Your latest post about romance lockouts has given me the courage to finally send this.
If I do not romance anyone, will I miss out on anything in the overall plot of your story and the Hunter's connection to it?
Right now, with who my Hunter is, I do not see them being capable of romantic attraction/love, hence the ask.
But I hope that my Hunter will still be able to show platonic love. Especially with Noel, who right now is seeing my Hunter at their absolute worst.
(I say absolute worst because there's no way you're going to make it any worse for them, right?
...Right?)
Xir support and friendship has touched both me and my Hunter. I get emotional when they reach out for xem at the start of Chapter 2, just so that they can be held.
So I hope they can tell xem they love them for everything xe has done at some point, for being there by their side, even if it's not in a romantic sense. (I hope I got Noel's pronouns correct as well in this ask.)
no, you do NOT need to be romancing anyone to still get the full story! i have a lot of relationship variables pretty much for this reason - i'm trying to keep track of who the hunter is spending the most time with as well as who they're flirting with. i check for these things in tandem, and i always write non-romantic versions of scenes.
using Noel as an example, since you asked about xem (but this applies basically to all of the one-on-one scenes): what i do is first check to see if you went with xem in Blackwater. only people that went with him in Blackwater get that longer scene at the start of ch2. i then check to see if you've flirted with xem. if you have, you'll get the romantic version of the scene, and i'll check to see how much you've flirted/how you've treated xem and you'll get subtle variations. if you have not flirted with xem, then you get the platonic scene, and if i'm being honest they're really not that different from each other! i check for just about the same things in both. and then, of course, there's yet another variation for people that did not go with xem in Blackwater (and i still, again, run almost the exact same variable checks)
i do this for everyone, and i have various other variables i call on besides just the flirt stat and the blackwater stat, too, like your personality as well as previous dialogue that may have impacted how the character feels about you.
it's important to me for people to be able to experience this game without romance, and is why i like to make sure i have a good balance of both flirt choices and non-flirt choices when interacting with everyone.
while a lot of the focus on tumblr/the blog is about the romance aspect of the game, this is not solely a "romantic" love story. the game is about the characters and their relationships with one another - all kinds of relationships, not just romantic.
when we do eventually get to the romance lock-ins, there will be non-romantic options, too. i can't say for sure the exact format yet (cus it's a while to go) but the foundation will be the same - there will be both romantic and non-romantic options, and they will all be clearly labelled so you know which one you're selecting :-) not locking into a romance isn't going to bar you from any future scenes or any parts of the story at all, the romantic relationship is just one variation of the relationship you can potentially have with certain characters, if that makes sense.
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sorry guys, I dont have the energy to take any new requests today (。-.-。)...zzz i have a few from yesterday that ill post but the rest of em ill get to tmrw
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Okay I need a bit help
I'm a little unsure how to proceed with The Admiral and Khoshekh. I don't want to outright disqualify them, as that doesn't feel fair. I also don't know if I should just put them on the normal brackets, since they are so hugely popular in comparison to the other entries.
I was thinking of making Khoshekh and The Admiral go toe-to-toe on a longer poll (so that would be active for 7 days) and then have the champion go against whoever wins the main tournament. That way we would have the exciting match of two very popular cats, but we would also give the less known names a chance to compete.
Does that make sense to anyone? I'd love any advice or ideas anyone has on if that sounds at all fair!
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