Can someone explain to me the appeal of Erynn ?
I can only speak for my self. Some of these points may make me seem biased toward Erynn but it's just my feeling hell my feeling toward Alexis and about 4 others in my top 10 LI list are almost as strong just not as thought out as well as Erynn. Out of all these points, points 1,2,4,5,9 and part of 7 are the main factors for my high opinion of her.
1. The way Erynn acts like a second mother, taking you to school giving you rides, small gestures to take care of you I find real sweet and cute.
1. The trauma Erynn encounters from Ethan and you moving away without knowing why and no contact. A lot of the time I find characters with a trauma background makes for a better character overall. From just the way they act cause it's more realistic all the way to making a decent character background in general all depends on said character. While yes Erynn's trauma is mostly super simple but it does help t draw me to her even more, especially the the Ethan stuff.
2. This point can go under point one but this more universal to the art style more id say. They way Nyx shows tears when a character is crying in this game is sad of course but also makes the characters look kinda cute or cuter depending who it is. Maybe im a little fucked up for liking this but it is what it is.
3. The fact she is a childhood friend and the fact that she isn't actually a mean girl like the MC thinks at first but is actually really sweet and kind and probably a decent person overall. The fact that we get to read her thoughts and feelings helps to figure that out rather quickly. While yes I do like Childhood friends to a certain extent but it's a case by case bases for me but when it's something sad like they spent time apart when they have feeling for one another I eat that shit up.
4. When she is being playful toward the MC it's really cute, some of my favorite parts and fun to read and look at. We could get only these scenes and no sex with her and id be fine with it even tho id like to see MC and her have sex.
5. Her personality, her feelings and playfulness makes her give me a girlfriend feeling over a LI like Alexis and I love when a LI gives me that feeling very few can accomplish that yet NYX made 2 that give me that exactly feeling. Only 7 out of the 59 on my personal LI gave me that feeling but not as well as Erynn and Alexis.
6. There is just some kind of appeal to her being a model.
7. Her appearance is just nice to look at and she is just hot
8. Helps that she isn't that slutty for being a model compared to someone like Alexis and she is a slow burn character. I prefer slow burn characters but Erynn feels like one of the rare few slow burns done right. I feel alot of slow burns start good then once things start to heat up between them they lose that slow burn feeling and go to quickly. So when there is some resistance It makes it feel more realistic and rewarding when they finally do have sex.
9. While she doesn't tell the MC her feelings she has deep down yet but the way she acts , how the scenes are rendered and the writing of her thoughts you can tell she has true feeling for the MC. While yes this can be said for other LI in games but just the way it's shown in this games gives it more of a realistic feel than most LI out there to me.
10. This is more of a me thing. But she is one of the few characters that makes me sad , bummed out makes me want to cry when I finish a replay or the update is over. Very few games are powerful enough to do that to me let alone characters id say no more than 10 games / characters have done that to me. In Erynn's case however it's one of the more powerful feeling of sadness or being bummed out compared to some. Hell sometimes cant fall asleep cause I just think about her and fantasies or scenes I would like to see. Same goes for a few select LI that are just as powerful as Erynn to me.
Now I do acknowledge she has her faults that not everyone is going to like or be able to get over. Like the drama between her and Alexis initially or how she seems to be the jealous and possessive type towards the mc. While being possessive is indeed a negative trait I feel in Erynn's case it isn't without reason either do to the MC being away without contact for 5 years and Erynn clearly loved him during that entire time away. Still not a valid excuse to be possessive but still a better reason than someone like Alexis that is the same way. So her major faults were easy for me to overlook.
