Don’t worry, that won’t happen. My game won’t contain sexual orientations for the MC or gender-locked romances. I always hated games where you couldn’t romance a certain character because of your gender or orientation. That’s why I will leave this part out of my game.
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While I agree, there’s still a difference between being friends and being lovers. 
But I will try to befriend everybody anyway :3
Thank you for your reply 
I definitely see where you are coming from. It really sucks if your favorite love interest isn’t interested in your MC because of his/her/their gender. 
Personally, I don’t mind characters with set romantic preferences per se…at least if every player still gets 3 or more romance options regardless of his/her/their orientation. I have my own pet peeves too though ^^’
If I may ask, how would a romance between a gay male/straight female MC and Laurence progress? Can you encourage Laurence to accept or at least not to hate his female self but also tell him that personally you still prefer his male self? Would that lock the player out of his romance? Because on the one hand you tell him to accept himself, but then you also tell him that you prefer his “old” (male) self…which is kinda contradicting And honestly speaking, if it’s important to him I don’t even want him to stay in his male form. If he starts to prefer his female self, I don’t want him to hold back just for the MC. But as a gay man my MC will only ever be able to have feelings and be attracted to Laurence and not Laura. If Laurence/Laura has feelings for the MC themselves, will he/she keep their (that is the MCs) orientation in mind? Sorry for my rambling and all these questions 
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You don’t have to apologize for your questions. I like to answer all of your questions and to explain my game and concepts.
Well then, lets go.
Let’s start with the reason why Laurence isn’t fond of his female form. The reason for this is quite simple. He is embarrased by the cute appearance of his female form, which is the reason why he tries to avoid being seen in this form by others, apart from the other member of his squad (except Felicia for justified reasons). Laurence despises the idea that others would make fun of him because of his cute appearance as Laura. As I explained in my post about him, during fights most of his enemies and opponents taunt him because of his female form, at least until he cuts them into half with a strike of his great swords. But it still leaves it’s marks on him. He simply tries to avoid this kind of situations in his normal life.
However, you can help him to solve his problem. A vital part of Laurence romance path is, that you would help him with accepting his female form and that you convince him, that there is nothing to be embarrased about. Of course you don’t have to help him, but this would basically end the entire romance path. Though, if you manage to help him to be at peace with his female form it would not only boost his affinity towards you, but he might also confess his love to you. In quite a unique way actually, as I explained in one of my previous posts:
After you helped Laurence with getting comfortable with his Laura form, he would usually change his form on a regular base and based on his emotional state. If you are in a relationship with him or if your affinity towards him is high enough you might even be able to say which of his forms you would like to see more often. This would ensure, that you might see Laurence more often and Laura less often. Of course, this would also work the other way around.
Sorry but, since I plan to leave out the part with the sexual orientation, I don’t think this would be important.
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Laurence/Laura certainly is a very fascinating character and I’m really looking forward to seeing more of him/her. I’m definitely going to help him accept his female form, although I’m still unsure if I’m going to romance him. Getting kissed by a girl might be a little bit too much for my MC 
But from reading the character descriptions Jayce seems quite interesting as well 
Thanks again for your detailed answer and have a good day/evening/night 
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So if I romance him and his un his females form and wants to Kiss the mc or something. I suppose there would not be scenes like that right? I dont want to romance him and then have his female form hitting on me
So have you been working on the new demo?
You don’t have to worry about that. The kiss after Laurence confession would be the first case of “Which of his forms do you prefer?”. You can basically decide, if you want to be kissed by Laurence or Laura.
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Ok first, Laura won’t try to hit on you, since she isn’t a separate person. Laura is nothing more than Laurence female form, with a lightly different personality. That means while they might be different in appearance and personality, they are basically still the same person, with same feelings and the same personal characteristics.
Also, as I explained more than once, later on you can decide which of his forms you would like to see more often.
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Which characters will you meet in the new demo?
Also is it long or just a short prologue like the old one was?
The new demo is much longer than the old one. That’s why it takes a little longer to finish.
Now in terms to which character you will meet.
Prolog: Chris, Mia, Celica and the mother of the MC
Chapter 1: Tara
This is as far as my work reaches until now. Right now I’m working on the last touches of the Prolog and the beginning of the first chapter.
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Do the mothers have a different personality depending on your species or they all behave in the same way?
No, they don’t have different personalities. They all share the same kind and caring personality.
Out of all the ROs which one is the strongest in terms of powers? (Emilia seems the weakest). Also how strong is the MC compared to them? Also what does the trickster specie mean, you said they are shape-shifters. Can they change form into animals or only into humans?
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Laurence is the strongest of the ten romance options.
Compared to Laurence, the MC character is still very weak. However, this might change during the story. Once you managed to fully control your inherited powers, you might be on par with Laurence.
Trickster can can alter their appearances entirely freely and they can turn into Humans, Animals and even other Non-Humans, if they want to. They can even freely change attributes like their age or gender.
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Ok, I have a little bit more Intel about the romance/friendship paths of the romance Options.
Similar to Laurence, each of the romance Options have their own personal conflicts, which haunted them throughout their entire life, like horrible event from the past, inner conflicts or problems with their families.
However, you can help the ROs with their Problems. No matter if you romance them or if you just go for friendship, you can try to help them with confronting their inner demons. Though, this might not always be easy, since some of them went basically through hell itself during the course of their lifes. A extremly gruesome example for this would be Maria’s life before she joined the Hunters. The poor neko girl had probably the worst childhood possible.
Of course you don’t have to help them with their problems, but this would make the romance path for some characters inaccessible. Helping the characters with settling their own conflicts is a vital part for at least some of the romances.
Another important part about the romances is, that you aren’t the only one who could break up with a certain character. Your Partner can do the same, at least in some situations. One of These Situations would depend on the corruption of your character. A lot of you seemed to like the idea of getting corrupted by practicing the forbidden arts or by killing anyone you fight against. However, you should thing twice about the entire corruption thing, at least if you want to romance any of the characters. Corruption is extremly despised by almost all beings within my game, including all of the present romance options. If you are too infected with corruption, you would damage your relations towards the other characters to the point where not even Chris or Mia would want to be close to you.
So, all in all I would recommend to be extremly careful with the entire corruption part. A little corruption doesn’t hurt, but once you reach a certain stage there will be almost no turning back.
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@BrachydiosX If Jayce has the power of reincarnation how can he die?
If you go full corrupt could you lose control and eventually attack the ROs and kill them until you get hunted down? And what was Maria like? Finally about the tricksters, do they have any other abilities except shifting and illusions?
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If the corruption of your character reaches a critical point, it is quite possible that you might harm those who are close to you. But I would probably leave it by harming and not killing. It’s a little bit complicated to kill of a character within a lengthy story.
Do you mean what happened to her?
Trickster possess, similar to the Kitsune, high magical abilities and a natural affinity towards the eight magical Elements. Robert is especially talented in the arts of the element Air.
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Oh so Trickster is like Kitsune but with much better shape-shifting abilities at the cost of no fire abilities.
And I mean like what happened to her at her childhood? Also how did she become an expert in the Hunters at the age of 22. By the way did the others like Mia, Chris etc join the DSR too or it’s just you?
I know exactly who I am picturing as Robert!