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❝ … Uhm, personal space, please? ❞

Touchstarved Visual Novel

It's Cece's birthday today, hooray 🎉🥹

Vere caught Cece in the middle of getting ready for a night out on the town. Needless to say, Vere's got a (tiny, possible, maybe) soft spot for Eridia's newest resident.

TOUCHSTARVED DOODLES + my official mc design aurora~

Something that's been on my brain is how Leander and MC are almost steered to be a pair. I’m not particularly talking about in a romantic sense - but saying that, there's traces of it. 😂

The characters have their preferred pair / close relationship. Ais and Vere are close so they gravitate towards each other, Kuras and Mhin are close and do the same, so who does that leave? MC and Leander. According to the relationship chart and insight through dialogue, Leander isn’t close to anyone. Doesn’t have a deeper, special bond with anyone. Then along comes the MC. And for them, he’s the one they would probably - unless intercepted by the player of course - be drawn to considering he’s human, the only living person that can resist the effects of their touch and the one that’s offered help and their attention the most. There’s a lot of circumstances pushing them together.

That’s before addressing Leander’s immediate possessiveness over them. Quickly ensnaring, manipulating and isolating so they rely on him solely. Already pulling out the pointedly strong drink he refuses anyone else to serve them, the pomegranate wine Hades and Persephone style before you’ve even had the chance to choose who to pursue. Trying to create - artificially - a special bond between them. Weirdly enough the cursed newcomer might just be the one he feels something deeper with genuinely before he realises it. An outsider that could see a peek of his true self for a change. Potentially. Maybe Leander secretly seeks that. He must be the one to control everything though. I can just visualise an event or trip with all the love interests, where they would in all likelihood break off into their pairs naturally and Leander would do his utmost or expect to be paired with MC if it happened.

There's every chance I'm in my own head thinking excitedly about his route, but it almost feels like there's a string of fate going on between Leander and MC. And we get to decide how it plays out. Imagine the possibility of him finally having someone he can form more of a connection with, but you have your eyes set on someone else.

In short, I need to see how this desperate and despicable man reacts if you aren’t on his route. 🤭

"Oh, don't cry now, SIBILA Nihil..."

"It is your fault, after all."