Wow. I never realised sleepy ass, eye-bagged Matthew was built like that. Maybe it’s just due to enabling his masochism, but his route feels even more passionate than Raven’s lol. Crazy I like him more than a yandere.
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Hmm so we have option for poly here?
Pretty sure it’s no at this point they said.
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Built like what exactly?
Assertive. Intense. Protective? Honestly I was just expecting him to be chill and sleepy, and instead he flirts, tries to get you to beat him up a little and sleeps with our MC right after their date.
Oh, and on top of all that dude is OP as hell.
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I wonder when the next update will be, really can’t wait for it 
The thing is, both siblings are assertive and intense. M can even show signs of possessiveness if pursued romantically while P tries to keep the MC away even as they slowly show that they don’t dislike them (more like, not feeling worthy of affection? Or that showing affection themselves will make them soft?). Doesn’t help that their dad says that the MC would be better off spending time with M right in P’s face.
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A small error in the current demo stats screen:
*if discoveredsuperior
//...
*choice
*if (scheduleapp = true) #Scheduling App
The *choice command is nested one level too deep, which causes the schedule to only be available after the royalty asshat gets added to the rooster, instead of being available from the moment the game states it was enabled.
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Was just updated 13 days ago
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I mentioned this during the previous update but I’m really wondering exactly what happened with Raven and the guards. Because the most obvious answer is “they tried to arrest someone with known homicidal tendencies and were promptly butchered”, but I have a few concerns given what we know on Raven’s route. Full disclaimer, I only played the route where you’re trying to rehabilitate them, not the route where you go nuts.
- Raven enjoys violence, and especially carrying out violence for our sake. I’m not sure how much that translates into enjoying violence for other reasons, it’s possible they’re simply indifferent to it since it doesn’t involve us. But nonetheless they’re quick to resort to violence in circumstances where it wouldn’t even occur to most. See: the book burner. Normally this would purely be evidence against them but bear with me here.
- Raven is aware their tendencies upset people, and in particular on their route, they get very distraught if we seem scared of them. They want to change so that this stops being an issue. And on the rehabilitation route at least, they seem very distraught after having killed the guards. They apologize and beg forgiveness.
- Finally, there’s Hoft, who’s revealed himself to be a fair bit more ruthless than your average college professor, and states that if you don’t find Raven before the guards, he’ll have her executed. The guards were answering to him directly.
So, that leaves us with three possibilities that I can think of, and some potential questions each raise.
- Raven failed to rein in her impulses and killed the guards. The horror came after because we saw it. Simple enough. What we don’t know is what they meant by (paraphrasing) “it wasn’t supposed to happen like this”. That could mean anything from the general “this entire plan to infiltrate the academy wasn’t supposed to cause this much trouble” to “this situation specifically wasn’t supposed to end the way you see now”. And that latter possibility could refer to getting caught in the first place or the actual killing.
- Raven acted on fight or flight rather than just violent urges. Even if the guards were just trying to arrest her, if you’re operating on impulse, it doesn’t really matter much, more, in Raven’s case, does the concept of “restraint”. They were dead before Raven knew it. Of course it’s possible that even after they beat them, they still decided to keep stabbing in a fit of pure bloodlust, which would still make this second degree murder (in American legal terms, we don’t know if Triana uses that system).
Now the third possibility is the one that I spent all last night thinking about and which was actually my first impression despite being the least obvious.
- Hoft said that if we found them BEFORE THE GUARDS, we could talk them into surrendering and being arrested, presumably for trial. I’d have to double check but I played the scene yesterday and I’m fairly certain he said to find them before the guards did as well, though it was maybe a bit ambiguous. So that implies that the guards were to bring Raven to him and he’d execute her… or that they were ordered to kill on sight. After all, if someone’s dangerous enough that you’re going to just kill them without a trial, why bother taking them in and risking their escape? This of course assumes Hoft could actually convince the guards to become his personal extrajudicial death squad for an hour or so. I can’t recall if he told them what his plans were.
Now if that last theory is accurate, it’d explain why an mc would see the pictures and say “They probably deserved it” since that’s otherwise a rather odd way to react to being shown three dead bodies with no context. It COULD also mean mc is starting to lose it and it’s meant to rp the insanity route and it’s just always available in this version of the game, but it’s ALSO possible that this isn’t that unheard of in this country. It wouldn’t explain why the student deserved it, but it’s a kneejerk reaction so maybe they don’t actually count (though if it turned out by pure coincidence that the student was like, a different serial killer, that’d be really funny; I doubt it, but it’d be funny).
A part of me wonders if their exact actions will vary based on which route you take, even if it ends with the guards dying.
Apologies for the lack of paragraph breaks, it screwed up the numbers.
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Reminder that if you’re an orphan, it’s Hoft who appears against P and M’s dad (and I’ll assume in other situations as well)
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But isn’t that all forgetting that Raven isn’t actually Raven? They’re the eldest Wunderkind and the real Raven is dead, possibly murdered by this person who took their name and their place. So acting without premeditation is right out the window if what they say can be believed and they’re doing this all for you. They would have had to find out who would be close to you, who could be most easily replaced without raising questions, where that person would be, how to kill them, where to stash the body and how to successfully insert themself into that person’s place without raising anyone’s suspicions. Given that, I can see how the situation could spiral, but let’s not pretend the first thing Raven did was kill that bird. They murdered someone before the story even began. The latter murders were to cover up or otherwise escape answering questions about that first murder. There’s no basis for leniency because things just got out of hand. There may be an argument that could be made for diminished capacity due to mental state/status, but even that’s not enough to get them much.
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My Raven theory:
He can’t just teleport- he can hop dimensions and he’s from a different timeline, one where we died. He might’ve even tried multiple times in an attempt to save us, though his memory doesn’t seem to suggest it? Unless it’s been so long there’s been some brain scrambling (the way the fortune teller reacts to his broken soul too, it seems more extreme than he’s just gone through a lot- which made me think maybe multiple loops.) We were all a part of some kind of experimental research when we were kids (since he “offhandedly” mentions a lab that blew up that block with STEM radiation during his first date) and that’s what he originally knows us from. Considering his family abandoned him he has probably either been stalking us the entire time before Triaina Academy or was preparing for our meeting there (I mean he clearly says he didn’t expect us to meet like this when we do eventually meet.) In general he seems like he knows way too much about everything, the way he cryptically speaks.
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The second degree is for the guards, not the student.
Ah, makes more sense. Still, I think they’d try for something harsher, if they don’t rush through a bench trial and just slate for execution, as Hoft seems to prefer.
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I don’t think he was planning for a trial; I think he was just going to slit their throat and toss their body into a lake or smth. This whole thing could be a disruption to the Dark Matter project that the country needs to win the war, and apparently Raven’s existence in general is problematic for their family, so I can imagine them surfacing like this would be a big scandal. Easier to just make this all disappear and say the killer was killed in a confrontation and their identity couldn’t be verified.
Yeah, but if that’s the case, why give the option to talk them into turning themself in? Why openly try to arrest?
Not sure about the latter. If you want to execute someone, just slip some poison into their food.
As for the former, killer or no, having the S/O of one of your super important experimental super soldiers cut down in an alleyway with no attempt at letting them seek an alternative is probably a bad idea.
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