Thanks for playing and for the feedback!
To answer your question:
'Bara, why do you fetishes such an abusive, toxic realationship so much? Cuz this shit is not normal.'
As you start the game their relationship with each other are just simply acquaintances/strangers, with no real love interest.It's not to say I 'fetishize' an abusive and toxic relationship on purpose because that would be very wrong and in everything I'm trying to convey in my game.
Since the world is built upon the harsh rules of 'Alpha' and 'Slaves' I wanted to portray the anxiety, unfairness and stressful situations that majority of slaves that are born has to go through, Garet with no exceptions. Some are worse than others depending on their experience in the world. And since it's a story based around the world presenting itself to the characters living in that, it was hard trying to find moments to add Garet being happy or have a better attitude about certain things early in the game, which is why he expresses himself negatively to begin with and having little to no trust.
His emotions might be a little extreme to begin with but that's due to his life experience, I'm not sure how far you've played into the game but after the fight with Gerard he'll become better and more understanding in personality.
I hope that answers your question!
Thanks again for playing!