Yep, I loathe this, especially when the text is skewed so far towards “see how awesome this RO is???” that the character becomes cartoonish. Blech.
Along the same line, I hate it when authors seem to try to discourage trying certain routes or are repeatedly derogatory about certain ROs. It doesn’t make me hate the RO, it makes me irritable with the author.
Well, What can i say.
I suppose those are the qualities of a person that originates from the shadow realm (Was it different? I like my version a tad better if so), being happy and over-bearing to live in the modern world and hell, might be the peak of life with the detective around. And yeah, I get your final line, but that’s your perspective. As others commented, they actually like those characteristics (I personally don’t mind em, quite the opposite.) anyways, yeah. Every RO has a bad characteristic, in this case Characteristics but like every realy person and basically fictional, there are flaws in everybody’s eyes,always differ from eachother.
Oh…my…gooooood! 
That’s pretty spot on roasts actually.
Recently read “checkmate in three moves” and i absolutely hate Jareth. First time i read it, i just avoided him like the plague. Cut off any interaction with them. Second run, I gave it a chance, just to see if i can have a halfway decent convo with him and…no, just no. He gets way too much under my skin. I am boiling, seething in rage. I hate him so much, i am in tears. He’s the most unpleasant character i have ever come across. Some hostile/rude characters in IF have a more “highschool” way of being rude which is annoying, but it feels more akin to a fly buzzing incessantly into your ear. Jareth tho… he’s breaking skin. i become even more pissed because his execution is flawless. He’s just the king of cutting remarks.
Rohan from project hadea also makes me sprout horns. I hate xem so much, im so glad i can lash out in different ways with xem. Everytime they get into my field of vision, i am seeing red, and feel the urge to beat them up. I just, cannot deal with xem. Plus they’re so mouthy, u know? The type to always want to have the last say in an argument, dont test me! Im barely restraining my rage! Ughhh. The “incident” that they did to MC is way too unforgivable to me
Just one question …
Did you kill Rohan?
As for Jareth, I actually like him, or rather the interactions with him. My MC is total stoic type, they are always calm and don’t react to Jareth’s taunts. But he still doesn’t give up! 
Oh, man, don’t you see MC doesn’t give a shit? 
What do you actually want?
Tho I think they would even be interesting couple. I would choose him if Sailor wasn’t my main and beloved RO.
Ah, see here’s my unconventional tastes showing again, because I adore both of these guys.
Especially Rohan… 
I enjoy messy romances, and there’s messy, but you don’t often see non consensual brain surgery messy. I especially like the dynamic with an operative that’s also pinning over Nash. Just delicious parallels in there.
Yes haha. That probably makes me sound horrible but i literally did that on my first play through bcoz i cannot stand him.
Oh man, I don’t know what’s up with jareth bcoz i am a stoic person irl but he just knows how to push my buttons so well. He just oozes audacity.
I did it too 
But then I felt uncomfortable. I mean, I hate them as much as you do - not only because they did MC what they did, but they also have extremely annoying personality, every time they opened their mouth, they made me want to scream in frustration and rage…
But when I killed them, I felt bad. It reminded me of some kind of execution :v Rohan was defenseless and the scene seemed very drastic to me. Actually, I didn’t believe that the author would really let us shoot them.
See, i like messy too! Like Noir messy, jun messy, etc. But i draw the line on tricking me and doing non con surgery on me. Not to mention, i lost a friend too. IVI was a partner and a friend as well.
I felt pretty bad but ONLY because of rhaxa, they did plead for me not to endanger their friends (i never agreed with it, and said so openly, but still, im not heartless) so i reloaded and had to settle to punching them but he just HAD to say something to tick me off when he was being carried away so i reloaded again and beat the crap outta them
Very fair.
Thinking on it, most of my favourite romances are from horror media where impromptu surgery is basically a first date, so that might be influencing my thoughts here.
Also, my main priority when playing games with a heavy roleplaying element is usually to have my character make the worst decisions possible - and I definitely think that continuing to be attracted to Rohan after what they do fits that criteria!
As a preface, they’re not someone I had remembered for this thread and didn’t expect they’d come up since it’s not a CoG story, but I fucking loathe them. There can be characters that are petty assholes, and I don’t really wish harm upon them, like Javi. Rohan is not that character. They are utterly despicable and I hold only contempt and hatred in my heart for them even knowing they may not be entirely bad. They still fucking drugged you and preformed impromptu surgery to steal your AI “friend” (who functionally screamed as she was ripped out), potentially after sex or potentially in a dingy alley. Then they have the gall to say that they don’t regret the action, just mildly tiptoing around saying maybe it was cruel how they did it. I don’t think there’s any RO that I hate more. Even fucking McCready in Monsters is better to me, and I’m at least attracted to the person underneath Rohan (and they’re actually compatible with my sexuality). That single action is beyond redemption to me. Each of the layers individually are bad, but all together? Ugh.
So, for that choice. I know it’s fully my fault since I hadn’t gotten up to there yet, but I’m a bit annoyed it got spoiled for me. It still had the impact I was expecting, though. Maybe it’s because they are a major character, maybe because it’s seemingly early and fairly sudden, but it really feels like I killed a real person (and not one wholly deserving of it). Obviously the writing pushes that angle, the reality of it, but I knew even just seeing the option here that it would be like this. I did choose to kill them. I think I will always choose that. But, it makes me very uncomfortable. I think I would feel the same killing someone in reality (again, assuming they don’t entirely deserve it; my morality has lines where I won’t give a shit past). They nearly had me with the almost-apology, but it wasn’t even close to enough, especially since they’re back to being the same annoying little fuck immediately afterwards. Maybe don’t keep antagonizing the unstable black ops super soldier chick (who now has a plasma rifle) who’s first action upon seeing you after your little stint is viciously strangling you until being wrenched away, despite being half dead and trying to escape an invasion? I dunno, I feel like that’d probably end badly. And it did. Uncomfortable as I may be, I currently will stand by that choice.
Hope I can get IVI back alright without them.
Fuck. I hope Joia takes it okay, that Rohan won’t be playing cards with her anymore. I just thought of this and now I feel shitty and am teary eyed ;-;
Also fair. I am in no way, judging people for their tastes, i just needed to rant bcoz i was honestly beyond pissed off after reading those two ifs, back to back.
Sidenote, have you played through (minors dni!) boyfriend to death ? The toxicity is top notch lol
Well, ranting about ROs you hate IS what the thread is for, so if you had to do it anywhere, may as well be here!
Agreed!!! Irredeemable is what i would call the incident. I srsly did not care one bit about that apology. I wish i had the option to even say I don’t accept the apology.
Wow… I am glad there are people who think similarly 
On Tumblr, a lot of readers seem to like Rohan, and I haven’t seen any critical comments about them 
I’m curious about the consequences of killing this character. But so far in the main route I chose to beat them (hard) in the hope that later they will be more careful what they say to MC and maybe I can force them to help get IVI back…Yeah, yeah, unlikely, but maybe there will be some benefits to letting them live? 
Certainly cannot imagine romance with such character.
What game is this? I seem to not be able to find it.
Here I come, ranting about Mason.
I decided to scratch my nostalgia itch - I vaguely remember being obsessed with Wayhaven at a wee ripe age of fifteen to the point of making a detective for a bunch of romances and thus I decided to try it, again. I remember liking Mason, so I decided to try him. I’ve created the stubborn diligent gloryhound because I thought it would work as a case of opposites attract.
It was a mistake on my part. I quickly realized that he and Adam irritated me so much I could barely imagine them working together with my detective as a team, much less a couple. I hated their lack of subordination, better than you attitude, constant smugness and naughtiness and my detective having little to no ability to respond in kind. I like nasty ROs, Wakefield and Hawkings are my favorite romance, but without the ability to respond in kind these romances fell so flat for me they’d cracked the asphalt.
The main appeal in these for me is equal treatment, back and forth, ability to be on the same level. I hated the fact that flirting with Mason made my MC essentially a damn doormat. I hated the fact I can’t react to his behavior negatively aside from several jabs and the change to “omg, I love him” came both too quickly and without much realism. Mason felt both irritating and boring to me, a pastiche of bad boy stereotypes stuck in a body of a man with a greek accent. I also happen to despise smokers, so it also wasn’t a point of attraction - in the end, I just felt really dissatisfied with the whole book one romance. Maybe it’ll get better in book 2, but I genuinely felt tired of Mason’s bullshit.
tldr: archetype of bad boy is boring in Mason becauss of the lack of equality and banter between MC and him, I’d rather romance Jun again.
I saw in a previous comment the name “Project Hadea,” which apparently isn’t on this site, but I don’t know where to find it, so I can’t help you there.
Project Hadea - Project Hadea by nyehilism