Kinu is directly based on Helspawn (we all know how well that went in CoC1) and her adult development is quite literally written as a "fuck you" by The Observer to the players.
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How the fuck did this game turn from a porn fantasy into a Lifetime Television special?
When I first dived head first into this game, I used to think Tobs was an okay guy. I spend time on this thread, that respect dropped rock bottom. This? I'm sorry but how is this in any way shape or form how a normal human thinks?
I've known for a long time that Kinu was meant as a big middle finger for the Helspawn incest folk but I've always wondered why in the name of fuck does Kinu have the dumbest dichotomy of character 'evolution' in any video game I've played? You get potato farmer Inari Kinu if you make choices that teach her to be independent/instill your 'Northerner' values onto her and skimpy Hime Kinu if you decide to have her focus more on her own culture/be a bit more self-confident and assured.
Now, I don't speak for anyone when I make this observation since anyone can interpret their own in-game choices differently. However, I think we can all agree that Tobs should never be allowed to have children ever if he honestly has this room temp IQ train of thought on how people interact with kids. Who the fuck automatically jumps from 'I want to have a cute kid' to innate pathological desire for incest?! How does
any of the choices you make, either as her father or as herself, that lead into Hime Kinu be translated as wanting to her for yourself?!
You can't feasibly use the 'middle finger to incest' argument either since Tobs could have just have Kinu go about with her own life and have much more reasonable character arcs and development, still have the player involved in her life and never include an option to commit incest. No, I suspect that this is projection from Tobs and it comes from a deep-rooted self-loathing for his own desire to engage in such relationships with his own creations. You thought he's screwing you guys over? Nah, it's just one long convoluted way for him to screw his precious OCs. In this screenshot here, he's showcasing his own incestuous tendencies by having this godawful thinking here and, you know they say, takes one to know one.
That or he really is operating on Intel Pentium when everyone else is on Ryzen 5 at the very least.