> 夕弦。耶倶矢を「動」とするなら「静」のキャラ **ということで**
> 設定した君だったが、いつの間にか耶倶矢よりもナチュラル中二な上に、肉食なキャラになっていた。

This text appears in あとがき. The writer is commenting on one of the characters
he invented as if he was talking to her. 耶倶矢 is designed to be “active” while
夕弦 is designed to be “silent”.

So how should I understand the bold ということで? Does the で mean “because”? Or it
means “として”?
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Understanding ということで設定した?
Practically you can replace this particular ということで with として.

I cannot really explain the construction grammatically, but you can take this
to be similar to (independent) participle construction in English (sorry I
don't know the proper name for the construction; I mean something like
_Leaving the town_ , he headed for the north) as follows:

First,

  * Xということだ = It is that X.

で makes it adverbial:

  * it being that X

So it is like embedding X as the description of the situation. If this
'theory' is correct, 君を「静」のキャラということで設定した translates literally as _I set you,
it being that you are the static character_ , or _I designed you, your being
the static character_ , which is _I designed you as the static character_ in
more normal English.

As you may be aware, there are a couple of related questions:

  * [ゲストハウスの当番だということで、郷田さんと熊沢さんがゲストハウスまで案内してくれることになった](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/54875/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%A7-in-this-sentence)
  * [なぁに、姉さん。その銃は。 ……私も暴発ということで殺すの？](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/60111/meaning-of-%E3%81%A8%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%A7-this-time)
  * [当面はノーサンキューということで。](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/47731/meaning-of-%E3%81%A8%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%A7)

where:

  * ゲストハウスの当番だということで : Being in charge of the guest house
  * 私を暴発ということで殺す : kill me, it being that it was an accidental discharge
  * 当面はノーサンキューということで（理解してください） : (Please understand) it being that I don't want it for now.
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