Author Q&A (October) - Answers

Hi everyone, thanks so much for your participation, as always! There seemed to be more questions this time, so I think I'll be sticking with two days for questions from now on, haha! As usual, things are separated into general, spoilers, and NSFW sections for anyone who wants to skip over anything! ❤

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General

Kat Voight: Are there any aspects of your characters you wish you hadn't given them? Or wish you could alter but it's too ingrained into their personality to change now? 

Answer: There isn't really anything I would change about the characters, but I do sometimes worry that their appeal as ROs will vary, because I 'locked them in' as characters long before I ever considered that they might become ROs. (For example, Shery being so shy, Riel being neurotic and aloof, Ayla being tough and abrasive). If I'd known they were going to be ROs for a game beforehand, I likely would have tweaked some things about them, but probably only in minor ways, anyway. In general I love them so much that I don't foresee myself changing anything about them now--if there was something I truly regretted, I would definitely take the plunge and just change it, haha! Thanks for the question!

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 Spoilers 

Question: Will we meet Blade's brother? Also, are they very similar?

Answer: You will only meet Blade's brother if you become close with Blade in his personal storyline and spend as much time off with him as possible. But yes, it is possible to meet him! They are similar in some ways but I wouldn't say extremely similar. Blade tends to be more quiet, reserved, serious, and taciturn, whereas his older brother is a bit more charismatic, leader-like, sometimes playful, and more conventionally smooth-talking and 'likeable'. Conversely, however, he can be even more intense and intimidating than Blade is, too. Ultimately they love each other, but there is definitely some friction between them, which you can explore in that particular character route!

Question:  Okay so you SAID spoilery is welcome so... I gotta know... Croelle. Future RO or nahh? 

Answer: 100% honesty: I don't know. It will be up to you guys more than it is me! If he is an RO, he will definitely be DLC (or written in the time between submitting to the game to the publishing queue and the actual release date). I plan on holding a poll here on Patreon when the time comes to let you vote on whether you'd like Halek or Croelle to be the DLC male RO and move accordingly from there! :)

Question: I'm curious about Briony. Who will she be friends with among the Shepherds? Who will she not get along with?

Answer: Briony, like Trouble or Halek, is someone who in general gets along with everyone in the Shepherds as a whole. She's one of those people who sort of smooths everything over and binds the group together: more specifically I could see her becoming good friends with Blade, Shery, Red, and Lavinet. There may be clashes because Briony is both emotionally-perceptive (read: sensitive) and protective, so she may bring out conflicts between other people into the light or get on someone's case for being insensitive: for example, she may call out and yell at Ayla for saying something that hurt Shery's feelings, when Shery may not have said anything at all, or harangue Chase for being inconsiderate and not cleaning up after himself, etc. In this way she could be seen as someone who starts drama, but she generally has someone else's interests in mind when she does this. I hope that makes sense!

Question: Another Briony question: is she the person who was previously married (from your poll before)?

Answer: 👀 She was who I was referring to, yes: though looking at the timeline, it's more likely that she was previously engaged/affianced than previously married!

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NSFW

Anonymous:  Where do the ROs like to give the MC hickeys? And where do they like to receive them? 

Answer:

Blade: likes to give hickeys on the neck and the collarbone; likes to receive hickeys on the neck and collarbone

Trouble: likes to give hickeys on the chest; like to receive hickeys on the back and shoulders

Tallys: likes to give hickeys on the chest/pecs/breasts; likes to receive them on the ribs

Shery: doesn't tend to give hickeys, but will leave some right under the ears on the neck; likes to receive them on her breasts and thighs

Chase: likes to give hickeys everywhere gdfgfd but especially on the neck and collarbone; likes to receive them anywhere

Riel: likes to give hickeys on the hips and ribs; doesn't like to receive them 

Red: thinks giving hickeys is kind of high school but if he does leave them, it's on the neck; likes receiving them on the neck

Ayla: likes to give hickeys on the thighs and stomach; likes to receive them on the chest and collarbone

Lavinet: likes to give hickeys on the shoulders and back; likes to receive them anywhere that can be covered by clothes

Question: Do the ROs have any fantasies they'd like to act out in the bedroom with MC? Any they might be slightly embarrassed to say they'd like?? 

Blade: he probably doesn't realize it right away, but he finds the thought of clandestine sex--sex where they might get caught--very hot. He'd be too embarrassed to bring this up explicitly, though!

Trouble: He doesn't really have any particular fantasies he's rearing to act out, except maybe like... sex while skydiving, or something! It's more of a bucket list thing than an actual turn-on/fantasy, though... like something funny he'd bring up casually!

Tallys: definitely fantasizes about having sex with MC under a waterfall or something of the sort... she's not embarrassed by this, though, and would definitely lead MC into it!

Shery: has various roleplaying fantasies... they're all in her head, though, and she'd be too shy/embarrassed to act them out in person with any conviction! If MC caught on to this, though, and were to encourage her... who knows!

Riel: does not really have any fantasies at all, having sex with MC is fantasy enough!

Chase: if he has a fantasy, he's going to bring it up spur of the moment and see where that goes... he doesn't hold any secret kinks or anything like that, though, it all completely depends on his moods!

Red: maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay have a sexy school-orientated roleplay fantasy... he would never bring it up of his own volition but it may slip out on accident... he'd only really need to explore it once though and then he'd be satisfied!

Ayla: would definitely have a threesome fantasy where talking about it would get her going, but she wouldn't want/need to actually act on it: it's just the concept/thought!

Lavinet: would variously have 'being worshiped' and 'being dominated' fantasies, and would definitely not be shy about talking about them with MC depending on her moods!

Question: Is this too NSFW? In a modern AU what kind of porn would the LIs watch? 

Answer: 

Blade: he wouldn't watch porn, he's pretty much demisexual so it wouldn't appeal to him at all!

Trouble: he would watch porn only occasionally, and it would be pretty standard and vanilla: nothing to write home about!

Tallys: she would watch porn sometimes but feel kind of weird about it afterwards; generally tending to favor porn where a single person is masturbating or group sex porn!

Shery: she wouldn't watch porn but she would read porn: erotic novels and lemony fanfiction and such... the themes would vary (forbidden romance, teacher-student, princess and maid) but it would always be WLW!

Riel: would not watch or read porn and would feel no inclination to

Chase: would not really read or watch porn but that's generally because he's sexually-satisfied anyway, and also it's hard for him to focus on something like that long

Red: would not watch porn because the idea of it kind of makes him feel weird? His imagination does just fine, thank you!

Ayla: would watch porn semi-frequently and would favor threesome porn

Lavinet: sometimes would watch porn, would sometimes read porn, generally pretty vanilla stuff that focused heavily on build-up and romance!

Question: Who's better at sex, Halek or Naolin?

Answer: I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say Halek; in his teenaged years he ran a bit wild, whereas Naolin was the responsible one and focused more on his studies and training!

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Thanks everybody for your questions; see you next time at next month's Q&A!