Talk:Apophis/@comment-32227274-20190127084700/@comment-27950421-20190222044502

Yandere is a portmanteau of two Japanese words yanderu, meaning to be sick, and deredere, which is defined as strongly and deeply exhausted, infatuated, moonstruck, head-over-heels, or lovestruck, but in this case used for "lovestruck."

The word literally means sick lovestruck.

The word was developed from tsundere which describes a character who is both hard-nosed or moody tsuntsun and the aforementioned lovestruck. The sick portion was added when a new layer of romantic obsession came about beyond normal tsundere (where cool emotions were warmed and nurtured towards awkward, romantic or sexualized tension) where seemingly normal displays of strong and deep romantic love and affection become mentally dilapidated. Common shows of this malformed love include stalking, kidnapping, assault, murder, self harm and suicide.

So no Hound, a Yandere is not the same as her being "thirsty," Yanderes are insane and obsessed. Willing and eager to do anything and everything to get their senpai, and if they can't have their senpai, no one will.