I've never been able to do the Pepper dark path. Even when I'm doing a dark path run I just skip her. With the other girls it's easier to make excuses for being a creep to them. Gabby being mouthy and insulting, Ashe being unwilling to take the exit ramps when you're being a grabby asshole in the bar and then she willingly follows you into a dark alley, Nicki being Nicki in general. None of this makes assault right but it's easier to do that fucked up thing where people justify and rationalise horrible behaviours. But Pepper? She's just doing her job. I can never do it. It's just eat your meal, pay your bill and tip, and then leave her alone because she's done nothing wrong.
Pepper is rude AF to the MC. Kinda strange that you say Gabby is rude and Ashe's only 'sin' is she's innocent and naive and lets MC push her around, but Pepper escapes clean?
Part of my plan for the Chapter One re-release is to work on my advertising/promotion a bit. As part of that, I'm going to make sure all the love interests have a signature, and that they'll all be kind of visually unified. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to mess with it right now. ;_;
It might also be good to have one with all of the LIs in at the same time, if that's possible (if it's too hard to fit them all in one image, can make it a very short animation of 2-4 images or something). The only reason I say this is 1) some people like all your LIs
and 2) as an advertisement, showing all the LIs at once is probably more likely to pique someone's interest enough to check the game out, since there's bound to be at least 1 that they like. I personally like to use sigs to advertise a game that I think needs more attention, so w/e gives an edge to that I like. (even though I do it poorly since I post so little
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