Okay! It took a bunch of trial and error and minor adjustments of the builds I had been playing with in the extended demo for the past few years, but I did it! I have successfully made a MC for each of the six main backgrounds who can:
- Secure the affections of all the approved matchmaker options, as well as Jasper and Ria (including convincing Ria to leave the Isle with me even when not pursuing her)
- Become close friends with Penelope, Cordelia, and Avalie, as well as getting the breakfast scene with all three of them in week 7 (was unable to ally with Avalie since I didn't have time to spare on the Weaver chain but we still became buds 🥰)
- Complete the Historian and Rebel chains
- Have successful hosting events in week 1 and 3
- Do a perfect introduction in week 1, win with a team I lead in the boat race, completely impress the matchmaker, get perfect acquittal for the trial, a perfect success on the play, and host a successful ball in week 6
- Manage to avoid all the death events WITHOUT having to resort to story mode shenanigans to save me
- Successfully complete the personal plots
- Able to get Penelope to visit Skalt, convince Ana to fight for peace, and otherwise maintained good relations with the other delegates (other than the Revaire Royals who I had basically ignored 😂) and cooled down my rivalry with Blain so that they all supported peace during negotiations and able to convince them to agree to beneficial stuff, knowledge exchanges, trades, and otherwise working together during the negotiations
- Learn Sayra's secret and got her to agree to a peaceful end to the Revaire conflict, as well as successfully persuading Gisette to get her family to step down peacefully (and without having to blackmail her)
- Got all the ambassadors to go into the discussion with peace on their minds (except Cato who only my Revaire girl had the stats to deal with but honestly screw him anyways 😒)
- Got peaceful or better endings for all the nations by the end (the only thing stopping my Revaire girl from getting the Katyia's Legacy achievement was me not giving a damn about Jarrod, but I wouldn't be able to spare time for him anyways so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
- Got the epilogues for Penelope, Cordelia, and whoever I pursued for the run (I assume I can only get Avalie's through allying with her so that's sad but like I said at least we still became friends)
It took a lot of work and adjustments and all that but I honestly found it really fun trying to to figure out what time to devote where and what could I give up and getting the math just right so I could pull it off. And I finally did! Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to brag a little about managing to get this done!