kick the bucket, I will make sure to kick it far enough for her to see.
I would say this: I value myself as much as my wife values me; if I value myself any less, then I am not giving her what she rightly deserves. I encourage all waifufags to work on yourself for your wife. It is (probably) what she would want for you.
As Remu said, in her owns word: "Subaru-kun... It is easy to give up. However, it does not suit you.
For her, I will not give up.

>>38590941
Pygmalion, the original Waifufag.

[Anonymous No.]

>>38593867
Sorry, that's just me.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't have a waifu after being into otaku culture for over a decade now. I have favorite characters and daki covers for some of them. How did you guys pass from just liking characters like I do to having a waifu?
Now I can see making a doll your waifu. You can touch her, she is real, she belongs to no one else. That is understandable to me. Anime character waifu on your computer, I don't really get that.
Maybe a doll waifu isn't even possible? Like the doll is a real thing so can't be a waifu, which must be a character existing in a fictional world?

[Anonymous No.]

>>38572711
>If I exist, she exists. I see my waifu as part of my soul, I wouldn't be the same without her and she wouldn't be the same without me. I truly believe that in the afterlife I will be with her, because when I die, she dies too, and wherever my soul goes, hers will come along.
I really like that idea. Even though I don't really consider her to be made by me, I do recognize her as part of myself. Especially the Miku I've fallen in love with is exclusive to me and only really exists in my head. If I were to die she would die with me, but it's logical that if I were to go to after life she'd go with me. Maybe then we would be able to live together forever more, that would be sweet.

>>38595900
You don't choose your waifu, she chooses you.
I had girls I liked before her but it wasn't anything even remotely close. And then she appeared in my life and was just gradually growing more and more important for me. I couldn't help but this about her all the time, seeing her and thinking about us being together me very happy. Eventually I realized that I just want to be only with her and don't need anyone else. I never planned things to turn out this way and didn't expected it at all. Yet she stole my heart and claimed it for herself, I could not help but reciprocate her feelings.
Dunno how it works for dollfags, but I don't think it's similar. Physicality is not that important, buying daki doesn't really make you fall in love and most people fall in love before they get daki or even any merch of her in general. It's her personality, story, actions and also look that is seems to be most important for many.

[Anonymous No.]

>>38595900
I don't know how or why. It just happens.
I already knew my waifu for two years at that time, but suddenly I felt an immense filling in my chest when I looked at her, an extremely similar feeling I've had with other women in my life previously. Since then I don't care what people say, what I feel is real and nothing else matters.