Seeing atugia with literally 0 fucking votes in the poll feels so sad, man. I feel like she could be a really popular companion but Gardeford just refuses to do anything with her and she gets complete garbage scenes like the mushroom NTR and Brint sharing. I just want to romance the cute buff tomboy dullahan history nerd, man
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I also have a feeling Kiyoko is only up there because she indulges a pretty common (and imo fucking annoying) fetish that is breeding. That and because she does wife things, even though it doesn't even remotely seem like she loves you. Cait's probably up there because of sheer content size and some weird stockholm syndrome shit. I refuse to believe people genuinely like her as a person.
Honestly besides Atugia and Brienne, I don't like any of the companions really. All the others either focus on shit I don't like or something about their character just really bothers me.
It's weird too because kiyokos built (at the start) like she should be a fox brienne. Both breed rapidly and like family, both are monogamous but ok with you doing whatever, both are party members, both are lovey dovey touchy feely (kiyo at least at the start), but imo the orb time skip things the issue. There's some moments like when you sleep with kiyoko on the outside and she feels the pc for real and isn't alone when she wakes up etc, but her personality feels off. She kinda pops out of the orb in "queen" mode and from then on interactions are just wrong.
They want her and kinu to be royalty and harsh but fair and all but compare them to other long term devoted partners: brienne you treat right and take care of (or I guess she still loves you even if you abuse her), and shes devoted af. Ryns got all sorts of issues but you can cuddle and talk with her and then she's devoted af besides weird writer moments, pretty much immediately giving you a high enough rank, with a fortress and forces included, to marry her with minimal problems eventually after the winter city stuff. Kas wants your soul to use as her baby battery but also treats the pc very loving if you do so in return, she has her own agenda and desires like kiyoko, but also values the pc openly.
Meanwhile kiyoko requires currently the most effort besides kas to save but is the non sexy, abusive version of a dommy mommy. She has occasional moments to reel in the mc like "here's dinner uwu" but then goes back to treating you like crap and not even wanting to invite you to much. It's like emotional abuse when she talks about the ""potential"" nakano has and how much kinu is in love with him and how you better keep your nose out of their business etc. The den as a whole just feels like you're not welcome, rindo and miko are basically your hos only until they find someone better, and you basically stare at the walls while everyone, including your hos, talk about how great nakano and the town drunk are. You can literally go to khor minos and have a harem and family, winter city and have a harem and probably become king, setup at the temple of mallach and engage in debauchery for the rest of your days, or you can be a ho that politely sits in the corner until your wife is done, with untold children that apparently all don't particularly like you while kinu goes off on her own adventures protecting them.
I imagine if they would have let the pc arrive at the attack on their home, and had you barge in the burning buildings picking up little fox kids going "papa/mama I'm scared" and going doom slayer on the attackers while floofs are on your back it would have gone a good way in building investment and attachment instead of giving all that to kinu. The orb time skip just seemed to remove anything you did with kinu or kiyoko so that could have been a good incident for them all to recognize you as their parent and to have went ahead and been done with kinus daddy/parent issues.