Hey, you do you, no problem. I can't flip-flop my vision based on how each person perceives my game. The two examples you brought up are interesting though. I'll explain my reason for it without spoiling, you can decide if you agree or not.
I don't mean I wanted you to leave Blume as ambiguously humah/AI for the whole story, I just liked the feeling of uncertainty at first.
I kind of hate the AI Controller trope too. Just a little later reveal would have......I won't say "been better" because it's just my opinion, lets just say that would have been my preference. Even as soon as the team was fully assembled.
As to his hair, I meant the type of thing like trauma literally turned his hair white naturally (which used to be a trope in classic literature
) . It's just a story preference for me. Choosing to dye his hair, although, fits well with the "remaking myself after tragedy" is fine - it happens aaaaalllll the time in real life. One minor detail is he says he started bleaching his hair "about a year ago" if I remember correctly but this picture of during the war shows him with white hair.
That means he started bleaching his hair while he was on combat missions during the war. Not a problem, but the flow of the story by what he says makes it seem, to me, that the time from that picture to the time he makes his statement is longer than that, like he started doing it after the war. Just my perception of the event. If the statement had been "I started doing that a while ago" it would have flowed better
for me.
This type of storytelling and especially on this site is rather unique because the "readers" see the work-in-process and can give feedback, bitching and conspiracy theories in real time. That's good and bad. Traditional authors don't have to put up with the bitching and unasked for feedback while they are writing, but they miss out on feedback that could be helpful. .
All of this is meant purely as feedback from my viewpoint, critique not criticism. There are things I like about it, including lots of the story, but it's just not right for me right now. I start books, only to put them aside until my mood fits the story. This might end up as my favorite title in 6 months
.