#developing projects

I'm looking at doing some edits to the first chapter while I'm in the guts to fix the pronoun system. (Edits planned at the moment include expanded time prior to Ausones' fall, a better and more in depth customization scene, changing the pacing a bit so players can meet their mother and have more time to get to know their new family, and a chance to just be a kid again playing with Rune and Auberon.)

I actually haven't decided. The poly route for TPK was easy to figure - Felix and Rowan are obviously entangled in a way that could quite easily turn romantic. With them it was easy to see how the Phoenix would fit into their dynamic. There's not any routes with that pre-established chemistry in MMttCR.

I'm toying with ideas for a few potential triads but none of them are really sticking out for me yet. Writing V's just doesn't work, every time I try it mutates to a triangle anyways.

The poly-routes I'm considering are:

Rossella x Robin

Lux x Robin

Caerwyn x Rune (aka "For the monster fuckers" route)

Rossella x Caerwyn

Lux x Rune

Marcus, Lux, and Rossella have all sibling-zoned each other (or are siblings) so there's no combination there that could work.

Gender is a pretty complex thing so my opinion may (and probably will) differ from others xD but personally i would tell you to choose based on what masculinity means to Rune. By that I mean not only the way they sees themself but also how he relates and interacts with the world around their own view of masculinity and gender. Personally i do think there isn't much representation of demi boy in ifs, generally people go for they them (nothing wrong with that obviously) but it can also be a bit complex trying to represent a non-binary person who still feels represented by certain biases of a specific binary gender

Also! I said demi-boy but it could also totally be another kind of polygender as genderfluid, so this should be another thing to have in mind when building their idea of gender.

Another idea you could go by could be they (or he) doesn't really know, I mean, how old are they? I doubt they are older than our bro and he is 16 iirc. With 15 yo or less no one really knows themselves well enough and in a world without the fastest exchange of information like ours thanks to the internet, I don't know if they have a lot of sources about gender. You can start playing with that to start a lil character development of them even that could be part of the relationship with them (romantic or platonic, like MC being someone from our world should know a bit more about gender and identity, so they could help a bit).

If you want my personal opinion, I would like to continue seeing them as a he/them, I don't really saw a lot of ifs with this kind of representation but if you choose other thing it's totally fine (at least for with me xD) too

Sorry for all this mumbling hahaha I hope I help you even a bit!

Ps sorry if there is some mistake or typo in there, English is not my first language so sometimes it is a bit difficult to express myself clearly enough haha

Hey! And of course your opinion is welcome - I did ask for it. (I'm also always open to hearing other point of views, especially on topics which aren't exactly easy. There are a lot of experiences that I simply don't have and a lot where my experience isn't universal so hearing other angles is always helpful.)

You've made some excellent points and gave me some good questions to consider. It definitely helps. :)

I slept on those questions and did some trawling through reddits and blogs of people talking about their own experiences with gender.

Honestly, Rune's relationship with masculinity is rather similar to the one I have with feminity. Which tells me that the right answer for him is "he/they" - because the right answer for me and my 'sure, that's mostly right but it's at an angle and a tad wonky and a step to the side' is "she/they". They're a little closer to "they" on the gender spectrum but not so close that tossing "he" out feels right to their character.

Character: Yeah, no, I'm kidnapping these two and raising them with my found family of idiots you knew nothing about until two seconds ago. I don't trust anyone else around here to feed them.

Me: .....fine. *instates a mentor variable*

As if we didn't have enough angst without adding a complicated pseudo-parental relationship into the mix! Whoohoo.

Now to decide how many "specialties" to give the MC a chance to learn since I'm thinking a mentor per specialty.

For sure there will be one for military and one for politics since those characters are already on screen. I think I'll do one for espionage because that adds fun flavor potential for Caerwyn-mancers but gotta decide if there will be any other skill-routes.

Nope! I did consider that route but decided against it given how important it is for the Luxs' to have the bastard aspect in their history. Honestly, I was debating even using that term but because it relates to MC customization I went with it for the summaries. Auberon is always fully human.

Auberon's mother was their father's first wife, but she passed away due to complications from his birth. Their father remarried later, having fallen in love with the MC's mother. She was of low rank and, depending on your choices, could potentially have been a foreigner to Ausones. She loved Auberon as her own son too and he had been very close to her so for Auberon there's no distance there. He used to get into fights with anyone who implied that he and his sibling were less than siblings.

I've named the "Enemy-Assassin-who-Decides-Not-to-do-his-Job RO" Caerwyn.

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