I am starting to think that maybe Rowan's true girl might be Helayna
It was ever thus. Helenya supremacy!
I'd dunk Alexia off Mount Doom for Helenya- and Helenya's plot is like three years old with minimal character development.
Not that the dev's can really afford that much multi-state- but I would. If they ever need a character to NTR Rowan away from Alexia there is no one who would work better than Helenya.
1) She has a certain Soldier's camaraderie with Rowan that Alexia could only have if she got significant character development via a training arc.
2) The two women are polar opposites in a lot of ways that favor Helenya for a stereotypical Het-male player.
~Helenya's plot and characterization favor a 'hero' type player who wants to harem build and resist chaos. Alexia's plot and characterization favor a 'corruption' type player who wants to experience NTR and a fall from grace of the female MC into a heartless bimbo mega-slut.
~Alexia's entire narrative seems to be about giving into corruption. If you don't she is just stagnant and has very little character growth. (Maybe this 'pure Alexia' arc can triage that- I'll remain optimistic; but it might be too short to really accomplish anything in comparison to Alexia's game spanning corruption arcs.)
Helenya is defaulted to a baseline corruption tier via the ring- after the ring's influence loosens on her her arc seems to be about rehabilitating her / resisting chaos. The bulks of the two plots are moving in opposite directions.
~Hel doesn't cuck the protag if Rowan goes for her. Dealing with that ring cannot be easy; but regardless of that she persists in her faithfulness. She is very creative in how she deals with things as well- the scene in the weapons cabinet was great.
If it is a game day of the week that ends in 'y' Alexia is 5 seconds away from some flavor of NTR plot or vibe.
~Hel wants do something tangible and useful and struggles vs the ring to become a knight again
Alexia 'helps' by doing her jobs. Which ostensibly are just kink dumps- b/c the jobs are more or less used to shoehorn in a bunch of corruption scenes, not to do any sort of rebelling, helping Rowan, or helping herself out of her situation.
Alexia did have the magic arc- which was a hypothetical escape from her status quo- but that got axed.
~Hel does not suffer from jealousy issues. Quite the reciprocal in fact.
Alexia has the potential to be on a jealousy tier that scales from mostly justified to 'hypocritical bitch of the century' depending on player choices. At any rate- it is one of her most prominent vices and for w/e reasons
only manifests itself tangibly in regards to Rowan.