but wasn’t he supposed to be a romance ? or is he locked to male romance only?
(I dont wanna romance him! I’m #TeamOrtegaforlife 
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Well, here you have the code part:
Summary
*if ortega_gender = “man”
*goto ortegacrush
“A technicality.” Chen’s smile is hard and brittle and you catch something hovering behind it. Slipping out. The tiniest crack in his stony surface. You wouldn’t have caught it if you weren’t looking.
Not you this time. Not your smile. Something in that hint of concern for Ortega. Something more concern. Jealousy?
“$!{swear}.” You don’t continue, you just stare at Chen because did you read ${him} right? “How long have you had a crush on ${him}?”
“Did you read my mind?” The accusation would be threatening if he wasn’t cradling a dog.
“I read your face.” You give him a long look, and to your surprise he looks away. Accepts your denial. Huh. That is new.
“You read wrong.” He has quickened his pace, but you are faster and he is carrying a dog.
“Did I?” You step in front of him, arms crossed. “Did I really?” Because this would explain so many things. Why Steel kept acting the way he did back in the day. Was he jealous?
*set steelortegacrush true
As per the question, he will be a romance for nb and f!Sidesteps too, but it will have some content to address the fact that we are not male, since Steel identifies as gay.
Same happens with Herald, for example, if you play with male Sidestep, he still gets the feels for you even if he was never with a man an never felt attracted to one.
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ah so its a code error? cose thats what I got too…and that to me…is he is crushing on my mc…eeek!
Oh wait, so Chen crushed on Julia on your playthrough? Because I am pretty sure that is an error, maybe you should tell Malin 
no ! he didnt! (or he be dead way ahead of the story)
But I got the code you showed even though my mc was gay and with Julia .
Inspiration time 
Summary
Mc: I just wanna have my revenge godddamnit! whats with everyone crushing on meh!
Ortega walk in
Ortega: you okay?
Mc: This is all your fault!
Ortega : what did I do ?
Mc: Nvm that! it is still your fault !!!
Ortega: whatever it is…let me make it up to you!
Mc: yeah…ok . Lets go have a drink then 
sometime later
Ortega: feel better ? you forgive meh now?
Mc: yeah I guess I for-…
ding ding ding mc cellphone get swarmed with texto
Herald Texto: Need more training plz comeeeeeeee…my ABS need your expertise
chen Texto: Spoon miss you…and yes just…cough…spoon
Lady Argent Texto: Where are you miserable ass! I need a rematch !
Mc: on second though…nope . still your fault!
Ortega: I don’t even know what I did 
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Ah shit, that’s my error, I copied the text if you play with a male Sidestep
Now is fixed, sorry 
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So let me get this right , if you are romancing Ortega and female…Steel is crushing on Ortega ? OMG… I didnt have a good reason to take him down before…but now…it gonna be priceless !
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Well, he’s crush is kind of “gone” by the time the books take place, but it still stings. And also, he never crushes on Julia, and that’s who you are romancing, right? So, yeah, Steel won’t crush on Julia, just on Ricardo.
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
well wont stop me from crushing him for crushing on mah Julia a long time ago
But… but he didn’t He has no interest in females at all until a f!Sidestep wants to romance him lol
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minor details! 
you know whats not fun ? someone giving you a reason to crush them. Herald is like that , he just beg you to crush him . So you have to pretend you are enjoying (and part of you does enjoy crushing him) but it leave not that satisfied…(well depand on the day )
But whats really really fun ? is coming up with exuses to crush someone like Steel .
before the great revelation , the only exuse I had was…he was military…he is boring…he is way too down to earth…he is too suspicious of our suspicious activity…
now I can add that to my list ! 
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Soo Park. Park Soo. 박수. 수박. lol, hope he wasn’t Korean, 'cause he’d’ve been teased non stop. Oh no wait, he is. ㅋㅋㅋ
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I want to get rid of Steel first because I don’t want him to have a hulk buster by the time I meet him xD
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So I don’t knowing this has been brought up yet or if it’s supposed to be there but all the variables for characteristics are self imputed.
Like here
Here
And here
And there are more.
Like if it’s supposed to be like that alright, but could we get like a sense of what its supposed to be for a average charcter or something?
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I just love the Steel update. There’s something about the Steel scenes that makes me want my MC to hang out with him. In a totally platonic way. Since the two of them don’t swing to each others way. Or maybe it’s because Spoon is there.
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After reading the recent stuff, I am really hoping for a steel-herald-mc poly route
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I’m guessing you have played the first game. In that case, do you remember your MCs stats by the end of the game? It doesn’t need to be exact, but the strength of mind and subtle manipulation are usually about 80+ if you have a character focused on their telepathy.
For the rest, is really your MCs personality. If you input 30 in the cautious Vs daring, that will mean your MC is on the cautious side. If you input 80, it means your MC is daring. All the personality ones work that way.
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I don’t understand in my new playthrough of Retribution it was mentioned I wanted to steal the cell regeneration machine at the auction even before speaking with Dr. Mortum about the gun… but at the auction now MC is watching with interest the machine only because Argent is trying to buy it.
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I’ve replayed this demo so many times, I thought I was confused! I’ve had this same problem.
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That is just for the alpha demo. Don’t worry about it too much, I just put 0 or 100 depending if that stat was dominant for my character.
I don’t think there is much in the way of stat checks even coded in yet. This is just the rough draft.
Anyway it’s hard to tell what “average” stats are. You can check tumblr for people’s MC profiles, I think the highest I’ve seen is around 80 for most stuff. I run mostly blue and so my stats were in the 20s. Telepathy stats were 70/80 though.
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