I actually love how, if you have high enough stats, the MC comes up with these absolutely harebrained schemes in battles and they just glance at their companions and said companions just go along with it. If that’s not an indication of them having faith in the MC…well, it appears people’s ways of interpreting characters are more different than I thought.
(If you succeed with the sirens but express lack of confidence about battles when Daelynn asks you to join up, she also goes something to the effect of ‘nonsense I saw how you handled yourself with the sirens! you’re gonna be a good warrior, don’t give yourself so little credit’. It’s the option I picked, so I was a bit surprised when people go ‘she only wants you to come along because your eyes are pretty’ or ‘the characters never acknowledge your success’. So if anything…I feel like the problem here is the author giving us too much variation in response to options/stats, as opposed to too little. And man, I don’t want to look that gift horse in the mouth because I like stuff with insane variation.)
Morkai…remember how Han Solo talked about Luke in ROTJ? “Luke? Luke’s crazy. He can’t even take care of himself, much less rescue anybody.”
Does that mean Han actually didn’t believe in Luke, or that Luke was actually incapable? Or is it just because his character was a gruff tsundere who mouthed off about people he cared about, wanted to look out for people he cared about (and express that in terms of calling them snarky nicknames like ‘kid’ or ‘your worship’ and telling them they need him around in order to not die), and dealt with his anxiety over their wellbeing by being an ass?
Remember how Morkai deals with his concern over Straasa’s wellbeing by being an ass? To be honest, I feel like Morkai’s overprotectiveness over Straasa is just as noticeable as his ‘infantilizing’ of the MC, if not more, because we actually got to see him thinking about it. (If you were talking to Straasa during some of Morkai’s outbursts, it is shown that he’s somewhat tired and exasperated by Morkai overreacting to things [Straasa] can deal with as an adult, but he recognizes it as concern and part of who Morkai is.)
(There’s some merit to the argument of ‘MC is too much of a creep magnet’, but…I think that one is something that’s obviously a YMMV situation from the get go, and Marco’s/the bandit leader reaching out to the MC in the demo should’ve been enough of a clue that said angle is present.)
Anyway, to drop the beating of the dead horse, I finished Straasa’s friendmance! It’s really cute??? And sweet enough that the MC could probably retire and build a sugar factory after the whole war is over lol. And I think the most impressive thing is how well-paced it is. That carved mule scene…and actually the thing that made me go awwwwww the most was how happy Morkai was that his friend was finding someone who proved that his faith in kindness wasn’t in vain. His reaction to the ribbon…
I really want to do their poly now, but will probably save that after I do Morkai’s solo route.
I’m also noticing how many little things change when your playstyle/RO changes, and that’s…just really impressive coding.
Definitely going to the playlist! 
See, even his zodiac fits his personlaity and romance LMAO!
I love vampires and supernaturals of all kinds, so I’m definitely going to expand on the lore for them in-game and show more! As for the MC becoming an equal to Manerkol… Well, you’ll have to wait and see 
Fair warning, though, his romance is up there on the angst scale…
Can’t give away too much, though 
I will say, however, that all hybrids are in fact sterile, so they can’t reproduce their species on their own…
what? Oh no… the horror just by thinking about it and I don’t dare to attempt to do it 
Can’t wait for the next book! Until then, fanart-time it is! 
that werewolf lady deserve the instakill and deserves to burned to ashes. 
her character was well done, and people either hate her or like her, depending on individual preferences 
