Dammit Mara, you’re slandering me with your headcanon again. The game never included a forced kiss, let alone a kinky one.
To repeat myself: I did initially write Breden as someone your character fell in love-at-first-sight with. The MC always had the choice to never act on that crush, and to completely sour on Breden as they got to know xhim better. This has really only been mildly toned down for the published version, where you still recognize Breden as an attractive person, even though you have the choice from the beginning not to be particularly attracted to xhim yourself.
I continue to think that intense-attraction-at-first-sight is not a choice, and happens all the time (to non-ace people) completely independent of the crush-object’s personality. Yes, Breden being attractive is a matter of “authorial fiat,” the same way that the gameworld weather is. And just like in the real world, your MC has the choice to act or not act on an attraction.
Hmmm…no, I wouldn’t say I ever tried to do that. From the beginning I tried to write Breden with a distinctive personality (bold to the point of brashness, overt confidence hiding deep insecurities, etc.). I wanted the character to be plausibly appealing, but not universally so–just enough to help people suspend their disbelief at my decision to write the MC to be attracted to Breden’s confidence and boldness.
Use of authorial fiat in writing MC personality and emotions is of course always controversial, perhaps most of all when it comes to romance. So as noted I toned it down in response to feedback.
Maybe not from you. 
Talking about “the rebellion” slightly misconstrues my intention for the series. 
Game 5 is shaping up to have up to thirty distinct post-Hegemonic factions in play. Three major ones, plus potentially a fourth (that’s yours, depending on whether you decide to go big league), interacting with a host of more localized factions as allies, rivals, sworn enemies, buffers, etc.
The choices you make in Games 2-4 (and plenty of the ones you’ve already made in Uprising) will affect those factions–their strength and morale, their capacities, their attitudes toward you. Or in some cases whether they even survive to Game 5 to trouble you/your rivals.
In short: there are/will be lots of rebellions, and Sarcifer will be a tremendously powerful ally to some of them.