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I mean you're pretty spot on but... every character feels pretty shallow. Even Cait, the girl with the most content and dev favoritism, is extremely shallow and surface level. Same goes for mostly everybody else, really. Brint's a friendly bro, Azzy is just a really sweet girl, Etheryn is just Cinderella, Quin is just... Quin(who fucking cares), 'Tui is sort of a nerdy tomboy, and I've already gone over Berwyn and Arona. At least Brienne makes me feel all warm inside. There might be hints of something more to them, but they're just that. Hints. None of them are really multi-dimensional or particularly compelling, especially for a game that is pretty much text-only with this much content. I've seen things that are just 10k words that have more depth to the character compared to this game. At least with Wsan's stuff, the sex scenes are hot as fuck to compensate. Savin's scenes are good but not particularly outstanding, SKOW can vary, and TOBS' are... let's just say they make my little guy very bored.This is also something I've thought about before, and I'm not sure that I agree that Wsan is the best all-purpose writer on the team. I think he's really good at certain things. He (or WIlliam) probably writes consistently my favorite sex scenes, and he's great at making immediately appealing characters.
Buuut, I always feel like almost all of his characters are a little...shallow, maybe? Like I mentioned about Brienne. I think he's great at making characters that express themselves well in their sex scenes, and great at showing personality through those scenes, but outside of them fall a bit short.
For instance, pretty much none of Wsan's characters have any kind of buildup at all. No relationship you have to work up to, no talking or flirting. In fact, it seems to be a recurring element that a lot of his characters are introduced immediately with sex for one reason or another, like Amber in TiTs. I think he's really good at "fetish-first" type characters, really good, but I think he doesn't really do much to develop them beyond that.
The main exception I can think of is Evelyn. While I still don't like how she was introduced (her opening scene is kinda weird imo), I feel like its the one character of his that seems to have interesting things going on outside of her immediate interactions with the PC.
I think a lot of the different writers have different strengths. I don't think Wsan could have written the kid scenes with you and Aileh, for example - doesn't play to his speciality.
Most characters in this game and TiTS are "fetish-first", I'm not sure what you mean by that. These games are practically built around the concept of "fetish-first" with how focused on sex they are and lack of character or story depth.
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