Follow-up to my previous post.
I'll preface this by saying I'm not a fan of incest. It doesn't make me nope out of a game, but I tend to dislike it, especially in relation to parents. Siblings too, but less. "Steps" are okay-ish, barely. That's for ME, my opinion and preferences, and whoever reads this may agree or disagree to varying levels.
I say this because I feel very disappointed at the how the forced incest was implemented in the game. Anyone with more than 2 braincells can tell what is the canon descriptors for Klara, Sky and "the one" that prompts during Hera's revelations. In retrospect, it appears, indirectly, in a previous line of Hera's as well, though I can't recall exactly when it happens as I'm writing this. It was, however, a moment in which the actual revelation was still "up in the air" and not yet set in stone as far as information that is presented to the reader/player.
When the game started and I was prompted to select what kind of bonds the characters had with each other, I thought this would be taken into consideration a lot more carefully. If it was never a choice to begin with, or if the default choices were the "correct" ones, I'd have a lot less issues with it. Now I just feel... cheated, I guess.
Initially I had put the bonds as "childhood friend" and "guardian" for Sky and Klara (and the MC being Klara's ward). Even if I changed to "cousin" and "aunt" it doesn't work. Now the continuity of the story is a complete mess and if I don't change the relations, it'll create a massive unintentional plot-hole. I feel very disappointed.
Nevermind the quality of the story as a whole, which is pretty good, mind. And I understand that the whole "choose your relation" thing was probably made because of Patreon rules. My point is that if you are going to make it so that people select and even write-in themselves the relation between characters, then don't make it so that the story breaks if you choose anything other than what it should truly be.
This could have easily been remedied by simply not making Klara such an important character to Hera and the MC (and inextricably linked to the MC since the pregnancy was clearly stated, as well as who it was with), and instead another (possibly dead) character be that, and she coming in to take responsibility for said character.
I still enjoy the game and think it's really great, and will continue to follow the story, but I expected more from the writing and really wish this was handled better. I have now changed all titles to what they should correctly be, as much as it displeases me.
As a side note, simply accepting the default "roomate", "landlady" and... "the other one" makes the story really stupid. That would be okay if it was an inferior, braindead story with no depth, but is really out of place in this one, given the storytelling present in it.
