#worldbulding

(Link to English Translation of the Manga, I'm still early into it but oh my god I love it so much) (But a comment made in ONE panel lmao made me think of wild hogs. Yes it was the 'it's like a wild species' comment shh)

Listen I know we all enjoy our really in depth world building and all that big I’m here to tell you that figuring out the exact foods people would realistically eat ads nothing to the story.

You don’t need to calculate the realistic inertia of your fireballs.

You don’t need to understand where fabrics come from or what kind of economy your fictional fantasy kingdom has.

These are irrelevant to the quality of the story. Now if you enjoy researching by all means. But I see people get caught up in trying to make stuff “realistic” or just endlessly worldbuild without actually working on the narrative.

first of all its some time since i played this game, so apologize if i mess up some informations. with that out of the way, here are my questions:

1.) i assume that the flavour text will have passages, which slightly change depending on MC´s affinity (in my case, my MC fought a cougar and was able to hear their thoughts. i assume that other affinities have a different scene here). do you plan to also have affinity specific choices? e.g. road is blocked by fallen trees: a) find a way around/b) move them aside/c) burn them [need fire affinity o be unlocked]

2.) if i remember correctly, then light/dark affinities are more reliant on a characters actions than personality (dark ==> steal from merchant/threaten bully/...). that made me wonder: do the RO´s have any specific thoughts/opinion about MC´s affinity, be it one of the elemental ones or light/dark?

==> you already said, that no romance option will be locked out because of your chosen affinity. but will the romance path be different depending on MC´s affinity? e.g. will there be small differences between Fire-MCxTriv and Dark-MCxTriv romance?

3.) i remember that for dark marked ones to use the "read thoughts"-ability, they have to hurt the victim. maybe i remembering it wrong, so i want to ask if thats true.

thank you for your answers.

Heya! I'm a bit foggy today, but I will do my best to answer your questions coherently lol. If anything is confusing, just let me know!

When it comes to choices that involve affinities, the available selections will already have them included. You won't see any options that involved the other affinities, only yours. I hope this makes sense.

There are some generalizations people can make based on affinity. This mostly occurs with initial introductions or when someone learns what affinity another has. Something like.. "Oh, your friend is a water affinity? Ah, so they're pretty easygoing then?" Things of that sort. The romance paths won't differ depending on affinities because the affinity type doesn't lock the MC into a set type of behavior, even for light or dark affinities. It is mostly a reflection of the MC's inner nature and doesn't prohibit action. Your relationships will only be dependent on the actions you take and relationship values. There will be flavor text where people and ROs refer to your affinity, but it won't impact the actual relationship.

ANYWAY!! how do you think civilians deal with the lust trait? i feel like everyone always assumes they don’t mind but i always imagine they resented it a bit and honestly how could they not, their autonomy is being taken and while i hc some managed to rationalize it in their heads it still had a big impact on how they viewed living under asgore, almost questioning if he really was making the right decisions for their fertility problems

Well, welcome!

I'm gonna give a short answer and then elaborate: For me, the 'LUST' inyections could be the stepping stone out of a lot of failed attempts to treat with the infertility issue. Meaning; One first of many attempts that has lasted and exahusted so much one after the other that the mayority of monsters can't even tell if that was the worst thing. It certainly has been the most influencial, but after a while when people deal with a change as a unit then that only matters so much above getting the next thing that maybe will fix the problem. In hindsight, I can see a lot of blame and resentment, but not more than the exahustion that a lot (if not all) the monsters in underlust woud have.

Because, for me andIhopethisisn'tfar-fetched it's all a medical and healthcare issue.

Imagine people that work for Asgore like Undyne, Alphys and Gaster, wich their jobs keep them too pre-ocupied with finding the next solution that they don't have much room to second-guess the things they do.

Then you have the everyday people, that may understand, disagree or be totally against treating their souls like experiments. But what else can they do but try to survive it? Do any of them have a better solution? I find if fascinating to think some characters lived things they couldn't have otherwise with the LUST incident (good or bad) and others just see it as any other calamity that could have occurredEJEMLUSTejemwhat?

Did they do previous experiments to see if this could work in any way?

Does it *work* in any way?

Where there people that rejected it?

All the complex things that can happen with the context are what is so interesting about it.