SEMRYU Sem Sem Sem 
I also like Morgana in Guen. I lile all @JimD Romances. The only think i HATE is writter tell me how MY Character feel. Like the Black Magic stuff. I don’t want being forced to be sexual harassing a character I just met just because Writer has in his head that I should romance that NPC because he loves him or her. You want I love X character write a good personality and guion not shoehorned a blood sith mumbo jumbo that makes my character wants to bang her or him for no damn reason. At least give me the name, lol before present a fake choice about his her looks.
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I agree Semryu is the best male love interest/romance in a choice game thus far.
Out of @JimD 's characters I think I like Kyle from “a Wise use of Time” best even though he’s bisexual, and already has a kid, instead of gay. I guess the ex and past just made him feel more real to me somehow, though it may not be appropriate if your love interests are very young (in the 18-20) range or so.
Simon from CoR has potential but that game isn’t quite finished yet.
The same goes for Lord Cassius from the Infinity series, even though you can’t properly romance him (and we may be unable to ever really do so due to in-universe considerations).
Last one I want to mention right now is Damon from Team Zero, I love cute and snarky love interests.
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I follow your point, but. . . .Semryu?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47183494/pics%20charles/edward_sparkling-1.jpg
I seem to remember having to beat off Semryu with a stick.
Though I think I enjoyed Ay-cura. (do I remember she had a darker side?) Think she was one of those interesting npc’s that developed differently through romance. . tho I may be wrong
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How could be a sexy vampire vegetarian? Ah I hate Veggie sparkling too much but He is so hot ahh. The problem is his personality is so terrible goodie emo puppy that i just can’t watch more than 25 minutes of first movie. Oh, my goodness!!!
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My favorite romance in a COG game (hosted game, really) is Finch from Choice by Gaslight. Close behind him are Evelyn Ecstasy from Slammed! and Villeneuve from Choice of Broadsides. I like it when each RO is unique and are at least somewhat significant to the main storyline.
I’m really enjoying what I’m seeing from this game so far and I’m looking forward to playing it in it’s entirety eventually! 
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@nightcap Characters that turn on you.
Say- from like best friend to enemy.
Actually, the gray area somewhere in between is more frightening.
Basically, the base of intimidation is unpredictability.
Things that I don’t know make me will, jumpy. And for some reason, jumpy things interest me.
I know, I have weird taste. 
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Thanks @Sprout, (really enjoyed the swashbuckling romance of @heather’s Gaslight too) I’m hoping then that you’ll enjoy the integration of the Saga’s romance-able characters in the main storyline. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see 
@Silhuetta - interesting scary / interest thing you’ve got going 
Your second sentence does make me think about the detail of the book 2 ‘Forge’ a bit more. You can expect your friends to have very different ideas about the main occurrences through ‘Blood’ and into ‘Forge’, so you may find one or two of your old friends start being less friendly and become - something else.
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But… but, They aren’t my friends. Could I kill them before There notice that I want be a princess?. At least let me kill the plankster guy and the intelligent one. I could manage to make sure the bully one falling in love for me and use as meatball bodyguard.
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Japanese Giant Hornets
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But Japanese ones are peaceful I know it because I knew Honey farmers near my grandma conuntry house.
Just because something is peaceful doesn’t mean it can’t be intimidating.
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BioWare has a long tradition of romance in video games, and I think they do some really clever things when it comes to character development within the romance.
That said, I’m firmly against the idea that love interests exist only to stand at the player’s side, supporting them through thick and thin, but never disagreeing, never falling out, always being made “better” by the player’s love, but unwilling to ask anything in return. A character that exists just to be some kind of eye candy, devoid of personality and ambitions, is not a character whose existence I care for at all.
I spend a lot of time thinking about fictional boyfriends. Let me live. 
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BACK BUTTONS!!
So a major bother for demo readers who are used to paper or ebook reading is that choicescript doesn’t accommodate a back button.
. . .I have not solved this 
- seriously, it’s hard
What I have done is code the Beta (not the demo) to allow a reader to go back to the start of a chapter they have read, or a sub-section they have read in that chapter
Stats screen:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47183494/pics%20charles/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-12%20at%2023.46.30.png
Stats screen chapter list:
(grey options show chapters my reader hasn’t reached yet)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47183494/pics%20charles/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-12%20at%2023.46.47.png
Chapter sub-section list:
(grey options show chapter sub-sections my reader hasn’t reached yet)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47183494/pics%20charles/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-12%20at%2023.47.02.png
. . . are you happy now Mum? . . .
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New - QUESTION OF THE DAY - 
“Maps - how to do them best, and who’s done them best. Or should they be there at all” - 13/04/16
Do you guys and girls want a map in the stats section?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47183494/pics%20charles/map%20example.jpg
H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands by Jason Thompson.
Thanks to @FinalFantasyFreak for contributing to the quality of ‘Blood’ by feeding back through PM.
They raise an interesting point about the child’s name ‘Kos’
If anyone has a bright idea for a different gender-neutral name for Ria’s child it would be great to hear about it.
Sam is quite neutral. But you always can use that hippie hipster names like River, Brooklyn, Montana, Egle eye. … I really don’t care about Kos gender. I suspect that or we are Kos or any one of the guys is Kos. Come on you want it gender neutral. He is now an orfan… Daddy is searching for him her … If he tried to make me her daughter the ria widower will return with Ria soon.
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‘Kos’ or someone may play a part later 
Sam’s nice. .
Hmmm
Just spotted I lost the badge I got for 1k clicks on the demo when I changed the demo path following the save change.
Cog ! GIVE ME BACK MY BADGE ! 
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Yes, I am a Map Staring Expert. As a Grand Strategy player let me tell you, don’t put a nation that is color dark blue on it, as that nation will just be France in a disguise.
Also no Von Habsburgs, as they would instantly rule every kingdom. They are masters of producing heirs of their dynasty for other kingdoms.
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Are we talking Europa Universalis type map-staring here @Zilla Because that’s about how deep I was in virtual reality before kicking the gaming habit in favour of Cog.
The primary concern with doing a map is it’s quality = if there were a football match between my map-making confidence and my drawing ability it would go to penalties, end in a draw, with the managers having been cautioned for verbal abuse and the key players red carded for spurious injury.
I’m not sure what to make of that extended metaphor, maybe because I’m really more of a rugby fan.
Well I know some people who play sport.
Distantly
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Yes, I am an expert at zooming in and out of a Europa Universalis map.
Okay
I’ll record a vote in the yes column.
- I do enjoy a Grand view. But I think in this case if a map is done it should potentially only feature a smallish area (the areas considered in ‘Blood’) so the Two Kingdoms and its borders.
Then next time the map could expand.
I wonder whether something stylistic might be fun though. Loved the Lovecraft above, but too detailed. Still it would be nice if there were a workable example to look at while I experimented. I don’t actually recall any Cog titles with maps . . .
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