What does 「の元に」mean in this sentence?「白銀会長の元に 承認リクエストが送られます」


This line is from Kaguya-sama: Love is war

> 白銀会長の元に 承認リクエストが送られます

What does 「のもとに」mean in this sentence?

From my understanding of the context, the characters were talking about how to
send a follow request to a twitter account, but I don't know how 「のもとに」affects
the meaning of the sentence.




It refers to someone's side or location. In this case it means the request
arrives at his _location_. My understanding is it suggests that the request
will be delivered, but whether he does anything with it or not is a different
story. That is, it's guaranteed to get as far as his door but no further.

It's a subtle difference, but contrast this with 「白銀会長 ~~の元~~ に～」. Here I
think we can say he 1)personally receives the request, 2)almost certainly
acknowledges its presence, and 3)most likely will at least go as far as
opening/reading it.

I can't tell whether this is intentional, akin to saying "don't get your hopes
up", or if の元に was simply used to be more "technically accurate" about the way
requests work and we shouldn't read into it any further.

