One more weird accidental bride acquisition (to be fair, due to me doing some really weird things while exploring the Revaire variations):
- Exploring Jarrod's route, I romanced & got engaged to him while also reforming him.
- Then I broke up with him in the hallways when he got mad at me. My profile still said "forming a bond with Jarrod", and I knew that there was also another scene and option to fight with him when the ambassadors arrive, so I figured this might be Jarrod's version of fake break-up and I might be still on his route. I think I did have the ability to look for other alliances, though.
- In week 7, I successfully convinced Sayra to try for peace.
- I then immediately betrayed the rebels to Gisette. That conversation concluded normally, as far as I can tell.
- But then, in my breakfast convo with Sayra, I did tell her Gisette had visited me and just that she left with "a plan" (nothing specific). I remember that in a previous betrayal playthrough, I had got narration lines about having to act normal and feeling guilty. This didn't show up here at all.
- ... Then I got the convincing convo with Jarrod, about the plans he heard second-hand from his sister and is pissed about. Again, nothing specific...
- In the negotiations, I got options to both work for peace and the compromises previously discussed, and to get allies for the new royals and prep for the upcoming conflict. I picked a bit of both, then spent a lot of influence increasing allies for the new royals and encouraging war in Revaire.
- I got both the scenes of Sayra and Clarmon looking sick, and Sayra being proclaimed the new queen.
- The ending suddenly railroaded into Sayra and Jarrod marrying -- which I believe had not been discussed at all previously (unless I missed it while skipping text).
I picked up my save at the Sayra conversation and tried the exact same thing again without going for peace: I neither convinced her of war nor fully allied with her, then allied with Gisette. That proceeded as normal, including the faking lines at breakast. I didn't get any options to negotiate for peace this time, and the "rebels die, royals win" ending proceeded as normal AFAICT.
I suspect the issue is in the Jarrod route, possibly at the break-up point, because in both cases:
- When boarding the ship, I got both the lines about "returning to [Arland] with no plans of marriage or even romance", as normal, and "shared a secret parting kiss with your love", even though I broke up with J.
- Jarrod was indeed mad at me forever for breaking up with him.
- I got the unmarried sheltered princess ending, as normal.
- But her profile was still saying "forming a bond with Jarrod" until the very end (hitting the shortcut key to check my profile during the ending).
(Or maaayyybe this might be a conditional leftover from when the Arland princess wasn't able to romance Jarrod?)
Gonna test again without breaking up with him and be back with a report if there's a bride mix-up there!