#lux talks

The route outline for S is pretty much complete — shared with beta readers, and I am in the process of incorporating their feedback. I expect it to be fully done and dusted by this week! It's a chonky little thing, around 4k+ words so you can understand that the others will also take some time in fully writing up. But it's looking good! I've managed to add in some early ends (to keep y'all on your toes lol) and have greatly simplified the romance variations to pretty much high affinity and low affinity. I think it makes most sense that way, since the prologue is the main vehicle for MC to be able to shape their personality and the routes will reflect those changes, while the choices in the routes will be affecting the way the romance flows. I'm kind of a romantic at heart, tbh, so I'm struggling to come up with variants where the ROs actually fall out of love with MC, even though I think some of them do call for that kind of response. That's for the me of tomorrow to figure out, though.

Also, I am doing my best in incorporating our lovely side characters as well!

D's outline is about halfway complete, but I'm not entirely satisfied with how it's going. I may bring a big chunk of it back to the drawing board, so that might cause some delay.

N's and J's routes are very much in the skeleton stage and not ready to be outlined. I really want to get as much of these done by the end of August as I can. That will allow me to start writing up the first chapter after with much more peace of mind.