Holy eff I didn't expect something that came across my dash as a random jam entry (you're all queens and kings for taking part in these events (☆□☆)) to be this fleshed out, complex, and so much fun! As someone who works in publishing, seeing this cousin of the "writer who has their own FBI agent" joke as a game made my day/week/month.
(All iterations of my MC have, so far, used "The Ghostwriter" as their made-up serial killer moniker and you can pry that from my cold, dead fingers.)
To add a little flavor to this comment section I have to praise V as a character, he's fantastic. The whole vigilante thing offset by the REST of him is *chef's kiss*. The "feeding the animals as a first date idea" bit had me howling, 10/10 would enjoy giving some presumably dangerous animals morsels of le boyfriend's ~righteous~ kills.
Of course, Ronin is also a riot, and I - in a spoiler for anyone not done with his route a bit further in this paragraph, you have been warned - had to go for his, uh, "good" ending several times before I came here thinking I was hopelessly dumb only to find out I had the pre-patch version installed. Somehow it all added to the experience. Crazy asshole deserves to be stabbed to death a few times before he gets a kiss :D
I still have the other two routes left (I have been pacing myself! and saving the femme fatale for last hh) but I'm already reccing this to all of my friends, even the straight male gamers who've never even come close to a VN, much less a dating sim; that's how much fun I'm having. You rock for making this. Thank you~~~~