Ben

sipping his coffee to hide his blush, not realizing the cup was already empty

counting the number of wrinkles in his shirt when ironing it

having an empty photo frame on his desk. like, seriously. it was just straight up empty.

drawing the same cartoon pumpkin over and over for weeks to prep drawing one for rosa.

in high school, he buried the love letters he received in the school's garden because he felt bad about rejecting them, but also didn't want to accept them either. this obviously did not end well.

his high school teacher thought he was being bullied because he was so bad at making friends at his new school

becoming tormented by a record player for hours on end because a random customer claimed it was out of tune.

renting a whole ass rv to ensure he didn't overstep his boundaries by sharing a room with rosa

unwinding and destroying his own sweater so he could use its thread to comfort rosa at night during a power outage

going off on a random tangent about gender roles and how one shouldn't be defined by their gender

a mocktail enthusiast. a single drop of actual alcohol is enough to land him passed out on the floor and near tears

him practicing posing against a wall because of. uh. reasons?

carrying around multiple water bottles "just in case" ... also for reasons.

has spent several minutes staring at and editing his messages to rosa before deciding not to send anything

bought and wore a cowboy outfit when traveling to a western themed town when he didn't have to do that, like, at all.

a wardrobe full of turtlenecks and suits. he only gets some variety once he starts dating rosa.

searching up "funny humor jokes" online and scaring the everliving shit out of everyone at work the next morning

a male lead willingly eats his cat's kibble: TRUE

alkaid does in fact eat his cat's kibble. mc does too. difference being that mc's kibble eating was an accident, while alkaid willingly ate it out of curiosity. then tries to rationalize it.

one of the main antagonists is canonically depicted in a maid outfit: TRUE

alkaid's empire counterpart, prefect luminary, gets canonically drawn in a maid outfit by mc (who is a professional artist). said drawing is then posted to the empire's social media forums.

a male lead crashes head first into lighthouse glass to stop an evil rock: TRUE

alkaid is back on his shit! "this guy must be insane" you say. he is, but also would you believe me if i told you he's the "gentle and nice" guy of the cast. he's also just insane and probably has an anxiety disorder.

anyways when an evil empire spirit gets trapped in a rock in the lighthouse, said spirit tries to manipulate mc into using her powers for the empire. alkaid crashes into the lighthouse using his paraglider to save her. he also gets stupidly cut up from it, tells mc "he's fine", and then GOES SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN WITH OPEN WOUNDS.

a new mini game was added well into the game's run and only appeared once. ever: TRUE

eden!clarence's route gets this random shooting minigame (similar to collar x malice's shooting minigame) and then it never shows up again. i'm being entirely serious. the mechanics don't even get reused.

one of the male leads has a lana del rey poster in his room: TRUE

yes, this is canon. though in global, you will sometimes either see the original "lana del re" poster/album cover from the cn server, and other times you will see... a duck.

he also has a beetles poster! and a beetles poster with only One beetle.

mc sniffs one of the male leads' hair while he sleeps bc it smells like cherries: FALSE

if you picked this, you're right! mc is a freak but she hasn't sniffed anyone's hair. yet.

she has, however, reached out to touch alkaid's eyelashes while he was sleeping. "they were so long," she said. it became a running cutesy joke between them in future stories. sickening, truly.

mc insists she's into being locked in a cage. this concerns the mls: TRUE

this happens VERY early in the first mainline route of the game. at this point, mc has no idea she has powers, and is kinda just baffled and totally out of it. she's a bit more unhinged as a result. truly a "fuck it, whatever" attitude.

only one route has an altered CANON ending depending on decisions made earlier in the route: TRUE

rewording originally mentioned by me in the replies. in spirit world!alkaid's route, his canon ending will be slightly altered depending on the dialogue tree choice depicted above earlier in the route. if you don't say you love him, you'll get the version where alkaid refuses to push his feelings on mc and "be greedy". he then disappears.

if you tell him you love him, however, you get a kiss before he disappears.

this is unusual for an lbc route. most decisions lead to different endings or bad endings. this, however, all happens in the same canon ending. it's just slightly altered depending on decisions made a few chapters back. the game doesn't inform you of this either, and several players never had any idea there WAS a possible kiss.

something like this specifically hasn't happened since.

"what is up with his outfit" you may ask.

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