so just read the story before and after the changes, and have a few questions so far
could the third prince be a bastard? before the changes i got a weird vibe from the mother and crispin, how he was in the room with her with the peasants while the king was in the throne? and how she personally requested him to stay as her attendant and guard? it would explain why the MC specifically is treated the way they are, and why the twins are the most favoured/spoiled
and a question about the arranged marriage, if the prince is the only child, how would their line of succession work? if the MC is a male then they couldn’t have children, and the crotor royal blood line would die out, most royal families would want to avoid that scenario
Ngl with the new update on the chapter changing routes towards marriage I hope we can pull a manhua villainess move to manipulate/motivate our spouse to raze against our kingdom in favor of us
Sorry, I don’t have the mental fortitude to read through the 95 new comments, so I hope I’m not reiterating anything someone else has said.
This conversation is really frustrating with my parents, but I think it’s much better than before. It’s frustrating because they suck and not because it needs revision!
I personally would like a little more control over how my MC reacts unless their personality is supposed to be a little set without our input. (For example, I don’t imagine my MC would roll her eyes at her parents even though they definitely deserve it. Or smirking as I head out after the talk.)
I’M SUPER INTO BEING IN AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE AS A PRINCESS TO SEAL AN ALLIANCE!! Please let us romance our intended; I LOVE marriage of convenience developing into feels!
maybe, but him being the current rulers offspring means he is first in the line of succession, and if said cousins are killed like our uncle was, where does that leave them? especially is our MC is male
and isn’t it a bit weird they’re sending them off to a castle instead of the capital of this prince’s kingdom? what’s the reason for that?
well yeah and so isn’t weird that the kingdom of crotor is depending on your choice marrying off their only heir apparent to a foreign male prince with there being no chance of offspring and sending them away to a castle a foolish choice on the king and queen of crotor’s part? regardless of any sort of political alliance?
Isn’t heirs getting killed a risk anyway, regardless of genders involved and whether or not they have kids though? (That’s why you need enough spares.)
1.) So i just finished reading the updated demo and i just want to Say it’s very good, much better than the first one even if the first one was good too.
2.) so we get confirmation that the mc is juste a political tool to his “parents” betitled, ignored and thrown to the side for an alliance (i guess)
3.) and finally gotta ask but the miracle was it related to our birth or ourselves and if related to the mc himself, is the mc leaving not a very Bad thing for them ? i mean not that i care, it would be hilarious for them to beg us to come back
I really hope there is a choice where we don’t have to go through with this and can just run away because screw my parents for selling me away like cattle
I don’t mind the RO option being male as long as there are others later on, my only worry would be that a simple assassination after marriage and you are the king, or if you both die. Your brothers can claim. I think maybe instead of marriage you have to go there for another reason, either to work as a diplomat or treasurer, With the option to marry the prince or what not. I just hope that the story will be more than you are the husband of this guy and you do nothing, since we have no skills as it is. As a married prince I doubt we’d do much work honesty. But interested to see what happens
A quick fix to the bloodline thing if you want to keep the gender locked prince is to simply make the bloodline part redundant.
Just make it clear that the parents are really only using you to quell tensions as a short fix and give the player some agency in how they feel and it’ll work.
If it’s clear your parents are really only using you as a stop gap to immediate war it will make better sense especially if your both prince’s, even if your marriage ends it’s still good because it gives them time to negotiate. Even if it ends or one of you dies to like dysentery or something it doesn’t matter because the marriage wasn’t the main point. Just stopping the war was. Gives the story conflict and can give the mc an “out” at the end of the story to complete the heros journey
I kinda agree with the majority of @GEPGUN points,an arranged marriage must have some purpose and be a real point to unify said bloodlines(heirs were indeed the key) ,true that people with different sexual orientations were thrown into a regular marriage causing them suffering and discomfort but yeah you could have played the same angle without making a same sex marriage that for the moment makes little sense to the overall story.
Could you just let readers choose the Prince’s gender like other COG/Hosted Games do?
Then people just can experiment all the historical or innovative perspectives of an arranged marriage while pleasing all your fanbase.
Cause really I wanna have kiddos on the marriage route playing as my usual male MC,without magic shaenninghans as people have suggested for gay couples or plain adoptions,do not take that choice away from the readers mate,creating families on these wips that serve political ambitions or love.
I guess you can argue that there will be more ROS involved on the story and the MC can start a romance with said options forging a different path on the side but the “big” Marriage option being taken away from the reader,basically closing a path to heterosexual readers is not all that pleasing.
If divorces/separations are not a thing on the setting,don’t know perphaps you plan that the MC is allowed by the Prince to just have his own separate lovers that with time does end becoming a family all while maintaining the arranged marriage but those kiddos on a pseudo medieval society would be considered bastards with no access to any sort of power,it steals the opportunity to persue any sort of ambitions.
Being thrown into a same sex marriage just for the sake of it is more than a break deal for me to say bye if the branch of options does not open.
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Having thought about it some more, I can see how this would be weird as an argument for keeping the prince gender locked, AND also be a RO. The whole “it’s out of your hands/an obstacle to overcome” that some have mentioned, wouldn’t that just feel like you’re kinda punishing MC’s who are only attracted to females? While if they’re attracted to males it could be almost a reward, for lack of a better word. Perhaps if the prince stays genderlocked he shouldn’t be a RO(potential friend?)? I don’t personally mind but it seems a bit odd to me.
With no offence,the WIP is still on a very early process of development and as it showed before the writer actively listens to the reader’s feedback(like he changed a big chunk of the overall old chapters due to suggestions).
The least we can do is with respect let our voice be heard so the writer knows all the opinions regarding the current state of the story,expressing said thoughts is important to all involved.
Deciding to read or not the WIP is kind of a dramatic thing to say specially when all we are commenting is actually still up for change at any given moment.
Keeping the Prince on the same arranged marriage role but barring him from the RO list?
Guess that’s kinda what I proposed earlier,the marriage as a facade but the MC is allowed lover/s on the side(the actual ROS) that end up being their real partners,where they actually find the passion that the marriage is exempt from as the relationship with the Prince can be a velvet front that could lead to a wholesome friendship.
But yeah the “Marriage” and “Legitimate” kiddos on the setting would still be a matter of concern those that want to be ambitious about the overall political situation.
