I know what you mean! I’m aware that having story-set childhood/best friends can make people automatically dislike said character or make the players unsatisfied, so I tried my best to make Drew as appealing as possible.
I still have a lot of work regarding Drew (as it’s not the last time you’ll se them!) but I fear that if I give them too much personality they’ll lose likability. It’s not like a RO, that if you don’t like them you can forget about them and move on, but a really central character that ought to motivate players to avenge them. Another idea I had was to give the player the possibility to harbor a crush on Drew, but that would be too cruel, no?
Please don’t force yourself! I’m very happy to see you love it, but I understand that going through the prologue and chapter 1 over and over can get dull After chapter 1 is finished, I’ll make the option to skip to Chapter 2 (with some choices to give context) and so on every few chapters.
Yeah, absolutely! I usually let the players pick a lot of things, like skin tone, hair length and color, eye color and clothing style. You’ll be able to pick an original last name and then another one, since for story reasons the MC changes their surname and take Eddie’s (you can choose both).
@Flinx I see what you mean I f you don’t mind about a bit of spoilers, I’ll tell you and @Fay what I was thinking:
The MC can get into an argument with someone who opens Drew’s coffin to take a look at their corpse, because they wanted to know what they died of/the state they were in. Morbid interest at its worst.
More than a jab to Drew, it reveals the worst of people.
The scene is mean to show that Drew isn’t human anymore; they are just entertainment, something to talk about (rather than care/worry about), made to be consumed and thrown away when it (the novelty) gets cold. Not even relatives are exempt of that behaviour. I know that not all families are like that and they can care about distant relatives, but the story has a dark view about the world, painting a lot of things negatively, specially people (and mass media).
That’s was my idea, but I totally see your point. That’s why I’m having doubts about putting it or not, what do you think?